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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Repositioning of an extensor tendon in the hand

CPT 26437the billing code this page is about

Surgery to move a slipped or out-of-place extensor tendon on the back of the hand back into correct alignment; billed once for each tendon.

Hospitals typically charge $2,570 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 522 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,716. Most fall between $1,157 and $5,413 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
522
States
49
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 522 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
$920$1,243$2,570$4,499$7,906

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($920 vs $7,906).

How the prices are spread

$703 – $926: 27 hospitals$703$926 – $1,218: 62 hospitals$1,218 – $1,604: 73 hospitals$1,218$1,604 – $2,111: 48 hospitals$2,111 – $2,779: 39 hospitals$2,111$2,779 – $3,658: 54 hospitals$3,658 – $4,816: 73 hospitals$3,658$4,816 – $6,339: 27 hospitals$6,339 – $8,344: 47 hospitals$6,339$8,344 – $10,984: 22 hospitals$8,344median $2,570price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (472 of 522 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$703$92627
$926$1,21862
$1,218$1,60473
$1,604$2,11148
$2,111$2,77939
$2,779$3,65854
$3,658$4,81673
$4,816$6,33927
$6,339$8,34447
$8,344$10,98422

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,570
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.77×

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 $2,570.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $3,090 across 13 hospitalsID$3,090Montana: median $1,452 across 10 hospitalsMT$1,452North Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $3,153 across 20 hospitalsMN$3,153Illinois: median $2,514 across 20 hospitalsIL$2,514Wisconsin: median $2,881 across 30 hospitalsWI$2,881Michigan: median $1,243 across 33 hospitalsMI$1,243New York: median $3,840 across 29 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,564 across 22 hospitalsIA$1,564Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,557 across 17 hospitalsOH$1,557Pennsylvania: median $3,804 across 27 hospitalsPA$3,804New Jersey: median $4,130 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,130Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $6,759 across 32 hospitalsCA$6,759Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,952 across 10 hospitalsCO$1,952Nebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $987 across 11 hospitalsMO$987Kentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,087 across 14 hospitalsOK$1,087Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,281 across 28 hospitalsTX$2,281Florida: median $4,177 across 14 hospitalsFL$4,177
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,570. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA32$6,759+163%$1,640 – $6,759
Florida FL14$4,177+63%$3,257 – $10,148
New Jersey NJ30$4,130+61%$3,591 – $5,339
New York NY29$3,840+49%$1,041 – $3,884
Pennsylvania PA27$3,804+48%$427 – $8,927
Minnesota MN20$3,153+23%$1,286 – $3,700
Idaho ID13$3,090+20%$2,205 – $8,372
Wisconsin WI30$2,881+12%$2,089 – $4,766
Illinois IL20$2,514−2%$768 – $4,871
Texas TX28$2,281−11%$1,707 – $2,737
Colorado CO10$1,952−24%$1,207 – $6,618
Iowa IA22$1,564−39%$1,494 – $1,626
Ohio OH17$1,557−39%$1,150 – $10,331
Montana MT10$1,452−44%$1,096 – $2,263
Michigan MI33$1,243−52%$1,243 – $4,499
Oklahoma OK14$1,087−58%$1,087 – $4,017
Missouri MO11$987−62%$966 – $5,084
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $2,570.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care398$2,817$1,157 – $6,311
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access111$2,026$1,167 – $3,710
Ownership
For-profit63$3,397$1,307 – $8,929
Government88$1,626$1,126 – $3,840
Non-profit371$2,728$1,172 – $5,372
System affiliation
Part of a system397$2,737$1,230 – $5,855
Independent125$1,952$1,062 – $4,265

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,430
Median cash price$2,570
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

262 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,857 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,235; most fall between $1,087 and $5,486.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 262 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
$768$1,114$1,857$4,177$6,987

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($768 vs $6,987).

Of the 287 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 262 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 9 a list price only.

How complete is this

522 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 576 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted522
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here38
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded12
Hospitals that filed this code576

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 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 Realignment Extensor Tendon Hand Each 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, “Repositioning of an extensor tendon in the hand (CPT 26437) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26437-repositioning-of-an-extensor-tendon-in-the-hand