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Pin Through Bone For Traction

Alaska rates for HCPCS 20650

A pin or wire is passed through a bone so that weights can pull steadily on the limb, holding a broken or dislocated bone in a reasonable position until definitive treatment. It is placed through the skin under numbing medicine or anesthesia, and its later removal is included. Traction is usually a temporary measure while awaiting surgery or early healing.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Pin Through Bone For Traction cost?

$832

Typical total for the visit. In Alaska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $832 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $501 to the doctor who performs it, and $331 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$501$186 to $832
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$331$234 to $794

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $331 · 10th to 90th $170 to $1,549Professionalmedian $501 · 10th to 90th $145 to $1,072
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $331professional $501

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$14,125.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$794.33
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$676.08
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$1,071.52
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,174.90
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,174.90
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$1,071.52
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$524.81
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,786.30
Median
$4,786.30
Typical High
$6,760.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,122.02

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 23.6 times more in Indiana than in West Virginia. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Physician feeFacility fee

Alaska· 41st of 50

$832

$501 physician + $331 facility

IN $9,541WV $404

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.