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External Frame With Computer-Guided Adjustment

Michigan 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?

$13,748

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $13,748 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,445 to the doctor who performs it, and $12,303 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$1,445$1,122 to $1,738
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$12,303$1,820 to $13,804

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $12,303 · 10th to 90th $1,000 to $19,498Professionalmedian $1,445 · 10th to 90th $1,047 to $2,455
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $12,303professional $1,445

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
$1,479.11
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$5,754.40
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,513.56
BCBS Michigan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$12,302.69
Median
$12,589.25
Typical High
$21,877.62
BCBS Michigan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$2,454.71
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$2,754.23
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$4,897.79
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,548.82
Priority Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$1,995.26
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$7,943.28
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$1,548.82
4 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
$1,122.02
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,148.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,071.52
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$1,174.90
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,096.48

Where Michigan 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

Michigan· 7th of 51

$13,748

$1,445 physician + $12,303 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.