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Preventive Hardware Placement In The Shin Bone

Mississippi 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?

$4,542

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,542 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,230 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,311 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,230$708 to $1,445
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,311$1,622 to $6,026

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,311 · 10th to 90th $851 to $10,233Professionalmedian $1,230 · 10th to 90th $661 to $1,622
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $3,311professional $1,230

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
$660.69
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,995.26
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,621.81
BCBS Mississippi
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,495.41
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$5,495.41
BCBS Mississippi
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$1,445.44
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$9,332.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,288.25
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$12,589.25
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,778.28
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
$331.13
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$794.33
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$323.59
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,202.26
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$239.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$162.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,122.02

Where Mississippi 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

Mississippi· 40th of 51

$4,542

$1,230 physician + $3,311 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.