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Setting a Broken Wrist Bone by Hand

Alabama rates for HCPCS 25635

Treatment without surgery of a break in one of the small bones of the wrist, other than the boat-shaped bone at the base of the thumb. The bone is guided back into position by hand and the wrist is held in a cast or splint while it heals; it is charged for each bone treated.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Setting a Broken Wrist Bone by Hand cost?

$1,159

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,159 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $513 to the doctor who performs it, and $646 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$513$417 to $692
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$646$617 to $646

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $646 · 10th to 90th $178 to $1,096Professionalmedian $513 · 10th to 90th $363 to $759
$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $646professional $513

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
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$758.58
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$645.65
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,023.29
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$588.84
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$1,621.81
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$660.69
8 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$380.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$154.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$575.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$114.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$75.86
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$537.03
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$977.24
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Professional
Modifier
32 · Mandated service
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$616.60

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 5.3 times more in Colorado than in Florida. 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 51

$1,159

$513 physician + $646 facility

CO $4,377FL $831

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.