HRHospitalRates.comCompare prices

Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Removal of tendon rod and flexor tendon graft in hand

CPT 26392the billing code this page is about

Second-stage surgery to take out the temporary synthetic rod in the hand or finger and put in a bending tendon graft; billed for each rod removed.

Hospitals typically charge $4,590 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 294 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,765. Most fall between $1,682 and $9,058 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
294
States
42
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 294 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
$1,155$1,866$4,590$8,454$11,093

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,155 vs $11,093).

How the prices are spread

$751 – $1,011: 11 hospitals$751$1,011 – $1,361: 12 hospitals$1,361 – $1,834: 30 hospitals$1,361$1,834 – $2,470: 35 hospitals$2,470 – $3,326: 20 hospitals$2,470$3,326 – $4,479: 20 hospitals$4,479 – $6,033: 46 hospitals$4,479$6,033 – $8,125: 25 hospitals$8,125 – $10,943: 51 hospitals$8,125$10,943 – $14,738: 16 hospitals$10,943median $4,590price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (266 of 294 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$751$1,01111
$1,011$1,36112
$1,361$1,83430
$1,834$2,47035
$2,470$3,32620
$3,326$4,47920
$4,479$6,03346
$6,033$8,12525
$8,125$10,94351
$10,943$14,73816

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$4,590
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.62×

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 $4,590.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $4,590 across 11 hospitalsMN$4,590Illinois: median $1,834 across 10 hospitalsIL$1,834Wisconsin: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $1,581 across 13 hospitalsMI$1,581New York: median $8,454 across 22 hospitalsNY$8,454Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $1,837 across 10 hospitalsOR$1,837Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 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 $2,406 across 15 hospitalsIA$2,406Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: median $2,730 across 11 hospitalsOH$2,730Pennsylvania: median $751 across 18 hospitalsPA$751New Jersey: median $6,533 across 24 hospitalsNJ$6,533Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $10,226 across 30 hospitalsCA$10,226Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 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: 1 hospital 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 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 $1,633 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,633Louisiana: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,887 across 22 hospitalsTX$5,887Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,590. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA30$10,226+123%$3,341 – $10,226
New York NY22$8,454+84%$4,265 – $8,613
New Jersey NJ24$6,533+42%$4,881 – $7,914
Texas TX22$5,887+28%$3,274 – $5,887
Minnesota MN11$4,5900%$3,912 – $4,590
Ohio OH11$2,730−41%$1,977 – $3,788
Iowa IA15$2,406−48%$2,406 – $2,406
Oregon OR10$1,837−60%$1,837 – $3,366
Illinois IL10$1,834−60%$742 – $4,496
Oklahoma OK13$1,633−64%$1,633 – $1,633
Michigan MI13$1,581−66%$1,342 – $9,978
Pennsylvania PA18$751−84%$612 – $12,077
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 VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not 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 $4,590.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care250$5,044$1,633 – $9,072
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access36$4,590$1,882 – $6,564
Ownership
For-profit36$4,278$1,063 – $14,738
Government44$3,341$1,809 – $8,454
Non-profit214$4,590$1,683 – $9,072
System affiliation
Part of a system239$5,044$1,682 – $9,978
Independent55$3,200$1,677 – $7,373

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,200
Median cash price$4,590
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

165 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,683 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,574; most fall between $1,633 and $10,226.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 165 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
$1,162$1,683$2,683$7,373$12,077

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,162 vs $12,077).

Of the 177 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 165 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

294 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 319 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted294
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here21
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 — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code319

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 Rmvl Synth Rod & Insj Flxr Tdn Grf H/F Ea Rod.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Removal of tendon rod and flexor tendon graft in hand (CPT 26392) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26392-removal-of-tendon-rod-and-flexor-tendon-graft-in-hand