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Laser Removal Of Growths Around The Anus

Kansas 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?

$3,441

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,441 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $490 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,951 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$490$178 to $708
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,951$1,202 to $3,090

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,951 · 10th to 90th $708 to $4,677Professionalmedian $490 · 10th to 90th $141 to $1,660
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,951professional $490

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
$954.99
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$707.95
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$3,090.30
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$575.44
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$426.58
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$1,949.84
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$645.65
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$12,022.64
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$3,311.31
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$4,677.35
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$562.34
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
$67.61
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$354.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$27.54
Median
$66.07
Typical High
$141.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$537.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$20.42
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$107.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$13.49
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$70.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$501.19

Where Kansas 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

Kansas· 9th of 51

$3,441

$490 physician + $2,951 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.