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External Frame With Computer-Guided Adjustment

Oklahoma 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?

$5,011

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,011 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,380 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,631 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$1,380$1,202 to $1,585
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,631$1,479 to $6,918

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,631 · 10th to 90th $1,202 to $12,589Professionalmedian $1,380 · 10th to 90th $1,047 to $2,570
$100$1K$10Kfacility $3,631professional $1,380

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
$1,202.26
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$12,589.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,230.27
BCBS Oklahoma
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$1,584.89
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$19,498.45
Typical High
$22,908.68
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$1,621.81
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$8,128.31
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$8,709.64
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$4,677.35
Typical High
$9,120.11
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,737.80
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
$933.25
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$933.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$870.96

Where Oklahoma 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

Oklahoma· 29th of 51

$5,011

$1,380 physician + $3,631 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.