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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on muscles and tendons

Release of tight thumb muscles in the palm

CPT 26508the billing code this page is about

Surgery that cuts or releases the thumb muscles at the base of the palm to relieve a tight thumb-in-palm contracture.

Hospitals typically charge $2,294 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 282 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,329. Most fall between $1,085 and $3,884 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
282
States
44
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 282 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
$776$1,121$2,294$3,821$5,814

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($776 vs $5,814).

How the prices are spread

$577 – $754: 13 hospitals$577$754 – $985: 13 hospitals$985 – $1,288: 48 hospitals$985$1,288 – $1,682: 37 hospitals$1,682 – $2,198: 14 hospitals$1,682$2,198 – $2,872: 27 hospitals$2,872 – $3,753: 42 hospitals$2,872$3,753 – $4,904: 36 hospitals$4,904 – $6,407: 13 hospitals$4,904$6,407 – $8,372: 11 hospitals$6,407median $2,294price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (254 of 282 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$577$75413
$754$98513
$985$1,28848
$1,288$1,68237
$1,682$2,19814
$2,198$2,87227
$2,872$3,75342
$3,753$4,90436
$4,904$6,40713
$6,407$8,37211

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,294
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.69×

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 $2,294.

Alaska: 1 hospital 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,213 across 11 hospitalsIL$1,213Wisconsin: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $1,011 across 23 hospitalsMI$1,011New York: median $3,840 across 25 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,426 across 12 hospitalsOR$1,426Nevada: 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 $1,590 across 14 hospitalsIA$1,590Indiana: 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 $927 across 19 hospitalsPA$927New Jersey: median $3,986 across 22 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,310 across 27 hospitalsCA$3,310Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital 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: 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: 2 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,105 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,105Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,347 across 22 hospitalsTX$2,347Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,294. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ22$3,986+74%$3,591 – $5,419
New York NY25$3,840+67%$1,476 – $4,084
California CA27$3,310+44%$3,011 – $3,310
Texas TX22$2,347+2%$2,078 – $2,778
Iowa IA14$1,590−31%$1,590 – $1,590
Oregon OR12$1,426−38%$1,243 – $2,294
Illinois IL11$1,213−47%$485 – $1,614
Oklahoma OK12$1,105−52%$1,105 – $1,105
Michigan MI23$1,011−56%$1,011 – $1,307
Pennsylvania PA19$927−60%$413 – $5,486
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not 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
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not 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
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not 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 $2,294.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care234$2,347$1,085 – $3,905
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access35$1,566$1,011 – $3,302
Ownership
For-profit33$2,205$781 – $5,317
Government42$1,780$1,208 – $3,864
Non-profit207$2,294$1,078 – $3,840
System affiliation
Part of a system233$2,347$1,085 – $3,884
Independent49$1,780$1,006 – $4,233

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,305
Median cash price$2,294
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

161 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,590 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,004; most fall between $873 and $3,310.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 161 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
$609$1,105$1,590$3,310$5,317

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($609 vs $5,317).

Of the 174 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 161 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 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

282 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 305 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted282
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here19
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 — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code305

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 Release Thenar Muscle.

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, “Release of tight thumb muscles in the palm (CPT 26508) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26508-release-of-tight-thumb-muscles-in-the-palm