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Rebuilding knuckle side ligament using a tendon graft

CPT 26541the billing code this page is about

Reconstruction of the side ligament of a single knuckle joint using a tendon or tissue graft taken from elsewhere.

Hospitals typically charge $2,992 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 443 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,115. Most fall between $1,517 and $5,741 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
443
States
44
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 443 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
$1,156$1,747$2,992$4,499$9,565

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,156 vs $9,565).

How the prices are spread

$726 – $959: 12 hospitals$726$959 – $1,268: 20 hospitals$1,268 – $1,676: 52 hospitals$1,268$1,676 – $2,215: 64 hospitals$2,215 – $2,929: 49 hospitals$2,215$2,929 – $3,871: 66 hospitals$3,871 – $5,117: 62 hospitals$3,871$5,117 – $6,765: 25 hospitals$6,765 – $8,942: 18 hospitals$6,765$8,942 – $11,820: 31 hospitals$8,942median $2,992price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (399 of 443 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$726$95912
$959$1,26820
$1,268$1,67652
$1,676$2,21564
$2,215$2,92949
$2,929$3,87166
$3,871$5,11762
$5,117$6,76525
$6,765$8,94218
$8,942$11,82031

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,992
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.89×

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 $2,992.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $4,120 across 12 hospitalsID$4,120Montana: 3 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 $3,761 across 17 hospitalsMN$3,761Illinois: median $1,532 across 12 hospitalsIL$1,532Wisconsin: median $2,803 across 25 hospitalsWI$2,803Michigan: median $2,075 across 30 hospitalsMI$2,075New York: median $3,840 across 30 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,438 across 13 hospitalsOR$2,438Nevada: 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 $1,996 across 22 hospitalsIA$1,996Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,291 across 13 hospitalsOH$2,291Pennsylvania: median $3,345 across 23 hospitalsPA$3,345New 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 $3,845 across 46 hospitalsCA$3,845Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 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 $1,747 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,747Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 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 $4,239 across 25 hospitalsTX$4,239Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,992. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ31$4,330+45%$3,594 – $5,339
Texas TX25$4,239+42%$2,653 – $4,239
Idaho ID12$4,120+38%$3,398 – $8,372
California CA46$3,845+29%$1,472 – $9,565
New York NY30$3,840+28%$1,213 – $3,884
Minnesota MN17$3,761+26%$2,385 – $4,412
Pennsylvania PA23$3,345+12%$337 – $6,114
Wisconsin WI25$2,803−6%$2,787 – $3,758
Oregon OR13$2,438−19%$1,543 – $2,811
Ohio OH13$2,291−23%$1,627 – $3,553
Michigan MI30$2,075−31%$1,961 – $3,677
Iowa IA22$1,996−33%$1,711 – $1,996
Oklahoma OK13$1,747−42%$1,747 – $6,054
Illinois IL12$1,532−49%$614 – $3,854
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not 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
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not 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 $2,992.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care342$3,345$1,541 – $5,960
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access88$2,438$1,437 – $4,059
Ownership
For-profit49$4,120$1,747 – $9,989
Government70$2,209$1,446 – $4,059
Non-profit324$2,926$1,543 – $5,419
System affiliation
Part of a system354$3,187$1,543 – $5,862
Independent89$2,576$1,426 – $4,485

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,948
Median cash price$2,992
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

234 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,209 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,572; most fall between $1,424 and $5,038.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 234 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
$842$1,472$2,209$4,239$9,565

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($842 vs $9,565).

Of the 259 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 234 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 9 a list price only.

How complete is this

443 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 493 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted443
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here36
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code493

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 OR therapeutic procedures on joints family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Rcnstj Coltrl Ligm Mtcarphlngl 1 W/Tdn/Fscal Grf.

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 knuckle side ligament using a tendon graft (CPT 26541) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26541-rebuilding-knuckle-side-ligament-using-a-tendon-graft