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Procedure price report · Other fracture and dislocation procedure

Open surgery for a finger joint fracture

CPT 26746the billing code this page is about

Surgical repair through an incision of a break extending into a knuckle or finger joint surface, including internal fixation hardware if used; billed once for each joint treated.

Hospitals typically charge $3,474 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 846 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,438. Most fall between $1,388 and $6,349 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
846
States
49
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 846 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
$984$1,651$3,474$5,339$8,870

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($984 vs $8,870).

How the prices are spread

$805 – $1,045: 60 hospitals$805$1,045 – $1,358: 55 hospitals$1,358 – $1,764: 88 hospitals$1,358$1,764 – $2,292: 79 hospitals$2,292 – $2,977: 50 hospitals$2,292$2,977 – $3,868: 101 hospitals$3,868 – $5,025: 123 hospitals$3,868$5,025 – $6,528: 85 hospitals$6,528 – $8,480: 66 hospitals$6,528$8,480 – $11,017: 56 hospitals$8,480median $3,474price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (763 of 846 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$805$1,04560
$1,045$1,35855
$1,358$1,76488
$1,764$2,29279
$2,292$2,97750
$2,977$3,868101
$3,868$5,025123
$5,025$6,52885
$6,528$8,48066
$8,480$11,01756

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$3,474
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.04×

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 $3,474.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $1,898 across 10 hospitalsVT$1,898New Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $4,454 across 24 hospitalsWA$4,454Idaho: median $3,268 across 16 hospitalsID$3,268Montana: median $2,285 across 11 hospitalsMT$2,285North Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,607 across 29 hospitalsMN$2,607Illinois: median $1,931 across 28 hospitalsIL$1,931Wisconsin: median $3,474 across 35 hospitalsWI$3,474Michigan: median $1,426 across 37 hospitalsMI$1,426New York: median $3,840 across 45 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: median $5,619 across 11 hospitalsMA$5,619Oregon: median $2,216 across 28 hospitalsOR$2,216Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 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 $1,829 across 31 hospitalsIA$1,829Indiana: median $1,528 across 16 hospitalsIN$1,528Ohio: median $2,548 across 19 hospitalsOH$2,548Pennsylvania: median $5,038 across 22 hospitalsPA$5,038New Jersey: median $3,986 across 34 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $5,210 across 77 hospitalsCA$5,210Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,883 across 10 hospitalsCO$2,883Nebraska: median $1,708 across 13 hospitalsNE$1,708Missouri: median $2,697 across 22 hospitalsMO$2,697Kentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,468 across 18 hospitalsWV$1,468Virginia: median $3,801 across 24 hospitalsVA$3,801Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,651 across 11 hospitalsKS$1,651Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,185 across 10 hospitalsTN$1,185North Carolina: median $4,240 across 17 hospitalsNC$4,240South Carolina: median $8,763 across 11 hospitalsSC$8,763Oklahoma: median $1,014 across 19 hospitalsOK$1,014Louisiana: median $3,001 across 16 hospitalsLA$3,001Mississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $9,383 across 14 hospitalsGA$9,383Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,522 across 68 hospitalsTX$4,522Florida: median $7,272 across 25 hospitalsFL$7,272
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,474. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA14$9,383+170%$4,207 – $9,383
South Carolina SC11$8,763+152%$5,416 – $8,763
Florida FL25$7,272+109%$6,123 – $10,221
Massachusetts MA11$5,619+62%$3,028 – $7,895
California CA77$5,210+50%$2,151 – $10,690
Pennsylvania PA22$5,038+45%$3,139 – $6,869
Texas TX68$4,522+30%$3,331 – $5,003
Washington WA24$4,454+28%$1,713 – $7,298
North Carolina NC17$4,240+22%$2,874 – $4,416
New Jersey NJ34$3,986+15%$3,591 – $5,339
New York NY45$3,840+11%$1,359 – $4,581
Virginia VA24$3,801+9%$3,553 – $7,859
Wisconsin WI35$3,4740%$1,669 – $5,212
Idaho ID16$3,268−6%$1,672 – $6,877
Louisiana LA16$3,001−14%$1,891 – $5,299
Colorado CO10$2,883−17%$1,257 – $6,240
Missouri MO22$2,697−22%$1,023 – $4,369
Minnesota MN29$2,607−25%$1,381 – $3,898
Ohio OH19$2,548−27%$1,223 – $6,349
Montana MT11$2,285−34%$1,096 – $2,685
Oregon OR28$2,216−36%$1,388 – $8,870
Illinois IL28$1,931−44%$841 – $6,342
Vermont VT10$1,898−45%$1,612 – $2,646
Iowa IA31$1,829−47%$1,350 – $2,142
Nebraska NE13$1,708−51%$1,109 – $5,744
Kansas KS11$1,651−52%$1,187 – $4,615
Indiana IN16$1,528−56%$841 – $8,114
West Virginia WV18$1,468−58%$783 – $5,820
Michigan MI37$1,426−59%$940 – $3,177
Tennessee TN10$1,185−66%$682 – $4,091
Oklahoma OK19$1,014−71%$1,014 – $6,612
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $3,474.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care641$3,898$1,542 – $7,014
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access187$1,807$1,078 – $3,898
Ownership
For-profit91$4,672$2,026 – $7,272
Government139$2,562$1,350 – $5,638
Non-profit616$3,546$1,388 – $6,342
System affiliation
Part of a system669$3,821$1,592 – $6,700
Independent177$2,290$1,218 – $4,931

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,552
Median cash price$3,474
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

502 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,553 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,488; most fall between $1,388 and $6,700.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 502 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
$1,014$1,638$3,553$5,638$8,656

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,014 vs $8,656).

Of the 554 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 502 gave a usable cash price; 27 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 25 a list price only.

How complete is this

846 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (21%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 933 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted846
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here50
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded32
Hospitals that filed this code933

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 Open Tx Articular Fracture Mcp/IP Joint Ea.

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 finger joint fracture (CPT 26746) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26746-open-surgery-for-a-finger-joint-fracture