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Placing Medicated Material Inside a Bone

California rates for HCPCS 20702

The surgeon hand-mixes medicine, usually an antibiotic, into a carrier such as bone cement, shapes it, and places it inside the hollow marrow canal of a bone. This delivers a very high dose of the drug straight to an infected bone while sparing the rest of the body. It is done during another operation and is billed in addition to it.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Placing Medicated Material Inside a Bone cost?

$219

Typical facility fee. In California, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $219 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $182 to $955.

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 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $224 · 10th to 90th $162 to $7,244Professionalmedian $158 · 10th to 90th $120 to $288
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $224professional $158

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$17,378.01
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$512.86
Blue Shield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$12,882.50
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$2,691.53
Contra Costa Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$199.53
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$158.49
Typical High
$323.59
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$891.25
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$257.04
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$6,760.83

Where California sits

The same service costs 51.3 times more in New Hampshire than in West Virginia. 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.

California· 46th of 49

$219

NH $7,413WV $145

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.