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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on joints

Fusion of a finger joint using patient's own bone

CPT 26862the billing code this page is about

Surgery that permanently joins the bones of a small joint within a finger or thumb, using a bone graft taken from the patient during the same operation.

Hospitals typically charge $3,546 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 359 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,430. Most fall between $1,310 and $6,872 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
359
States
44
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 359 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
$1,118$1,430$3,546$5,855$9,632

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,118 vs $9,632).

How the prices are spread

$788 – $1,030: 14 hospitals$788$1,030 – $1,346: 43 hospitals$1,346 – $1,759: 31 hospitals$1,346$1,759 – $2,299: 44 hospitals$2,299 – $3,004: 14 hospitals$2,299$3,004 – $3,925: 57 hospitals$3,925 – $5,130: 26 hospitals$3,925$5,130 – $6,703: 37 hospitals$6,703 – $8,759: 30 hospitals$6,703$8,759 – $11,446: 29 hospitals$8,759median $3,546price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (325 of 359 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$788$1,03014
$1,030$1,34643
$1,346$1,75931
$1,759$2,29944
$2,299$3,00414
$3,004$3,92557
$3,925$5,13026
$5,130$6,70337
$6,703$8,75930
$8,759$11,44629

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$3,546
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.06×

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 $3,546.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $4,177 across 11 hospitalsID$4,177Montana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $3,607 across 14 hospitalsMN$3,607Illinois: median $1,424 across 14 hospitalsIL$1,424Wisconsin: median $3,758 across 14 hospitalsWI$3,758Michigan: median $1,277 across 26 hospitalsMI$1,277New York: median $3,840 across 24 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $1,813 across 14 hospitalsIA$1,813Indiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,966 across 12 hospitalsOH$1,966Pennsylvania: median $5,038 across 11 hospitalsPA$5,038New Jersey: median $4,627 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $9,632 across 33 hospitalsCA$9,632Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,253 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,253Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,256 across 24 hospitalsTX$5,256Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,546. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA33$9,632+172%$1,990 – $9,632
Texas TX24$5,256+48%$2,392 – $5,256
Pennsylvania PA11$5,038+42%$3,804 – $6,637
New Jersey NJ30$4,627+30%$3,591 – $7,806
Idaho ID11$4,177+18%$3,524 – $6,877
New York NY24$3,840+8%$2,806 – $4,084
Wisconsin WI14$3,758+6%$3,758 – $6,872
Minnesota MN14$3,607+2%$1,666 – $3,607
Ohio OH12$1,966−45%$1,310 – $2,870
Iowa IA14$1,813−49%$1,813 – $1,813
Illinois IL14$1,424−60%$554 – $3,200
Michigan MI26$1,277−64%$1,277 – $4,499
Oklahoma OK13$1,253−65%$1,253 – $6,615
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not 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
North Carolina NC1not 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 $3,546.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care295$3,607$1,310 – $7,025
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access56$2,192$1,366 – $5,810
Ownership
For-profit44$4,117$1,294 – $9,441
Government58$1,867$1,336 – $4,177
Non-profit257$3,594$1,325 – $6,872
System affiliation
Part of a system271$3,758$1,366 – $7,025
Independent88$2,192$1,310 – $4,806

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,903
Median cash price$3,546
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

176 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,084 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,953; most fall between $1,253 and $7,558.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 176 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
$867$1,295$2,084$6,114$9,632

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($867 vs $9,632).

Of the 203 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 176 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

359 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 414 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted359
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here45
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code414

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 OR therapeutic procedures on joints family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Arthrodesis Iphal Jt W/WO Int Fixj W/Autograft.

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 using patient's own bone (CPT 26862) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26862-fusion-of-a-finger-joint-using-patient-s-own-bone