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Placing Radiation Target Markers Through the Skin

Minnesota rates for HCPCS 49411

Small metal markers are placed through the skin into or beside a tumor in the abdomen or pelvis, with imaging guiding the needle. The markers show up clearly on scans so a radiation beam can be aimed precisely and adjusted as the target moves with breathing. One or several markers may be placed in the same session.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Placing Radiation Target Markers Through the Skin cost?

$1,713

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,713 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $617 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,096 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$617$363 to $1,023
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,096$468 to $1,820

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,096 · 10th to 90th $174 to $3,388Professionalmedian $617 · 10th to 90th $269 to $1,514
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,096professional $617

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
$173.78
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$467.74
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$524.81
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$5,128.61
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,318.26
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$2,398.83
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,621.81
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,995.26
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,513.56
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$3,311.31
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$3,548.13
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$4,265.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$1,513.56
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
Facility
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$346.74
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$398.11

Where Minnesota sits

The same service costs 6.0 times more in Colorado than in Maryland. 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· 21st of 51

$1,713

$617 physician + $1,096 facility

CO $4,833MD $802

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.