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External Frame With Computer-Guided Adjustment

Florida rates for HCPCS 20696

An external frame is attached to a limb by pins and wires passed through the bone in more than one direction, holding the bone from outside the skin. A computer program then works out a schedule of small daily adjustments to the frame, gradually moving the bone into the correct position over the following weeks. Imaging and the follow-up adjustment calculations are included.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does External Frame With Computer-Guided Adjustment cost?

$4,439

Typical total for the visit. In Florida, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,439 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $891 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,548 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$891$631 to $1,072
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,548$1,660 to $11,749

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,548 · 10th to 90th $1,175 to $19,953Professionalmedian $891 · 10th to 90th $155 to $1,445
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $3,548professional $891

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$4,786.30
Typical High
$11,748.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,380.38
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,630.78
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$3,630.78
AvMed
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$16,982.44
AvMed
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,318.26
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$16,982.44
Typical High
$31,622.78
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,778.28
Florida Blue
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$19,952.62
Florida Blue
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,174.90
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$1,258.93
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$10,715.19
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$2,041.74
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,096.48
2 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$954.99
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$891.25

Where Florida sits

The same service costs 8.5 times more in Wyoming than in Kentucky. 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

Florida· 36th of 51

$4,439

$891 physician + $3,548 facility

WY $22,644KY $2,656

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.