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Preventive Hardware Placement In The Shin Bone

Michigan 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?

$8,519

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $8,519 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $933 to the doctor who performs it, and $7,586 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$933$724 to $1,047
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$7,586$3,090 to $8,511

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $7,586 · 10th to 90th $1,047 to $12,023Professionalmedian $933 · 10th to 90th $209 to $1,585
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $7,586professional $933

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
$933.25
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$5,754.40
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$977.24
BCBS Michigan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7,585.78
Median
$7,762.47
Typical High
$13,182.57
BCBS Michigan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,584.89
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$630.96
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$2,511.89
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,949.84
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$5,011.87
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,047.13
Priority Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$630.96
Priority Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,288.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$10,232.93
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,023.29
13 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
$467.74
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$489.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$194.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$724.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$144.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$97.72
Typical High
$97.72
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$676.08
BCBS Michigan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$1,698.24
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$1,698.24
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$501.19
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$199.53
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$758.58
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$151.36
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$707.95

Where Michigan 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

Michigan· 9th of 51

$8,519

$933 physician + $7,586 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.