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Preventive Hardware Placement In The Shin Bone

Florida 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?

$5,240

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,240 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $562 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,677 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$562$389 to $692
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,677$2,630 to $8,128

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,677 · 10th to 90th $1,479 to $13,490Professionalmedian $562 · 10th to 90th $87 to $912
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $4,677professional $562

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
$645.65
Median
$4,365.16
Typical High
$12,022.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$891.25
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$1,318.26
AvMed
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$9,772.37
AvMed
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$870.96
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$8,511.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,174.90
Florida Blue
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,818.38
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$16,982.44
Florida Blue
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$870.96
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$812.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$15,488.17
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$1,288.25
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$691.83
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
$309.03
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$398.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$134.90
Typical High
$158.49
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$602.56
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$120.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$79.43
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$562.34

Where Florida 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

Florida· 31st of 51

$5,240

$562 physician + $4,677 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.