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External Frame With Computer-Guided Adjustment

Kansas 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?

$4,973

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,973 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,585 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,388 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,585$1,380 to $1,820
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,388$1,549 to $10,715

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,388 · 10th to 90th $631 to $23,988Professionalmedian $1,585 · 10th to 90th $1,202 to $8,710
$100$1K$10Kfacility $3,388professional $1,585

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
$1,949.84
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$8,912.51
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$1,819.70
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$14,791.08
Median
$14,791.08
Typical High
$14,791.08
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$1,737.80
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,778.28
Median
$23,988.33
Typical High
$24,547.09
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$1,862.09
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$6,606.93
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$8,709.64
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$6,760.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,949.84
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
$870.96
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,348.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,258.93

Where Kansas 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

Kansas· 32nd of 51

$4,973

$1,585 physician + $3,388 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.