go back

Preventive Hardware Placement In The Shin Bone

Massachusetts 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?

$3,773

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,773 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,202 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,570 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 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,202$912 to $1,950
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,570$933 to $4,365

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,570 · 10th to 90th $708 to $8,710Professionalmedian $1,202 · 10th to 90th $741 to $6,761
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $2,570professional $1,202

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
$2,089.30
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$4,677.35
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$2,137.96
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$10,232.93
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$6,760.83
BCBS Massachusetts
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,659.59
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$6,165.95
Typical High
$9,332.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,949.84
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$3,311.31
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,148.15
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$11,220.18
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$2,290.87
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$10,232.93
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$6,760.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$16,595.87
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$3,388.44
Well Sense
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$3,311.31
Well Sense
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$724.44
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
$346.74
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$1,071.52
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$426.58
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$1,584.89
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$323.59
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$213.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$1,479.11

Where Massachusetts 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

Massachusetts· 45th of 51

$3,773

$1,202 physician + $2,570 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.