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Sizable Forearm Or Wrist Soft Tissue Growth Removal

Minnesota 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?

$2,405

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,405 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $891 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,514 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$891$646 to $1,230
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,514$776 to $2,570

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,514 · 10th to 90th $417 to $4,169Professionalmedian $891 · 10th to 90th $417 to $1,622
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,514professional $891

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
$416.87
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$416.87
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$316.23
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$295.12
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$549.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$316.23
Typical High
$323.59
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$302.00
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,949.84
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$6,165.95
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$3,235.94
Median
$6,025.60
Typical High
$10,715.19
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,479.11
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$2,238.72
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,174.90
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,258.93
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$2,041.74
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,778.28
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,737.80
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,659.59
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$4,365.16
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$3,162.28
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$5,888.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,548.82
1 more rate 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
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$295.12

Where Minnesota 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

Minnesota· 23rd of 51

$2,405

$891 physician + $1,514 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.