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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Rebuilding a finger tendon pulley using a graft

CPT 26502the billing code this page is about

Reconstruction of the pulley that holds a finger's bending tendon in place, using a tendon or tissue graft taken during the same operation; billed for each tendon treated.

Hospitals typically charge $3,658 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 368 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,396. Most fall between $1,262 and $6,615 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
368
States
42
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 368 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
$1,079$1,462$3,658$5,486$9,565

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,079 vs $9,565).

How the prices are spread

$656 – $857: 10 hospitals$656$857 – $1,121: 13 hospitals$1,121 – $1,465: 51 hospitals$1,121$1,465 – $1,915: 38 hospitals$1,915 – $2,504: 19 hospitals$1,915$2,504 – $3,274: 20 hospitals$3,274 – $4,280: 61 hospitals$3,274$4,280 – $5,596: 47 hospitals$5,596 – $7,316: 29 hospitals$5,596$7,316 – $9,565: 44 hospitals$7,316median $3,658price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (332 of 368 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$656$85710
$857$1,12113
$1,121$1,46551
$1,465$1,91538
$1,915$2,50419
$2,504$3,27420
$3,274$4,28061
$4,280$5,59647
$5,596$7,31629
$7,316$9,56544

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$3,658
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.09×

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 $3,658.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 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 $6,876 across 11 hospitalsWA$6,876Idaho: 9 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: median $3,990 across 12 hospitalsMN$3,990Illinois: median $1,216 across 11 hospitalsIL$1,216Wisconsin: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $1,148 across 23 hospitalsMI$1,148New York: median $3,840 across 24 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $7,001 across 13 hospitalsOR$7,001Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 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 $1,777 across 15 hospitalsIA$1,777Indiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,901 across 13 hospitalsOH$1,901Pennsylvania: median $2,382 across 19 hospitalsPA$2,382New Jersey: median $4,330 across 31 hospitalsNJ$4,330Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $6,740 across 44 hospitalsCA$6,740Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,581 across 14 hospitalsOK$1,581Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 4 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 $4,499 across 28 hospitalsTX$4,499Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,658. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Oregon OR13$7,001+91%$1,391 – $8,870
Washington WA11$6,876+88%$3,977 – $7,386
California CA44$6,740+84%$2,457 – $9,565
Texas TX28$4,499+23%$2,357 – $4,499
New Jersey NJ31$4,330+18%$3,594 – $5,419
Minnesota MN12$3,990+9%$3,401 – $3,990
New York NY24$3,840+5%$1,733 – $4,084
Pennsylvania PA19$2,382−35%$462 – $5,486
Ohio OH13$1,901−48%$1,209 – $3,346
Iowa IA15$1,777−51%$1,777 – $1,777
Oklahoma OK14$1,581−57%$1,581 – $6,615
Illinois IL11$1,216−67%$546 – $1,777
Michigan MI23$1,148−69%$1,148 – $1,376
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not 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
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not 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 $3,658.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care308$3,804$1,368 – $6,839
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access50$2,819$1,199 – $5,805
Ownership
For-profit41$3,794$1,182 – $8,372
Government49$2,357$1,368 – $5,805
Non-profit278$3,786$1,376 – $6,615
System affiliation
Part of a system307$3,840$1,380 – $6,740
Independent61$2,268$1,215 – $5,299

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,534
Median cash price$3,658
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

214 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,960 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,556; most fall between $1,219 and $7,811.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 214 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
$775$1,391$2,960$6,740$9,565

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($775 vs $9,565).

Of the 231 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 214 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

368 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 405 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted368
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here27
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code405

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 Rcnstj Tdn Pulley Ea Tdn W/Tdn/Fscal Grf Spx.

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, “Rebuilding a finger tendon pulley using a graft (CPT 26502) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26502-rebuilding-a-finger-tendon-pulley-using-a-graft