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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic procedures on musculoskeletal system

Unlisted procedure on the hand or fingers

CPT 26989the billing code this page is about

Used for a hand or finger operation that has no specific billing code of its own; the surgeon's report describes what was actually done.

Hospitals typically charge $454 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 765 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $627. Most fall between $246 and $1,742 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
765
States
48
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 765 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
$189$284$454$1,422$4,115

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($189 vs $4,115).

How the prices are spread

$146 – $212: 71 hospitals$146$212 – $308: 134 hospitals$308 – $446: 126 hospitals$308$446 – $647: 116 hospitals$647 – $939: 42 hospitals$647$939 – $1,361: 45 hospitals$1,361 – $1,974: 51 hospitals$1,361$1,974 – $2,862: 25 hospitals$2,862 – $4,150: 41 hospitals$2,862$4,150 – $6,018: 38 hospitals$4,150median $454price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (689 of 765 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$146$21271
$212$308134
$308$446126
$446$647116
$647$93942
$939$1,36145
$1,361$1,97451
$1,974$2,86225
$2,862$4,15041
$4,150$6,01838

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$252
Median cash price$454
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.80×

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 $454.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $438 across 32 hospitalsWA$438Idaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $577 across 16 hospitalsMN$577Illinois: median $553 across 20 hospitalsIL$553Wisconsin: median $293 across 16 hospitalsWI$293Michigan: median $1,249 across 29 hospitalsMI$1,249New York: median $308 across 36 hospitalsNY$308Massachusetts: median $401 across 16 hospitalsMA$401Oregon: median $530 across 20 hospitalsOR$530Nevada: 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: median $610 across 11 hospitalsSD$610Iowa: median $1,200 across 16 hospitalsIA$1,200Indiana: median $289 across 18 hospitalsIN$289Ohio: median $378 across 32 hospitalsOH$378Pennsylvania: median $517 across 47 hospitalsPA$517New Jersey: median $322 across 39 hospitalsNJ$322Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $594 across 58 hospitalsCA$594Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $496 across 17 hospitalsCO$496Nebraska: median $213 across 18 hospitalsNE$213Missouri: median $347 across 20 hospitalsMO$347Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $284 across 18 hospitalsWV$284Virginia: median $313 across 30 hospitalsVA$313Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $308 across 14 hospitalsTN$308North Carolina: median $343 across 13 hospitalsNC$343South Carolina: median $3,321 across 23 hospitalsSC$3,321Oklahoma: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $382 across 11 hospitalsAL$382Georgia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $424 across 67 hospitalsTX$424Florida: median $1,742 across 26 hospitalsFL$1,742
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $454. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC23$3,321+632%$305 – $5,760
Florida FL26$1,742+284%$423 – $1,742
Michigan MI29$1,249+175%$373 – $3,939
Iowa IA16$1,200+165%$132 – $1,529
South Dakota SD11$610+34%$337 – $1,350
California CA58$594+31%$379 – $1,666
Minnesota MN16$577+27%$297 – $3,017
Illinois IL20$553+22%$211 – $1,187
Oregon OR20$530+17%$374 – $1,589
Pennsylvania PA47$517+14%$193 – $3,640
Colorado CO17$496+9%$145 – $795
Washington WA32$438−3%$188 – $1,051
Texas TX67$424−7%$301 – $503
Massachusetts MA16$401−12%$221 – $626
Alabama AL11$382−16%$230 – $1,669
Ohio OH32$378−17%$344 – $3,876
Missouri MO20$347−24%$210 – $924
North Carolina NC13$343−24%$180 – $913
New Jersey NJ39$322−29%$280 – $4,881
Virginia VA30$313−31%$150 – $601
Tennessee TN14$308−32%$195 – $4,666
New York NY36$308−32%$284 – $3,189
Wisconsin WI16$293−36%$227 – $293
Indiana IN18$289−36%$231 – $590
West Virginia WV18$284−37%$229 – $737
Nebraska NE18$213−53%$185 – $377
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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 $454.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care604$452$250 – $1,850
Children’s23$1,055$886 – $1,343
Critical access137$414$217 – $1,350
Ownership
For-profit86$689$239 – $2,715
Government119$452$230 – $1,509
Non-profit559$452$250 – $1,742
System affiliation
Part of a system633$452$261 – $1,759
Independent132$530$228 – $1,550

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$884
Median cash price$454
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

500 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $455 and the average of the middle 60% is $582; most fall between $224 and $1,609.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 500 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
$176$261$455$1,280$3,321

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($176 vs $3,321).

Of the 540 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 500 gave a usable cash price; 10 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 30 a list price only.

How complete is this

765 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 811 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted765
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here14
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded28
Hospitals that filed this code811

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 non-OR therapeutic procedures on musculoskeletal system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Osteoarticular, Including Articular Surface and Contiguous Bone C/T 20932.

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, “Unlisted procedure on the hand or fingers (CPT 26989) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-26989-unlisted-procedure-on-the-hand-or-fingers