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Procedure price report · Other fracture and dislocation procedure

Open surgery for a dislocated hand joint at the base

CPT 26685the billing code this page is about

Surgery through an incision to reposition a dislocated joint where a hand bone meets the wrist, other than the thumb, with or without fixation; covers one joint.

Hospitals typically charge $2,672 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 410 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,540. Most fall between $956 and $5,339 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
410
States
45
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 410 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
$670$1,087$2,672$4,330$8,372

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($670 vs $8,372).

How the prices are spread

$599 – $790: 31 hospitals$599$790 – $1,043: 45 hospitals$1,043 – $1,375: 36 hospitals$1,043$1,375 – $1,814: 36 hospitals$1,814 – $2,394: 32 hospitals$1,814$2,394 – $3,158: 39 hospitals$3,158 – $4,166: 65 hospitals$3,158$4,166 – $5,496: 29 hospitals$5,496 – $7,250: 25 hospitals$5,496$7,250 – $9,565: 33 hospitals$7,250median $2,672price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (371 of 410 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$599$79031
$790$1,04345
$1,043$1,37536
$1,375$1,81436
$1,814$2,39432
$2,394$3,15839
$3,158$4,16665
$4,166$5,49629
$5,496$7,25025
$7,250$9,56533

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,672
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.80×

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 $2,672.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $6,877 across 11 hospitalsID$6,877Montana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,089 across 16 hospitalsIL$1,089Wisconsin: median $2,672 across 22 hospitalsWI$2,672Michigan: median $1,858 across 19 hospitalsMI$1,858New York: median $3,840 across 28 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,415 across 19 hospitalsIA$1,415Indiana: median $670 across 10 hospitalsIN$670Ohio: median $1,838 across 16 hospitalsOH$1,838Pennsylvania: median $764 across 21 hospitalsPA$764New Jersey: median $4,130 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,130Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $9,565 across 34 hospitalsCA$9,565Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $956 across 14 hospitalsOK$956Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,566 across 26 hospitalsTX$3,566Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,672. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA34$9,565+258%$1,467 – $9,565
Idaho ID11$6,877+157%$3,504 – $8,372
New Jersey NJ30$4,130+55%$3,591 – $5,339
New York NY28$3,840+44%$935 – $3,884
Texas TX26$3,566+33%$2,653 – $3,566
Wisconsin WI22$2,6720%$2,672 – $2,890
Michigan MI19$1,858−30%$843 – $4,499
Ohio OH16$1,838−31%$1,184 – $3,080
Iowa IA19$1,415−47%$1,415 – $1,623
Illinois IL16$1,089−59%$670 – $2,763
Oklahoma OK14$956−64%$956 – $6,612
Pennsylvania PA21$764−71%$380 – $5,486
Indiana IN10$670−75%$670 – $1,520
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not 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 $2,672.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care320$2,926$956 – $5,741
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access81$1,637$954 – $2,890
Ownership
For-profit45$3,504$728 – $5,416
Government75$1,637$994 – $4,015
Non-profit290$2,672$956 – $5,416
System affiliation
Part of a system312$2,763$956 – $5,527
Independent98$1,637$948 – $4,265

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,323
Median cash price$2,672
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

233 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,858 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,268; most fall between $935 and $6,114.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 233 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
$670$956$1,858$4,035$8,964

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($670 vs $8,964).

Of the 256 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 233 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

410 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 457 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted410
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here37
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 — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code457

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 fracture and dislocation procedure family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Open Tx Carpometacarpal Dislocate Not Thumb.

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, “Open surgery for a dislocated hand joint at the base (CPT 26685) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26685-open-surgery-for-a-dislocated-hand-joint-at-the-base