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Pressure Monitoring in a Muscle Compartment

Montana rates for HCPCS 20950

A needle or fine catheter is placed into a muscle compartment of an arm or leg and connected to a gauge that measures the fluid pressure inside it. It is used when swelling after injury, surgery, or a crush threatens to squeeze off the blood supply to the muscles and nerves within that closed space. The reading tells the surgeon whether an emergency release of the compartment is needed.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Pressure Monitoring in a Muscle Compartment cost?

$517

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $517 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $162 to the doctor who performs it, and $355 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$162$141 to $417
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$355$145 to $479

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $355 · 10th to 90th $141 to $603Professionalmedian $162 · 10th to 90th $91 to $437
$100$200$500$1Kfacility $355professional $162

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
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$398.11
BCBS Montana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$416.87
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,778.28
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$416.87
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$512.86
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$512.86
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,778.28
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$416.87
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$954.99
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$467.74

Where Montana sits

The same service costs 6.2 times more in New York than in Alabama. 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

Montana· 49th of 51

$517

$162 physician + $355 facility

NY $2,910AL $468

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.