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Radiation Treatment Planning, Simple

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 77261

The physician's planning work before radiation therapy starts: reviewing the diagnosis and imaging, deciding what area needs treating, choosing the dose, and setting out how the treatment course will run. This is the straightforward version, used when a single area is treated with a simple beam arrangement. It is the decision-making step rather than the delivery of any radiation.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Radiation Treatment Planning, Simple cost?

$91.20

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $91.20 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $87.10 from a physician practice, and about $174 from a hospital or other facility.

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.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$87.10$63.10 to $107
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$174$126 to $214

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $174 · 10th to 90th $107 to $427Professionalmedian $87 · 10th to 90th $50 to $123
$50$100$200$500facility $174professional $87

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
$107.15
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$457.09
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$229.09
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$21.38
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$91.20
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
FX · Film X-ray
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$117.49
Typical High
$371.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$125.89
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$57.54
Typical High
$63.10
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$19.50
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$25.12
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
FX · Film X-ray
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$100.00
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$213.80
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$117.49
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$69.18
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$114.82
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$112.20

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 4.2 times more in Alaska than in New York. 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.

Louisiana· 30th of 51

$91.20

AK $282NY $67.61

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.