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Preventive Hardware Placement In The Shin Bone

Colorado 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?

$14,230

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $14,230 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,047 to the doctor who performs it, and $13,183 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,047$871 to $1,349
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$13,183$5,888 to $16,218

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $13,183 · 10th to 90th $2,512 to $21,380Professionalmedian $1,047 · 10th to 90th $741 to $1,698
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $13,183professional $1,047

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
$1,778.28
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$10,964.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,071.52
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$10,000.00
Median
$15,135.61
Typical High
$25,703.96
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,862.09
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$4,786.30
Typical High
$9,120.11
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,348.96
Denver HMP
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,548.82
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,380.38
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$7,943.28
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,023.29
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$6,025.60
Typical High
$15,488.17
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,548.82
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
$371.54
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$380.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$154.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$575.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$112.20
Typical High
$114.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$77.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$537.03

Where Colorado 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

Colorado· 1st of 51

$14,230

$1,047 physician + $13,183 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.