HRHospitalRates.comCompare prices

Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on bone

Removal of a pin, wire, or screw just under the skin

CPT 20670the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of a shallow orthopedic implant, such as a buried pin, wire, or screw, that sits close to the skin surface.

Hospitals typically charge $1,900 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,551 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,989. Most fall between $618 and $4,005 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,551
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 1,551 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$364$735$1,900$3,387$5,283

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($364 vs $5,283).

How the prices are spread

$226 – $318: 44 hospitals$226$318 – $447: 104 hospitals$447 – $628: 88 hospitals$447$628 – $883: 138 hospitals$883 – $1,241: 140 hospitals$883$1,241 – $1,744: 127 hospitals$1,744 – $2,451: 212 hospitals$1,744$2,451 – $3,445: 243 hospitals$3,445 – $4,841: 185 hospitals$3,445$4,841 – $6,804: 120 hospitals$4,841median $1,900price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,401 of 1,551 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$226$31844
$318$447104
$447$62888
$628$883138
$883$1,241140
$1,241$1,744127
$1,744$2,451212
$2,451$3,445243
$3,445$4,841185
$4,841$6,804120

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,900
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.13×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,900.

Alaska: median $2,718 across 12 hospitalsAK$2,718Maine: median $995 across 15 hospitalsME$995Vermont: median $494 across 10 hospitalsVT$494New Hampshire: median $347 across 10 hospitalsNH$347Washington: median $1,741 across 55 hospitalsWA$1,741Idaho: median $1,508 across 17 hospitalsID$1,508Montana: median $700 across 13 hospitalsMT$700North Dakota: median $1,627 across 12 hospitalsND$1,627Minnesota: median $1,183 across 52 hospitalsMN$1,183Illinois: median $1,137 across 48 hospitalsIL$1,137Wisconsin: median $991 across 58 hospitalsWI$991Michigan: median $1,637 across 58 hospitalsMI$1,637New York: median $2,062 across 82 hospitalsNY$2,062Massachusetts: median $2,020 across 33 hospitalsMA$2,020Oregon: median $638 across 42 hospitalsOR$638Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $2,172 across 14 hospitalsSD$2,172Iowa: median $871 across 50 hospitalsIA$871Indiana: median $637 across 38 hospitalsIN$637Ohio: median $3,387 across 75 hospitalsOH$3,387Pennsylvania: median $2,161 across 71 hospitalsPA$2,161New Jersey: median $2,162 across 48 hospitalsNJ$2,162Connecticut: median $2,312 across 11 hospitalsCT$2,312Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,323 across 105 hospitalsCA$3,323Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,630 across 30 hospitalsCO$1,630Nebraska: median $1,312 across 36 hospitalsNE$1,312Missouri: median $2,194 across 43 hospitalsMO$2,194Kentucky: median $953 across 22 hospitalsKY$953West Virginia: median $1,753 across 25 hospitalsWV$1,753Virginia: median $2,781 across 25 hospitalsVA$2,781Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $4,144 across 19 hospitalsAZ$4,144New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $767 across 28 hospitalsKS$767Arkansas: median $2,006 across 15 hospitalsAR$2,006Tennessee: median $913 across 23 hospitalsTN$913North Carolina: median $2,049 across 24 hospitalsNC$2,049South Carolina: median $4,376 across 23 hospitalsSC$4,376Oklahoma: median $576 across 32 hospitalsOK$576Louisiana: median $1,563 across 27 hospitalsLA$1,563Mississippi: median $684 across 13 hospitalsMS$684Alabama: median $2,555 across 14 hospitalsAL$2,555Georgia: median $3,140 across 33 hospitalsGA$3,140Hawaii: median $1,494 across 10 hospitalsHI$1,494Texas: median $3,298 across 98 hospitalsTX$3,298Florida: median $2,753 across 42 hospitalsFL$2,753
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,900. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC23$4,376+130%$3,384 – $6,156
Arizona AZ19$4,144+118%$1,169 – $4,781
Ohio OH75$3,387+78%$1,331 – $6,270
California CA105$3,323+75%$1,115 – $6,804
Texas TX98$3,298+74%$1,801 – $3,644
Georgia GA33$3,140+65%$2,439 – $4,862
Virginia VA25$2,781+46%$837 – $3,230
Florida FL42$2,753+45%$1,626 – $4,227
Alaska AK12$2,718+43%$1,239 – $3,304
Alabama AL14$2,555+34%$776 – $4,821
Connecticut CT11$2,312+22%$1,601 – $4,589
Missouri MO43$2,194+16%$653 – $5,639
South Dakota SD14$2,172+14%$550 – $3,279
New Jersey NJ48$2,162+14%$1,793 – $5,741
Pennsylvania PA71$2,161+14%$660 – $3,489
New York NY82$2,062+9%$609 – $4,595
North Carolina NC24$2,049+8%$1,531 – $2,632
Massachusetts MA33$2,020+6%$1,067 – $4,998
Arkansas AR15$2,006+6%$423 – $2,928
West Virginia WV25$1,753−8%$154 – $2,666
Washington WA55$1,741−8%$786 – $2,776
Michigan MI58$1,637−14%$952 – $3,731
Colorado CO30$1,630−14%$699 – $3,253
North Dakota ND12$1,627−14%$311 – $2,513
Louisiana LA27$1,563−18%$746 – $2,403
Idaho ID17$1,508−21%$712 – $4,347
Hawaii HI10$1,494−21%$429 – $3,197
Nebraska NE36$1,312−31%$719 – $2,577
Minnesota MN52$1,183−38%$502 – $1,824
Illinois IL48$1,137−40%$364 – $3,254
Maine ME15$995−48%$238 – $2,376
Wisconsin WI58$991−48%$673 – $1,983
Kentucky KY22$953−50%$364 – $6,506
Tennessee TN23$913−52%$393 – $2,920
Iowa IA50$871−54%$432 – $1,582
Kansas KS28$767−60%$459 – $1,462
Montana MT13$700−63%$218 – $1,020
Mississippi MS13$684−64%$357 – $1,860
Oregon OR42$638−66%$405 – $3,976
Indiana IN38$637−66%$364 – $2,177
Oklahoma OK32$576−70%$418 – $3,467
Vermont VT10$494−74%$436 – $676
New Hampshire NH10$347−82%$113 – $515
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $1,900.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,132$2,217$796 – $4,350
Children’s50$2,776$814 – $6,417
Critical access364$784$353 – $2,172
Ownership
For-profit137$2,753$1,052 – $5,513
Government278$1,045$429 – $2,819
Non-profit1,131$1,960$657 – $4,129
System affiliation
Part of a system1,255$2,049$693 – $4,162
Independent296$1,019$366 – $2,753

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,160
Median cash price$1,900
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

1,039 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,161 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,209; most fall between $673 and $4,117.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,039 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$384$901$2,161$3,475$4,862

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($384 vs $4,862).

Of the 1,135 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,039 gave a usable cash price; 48 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 48 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,551 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (39%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,694 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,551
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here83
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded58
Hospitals that filed this code1,694

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other OR therapeutic procedures on bone family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Removal Implant Superficial Separate Procedure.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Removal of a pin, wire, or screw just under the skin (CPT 20670) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-20670-removal-of-a-pin-wire-or-screw-just-under-the-skin