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Preventive Hardware Placement In The Shin Bone

Montana 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?

$2,377

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,377 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,202 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,175 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$1,202$832 to $1,202
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,175$1,148 to $1,413

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,175 · 10th to 90th $1,072 to $7,762Professionalmedian $1,202 · 10th to 90th $575 to $1,288
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,175professional $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
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,174.90
BCBS Montana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$15,135.61
Median
$15,135.61
Typical High
$15,135.61
BCBS Montana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$1,202.26
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$7,762.47
Typical High
$16,982.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$1,202.26
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,318.26
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,230.27
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$7,762.47
Typical High
$16,982.44
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,202.26
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,691.53
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$9,120.11
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,412.54

Where Montana 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

Montana· 51st of 51

$2,377

$1,202 physician + $1,175 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.