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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Tendon anchoring at the fingertip joint

CPT 26474the billing code this page is about

Surgery that fixes a tendon to bone at the end joint of a finger or thumb to stop unwanted joint motion; billed once for each joint treated.

Hospitals typically charge $1,771 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 284 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,876. Most fall between $1,024 and $3,986 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
284
States
42
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 284 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
$656$1,061$1,771$2,934$6,839

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($656 vs $6,839).

How the prices are spread

$470 – $630: 12 hospitals$470$630 – $843: 17 hospitals$843 – $1,130: 30 hospitals$843$1,130 – $1,513: 39 hospitals$1,513 – $2,027: 71 hospitals$1,513$2,027 – $2,715: 25 hospitals$2,715 – $3,637: 17 hospitals$2,715$3,637 – $4,872: 12 hospitals$4,872 – $6,526: 18 hospitals$4,872$6,526 – $8,742: 24 hospitals$6,526median $1,771price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (265 of 284 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$470$63012
$630$84317
$843$1,13030
$1,130$1,51339
$1,513$2,02771
$2,027$2,71525
$2,715$3,63717
$3,637$4,87212
$4,872$6,52618
$6,526$8,74224

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,643
Median cash price$1,771
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.08×

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 $1,771.

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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $957 across 11 hospitalsIL$957Wisconsin: median $2,593 across 13 hospitalsWI$2,593Michigan: median $1,276 across 22 hospitalsMI$1,276New York: median $1,894 across 22 hospitalsNY$1,894Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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 $1,514 across 16 hospitalsIA$1,514Indiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $488 across 18 hospitalsPA$488New Jersey: median $3,786 across 22 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $8,742 across 29 hospitalsCA$8,742Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals 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: 2 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 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 $1,061 across 14 hospitalsOK$1,061Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $2,020 across 21 hospitalsTX$2,020Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,771. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA29$8,742+393%$1,565 – $8,742
New Jersey NJ22$3,786+114%$1,771 – $5,419
Wisconsin WI13$2,593+46%$2,593 – $4,935
Texas TX21$2,020+14%$1,536 – $2,020
New York NY22$1,894+7%$1,643 – $2,007
Iowa IA16$1,514−15%$1,514 – $1,514
Michigan MI22$1,276−28%$836 – $1,276
Oklahoma OK14$1,061−40%$1,061 – $3,263
Illinois IL11$957−46%$463 – $1,514
Pennsylvania PA18$488−72%$398 – $2,706
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $1,771.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care237$1,771$1,001 – $3,710
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access39$1,917$1,099 – $4,436
Ownership
For-profit34$2,020$836 – $4,436
Government46$1,441$904 – $1,917
Non-profit204$1,876$1,035 – $4,436
System affiliation
Part of a system226$1,894$1,061 – $4,436
Independent58$1,318$886 – $2,296

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,325
Median cash price$1,771
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

152 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,514 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,574; most fall between $783 and $3,016.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 152 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
$567$945$1,514$2,447$8,742

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($567 vs $8,742).

Of the 163 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 152 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 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

284 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 310 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted284
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code310

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 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 Fusion Finger Tendons,Dip Jt Stabil.

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, “Tendon anchoring at the fingertip joint (CPT 26474) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26474-tendon-anchoring-at-the-fingertip-joint