# CPT 26055

> Medicare paid $568.84 for CPT 26055 in the office (non-facility) setting and $317.97 in a facility under the Q4 2017 Physician Fee Schedule, effective October 2017. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2017, when it increased 0.4%.

## What it is

A small operation on the palm side of a finger or thumb in which the tight band of tissue holding the flexor tendon down is cut, freeing the tendon to glide again. It is a release of the sheath, not a repair of the tendon itself. The procedure is typically done under local anesthetic through an incision of a centimeter or so.

## Selected release

- Release: Q4 2017 (2017 D)
- Effective: October 1 – December 31, 2017
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $568.84
- Facility national allowed amount: $317.97
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 3.11
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 12.15
- Facility practice expense RVU: 5.16
- Malpractice RVU: 0.59
- Conversion factor: 35.8887
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q4 2017)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu17d.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU17_OCT.csv, row 6,361
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/26055/2017/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/26055/2017/D
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:07:59+00:00