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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Open cutting of a flexor tendon in the palm

CPT 26450the billing code this page is about

Open surgery to divide a tight flexor tendon in the palm to release a bent or contracted finger; billed once for each tendon cut.

Hospitals typically charge $1,914 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 300 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,191. Most fall between $779 and $4,499 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
300
States
41
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 300 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
$577$837$1,914$4,130$8,372

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($577 vs $8,372).

How the prices are spread

$371 – $511: 11 hospitals$371$511 – $703: 19 hospitals$703 – $967: 51 hospitals$703$967 – $1,332: 39 hospitals$1,332 – $1,833: 14 hospitals$1,332$1,833 – $2,522: 25 hospitals$2,522 – $3,471: 16 hospitals$2,522$3,471 – $4,778: 53 hospitals$4,778 – $6,575: 15 hospitals$4,778$6,575 – $9,050: 37 hospitals$6,575median $1,914price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (280 of 300 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$371$51111
$511$70319
$703$96751
$967$1,33239
$1,332$1,83314
$1,833$2,52225
$2,522$3,47116
$3,471$4,77853
$4,778$6,57515
$6,575$9,05037

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$1,914
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.57×

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 $1,914.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $860 across 12 hospitalsIL$860Wisconsin: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $837 across 24 hospitalsMI$837New York: median $3,840 across 21 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $859 across 12 hospitalsOR$859Nevada: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,046 across 16 hospitalsIA$1,046Indiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $985 across 12 hospitalsOH$985Pennsylvania: median $2,382 across 19 hospitalsPA$2,382New Jersey: median $4,330 across 29 hospitalsNJ$4,330Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $9,050 across 26 hospitalsCA$9,050Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 1 hospital 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $757 across 12 hospitalsOK$757Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 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 $1,914 across 22 hospitalsTX$1,914Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,914. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA26$9,050+373%$4,328 – $9,050
New Jersey NJ29$4,330+126%$3,594 – $5,419
New York NY21$3,840+101%$1,812 – $3,884
Pennsylvania PA19$2,382+24%$284 – $5,486
Texas TX22$1,9140%$1,328 – $2,778
Iowa IA16$1,046−45%$1,046 – $1,163
Ohio OH12$985−49%$818 – $2,051
Illinois IL12$860−55%$317 – $1,046
Oregon OR12$859−55%$859 – $1,580
Michigan MI24$837−56%$837 – $4,499
Oklahoma OK12$757−60%$757 – $757
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not 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 $1,914.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care249$1,949$757 – $5,038
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access42$1,580$837 – $2,778
Ownership
For-profit32$2,205$694 – $6,653
Government42$1,328$844 – $3,840
Non-profit226$1,914$779 – $4,627
System affiliation
Part of a system245$1,914$837 – $5,110
Independent55$1,166$694 – $4,015

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,674
Median cash price$1,914
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

159 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,098 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,131; most fall between $698 and $6,653.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 159 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
$518$757$1,098$5,486$9,050

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($518 vs $9,050).

Of the 173 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 159 gave a usable cash price; 8 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

300 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 331 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted300
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) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code331

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 5, 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 PR Tenotomy Palm Flex,Single,Open,Each.

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, “Open cutting of a flexor tendon in the palm (CPT 26450) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26450-open-cutting-of-a-flexor-tendon-in-the-palm