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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on bone

Surgery to lengthen a hand or finger bone

CPT 26568the billing code this page is about

Bone reshaping surgery to increase the length of a metacarpal or finger bone, including any graft used.

Hospitals typically charge $4,701 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 240 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,671. Most fall between $1,540 and $9,058 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
240
States
38
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 240 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
$976$1,684$4,701$8,454$10,035

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($976 vs $10,035).

How the prices are spread

$686 – $932: 11 hospitals$686$932 – $1,265: 7 hospitals$1,265 – $1,718: 35 hospitals$1,265$1,718 – $2,332: 26 hospitals$2,332 – $3,167: 12 hospitals$2,332$3,167 – $4,300: 11 hospitals$4,300 – $5,838: 25 hospitals$4,300$5,838 – $7,927: 36 hospitals$7,927 – $10,763: 47 hospitals$7,927$10,763 – $14,613: 8 hospitals$10,763median $4,701price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (218 of 240 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$686$93211
$932$1,2657
$1,265$1,71835
$1,718$2,33226
$2,332$3,16712
$3,167$4,30011
$4,300$5,83825
$5,838$7,92736
$7,927$10,76347
$10,763$14,6138

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,413
Median cash price$4,701
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.63×

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 $4,701.

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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWAIdaho: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,700 across 10 hospitalsIL$1,700Wisconsin: median $4,701 across 10 hospitalsWI$4,701Michigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $8,454 across 21 hospitalsNY$8,454Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 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 $2,230 across 14 hospitalsIA$2,230Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $697 across 18 hospitalsPA$697New Jersey: median $6,839 across 23 hospitalsNJ$6,839Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $10,035 across 25 hospitalsCA$10,035Utah: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,516 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,516Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 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 $4,902 across 20 hospitalsTX$4,902Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,701. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA25$10,035+113%$2,488 – $10,035
New York NY21$8,454+80%$4,265 – $8,613
New Jersey NJ23$6,839+45%$4,881 – $7,914
Texas TX20$4,902+4%$2,886 – $5,887
Wisconsin WI10$4,7010%$4,701 – $4,701
Iowa IA14$2,230−53%$2,230 – $2,230
Illinois IL10$1,700−64%$686 – $2,252
Oklahoma OK12$1,516−68%$1,516 – $1,516
Pennsylvania PA18$697−85%$568 – $12,077
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not 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
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $4,701.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care208$4,902$1,516 – $9,058
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access24$4,701$1,684 – $14,738
Ownership
For-profit30$3,524$833 – $10,468
Government33$2,310$1,577 – $8,454
Non-profit177$4,902$1,552 – $9,978
System affiliation
Part of a system196$4,902$1,552 – $9,072
Independent44$2,310$1,391 – $8,904

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,465
Median cash price$4,701
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

143 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,566 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,576; most fall between $1,516 and $10,035.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 143 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
$1,294$1,555$2,566$7,907$10,468

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,294 vs $10,468).

Of the 151 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 143 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 1 a list price only.

How complete is this

240 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 265 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted240
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here21
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 code265

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 Osteoplasty Lengthening Metacarpal/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, “Surgery to lengthen a hand or finger bone (CPT 26568) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26568-surgery-to-lengthen-a-hand-or-finger-bone