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Preventive Hardware Placement In The Shin Bone

Illinois 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?

$8,057

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $8,057 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $977 to the doctor who performs it, and $7,079 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$977$813 to $1,175
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$7,079$3,467 to $9,772

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $7,079 · 10th to 90th $1,259 to $12,589Professionalmedian $977 · 10th to 90th $724 to $1,380
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $7,079professional $977

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
$758.58
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$7,762.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,000.00
BCBS Illinois
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7,244.36
Median
$9,332.54
Typical High
$13,489.63
BCBS Illinois
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$1,380.38
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$8,511.38
Typical High
$10,964.78
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,288.25
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$2,511.89
Hally Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,047.13
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$812.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$5,011.87
Typical High
$15,848.93
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$851.14
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
$354.81
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$389.05
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$154.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$575.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$114.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$77.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$537.03

Where Illinois 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

Illinois· 10th of 51

$8,057

$977 physician + $7,079 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.