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Multiple Muscle Trigger Point Injection

Vermont rates for HCPCS 20553

This is an injection of numbing medicine, sometimes combined with a steroid, into several tight, tender knots called trigger points spread across three or more muscles. Trigger point injections are used to relieve muscle pain and tightness that hasn't improved with other treatments like stretching or massage. Several sites can be treated during the same visit.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Multiple Muscle Trigger Point Injection cost?

$72.44

Typical physician fee. In Vermont, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $72.44 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $58.88 to $77.62.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $646 · 10th to 90th $646 to $724Professionalmedian $72 · 10th to 90th $48 to $117
$50$100$200$500facility $646professional $72

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$645.65
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$104.71
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$724.44
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$223.87
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$109.65
MVP Health Care
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$100.00
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$151.36

Where Vermont sits

The same service costs 2.5 times more in Wisconsin than in Delaware. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Vermont· 30th of 51

$72.44

WI $145DE $57.54

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.