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Radiation Treatment Planning, Simple

Minnesota 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?

$132

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $132 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $123 from a physician practice, and about $145 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$123$97.72 to $174
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$145$70.79 to $288

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $145 · 10th to 90th $71 to $2,188Professionalmedian $123 · 10th to 90th $71 to $245
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $145professional $123

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
$70.79
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$70.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$107.15
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$3,467.37
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service + 53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$114.82
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$707.95
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$134.90
Typical High
$239.88
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$549.54
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$107.15
Typical High
$213.80
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$120.23
Typical High
$177.83
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$1,412.54
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$229.09
4 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
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$35.48
Typical High
$35.48
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$14.13
Median
$14.13
Typical High
$14.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$35.48
Typical High
$53.70
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$14.13
Median
$14.13
Typical High
$21.38

Where Minnesota 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.

Minnesota· 8th of 51

$132

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.