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Preventive Hardware Placement In The Shin Bone

Oregon 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?

$2,794

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,794 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,349 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,445 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,349$1,072 to $1,549
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,445$1,288 to $3,802

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,445 · 10th to 90th $1,000 to $11,749Professionalmedian $1,349 · 10th to 90th $741 to $2,042
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $1,445professional $1,349

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
$5,128.61
Median
$9,549.93
Typical High
$17,378.01
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,071.52
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$9,120.11
Typical High
$12,302.69
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$2,041.74
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$1,819.70
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$17,378.01
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,737.80
Pacific Source
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$1,513.56
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$8,128.31
Typical High
$12,302.69
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$2,089.30
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$17,782.79
Median
$25,118.86
Typical High
$28,183.83
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$1,995.26
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,691.53
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$25,118.86
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$2,238.72
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
$436.52
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$537.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$213.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$794.33
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$162.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$107.15
Typical High
$107.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$741.31
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$537.03
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$213.80
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$794.33
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$162.18
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$107.15
Typical High
$107.15
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$741.31
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$26,915.35
Median
$37,153.52
Typical High
$42,657.95

Where Oregon 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

Oregon· 49th of 51

$2,794

$1,349 physician + $1,445 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.