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Procedure price report · Oral and Dental Services

Wiring the teeth together to stabilize the jaw

CPT 21110the billing code this page is about

Placement of a device that fastens the upper and lower teeth together for a jaw problem other than a fracture or dislocation, including its later removal.

Hospitals typically charge $1,929 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 573 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,047. Most fall between $1,159 and $3,381 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
573
States
46
Filings dated
Jun 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 573 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
$750$1,317$1,929$3,039$5,232

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($750 vs $5,232).

How the prices are spread

$552 – $693: 26 hospitals$552$693 – $868: 16 hospitals$868 – $1,089: 26 hospitals$868$1,089 – $1,366: 55 hospitals$1,366 – $1,713: 63 hospitals$1,366$1,713 – $2,147: 138 hospitals$2,147 – $2,693: 54 hospitals$2,147$2,693 – $3,377: 55 hospitals$3,377 – $4,235: 39 hospitals$3,377$4,235 – $5,310: 49 hospitals$4,235median $1,929price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (521 of 573 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$552$69326
$693$86816
$868$1,08926
$1,089$1,36655
$1,366$1,71363
$1,713$2,147138
$2,147$2,69354
$2,693$3,37755
$3,377$4,23539
$4,235$5,31049

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,585
Median cash price$1,929
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.22×

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 $1,929.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $3,207 across 17 hospitalsWA$3,207Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,236 across 12 hospitalsMN$1,236Illinois: median $1,476 across 20 hospitalsIL$1,476Wisconsin: median $1,731 across 12 hospitalsWI$1,731Michigan: median $2,133 across 19 hospitalsMI$2,133New York: median $1,982 across 39 hospitalsNY$1,982Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $4,018 across 13 hospitalsOR$4,018Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,040 across 16 hospitalsIA$2,040Indiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,733 across 40 hospitalsOH$1,733Pennsylvania: median $1,789 across 32 hospitalsPA$1,789New Jersey: median $3,986 across 29 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,590 across 71 hospitalsCA$2,590Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $2,162 across 12 hospitalsMO$2,162Kentucky: median $695 across 10 hospitalsKY$695West Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,275 across 17 hospitalsVA$1,275Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,142 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,142Louisiana: median $849 across 13 hospitalsLA$849Mississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $2,052 across 67 hospitalsTX$2,052Florida: median $2,048 across 23 hospitalsFL$2,048
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,929. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Oregon OR13$4,018+108%$3,441 – $6,593
New Jersey NJ29$3,986+107%$1,641 – $5,855
Washington WA17$3,207+66%$1,852 – $3,698
California CA71$2,590+34%$1,706 – $5,258
Missouri MO12$2,162+12%$1,230 – $2,705
Michigan MI19$2,133+11%$1,486 – $5,310
Texas TX67$2,052+6%$1,604 – $3,309
Florida FL23$2,048+6%$1,487 – $2,259
Iowa IA16$2,040+6%$1,510 – $2,807
New York NY39$1,982+3%$1,753 – $3,762
Pennsylvania PA32$1,789−7%$466 – $2,957
Ohio OH40$1,733−10%$1,557 – $2,591
Wisconsin WI12$1,731−10%$1,248 – $1,731
Illinois IL20$1,476−23%$604 – $2,176
Virginia VA17$1,275−34%$1,000 – $1,929
Minnesota MN12$1,236−36%$1,175 – $2,274
Oklahoma OK12$1,142−41%$1,142 – $1,142
Louisiana LA13$849−56%$502 – $1,106
Kentucky KY10$695−64%$593 – $1,339
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $1,929.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care491$1,909$1,142 – $3,309
Children’s25$2,176$1,354 – $4,218
Critical access55$1,810$1,444 – $3,264
Ownership
For-profit47$1,676$604 – $3,309
Government66$1,642$1,228 – $2,527
Non-profit458$2,040$1,241 – $3,698
System affiliation
Part of a system496$1,941$1,248 – $3,396
Independent77$1,487$890 – $3,016

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,414
Median cash price$1,929
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

436 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,048 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,155; most fall between $1,229 and $3,432.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 436 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
$852$1,437$2,048$3,209$5,236

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($852 vs $5,236).

Of the 450 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 436 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

573 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 601 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted573
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here14
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code601

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 Oral and Dental Services family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Appl Interdental Fixation Device Non-Fx/Dislc.

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, “Wiring the teeth together to stabilize the jaw (CPT 21110) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-21110-wiring-the-teeth-together-to-stabilize-the-jaw