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Preventive Hardware Placement In The Shin Bone

Alaska rates for HCPCS 27745

Places hardware inside a shin bone that is at risk of breaking, before any fracture happens. A nail, pin, plate, or wire is used, and bone cement may be added. It reinforces weakened bone rather than treating a break.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Preventive Hardware Placement In The Shin Bone cost?

$13,735

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $13,735 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $3,020 to the doctor who performs it, and $10,715 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$3,020$1,995 to $3,162
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$10,715$7,586 to $12,303

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $10,715 · 10th to 90th $3,981 to $20,417Professionalmedian $3,020 · 10th to 90th $776 to $3,715
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $10,715professional $3,020

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,715.35
Median
$10,964.78
Typical High
$16,595.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$12,882.50
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7,413.10
Median
$12,302.69
Typical High
$38,018.94
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$2,511.89
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$5,248.07
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$3,981.07
Premera BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7,585.78
Median
$10,715.19
Typical High
$15,488.17
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,019.95
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$3,019.95
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,548.13
Median
$12,022.64
Typical High
$22,387.21
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$2,511.89
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,265.80
Median
$9,772.37
Typical High
$24,547.09
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$4,365.16

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 6.0 times more in Colorado 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

Alaska· 2nd of 51

$13,735

$3,020 physician + $10,715 facility

CO $14,230MT $2,377

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.