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Preventive Hardware Placement In The Shin Bone

Virginia 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?

$6,455

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6,455 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $832 to the doctor who performs it, and $5,623 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$832$741 to $933
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$5,623$2,042 to $10,965

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,623 · 10th to 90th $851 to $15,849Professionalmedian $832 · 10th to 90th $676 to $1,175
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $5,623professional $832

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
$851.14
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$10,000.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$1,174.90
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9,772.37
Median
$12,022.64
Typical High
$15,848.93
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$1,023.29
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,513.56
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
62 · Two surgeons
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$645.65
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
80 · Assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$134.90
Typical High
$162.18
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$117.49
Typical High
$141.25
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$1,071.52
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$9,120.11
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,202.26
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$977.24
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$1,288.25
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,380.38
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,148.15
Sentara
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$12,882.50
Sentara
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,819.70
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,570.40
Median
$10,000.00
Typical High
$25,118.86
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,380.38
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
$398.11
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$426.58
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$169.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$630.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$128.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$85.11
Typical High
$85.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$588.84

Where Virginia 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

Virginia· 22nd of 51

$6,455

$832 physician + $5,623 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.