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Preventive Hardware Placement In The Shin Bone

Minnesota 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?

$4,433

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,433 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,549 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,884 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$1,549$1,122 to $2,089
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,884$1,349 to $5,495

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,884 · 10th to 90th $724 to $12,023Professionalmedian $1,549 · 10th to 90th $724 to $2,884
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $2,884professional $1,549

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
$724.44
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$724.44
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$549.54
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$512.86
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$794.33
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$575.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$537.03
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,073.80
Median
$11,748.98
Typical High
$26,915.35
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$2,511.89
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,995.26
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$2,089.30
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$3,548.13
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$3,090.30
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$3,019.95
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$2,884.03
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$4,677.35
Typical High
$10,715.19
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$6,456.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,235.94
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$12,882.50
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$2,754.23
12 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
Facility
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$363.08
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$144.54
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$109.65
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$72.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$389.05
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$154.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$114.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$77.62
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$14,125.38
Median
$26,302.68
Typical High
$47,863.01
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$3,801.89
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$501.19
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
62 · Two surgeons
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$977.24
Typical High
$1,548.82

Where Minnesota 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

Minnesota· 41st of 51

$4,433

$1,549 physician + $2,884 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.