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External Frame With Computer-Guided Adjustment

Nebraska 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?

$8,519

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $8,519 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $2,630 to the doctor who performs it, and $5,888 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$2,630$2,089 to $2,951
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$5,888$2,138 to $15,136

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,888 · 10th to 90th $1,413 to $29,512Professionalmedian $2,630 · 10th to 90th $1,445 to $8,710
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20K$50Kfacility $5,888professional $2,630

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
$4,365.16
Median
$7,244.36
Typical High
$17,378.01
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$2,818.38
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,370.32
Median
$7,244.36
Typical High
$14,454.40
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$19,498.45
Median
$20,417.38
Typical High
$22,908.68
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,630.27
Median
$18,620.87
Typical High
$31,622.78
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,089.30
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$2,754.23
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$26,915.35
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$8,709.64
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,089.30
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$3,630.78
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$21,877.62
Typical High
$33,113.11
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,949.84
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$3,630.78
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$8,912.51
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$3,235.94
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
$794.33
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,348.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,258.93

Where Nebraska 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

Nebraska· 13th of 51

$8,519

$2,630 physician + $5,888 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.