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Setting a Broken Scaphoid Wrist Bone

Alabama rates for HCPCS 25624

Treatment of a break in the scaphoid, a small boat-shaped bone on the thumb side of the wrist, without opening the skin. The doctor moves the fragments back into a better position by hand and then holds the wrist in a cast or splint while it heals. Follow-up x-rays check that the alignment is maintained.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Setting a Broken Scaphoid Wrist Bone cost?

$1,434

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,434 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $501 to the doctor who performs it, and $933 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$501$398 to $813
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$933$708 to $1,380

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $933 · 10th to 90th $603 to $2,042Professionalmedian $501 · 10th to 90th $363 to $955
$500$1K$2Kfacility $933professional $501

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
$758.58
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$977.24
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$977.24
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$691.83
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$891.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,511.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$758.58

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 7.7 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· 44th of 50

$1,434

$501 physician + $933 facility

IN $7,075MD $916

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.