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Sizable Forearm Or Wrist Soft Tissue Growth Removal

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 25071

This procedure surgically removes a soft-tissue tumor located just beneath the skin of the forearm or wrist area. It applies to a growth on the larger end of the size range treated this way, as opposed to a smaller growth, and the tissue is sent to a lab afterward to determine what it is.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Sizable Forearm Or Wrist Soft Tissue Growth Removal cost?

$2,788

Typical total for the visit. In Louisiana, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,788 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $550 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,239 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

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.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$550$479 to $692
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,239$912 to $3,090

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,239 · 10th to 90th $813 to $5,370Professionalmedian $550 · 10th to 90th $407 to $741
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,239professional $550

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$3,801.89
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$741.31
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$6,760.83
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$691.83
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$3,090.30
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$3,090.30
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$2,754.23
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$741.31
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$5,495.41
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$794.33
2 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$524.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$489.78

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 4.1 times more in Colorado than in West Virginia. 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.

Physician feeFacility fee

Louisiana· 16th of 51

$2,788

$550 physician + $2,239 facility

CO $5,160WV $1,245

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.