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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Flexor tendon removal with temporary rod placed in hand

CPT 26390the billing code this page is about

Removal of a damaged bending tendon in the hand or finger and placement of a synthetic rod to prepare a channel for a tendon graft at a later operation; billed for each rod placed.

Hospitals typically charge $4,118 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 324 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,713. Most fall between $1,476 and $9,888 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
324
States
41
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 324 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
$1,050$1,631$4,118$8,454$11,564

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,050 vs $11,564).

How the prices are spread

$656 – $895: 8 hospitals$656$895 – $1,222: 14 hospitals$1,222 – $1,668: 47 hospitals$1,222$1,668 – $2,277: 32 hospitals$2,277 – $3,108: 25 hospitals$2,277$3,108 – $4,244: 23 hospitals$4,244 – $5,793: 25 hospitals$4,244$5,793 – $7,908: 34 hospitals$7,908 – $10,796: 65 hospitals$7,908$10,796 – $14,738: 21 hospitals$10,796median $4,118price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (294 of 324 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$656$8958
$895$1,22214
$1,222$1,66847
$1,668$2,27732
$2,277$3,10825
$3,108$4,24423
$4,244$5,79325
$5,793$7,90834
$7,908$10,79665
$10,796$14,73821

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$4,118
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.56×

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 $4,118.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,597 across 14 hospitalsIL$1,597Wisconsin: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $2,185 across 16 hospitalsMI$2,185New York: median $8,454 across 26 hospitalsNY$8,454Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $1,614 across 10 hospitalsOR$1,614Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,084 across 15 hospitalsIA$2,084Indiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,452 across 12 hospitalsOH$2,452Pennsylvania: median $4,770 across 19 hospitalsPA$4,770New Jersey: median $7,807 across 29 hospitalsNJ$7,807Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $10,226 across 35 hospitalsCA$10,226Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,434 across 14 hospitalsOK$1,434Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $5,887 across 25 hospitalsTX$5,887Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,118. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA35$10,226+148%$2,171 – $10,226
New York NY26$8,454+105%$2,627 – $8,613
New Jersey NJ29$7,807+90%$5,110 – $9,388
Texas TX25$5,887+43%$2,756 – $6,911
Pennsylvania PA19$4,770+16%$538 – $12,077
Ohio OH12$2,452−40%$1,705 – $3,899
Michigan MI16$2,185−47%$1,359 – $9,978
Iowa IA15$2,084−49%$2,084 – $2,084
Oregon OR10$1,614−61%$1,614 – $2,952
Illinois IL14$1,597−61%$645 – $3,854
Oklahoma OK14$1,434−65%$1,434 – $9,888
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $4,118.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care282$4,635$1,444 – $9,978
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access33$2,952$1,569 – $11,724
Ownership
For-profit41$4,635$1,113 – $12,357
Government48$2,471$1,569 – $8,454
Non-profit235$4,118$1,509 – $9,533
System affiliation
Part of a system257$4,785$1,490 – $9,978
Independent67$2,627$1,443 – $8,904

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,690
Median cash price$4,118
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

185 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,546 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,491; most fall between $1,434 and $10,226.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 185 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
$1,022$1,597$2,546$8,170$11,564

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,022 vs $11,564).

Of the 200 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 185 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

324 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 355 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted324
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here25
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code355

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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 Exc Flxr Tdn W/Impltj Synth Rod Dlyd Tdn Grf H/F.

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, “Flexor tendon removal with temporary rod placed in hand (CPT 26390) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26390-flexor-tendon-removal-with-temporary-rod-placed-in-hand