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Laser Removal Of Growths Around The Anus

Arkansas rates for HCPCS 46917

Destroys warts or similar small growths on and around the anus with a laser beam, which vaporizes them. It is used for a straightforward number of lesions rather than widespread disease. The treated skin scabs and heals over a few weeks.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Laser Removal Of Growths Around The Anus cost?

$1,736

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,736 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $324 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,413 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$324$158 to $525
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,413$1,122 to $2,630

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,413 · 10th to 90th $676 to $3,548Professionalmedian $324 · 10th to 90th $138 to $617
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,413professional $324

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
$158.49
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$2,041.74
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$524.81
BCBS Arkansas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$3,548.13
BCBS Arkansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$616.60
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$1,318.26
Typical High
$1,621.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$660.69
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$3,388.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$602.56
6 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
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$131.83
Typical High
$263.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$31.62
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$104.71
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$389.05
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$23.99
Median
$38.90
Typical High
$77.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$15.85
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$52.48
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$363.08

Where Arkansas sits

The same service costs 5.6 times more in Colorado than in North Dakota. 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

Arkansas· 40th of 51

$1,736

$324 physician + $1,413 facility

CO $4,763ND $853

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.