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Procedure price report · Other fracture and dislocation procedure

Pinning a broken hand bone through the skin, one bone

CPT 26608the billing code this page is about

Fixation of a broken bone in the body of the hand using pins or wires placed through the skin rather than through an open incision; the charge applies to one bone.

Hospitals typically charge $2,648 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 957 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,856. Most fall between $936 and $6,114 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
957
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 957 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
$694$1,136$2,648$5,298$8,676

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($694 vs $8,676).

How the prices are spread

$511 – $692: 48 hospitals$511$692 – $938: 98 hospitals$938 – $1,270: 89 hospitals$938$1,270 – $1,721: 98 hospitals$1,721 – $2,332: 53 hospitals$1,721$2,332 – $3,159: 97 hospitals$3,159 – $4,280: 122 hospitals$3,159$4,280 – $5,799: 101 hospitals$5,799 – $7,856: 93 hospitals$5,799$7,856 – $10,644: 64 hospitals$7,856median $2,648price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (863 of 957 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$511$69248
$692$93898
$938$1,27089
$1,270$1,72198
$1,721$2,33253
$2,332$3,15997
$3,159$4,280122
$4,280$5,799101
$5,799$7,85693
$7,856$10,64464

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,648
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.79×

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 $2,648.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $782 across 10 hospitalsVT$782New Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,771 across 31 hospitalsWA$1,771Idaho: median $4,592 across 16 hospitalsID$4,592Montana: median $902 across 10 hospitalsMT$902North Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,367 across 30 hospitalsMN$2,367Illinois: median $1,790 across 33 hospitalsIL$1,790Wisconsin: median $2,569 across 45 hospitalsWI$2,569Michigan: median $850 across 38 hospitalsMI$850New York: median $3,840 across 54 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,434 across 30 hospitalsOR$1,434Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,179 across 36 hospitalsIA$1,179Indiana: median $1,468 across 31 hospitalsIN$1,468Ohio: median $3,767 across 38 hospitalsOH$3,767Pennsylvania: median $3,139 across 31 hospitalsPA$3,139New Jersey: median $4,131 across 33 hospitalsNJ$4,131Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,749 across 72 hospitalsCA$2,749Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,709 across 18 hospitalsCO$2,709Nebraska: median $1,735 across 19 hospitalsNE$1,735Missouri: median $2,708 across 37 hospitalsMO$2,708Kentucky: median $721 across 10 hospitalsKY$721West Virginia: median $1,593 across 21 hospitalsWV$1,593Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $3,208 across 11 hospitalsAZ$3,208New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $998 across 17 hospitalsKS$998Arkansas: median $2,549 across 10 hospitalsAR$2,549Tennessee: median $3,837 across 17 hospitalsTN$3,837North Carolina: median $4,694 across 21 hospitalsNC$4,694South Carolina: median $5,591 across 15 hospitalsSC$5,591Oklahoma: median $783 across 15 hospitalsOK$783Louisiana: median $2,242 across 18 hospitalsLA$2,242Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $3,422 across 15 hospitalsAL$3,422Georgia: median $6,184 across 22 hospitalsGA$6,184Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,618 across 44 hospitalsTX$3,618Florida: median $5,351 across 20 hospitalsFL$5,351
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,648. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA22$6,184+134%$6,184 – $9,791
South Carolina SC15$5,591+111%$5,416 – $5,591
Florida FL20$5,351+102%$3,124 – $6,551
North Carolina NC21$4,694+77%$1,770 – $4,694
Idaho ID16$4,592+73%$1,099 – $6,877
New Jersey NJ33$4,131+56%$3,591 – $5,419
New York NY54$3,840+45%$780 – $4,595
Tennessee TN17$3,837+45%$487 – $5,504
Ohio OH38$3,767+42%$1,170 – $5,869
Texas TX44$3,618+37%$2,794 – $6,736
Alabama AL15$3,422+29%$1,343 – $5,453
Arizona AZ11$3,208+21%$758 – $10,644
Pennsylvania PA31$3,139+19%$330 – $5,038
California CA72$2,749+4%$1,472 – $9,789
Colorado CO18$2,709+2%$947 – $8,676
Missouri MO37$2,708+2%$742 – $8,806
Wisconsin WI45$2,569−3%$1,287 – $3,086
Arkansas AR10$2,549−4%$936 – $3,115
Minnesota MN30$2,367−11%$1,051 – $2,777
Louisiana LA18$2,242−15%$1,342 – $5,299
Illinois IL33$1,790−32%$590 – $6,342
Washington WA31$1,771−33%$995 – $6,487
Nebraska NE19$1,735−34%$804 – $6,004
West Virginia WV21$1,593−40%$527 – $4,748
Indiana IN31$1,468−45%$600 – $2,372
Oregon OR30$1,434−46%$908 – $6,719
Iowa IA36$1,179−55%$1,051 – $1,501
Kansas KS17$998−62%$694 – $2,515
Montana MT10$902−66%$542 – $1,813
Michigan MI38$850−68%$811 – $3,245
Oklahoma OK15$783−70%$783 – $5,884
Vermont VT10$782−70%$252 – $1,498
Kentucky KY10$721−73%$484 – $4,400
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $2,648.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care676$3,591$1,098 – $6,487
Children’s29$3,794$1,343 – $14,036
Critical access252$1,410$811 – $2,777
Ownership
For-profit105$4,239$1,263 – $8,372
Government178$1,521$884 – $4,694
Non-profit674$2,574$924 – $5,933
System affiliation
Part of a system749$3,099$1,051 – $6,342
Independent208$1,518$873 – $4,233

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,870
Median cash price$2,648
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

486 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,569 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,755; most fall between $806 and $6,184.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 486 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
$590$928$2,569$5,317$8,004

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($590 vs $8,004).

Of the 532 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 486 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 27 a list price only.

How complete is this

957 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (24%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,047 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted957
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here52
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded32
Hospitals that filed this code1,047

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 Prq Skeletal Fixj Metacarpal Fx 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, “Pinning a broken hand bone through the skin, one bone (CPT 26608) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26608-pinning-a-broken-hand-bone-through-the-skin-one-bone