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Placing Medicated Material Inside a Bone

Louisiana 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?

$1,259

Typical facility fee. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,259 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $501 to $2,692.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,259 · 10th to 90th $178 to $3,467
$0.1$1$10$100$1Kfacility $1,259

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
$478.63
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$3,715.35
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.02
Median
$0.02
Typical High
$0.03
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$120.23
Typical High
$120.23
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$398.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$1,318.26

Where Louisiana 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.

Louisiana· 25th of 49

$1,259

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.