RC 278

Cannulated femoral locking bone screw

Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.

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Original text from hospital filings

BONE FIXATION STAPLES

Payers reporting RC 278

69 payers file a negotiated rate for this code. Each is shown once, under the terms the most hospitals file it under; rates under different terms (billing class, payment method, setting) are never blended, so open a payer to see them all. Figures are hospital-level averages; the median is across hospitals.

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	304	$2,731	$3,136	$0.01 – $546,135
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	271	$2,626	$3,958	$0.01 – $861,798
3	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	237	$1,853	$6,131	$0.01 – $752,556
4	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	225	$3,067	$5,719	$0.01 – $632,336
5	Blue Cross Blue Shield facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	200	$4,591	$3,261	$0.01 – $323,757
6	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	129	$1,336	$3,183	$0.01 – $540,674
7	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	115	$2,387	$1,941	$0.01 – $292,275
8	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	105	$8,090	$6,930	$0.01 – $934,626
9	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	101	$4,249	$1,421	$0.01 – $45,770
10	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	83	$9,083	$5,779	$0.01 – $431,447
11	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	79	$2,845	$2,513	$24.49 – $28,369
12	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	69	$4,651	$7,132	$0.01 – $323,757
13	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	56	$4,934	$2,169	$2.18 – $224,767
14	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	48	$4,357	$3,542	$0.01 – $51,064
15	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	43	$10,392	$9,974	$0.01 – $803,748
16	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	40	$2,181	$2,336	$0.01 – $111,224
17	Medicare other · both · +19 other terms	40	$5,723	$3,627	$0.02 – $288,116
18	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	38	$527.24	$484.65	$0.04 – $32,379
19	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	37	$128.30	$378.25	$2.38 – $14,906
20	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	35	$12,564	$10,765	$0.01 – $632,336
21	Regence fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	30	$5,475	$3,893	$0.01 – $104,677
22	Phcs fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	28	$9,313	$7,823	$0.01 – $704,004
23	Superior Healthplan facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	28	$225.84	$261.87	$34.67 – $5,247
24	Amerihealth Caritas other · outpatient · +15 other terms	25	$980.66	$1,050	$0.01 – $155,562
25	Baylor Scott White Health Plan facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	25	$235.85	$224.32	$32.94 – $2,069

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