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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on bone

Repair of hand or finger bone that failed to heal

CPT 26546the billing code this page is about

Surgery on a hand or finger bone that did not heal after a fracture, including any bone graft and fixation needed.

Hospitals typically charge $3,758 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 487 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,062. Most fall between $1,722 and $8,413 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
487
States
46
Filings dated
Mar 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 487 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
$1,182$1,853$3,758$7,253$12,046

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,182 vs $12,046).

How the prices are spread

$919 – $1,203: 25 hospitals$919$1,203 – $1,576: 34 hospitals$1,576 – $2,063: 66 hospitals$1,576$2,063 – $2,702: 51 hospitals$2,702 – $3,539: 35 hospitals$2,702$3,539 – $4,635: 58 hospitals$4,635 – $6,069: 54 hospitals$4,635$6,069 – $7,948: 31 hospitals$7,948 – $10,409: 51 hospitals$7,948$10,409 – $13,631: 34 hospitals$10,409median $3,758price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (439 of 487 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$919$1,20325
$1,203$1,57634
$1,576$2,06366
$2,063$2,70251
$2,702$3,53935
$3,539$4,63558
$4,635$6,06954
$6,069$7,94831
$7,948$10,40951
$10,409$13,63134

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$3,758
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.51×

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 $3,758.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $3,605 across 10 hospitalsID$3,605Montana: 7 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 $4,945 across 18 hospitalsMN$4,945Illinois: median $1,901 across 11 hospitalsIL$1,901Wisconsin: median $4,616 across 29 hospitalsWI$4,616Michigan: median $1,746 across 30 hospitalsMI$1,746New York: median $7,413 across 31 hospitalsNY$7,413Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,929 across 11 hospitalsOR$1,929Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 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 $2,474 across 20 hospitalsIA$2,474Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,409 across 14 hospitalsOH$2,409Pennsylvania: median $5,050 across 23 hospitalsPA$5,050New Jersey: median $5,855 across 30 hospitalsNJ$5,855Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $12,046 across 36 hospitalsCA$12,046Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $3,228 across 10 hospitalsCO$3,228Nebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,638 across 10 hospitalsMO$1,638Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $2,583 across 19 hospitalsWV$2,583Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $2,171 across 14 hospitalsOK$2,171Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $9,791 across 10 hospitalsGA$9,791Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,887 across 26 hospitalsTX$5,887Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,758. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA36$12,046+221%$2,599 – $12,046
Georgia GA10$9,791+161%$7,242 – $9,791
New York NY31$7,413+97%$1,880 – $8,454
Texas TX26$5,887+57%$5,499 – $6,911
New Jersey NJ30$5,855+56%$3,813 – $7,914
Pennsylvania PA23$5,050+34%$671 – $12,077
Minnesota MN18$4,945+32%$2,740 – $5,174
Wisconsin WI29$4,616+23%$3,758 – $8,190
Idaho ID10$3,605−4%$2,006 – $14,738
Colorado CO10$3,228−14%$1,478 – $3,766
West Virginia WV19$2,583−31%$1,070 – $5,854
Iowa IA20$2,474−34%$2,124 – $2,474
Ohio OH14$2,409−36%$1,426 – $3,859
Oklahoma OK14$2,171−42%$2,171 – $8,347
Oregon OR11$1,929−49%$1,929 – $3,494
Illinois IL11$1,901−49%$1,223 – $2,474
Michigan MI30$1,746−54%$1,738 – $4,616
Missouri MO10$1,638−56%$1,313 – $1,715
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not 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 $3,758.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care367$4,278$1,746 – $8,729
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access110$2,564$1,360 – $4,616
Ownership
For-profit54$4,616$1,313 – $11,620
Government83$2,587$1,715 – $8,454
Non-profit350$3,766$1,738 – $8,190
System affiliation
Part of a system374$3,866$1,746 – $8,454
Independent113$2,587$1,592 – $6,602

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,015
Median cash price$3,758
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

249 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,599 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,362; most fall between $1,638 and $7,907.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 249 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
$1,223$1,739$2,599$5,887$12,046

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,223 vs $12,046).

Of the 273 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 249 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 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

487 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 534 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted487
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here32
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code534

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 OR therapeutic procedures on bone family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Rpr Non-Union Mtcrpl/Phalanx.

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, “Repair of hand or finger bone that failed to heal (CPT 26546) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26546-repair-of-hand-or-finger-bone-that-failed-to-heal