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Pinning a Broken Finger Bone Through the Skin

Kansas rates for HCPCS 26727

Treatment of an unstable break in the shaft of a finger or thumb bone in which the bone is lined up and then held with wires or pins passed through the skin, without opening the fracture site. Live X-ray guides the pins into position. Leaving the area unopened means less scarring around the tendons, and the pins are usually removed in a clinic visit once the bone has healed.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Pinning a Broken Finger Bone Through the Skin cost?

$4,307

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,307 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $676 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,631 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$676$550 to $759
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,631$1,479 to $3,802

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,631 · 10th to 90th $977 to $6,310Professionalmedian $676 · 10th to 90th $490 to $3,548
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $3,631professional $676

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
$1,023.29
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$10,964.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$758.58
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$3,801.89
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$676.08
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$2,290.87
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$741.31
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$26,302.68
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$3,548.13
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$4,677.35
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$776.25
6 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
$245.47
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$371.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$120.23
Typical High
$151.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$562.34
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$112.20
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$75.86
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$524.81

Where Kansas sits

The same service costs 5.4 times more in Alabama than in Montana. 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

Kansas· 13th of 51

$4,307

$676 physician + $3,631 facility

AL $8,312MT $1,553

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.