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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on joints

Fusion of a finger joint

CPT 26860the billing code this page is about

Surgery that permanently joins the bones of one of the small joints within a finger or thumb, with or without hardware to hold the bones together.

Hospitals typically charge $3,222 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 755 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,138. Most fall between $1,111 and $6,269 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
755
States
47
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 755 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
$793$1,269$3,222$5,110$9,548

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($793 vs $9,548).

How the prices are spread

$648 – $891: 53 hospitals$648$891 – $1,227: 89 hospitals$1,227 – $1,688: 78 hospitals$1,227$1,688 – $2,324: 55 hospitals$2,324 – $3,198: 64 hospitals$2,324$3,198 – $4,402: 116 hospitals$4,402 – $6,059: 105 hospitals$4,402$6,059 – $8,339: 59 hospitals$8,339 – $11,478: 38 hospitals$8,339$11,478 – $15,798: 24 hospitals$11,478median $3,222price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (681 of 755 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$648$89153
$891$1,22789
$1,227$1,68878
$1,688$2,32455
$2,324$3,19864
$3,198$4,402116
$4,402$6,059105
$6,059$8,33959
$8,339$11,47838
$11,478$15,79824

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$3,222
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.96×

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 $3,222.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $3,371 across 27 hospitalsWA$3,371Idaho: median $4,500 across 18 hospitalsID$4,500Montana: median $1,867 across 11 hospitalsMT$1,867North Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,542 across 32 hospitalsMN$2,542Illinois: median $1,422 across 20 hospitalsIL$1,422Wisconsin: median $3,341 across 32 hospitalsWI$3,341Michigan: median $1,111 across 35 hospitalsMI$1,111New York: median $3,840 across 36 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,081 across 26 hospitalsOR$2,081Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 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 $1,422 across 30 hospitalsIA$1,422Indiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $3,553 across 25 hospitalsOH$3,553Pennsylvania: median $3,139 across 25 hospitalsPA$3,139New Jersey: median $4,330 across 33 hospitalsNJ$4,330Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,631 across 70 hospitalsCA$4,631Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $3,188 across 17 hospitalsCO$3,188Nebraska: median $1,981 across 14 hospitalsNE$1,981Missouri: median $887 across 16 hospitalsMO$887Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,439 across 17 hospitalsWV$1,439Virginia: median $3,844 across 14 hospitalsVA$3,844Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,205 across 12 hospitalsKS$1,205Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $2,603 across 13 hospitalsTN$2,603North Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,277 across 18 hospitalsOK$1,277Louisiana: median $4,645 across 13 hospitalsLA$4,645Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $3,170 across 12 hospitalsAL$3,170Georgia: median $6,653 across 11 hospitalsGA$6,653Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,193 across 39 hospitalsTX$4,193Florida: median $4,637 across 16 hospitalsFL$4,637
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,222. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA11$6,653+106%$6,653 – $6,977
Louisiana LA13$4,645+44%$3,133 – $8,665
Florida FL16$4,637+44%$4,637 – $6,623
California CA70$4,631+44%$1,840 – $4,914
Idaho ID18$4,500+40%$1,178 – $7,168
New Jersey NJ33$4,330+34%$3,594 – $5,419
Texas TX39$4,193+30%$2,794 – $5,829
Virginia VA14$3,844+19%$1,857 – $21,759
New York NY36$3,840+19%$953 – $4,265
Ohio OH25$3,553+10%$1,264 – $24,116
Washington WA27$3,371+5%$1,949 – $7,350
Wisconsin WI32$3,341+4%$3,131 – $4,946
Colorado CO17$3,188−1%$1,236 – $8,676
Alabama AL12$3,170−2%$1,551 – $11,082
Pennsylvania PA25$3,139−3%$391 – $6,114
Tennessee TN13$2,603−19%$523 – $4,996
Minnesota MN32$2,542−21%$1,184 – $3,696
Oregon OR26$2,081−35%$1,128 – $7,911
Nebraska NE14$1,981−39%$964 – $2,580
Montana MT11$1,867−42%$1,313 – $2,955
West Virginia WV17$1,439−55%$645 – $10,894
Iowa IA30$1,422−56%$1,093 – $1,534
Illinois IL20$1,422−56%$674 – $2,601
Oklahoma OK18$1,277−60%$912 – $4,658
Kansas KS12$1,205−63%$1,018 – $3,271
Michigan MI35$1,111−66%$1,020 – $3,885
Missouri MO16$887−72%$785 – $8,713
Indiana IN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not 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 $3,222.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care546$3,840$1,269 – $6,876
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access194$1,699$922 – $3,885
Ownership
For-profit84$4,438$1,563 – $10,047
Government132$2,115$1,041 – $5,829
Non-profit539$3,341$1,111 – $5,855
System affiliation
Part of a system589$3,559$1,131 – $6,615
Independent166$2,020$1,023 – $5,299

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,976
Median cash price$3,222
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

392 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,738 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,842; most fall between $1,007 and $4,914.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 392 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
$734$1,128$2,738$4,637$6,876

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($734 vs $6,876).

Of the 429 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 392 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

755 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (19%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 832 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted755
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here51
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 — excluded21
Hospitals that filed this code832

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 OR therapeutic procedures on joints family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Fusion Finger Joint.

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, “Fusion of a finger joint (CPT 26860) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26860-fusion-of-a-finger-joint