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Procedure price report · Arthroplasty other than hip or knee

Finger joint replacement with implant, each joint

CPT 26536the billing code this page is about

Reconstruction of a joint within a finger using an artificial joint implant; billed once for each joint treated.

Hospitals typically charge $3,820 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 427 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,195. Most fall between $1,422 and $8,454 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
427
States
45
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 427 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
$852$1,565$3,820$7,807$12,106

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($852 vs $12,106).

How the prices are spread

$659 – $909: 23 hospitals$659$909 – $1,254: 22 hospitals$1,254 – $1,730: 64 hospitals$1,254$1,730 – $2,387: 43 hospitals$2,387 – $3,293: 25 hospitals$2,387$3,293 – $4,542: 38 hospitals$4,542 – $6,266: 58 hospitals$4,542$6,266 – $8,643: 55 hospitals$8,643 – $11,923: 33 hospitals$8,643$11,923 – $16,447: 24 hospitals$11,923median $3,820price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (385 of 427 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$659$90923
$909$1,25422
$1,254$1,73064
$1,730$2,38743
$2,387$3,29325
$3,293$4,54238
$4,542$6,26658
$6,266$8,64355
$8,643$11,92333
$11,923$16,44724

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$3,820
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.52×

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 $3,820.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $12,106 across 11 hospitalsID$12,106Montana: 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 $4,190 across 20 hospitalsMN$4,190Illinois: median $1,382 across 14 hospitalsIL$1,382Wisconsin: median $3,820 across 18 hospitalsWI$3,820Michigan: median $1,456 across 24 hospitalsMI$1,456New York: median $8,454 across 24 hospitalsNY$8,454Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 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 $1,780 across 22 hospitalsIA$1,780Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,706 across 12 hospitalsOH$1,706Pennsylvania: median $5,050 across 20 hospitalsPA$5,050New Jersey: median $5,741 across 28 hospitalsNJ$5,741Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $5,376 across 47 hospitalsCA$5,376Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,565 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,565Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,887 across 25 hospitalsTX$5,887Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,820. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID11$12,106+217%$4,219 – $14,738
New York NY24$8,454+121%$1,292 – $8,613
Texas TX25$5,887+54%$2,653 – $6,911
New Jersey NJ28$5,741+50%$3,813 – $7,914
California CA47$5,376+41%$3,255 – $5,376
Pennsylvania PA20$5,050+32%$400 – $11,494
Minnesota MN20$4,190+10%$1,667 – $4,261
Wisconsin WI18$3,8200%$3,820 – $6,458
Iowa IA22$1,780−53%$1,711 – $2,030
Ohio OH12$1,706−55%$1,501 – $3,304
Oklahoma OK13$1,565−59%$1,565 – $14,565
Michigan MI24$1,456−62%$1,456 – $9,978
Illinois IL14$1,382−64%$840 – $3,506
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not 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 $3,820.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care340$4,350$1,456 – $8,613
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access80$2,335$1,392 – $6,458
Ownership
For-profit53$7,090$1,676 – $19,050
Government69$1,930$1,251 – $8,454
Non-profit305$3,813$1,456 – $7,807
System affiliation
Part of a system341$3,820$1,456 – $8,454
Independent86$3,506$1,352 – $9,388

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,394
Median cash price$3,820
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

233 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,761 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,229; most fall between $1,183 and $5,887.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 233 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
$828$1,379$2,761$5,505$8,893

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($828 vs $8,893).

Of the 250 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 233 gave a usable cash price; 13 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

427 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 473 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted427
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here33
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code473

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 Arthroplasty other than hip or knee family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Arthroplasty Interphalangeal Jt W/Prosthetic Ea.

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, “Finger joint replacement with implant, each joint (CPT 26536) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26536-finger-joint-replacement-with-implant-each-joint