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Wrist Surgery To Stabilize A Fracture With Hardware

Alabama rates for HCPCS 29847

This procedure uses a small camera and instruments inserted through tiny incisions in the wrist to place hardware, such as pins or screws, that stabilizes a fracture or unstable bone alignment. It allows the surgeon to fix the injury with less disruption to the surrounding tissue than a fully open surgery. It is typically used for certain wrist fractures or ligament injuries affecting joint stability.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Wrist Surgery To Stabilize A Fracture With Hardware cost?

$5,691

Typical total for the visit. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,691 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $562 to the doctor who performs it, and $5,129 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$562$468 to $891
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$5,129$1,259 to $8,710

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,129 · 10th to 90th $891 to $10,715Professionalmedian $562 · 10th to 90th $447 to $1,047
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $5,129professional $562

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$1,047.13
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,762.47
Median
$9,120.11
Typical High
$12,302.69
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$870.96
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$1,000.00
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$9,549.93
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$954.99

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 20.6 times more in Indiana than in West Virginia. 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

Alabama· 24th of 50

$5,691

$562 physician + $5,129 facility

IN $22,950WV $1,112

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.