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Additional Radiosurgery Target in the Brain

Minnesota rates for HCPCS 61797

This add-on procedure covers treatment of each additional simple target in the brain during the same stereotactic radiosurgery session, a technique that delivers precisely focused radiation to a small area without any incision. It is billed in addition to the procedure for treating the first target, when more than one small lesion is treated in one session.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Additional Radiosurgery Target in the Brain cost?

$1,216

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,216 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $457 to the doctor who performs it, and $759 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$457$363 to $646
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$759$355 to $1,660

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $759 · 10th to 90th $191 to $6,457Professionalmedian $457 · 10th to 90th $251 to $832
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $759professional $457

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
$190.55
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$190.55
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$229.09
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$12,589.25
Typical High
$28,840.32
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$776.25
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$933.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$891.25
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$794.33
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$794.33
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$3,467.37
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$1,862.09
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$4,265.80
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$870.96

Where Minnesota sits

The same service costs 13.2 times more in Alabama than in Montana. 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· 25th of 51

$1,216

$457 physician + $759 facility

AL $9,026MT $686

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.