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Preventive Hardware Placement In The Shin Bone

Ohio 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?

$4,968

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,968 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $603 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,365 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$603$245 to $759
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,365$1,479 to $7,244

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,365 · 10th to 90th $741 to $10,965Professionalmedian $603 · 10th to 90th $91 to $977
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $4,365professional $603

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
$2,137.96
Median
$7,244.36
Typical High
$12,589.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$2,454.71
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$12,022.64
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,174.90
Aultcare
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$794.33
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$6,025.60
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$7,244.36
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,380.38
Medical Mutual of Ohio
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$7,244.36
Medical Mutual of Ohio
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,380.38
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$794.33
SummaCare
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$2,951.21
SummaCare
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$891.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$11,748.98
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,380.38
10 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
$363.08
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$1,071.52
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$426.58
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$1,621.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$323.59
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$213.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$1,513.56
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$1,778.28
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
62 · Two surgeons
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$741.31
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
80 · Assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$190.55
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$165.96

Where Ohio 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

Ohio· 35th of 51

$4,968

$603 physician + $4,365 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.