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Removal of Soft Tissue Growth, Leg or Ankle

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 27618

This procedure removes a growth or lump found in the soft tissue of the leg or ankle. The surgeon cuts out the growth along with a margin of surrounding tissue and typically sends it to a lab to find out what it is. This version applies to a smaller growth, as opposed to the version used for a larger one.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Removal of Soft Tissue Growth, Leg or Ankle cost?

$2,177

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,177 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $479 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,698 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$479$380 to $589
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,698$933 to $3,311

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,698 · 10th to 90th $575 to $4,365Professionalmedian $479 · 10th to 90th $282 to $759
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,698professional $479

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. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$4,168.69
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$741.31
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$4,365.16
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$758.58
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$288.40
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$724.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$812.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$4,265.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$741.31

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 7.6 times more in Indiana 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.

Physician feeFacility fee

Louisiana· 36th of 50

$2,177

$479 physician + $1,698 facility

IN $7,043DE $928

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.