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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on joints

Repair of the palm-side plate of a finger joint

CPT 26548the billing code this page is about

Surgery to repair or rebuild the volar plate, the thick ligament on the palm side of a finger joint, to correct instability or deformity.

Hospitals typically charge $3,534 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 507 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,375. Most fall between $1,479 and $6,125 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
507
States
43
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 507 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
$937$1,711$3,534$5,214$9,565

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($937 vs $9,565).

How the prices are spread

$732 – $957: 29 hospitals$732$957 – $1,252: 23 hospitals$1,252 – $1,637: 36 hospitals$1,252$1,637 – $2,142: 77 hospitals$2,142 – $2,801: 32 hospitals$2,142$2,801 – $3,663: 46 hospitals$3,663 – $4,791: 89 hospitals$3,663$4,791 – $6,265: 55 hospitals$6,265 – $8,194: 35 hospitals$6,265$8,194 – $10,716: 37 hospitals$8,194median $3,534price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (459 of 507 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$732$95729
$957$1,25223
$1,252$1,63736
$1,637$2,14277
$2,142$2,80132
$2,801$3,66346
$3,663$4,79189
$4,791$6,26555
$6,265$8,19435
$8,194$10,71637

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$3,534
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.06×

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 $3,534.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $5,247 across 14 hospitalsWA$5,247Idaho: median $4,120 across 12 hospitalsID$4,120Montana: 5 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 $3,428 across 21 hospitalsMN$3,428Illinois: median $1,900 across 15 hospitalsIL$1,900Wisconsin: median $3,758 across 13 hospitalsWI$3,758Michigan: median $1,924 across 25 hospitalsMI$1,924New York: median $3,840 across 27 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $6,719 across 13 hospitalsOR$6,719Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 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 $1,900 across 21 hospitalsIA$1,900Indiana: median $1,230 across 10 hospitalsIN$1,230Ohio: median $2,137 across 15 hospitalsOH$2,137Pennsylvania: median $3,804 across 22 hospitalsPA$3,804New Jersey: median $4,077 across 31 hospitalsNJ$4,077Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,914 across 63 hospitalsCA$4,914Utah: 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: median $1,669 across 15 hospitalsMO$1,669Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $855 across 14 hospitalsWV$855Virginia: 8 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,677 across 15 hospitalsOK$1,677Louisiana: 5 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,018 across 28 hospitalsTX$4,018Florida: median $4,532 across 14 hospitalsFL$4,532
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,534. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Oregon OR13$6,719+90%$1,476 – $6,864
Washington WA14$5,247+48%$1,653 – $6,487
California CA63$4,914+39%$2,671 – $9,565
Florida FL14$4,532+28%$3,257 – $4,637
Idaho ID12$4,120+17%$2,025 – $8,372
New Jersey NJ31$4,077+15%$3,591 – $5,419
Texas TX28$4,018+14%$3,527 – $4,313
New York NY27$3,840+9%$1,851 – $4,084
Pennsylvania PA22$3,804+8%$514 – $6,114
Wisconsin WI13$3,758+6%$2,978 – $5,204
Minnesota MN21$3,428−3%$2,408 – $3,635
Ohio OH15$2,137−40%$1,483 – $3,556
Michigan MI25$1,924−46%$1,797 – $4,499
Iowa IA21$1,900−46%$1,792 – $2,161
Illinois IL15$1,900−46%$819 – $2,882
Oklahoma OK15$1,677−53%$1,677 – $5,822
Missouri MO15$1,669−53%$1,098 – $7,393
Indiana IN10$1,230−65%$819 – $4,573
West Virginia WV14$855−76%$824 – $4,725
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not 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 $3,534.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care409$3,804$1,669 – $6,219
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access86$2,025$1,140 – $5,730
Ownership
For-profit53$4,720$1,315 – $9,077
Government78$2,161$1,441 – $4,532
Non-profit376$3,556$1,550 – $6,060
System affiliation
Part of a system409$3,758$1,677 – $6,146
Independent98$2,388$1,316 – $5,873

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,895
Median cash price$3,534
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

291 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,955 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,256; most fall between $1,472 and $6,305.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 291 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
$972$1,677$2,955$5,562$9,565

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($972 vs $9,565).

Of the 306 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 291 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

507 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 546 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted507
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here28
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code546

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 joints family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Rpr & Rcnstj Finger Volar Plate Interphalangeal.

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 the palm-side plate of a finger joint (CPT 26548) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26548-repair-of-the-palm-side-plate-of-a-finger-joint