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Pin Through Bone For Traction

New Mexico 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?

$1,758

Typical total for the visit. In New Mexico, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,758 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $209 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,549 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$209$166 to $282
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,549$245 to $7,943

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,549 · 10th to 90th $178 to $10,965Professionalmedian $209 · 10th to 90th $141 to $417
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $1,549professional $209

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
$245.47
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$7,762.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$537.03
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$12,589.25
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$338.84
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$676.08
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$194.98
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$363.08
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$436.52
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$9,549.93
Typical High
$15,848.93
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$380.19

Where New Mexico 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

New Mexico· 37th of 50

$1,758

$209 physician + $1,549 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.