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Procedure price report · Treatment, fracture or dislocation of radius and ulna

Pin fixation of a broken wrist bone through the skin

CPT 25606the billing code this page is about

Treatment of a break at the lower end of the forearm bone near the wrist using pins or wires placed through the skin, without opening the fracture site.

Hospitals typically charge $3,215 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 968 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,108. Most fall between $1,217 and $5,805 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
968
States
49
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 968 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
$927$1,379$3,215$5,209$8,828

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($927 vs $8,828).

How the prices are spread

$708 – $930: 50 hospitals$708$930 – $1,223: 103 hospitals$1,223 – $1,608: 82 hospitals$1,223$1,608 – $2,115: 94 hospitals$2,115 – $2,780: 75 hospitals$2,115$2,780 – $3,656: 107 hospitals$3,656 – $4,807: 136 hospitals$3,656$4,807 – $6,320: 103 hospitals$6,320 – $8,310: 62 hospitals$6,320$8,310 – $10,926: 67 hospitals$8,310median $3,215price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (879 of 968 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$708$93050
$930$1,223103
$1,223$1,60882
$1,608$2,11594
$2,115$2,78075
$2,780$3,656107
$3,656$4,807136
$4,807$6,320103
$6,320$8,31062
$8,310$10,92667

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$3,215
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.96×

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 $3,215.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $1,139 across 16 hospitalsME$1,139Vermont: median $1,443 across 10 hospitalsVT$1,443New Hampshire: median $952 across 11 hospitalsNH$952Washington: median $4,454 across 35 hospitalsWA$4,454Idaho: median $4,017 across 16 hospitalsID$4,017Montana: median $1,429 across 12 hospitalsMT$1,429North Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,448 across 33 hospitalsMN$2,448Illinois: median $1,969 across 27 hospitalsIL$1,969Wisconsin: median $3,525 across 35 hospitalsWI$3,525Michigan: median $1,279 across 37 hospitalsMI$1,279New York: median $3,343 across 43 hospitalsNY$3,343Massachusetts: median $2,975 across 10 hospitalsMA$2,975Oregon: median $1,806 across 34 hospitalsOR$1,806Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,629 across 36 hospitalsIA$1,629Indiana: median $1,746 across 26 hospitalsIN$1,746Ohio: median $2,161 across 23 hospitalsOH$2,161Pennsylvania: median $3,139 across 34 hospitalsPA$3,139New Jersey: median $3,821 across 33 hospitalsNJ$3,821Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,914 across 78 hospitalsCA$4,914Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,555 across 15 hospitalsCO$2,555Nebraska: median $2,237 across 15 hospitalsNE$2,237Missouri: median $2,642 across 22 hospitalsMO$2,642Kentucky: median $1,000 across 11 hospitalsKY$1,000West Virginia: median $1,778 across 21 hospitalsWV$1,778Virginia: median $7,859 across 18 hospitalsVA$7,859Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,529 across 10 hospitalsAZ$2,529New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,180 across 20 hospitalsKS$1,180Arkansas: median $1,708 across 13 hospitalsAR$1,708Tennessee: median $2,515 across 14 hospitalsTN$2,515North Carolina: median $4,610 across 23 hospitalsNC$4,610South Carolina: median $5,273 across 18 hospitalsSC$5,273Oklahoma: median $1,088 across 19 hospitalsOK$1,088Louisiana: median $2,271 across 18 hospitalsLA$2,271Mississippi: median $1,904 across 12 hospitalsMS$1,904Alabama: median $2,920 across 16 hospitalsAL$2,920Georgia: median $9,074 across 15 hospitalsGA$9,074Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,101 across 74 hospitalsTX$4,101Florida: median $5,490 across 15 hospitalsFL$5,490
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,215. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA15$9,074+182%$1,053 – $9,074
Virginia VA18$7,859+144%$2,228 – $10,456
Florida FL15$5,490+71%$2,161 – $8,563
South Carolina SC18$5,273+64%$5,273 – $5,416
California CA78$4,914+53%$2,457 – $10,926
North Carolina NC23$4,610+43%$1,737 – $4,610
Washington WA35$4,454+39%$1,554 – $8,022
Texas TX74$4,101+28%$3,230 – $9,614
Idaho ID16$4,017+25%$1,360 – $6,877
New Jersey NJ33$3,821+19%$2,261 – $5,339
Wisconsin WI35$3,525+10%$2,515 – $3,525
New York NY43$3,343+4%$1,078 – $3,884
Pennsylvania PA34$3,139−2%$458 – $5,510
Massachusetts MA10$2,975−7%$1,854 – $6,296
Alabama AL16$2,920−9%$1,863 – $9,163
Missouri MO22$2,642−18%$973 – $4,242
Colorado CO15$2,555−21%$1,389 – $4,589
Arizona AZ10$2,529−21%$720 – $10,864
Tennessee TN14$2,515−22%$622 – $4,314
Minnesota MN33$2,448−24%$1,448 – $3,253
Louisiana LA18$2,271−29%$1,834 – $4,216
Nebraska NE15$2,237−30%$1,072 – $2,768
Ohio OH23$2,161−33%$1,319 – $4,440
Illinois IL27$1,969−39%$882 – $4,526
Mississippi MS12$1,904−41%$1,481 – $4,314
Oregon OR34$1,806−44%$1,117 – $7,938
West Virginia WV21$1,778−45%$734 – $4,162
Indiana IN26$1,746−46%$882 – $5,041
Arkansas AR13$1,708−47%$1,521 – $3,670
Iowa IA36$1,629−49%$1,327 – $2,103
Vermont VT10$1,443−55%$844 – $2,244
Montana MT12$1,429−56%$988 – $3,091
Michigan MI37$1,279−60%$1,217 – $3,525
Kansas KS20$1,180−63%$731 – $2,925
Maine ME16$1,139−65%$756 – $3,228
Oklahoma OK19$1,088−66%$1,088 – $6,612
Kentucky KY11$1,000−69%$671 – $3,968
New Hampshire NH11$952−70%$524 – $1,437
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $3,215.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care681$3,840$1,295 – $6,697
Children’s22$3,670$1,863 – $6,701
Critical access265$1,790$1,058 – $3,525
Ownership
For-profit102$4,101$1,708 – $9,074
Government194$2,001$1,175 – $4,852
Non-profit672$3,230$1,217 – $5,814
System affiliation
Part of a system753$3,485$1,239 – $6,296
Independent215$2,089$1,153 – $4,340

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,800
Median cash price$3,215
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

555 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,230 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,159; most fall between $1,115 and $5,840.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 555 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
$870$1,258$3,230$5,273$8,670

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($870 vs $8,670).

Of the 604 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 555 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 29 a list price only.

How complete is this

968 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (24%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,072 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted968
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here61
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded37
Hospitals that filed this code1,072

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 Treatment, fracture or dislocation of radius and ulna family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Perq Skel Fixj Distal Radial Fx/Epiphysl Sep.

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, “Pin fixation of a broken wrist bone through the skin (CPT 25606) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-25606-pin-fixation-of-a-broken-wrist-bone-through-the-skin