Hand flexor tendon lengthening, per tendon

Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.

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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

Lengthening Tendon Flexor Hand/Finger Each

Payers reporting CPT 26478

64 payers file a negotiated rate for this code. Each is shown once, under the terms the most hospitals file it under; rates under different terms (billing class, payment method, setting) are never blended, so open a payer to see them all. Figures are hospital-level averages; the median is across hospitals.

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	496	$3,180	$3,246	$6.00 – $95,348
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	456	$3,278	$3,631	$78.57 – $22,196
3	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	353	$3,169	$2,774	$1.00 – $12,772
4	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	347	$4,433	$5,786	$1.00 – $24,266
5	Cigna case rate · outpatient · +16 other terms	313	$3,161	$4,940	$678.00 – $40,673
6	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	213	$2,282	$1,987	$1.00 – $8,860
7	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	165	$3,301	$3,381	$7.00 – $7,604
8	Oscar case rate · outpatient · +13 other terms	136	$3,955	$3,393	$1,377 – $7,454
9	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	123	$3,120	$3,140	$6.00 – $23,943
10	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	94	$4,123	$5,128	$387.06 – $23,411
11	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	79	$5,473	$4,379	$837.42 – $7,896
12	Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient · +1 other terms	76	$2,434	$2,689	$1,125 – $4,259
13	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	70	$1,374	$1,367	$366.54 – $3,042
14	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	69	$3,338	$3,049	$650.87 – $3,666
15	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	55	$2,565	$2,227	$1,242 – $5,591
16	Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient · +4 other terms	38	$948.00	$1,066	$929.00 – $4,875
17	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	35	$3,152	$3,682	$650.87 – $12,078
18	MultiPlan case rate · outpatient · +16 other terms	34	$2,838	$5,333	$700.00 – $11,500
19	Amerihealth Caritas case rate · outpatient · +7 other terms	33	$370.13	$3,334	$349.65 – $6,294
20	Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	33	$4,038	$3,939	$1,088 – $11,360
21	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	32	$3,417	$3,107	$630.96 – $7,246
22	Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	31	$3,546	$3,449	$2,953 – $3,821
23	Medica case rate · outpatient · +9 other terms	28	$2,750	$2,503	$977.00 – $3,245
24	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	27	$1,143	$2,076	$1,143 – $3,407
25	Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	26	$2,969	$2,983	$1,406 – $5,440

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