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Procedure price report · Other fracture and dislocation procedure

Setting a broken hand bone without realignment, one bone

CPT 26600the billing code this page is about

Nonsurgical treatment of a single broken bone in the body of the hand without repositioning the bone; the charge applies to one bone.

Hospitals typically charge $420 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,038 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $431. Most fall between $244 and $712 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,038
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 2,038 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
$176$275$420$626$951

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($176 vs $951).

How the prices are spread

$131 – $164: 81 hospitals$131$164 – $206: 70 hospitals$206 – $257: 203 hospitals$206$257 – $322: 267 hospitals$322 – $403: 263 hospitals$322$403 – $505: 289 hospitals$505 – $632: 265 hospitals$505$632 – $791: 181 hospitals$791 – $991: 127 hospitals$791$991 – $1,240: 93 hospitals$991median $420price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,839 of 2,038 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$131$16481
$164$20670
$206$257203
$257$322267
$322$403263
$403$505289
$505$632265
$632$791181
$791$991127
$991$1,24093

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$252
Median cash price$420
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.67×

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 $420.

Alaska: median $422 across 12 hospitalsAK$422Maine: median $371 across 17 hospitalsME$371Vermont: median $455 across 11 hospitalsVT$455New Hampshire: median $199 across 16 hospitalsNH$199Washington: median $515 across 56 hospitalsWA$515Idaho: median $552 across 20 hospitalsID$552Montana: median $347 across 25 hospitalsMT$347North Dakota: median $470 across 21 hospitalsND$470Minnesota: median $449 across 74 hospitalsMN$449Illinois: median $482 across 78 hospitalsIL$482Wisconsin: median $587 across 68 hospitalsWI$587Michigan: median $329 across 61 hospitalsMI$329New York: median $390 across 81 hospitalsNY$390Massachusetts: median $437 across 38 hospitalsMA$437Oregon: median $509 across 45 hospitalsOR$509Nevada: median $336 across 12 hospitalsNV$336Wyoming: median $481 across 12 hospitalsWY$481South Dakota: median $431 across 34 hospitalsSD$431Iowa: median $437 across 69 hospitalsIA$437Indiana: median $336 across 42 hospitalsIN$336Ohio: median $377 across 85 hospitalsOH$377Pennsylvania: median $366 across 90 hospitalsPA$366New Jersey: median $612 across 44 hospitalsNJ$612Connecticut: median $685 across 18 hospitalsCT$685Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $607 across 117 hospitalsCA$607Utah: median $416 across 26 hospitalsUT$416Colorado: median $442 across 34 hospitalsCO$442Nebraska: median $462 across 61 hospitalsNE$462Missouri: median $371 across 36 hospitalsMO$371Kentucky: median $249 across 24 hospitalsKY$249West Virginia: median $317 across 30 hospitalsWV$317Virginia: median $212 across 40 hospitalsVA$212Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $361 across 20 hospitalsAZ$361New Mexico: median $375 across 21 hospitalsNM$375Kansas: median $400 across 58 hospitalsKS$400Arkansas: median $393 across 15 hospitalsAR$393Tennessee: median $233 across 28 hospitalsTN$233North Carolina: median $361 across 39 hospitalsNC$361South Carolina: median $584 across 36 hospitalsSC$584Oklahoma: median $290 across 45 hospitalsOK$290Louisiana: median $215 across 39 hospitalsLA$215Mississippi: median $175 across 33 hospitalsMS$175Alabama: median $350 across 19 hospitalsAL$350Georgia: median $525 across 54 hospitalsGA$525Hawaii: median $573 across 13 hospitalsHI$573Texas: median $399 across 143 hospitalsTX$399Florida: median $731 across 65 hospitalsFL$731
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $420. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL65$731+74%$394 – $1,625
Connecticut CT18$685+63%$304 – $880
New Jersey NJ44$612+46%$283 – $4,627
California CA117$607+44%$338 – $1,126
Wisconsin WI68$587+40%$298 – $1,007
South Carolina SC36$584+39%$305 – $595
Hawaii HI13$573+36%$548 – $937
Idaho ID20$552+31%$286 – $734
Georgia GA54$525+25%$248 – $806
Washington WA56$515+23%$381 – $756
Oregon OR45$509+21%$249 – $597
Illinois IL78$482+15%$214 – $776
Wyoming WY12$481+15%$414 – $770
North Dakota ND21$470+12%$332 – $590
Nebraska NE61$462+10%$318 – $644
Vermont VT11$455+8%$238 – $692
Minnesota MN74$449+7%$244 – $626
Colorado CO34$442+5%$243 – $750
Massachusetts MA38$437+4%$303 – $725
Iowa IA69$437+4%$195 – $677
South Dakota SD34$431+3%$324 – $785
Alaska AK12$4220%$354 – $1,299
Utah UT26$416−1%$363 – $442
Kansas KS58$400−5%$253 – $583
Texas TX143$399−5%$246 – $665
Arkansas AR15$393−6%$205 – $499
New York NY81$390−7%$284 – $763
Ohio OH85$377−10%$233 – $666
New Mexico NM21$375−11%$267 – $510
Missouri MO36$371−12%$238 – $504
Maine ME17$371−12%$262 – $605
Pennsylvania PA90$366−13%$218 – $653
North Carolina NC39$361−14%$163 – $529
Arizona AZ20$361−14%$303 – $536
Alabama AL19$350−17%$220 – $820
Montana MT25$347−17%$238 – $616
Indiana IN42$336−20%$269 – $691
Nevada NV12$336−20%$270 – $781
Michigan MI61$329−22%$232 – $769
West Virginia WV30$317−25%$237 – $488
Oklahoma OK45$290−31%$131 – $553
Kentucky KY24$249−41%$222 – $505
Tennessee TN28$233−44%$229 – $434
Louisiana LA39$215−49%$123 – $402
Virginia VA40$212−50%$173 – $446
New Hampshire NH16$199−53%$155 – $312
Mississippi MS33$175−58%$79 – $302
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not 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 $420.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,345$409$234 – $717
Children’s43$699$332 – $1,137
Critical access647$430$259 – $665
Ownership
For-profit176$408$248 – $874
Government419$425$232 – $668
Non-profit1,440$421$246 – $707
System affiliation
Part of a system1,619$429$249 – $717
Independent419$388$222 – $711

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$671
Median cash price$420
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

1,504 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $441 and the average of the middle 60% is $450; most fall between $251 and $719.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,504 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
$173$280$441$660$981

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($173 vs $981).

Of the 1,613 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,504 gave a usable cash price; 47 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 62 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,038 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (52%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,183 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,038
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here75
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 — excluded69
Hospitals that filed this code2,183

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 fracture and dislocation procedure family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Cltx Metacarpal Fx W/O Manipulation Each Bone.

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, “Setting a broken hand bone without realignment, one bone (CPT 26600) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26600-setting-a-broken-hand-bone-without-realignment-one-bone