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Setting A Broken Upper Arm Without Surgery

Alabama rates for HCPCS 24505

Realigns a break in the shaft of the upper arm bone by manipulating it back into position through the skin, then holding it with a brace, cast or splint, and sometimes traction, while it heals. No incision is made and no plate or rod is placed. Alignment is rechecked with X-rays over the following weeks.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Setting A Broken Upper Arm Without Surgery cost?

$1,301

Typical total for the visit. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,301 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $525 to the doctor who performs it, and $776 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$525$417 to $832
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$776$617 to $1,122

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $776 · 10th to 90th $447 to $1,585Professionalmedian $525 · 10th to 90th $380 to $977
$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $776professional $525

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
$562.34
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$1,000.00
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$977.24
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$741.31
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$912.01
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,659.59
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$831.76

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 8.0 times more in Indiana than in Maryland. 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

Alabama· 46th of 51

$1,301

$525 physician + $776 facility

IN $6,656MD $832

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.