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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Open cutting of an extensor tendon in the hand or finger

CPT 26460the billing code this page is about

Open surgery to divide a tight extensor tendon on the back of the hand or a finger; billed once for each tendon cut.

Hospitals typically charge $1,885 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 411 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,890. Most fall between $817 and $4,330 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
411
States
43
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 411 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
$635$931$1,885$3,314$6,138

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($635 vs $6,138).

How the prices are spread

$364 – $488: 10 hospitals$364$488 – $655: 17 hospitals$655 – $880: 50 hospitals$655$880 – $1,181: 60 hospitals$1,181 – $1,586: 21 hospitals$1,181$1,586 – $2,129: 81 hospitals$2,129 – $2,858: 38 hospitals$2,129$2,858 – $3,836: 24 hospitals$3,836 – $5,150: 27 hospitals$3,836$5,150 – $6,914: 44 hospitals$5,150median $1,885price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (372 of 411 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$364$48810
$488$65517
$655$88050
$880$1,18160
$1,181$1,58621
$1,586$2,12981
$2,129$2,85838
$2,858$3,83624
$3,836$5,15027
$5,150$6,91444

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,643
Median cash price$1,885
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.15×

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 $1,885.

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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,510 across 15 hospitalsWA$2,510Idaho: median $2,750 across 10 hospitalsID$2,750Montana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,354 across 13 hospitalsMN$2,354Illinois: median $839 across 12 hospitalsIL$839Wisconsin: median $1,566 across 25 hospitalsWI$1,566Michigan: median $817 across 14 hospitalsMI$817New York: median $1,894 across 27 hospitalsNY$1,894Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $4,109 across 14 hospitalsOR$4,109Nevada: 3 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 $1,014 across 17 hospitalsIA$1,014Indiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $931 across 13 hospitalsOH$931Pennsylvania: median $1,876 across 24 hospitalsPA$1,876New Jersey: median $4,330 across 28 hospitalsNJ$4,330Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,107 across 50 hospitalsCA$3,107Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $736 across 14 hospitalsOK$736Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 5 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 $2,007 across 30 hospitalsTX$2,007Florida: median $5,571 across 11 hospitalsFL$5,571
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,885. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL11$5,571+196%$1,606 – $5,571
New Jersey NJ28$4,330+130%$1,773 – $5,339
Oregon OR14$4,109+118%$835 – $7,502
California CA50$3,107+65%$1,194 – $6,138
Idaho ID10$2,750+46%$1,416 – $4,436
Washington WA15$2,510+33%$835 – $3,314
Minnesota MN13$2,354+25%$1,792 – $2,354
Texas TX30$2,007+6%$1,271 – $2,007
New York NY27$1,8940%$988 – $2,007
Pennsylvania PA24$1,8760%$289 – $4,687
Wisconsin WI25$1,566−17%$1,052 – $2,834
Iowa IA17$1,014−46%$1,014 – $1,027
Ohio OH13$931−51%$675 – $1,747
Illinois IL12$839−56%$308 – $1,014
Michigan MI14$817−57%$658 – $2,211
Oklahoma OK14$736−61%$736 – $3,263
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $1,885.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care330$1,894$817 – $4,601
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access71$1,566$837 – $2,834
Ownership
For-profit44$2,007$736 – $6,307
Government57$1,080$700 – $1,973
Non-profit310$1,899$873 – $4,436
System affiliation
Part of a system338$1,894$870 – $4,436
Independent73$1,119$675 – $2,750

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,675
Median cash price$1,885
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 $1,727 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,891; most fall between $736 and $4,687.

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
$580$835$1,727$3,598$6,138

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($580 vs $6,138).

Of the 278 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 262 gave a usable cash price; 10 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

411 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 452 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted411
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
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 — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code452

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 Tenotomy Extensor Hand/Finger Open 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, “Open cutting of an extensor tendon in the hand or finger (CPT 26460) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26460-open-cutting-of-an-extensor-tendon-in-the-hand-or-finger