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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on musculoskeletal system

Placing a drug delivery implant inside the bone canal

CPT 20702the billing code this page is about

Hand-preparing and inserting a medication-carrying device, such as an antibiotic-coated rod or beads, into the marrow canal of a bone; reported per device with another surgery.

Hospitals typically charge $347 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 288 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $458. Most fall between $194 and $1,050 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
288
States
43
Filings dated
Dec 2024 – 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 288 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
$149$229$347$787$4,474

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 30× what the cheapest tenth charges ($149 vs $4,474).

How the prices are spread

$119 – $182: 38 hospitals$119$182 – $278: 60 hospitals$278 – $424: 58 hospitals$278$424 – $649: 13 hospitals$649 – $992: 39 hospitals$649$992 – $1,517: 19 hospitals$1,517 – $2,319: 5 hospitals$1,517$2,319 – $3,546: 5 hospitals$3,546 – $5,421: 19 hospitals$3,546$5,421 – $8,289: 6 hospitals$5,421median $347price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (262 of 288 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$119$18238
$182$27860
$278$42458
$424$64913
$649$99239
$992$1,51719
$1,517$2,3195
$2,319$3,5465
$3,546$5,42119
$5,421$8,2896

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $347.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: median $859 across 16 hospitalsMN$859Illinois: median $256 across 13 hospitalsIL$256Wisconsin: median $369 across 18 hospitalsWI$369Michigan: median $237 across 12 hospitalsMI$237New York: median $251 across 13 hospitalsNY$251Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $295 across 13 hospitalsOR$295Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $347 across 17 hospitalsIA$347Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $272 across 10 hospitalsOH$272Pennsylvania: median $104 across 15 hospitalsPA$104New Jersey: median $4,881 across 19 hospitalsNJ$4,881Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $762 across 29 hospitalsCA$762Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $299 across 10 hospitalsOK$299Louisiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $347. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ19$4,881+1306%$3,813 – $6,311
Minnesota MN16$859+147%$293 – $1,008
California CA29$762+119%$396 – $762
Wisconsin WI18$369+6%$119 – $1,514
Iowa IA17$3470%$347 – $396
Oklahoma OK10$299−14%$299 – $299
Oregon OR13$295−15%$260 – $463
Ohio OH10$272−22%$168 – $650
Illinois IL13$256−26%$244 – $740
New York NY13$251−28%$179 – $477
Michigan MI12$237−32%$184 – $241
Pennsylvania PA15$104−70%$88 – $170
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not 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 $347.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care224$360$213 – $1,938
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access58$267$155 – $740
Ownership
For-profit21$391$244 – $5,390
Government45$393$228 – $1,655
Non-profit221$347$184 – $1,008
System affiliation
Part of a system226$347$193 – $1,045
Independent62$345$220 – $1,895

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$491
Median cash price$347
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

155 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $299 and the average of the middle 60% is $328; most fall between $211 and $730.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 155 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
$158$241$299$494$762

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($158 vs $762).

Of the 168 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 155 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

288 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 330 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted288
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here16
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded24
Hospitals that filed this code330

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 musculoskeletal system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Manual Prep&Insj Intramedullary Drug Dlvr Device.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Placing a drug delivery implant inside the bone canal (CPT 20702) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-20702-placing-a-drug-delivery-implant-inside-the-bone-canal