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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

First repair of a finger bending tendon in the sheath area

CPT 26356the billing code this page is about

Initial surgical repair of a tendon that bends the finger within the mid-finger tendon sheath zone, without a tendon graft; billed per tendon.

Hospitals typically charge $3,703 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 862 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,756. Most fall between $1,734 and $6,855 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
862
States
48
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 862 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$1,232$1,955$3,703$5,858$10,029

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,232 vs $10,029).

How the prices are spread

$888 – $1,165: 27 hospitals$888$1,165 – $1,529: 60 hospitals$1,529 – $2,007: 100 hospitals$1,529$2,007 – $2,634: 85 hospitals$2,634 – $3,457: 81 hospitals$2,634$3,457 – $4,537: 140 hospitals$4,537 – $5,955: 111 hospitals$4,537$5,955 – $7,817: 78 hospitals$7,817 – $10,260: 53 hospitals$7,817$10,260 – $13,466: 41 hospitals$10,260median $3,703price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (776 of 862 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$888$1,16527
$1,165$1,52960
$1,529$2,007100
$2,007$2,63485
$2,634$3,45781
$3,457$4,537140
$4,537$5,955111
$5,955$7,81778
$7,817$10,26053
$10,260$13,46641

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$3,703
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.11×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $3,703.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $5,135 across 25 hospitalsWA$5,135Idaho: median $3,795 across 16 hospitalsID$3,795Montana: median $2,450 across 11 hospitalsMT$2,450North Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $3,469 across 29 hospitalsMN$3,469Illinois: median $3,544 across 28 hospitalsIL$3,544Wisconsin: median $4,219 across 35 hospitalsWI$4,219Michigan: median $1,961 across 36 hospitalsMI$1,961New York: median $4,595 across 59 hospitalsNY$4,595Massachusetts: median $6,409 across 13 hospitalsMA$6,409Oregon: median $2,667 across 25 hospitalsOR$2,667Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,955 across 28 hospitalsIA$1,955Indiana: median $1,260 across 11 hospitalsIN$1,260Ohio: median $2,663 across 25 hospitalsOH$2,663Pennsylvania: median $4,150 across 38 hospitalsPA$4,150New Jersey: median $4,201 across 34 hospitalsNJ$4,201Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,914 across 84 hospitalsCA$4,914Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $4,348 across 15 hospitalsCO$4,348Nebraska: median $2,697 across 20 hospitalsNE$2,697Missouri: median $2,660 across 23 hospitalsMO$2,660Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,954 across 15 hospitalsWV$1,954Virginia: median $3,844 across 12 hospitalsVA$3,844Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,464 across 14 hospitalsKS$1,464Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $2,465 across 10 hospitalsTN$2,465North Carolina: median $2,423 across 11 hospitalsNC$2,423South Carolina: median $5,960 across 10 hospitalsSC$5,960Oklahoma: median $1,669 across 19 hospitalsOK$1,669Louisiana: median $2,834 across 18 hospitalsLA$2,834Mississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $2,920 across 10 hospitalsAL$2,920Georgia: median $9,791 across 12 hospitalsGA$9,791Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,606 across 62 hospitalsTX$4,606Florida: median $4,512 across 20 hospitalsFL$4,512
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,703. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA12$9,791+164%$3,265 – $9,791
Massachusetts MA13$6,409+73%$2,818 – $17,334
South Carolina SC10$5,960+61%$2,367 – $14,199
Washington WA25$5,135+39%$2,108 – $6,903
California CA84$4,914+33%$2,694 – $10,926
Texas TX62$4,606+24%$2,414 – $5,165
New York NY59$4,595+24%$1,903 – $7,020
Florida FL20$4,512+22%$1,699 – $10,029
Colorado CO15$4,348+17%$1,660 – $8,676
Wisconsin WI35$4,219+14%$3,027 – $4,925
New Jersey NJ34$4,201+13%$3,591 – $5,339
Pennsylvania PA38$4,150+12%$542 – $6,637
Virginia VA12$3,844+4%$1,857 – $7,620
Idaho ID16$3,795+2%$3,224 – $8,372
Illinois IL28$3,544−4%$1,232 – $6,342
Minnesota MN29$3,469−6%$2,115 – $5,132
Alabama AL10$2,920−21%$1,624 – $10,414
Louisiana LA18$2,834−23%$1,463 – $4,333
Nebraska NE20$2,697−27%$1,807 – $3,368
Oregon OR25$2,667−28%$1,487 – $6,719
Ohio OH25$2,663−28%$1,774 – $12,965
Missouri MO23$2,660−28%$1,613 – $7,393
Tennessee TN10$2,465−33%$1,011 – $5,208
Montana MT11$2,450−34%$1,355 – $3,848
North Carolina NC11$2,423−35%$1,488 – $8,055
Michigan MI36$1,961−47%$1,605 – $4,499
Iowa IA28$1,955−47%$1,502 – $2,444
West Virginia WV15$1,954−47%$836 – $3,584
Oklahoma OK19$1,669−55%$1,669 – $6,152
Kansas KS14$1,464−60%$1,187 – $3,703
Indiana IN11$1,260−66%$1,232 – $4,809
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $3,703.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care650$3,965$1,903 – $7,020
Children’s27$4,183$2,524 – $15,163
Critical access183$2,595$1,354 – $4,809
Ownership
For-profit98$4,187$1,707 – $8,597
Government132$2,918$1,589 – $5,397
Non-profit630$3,844$1,856 – $6,719
System affiliation
Part of a system681$4,084$1,870 – $6,885
Independent181$2,728$1,464 – $5,149

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,000
Median cash price$3,703
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

501 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,553 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,614; most fall between $1,669 and $6,719.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 501 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$1,232$1,955$3,553$5,814$8,661

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,232 vs $8,661).

Of the 552 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 501 gave a usable cash price; 27 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 24 a list price only.

How complete is this

862 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (22%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 949 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted862
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here52
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded31
Hospitals that filed this code949

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Rpr/Advmnt Flxr Tdn Zone 2 W/O Fr Grft Ea Tendon.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “First repair of a finger bending tendon in the sheath area (CPT 26356) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26356-first-repair-of-a-finger-bending-tendon-in-the-sheath-area