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Reinforcing A Weak Hip Before It Breaks

California rates for HCPCS 27187

Strengthens a weakened upper thigh bone at the hip with metal hardware such as a nail, pins, plate, or wires, sometimes packed with bone cement. It is done before a break happens, when the bone has been thinned by a tumor deposit or another disease and is at high risk of giving way. Fixing it in advance avoids the far harder problem of treating a break that has already occurred.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Reinforcing A Weak Hip Before It Breaks cost?

$10,000

Typical facility fee. In California, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $10,000 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $6,761 to $14,125.

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 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $10,471 · 10th to 90th $3,467 to $19,055Professionalmedian $1,122 · 10th to 90th $851 to $2,570
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $10,471professional $1,122

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
$3,630.78
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$22,908.68
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,760.83
Median
$11,481.54
Typical High
$18,620.87
Blue Shield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$8,709.64
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$9,549.93
Contra Costa Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,412.54
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$2,630.27
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$30,199.52
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$3,019.95
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$3,019.95
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$2,238.72
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,762.47
Median
$14,125.38
Typical High
$28,840.32

Where California sits

The same service costs 15.1 times more in Maine than in North Dakota. 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.

California· 5th of 50

$10,000

ME $14,791ND $977

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.