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Radiation Treatment Planning, Simple

Tennessee 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?

$100

Typical negotiated rate. In Tennessee, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $100 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $100 from a physician practice, and about $138 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$100$75.86 to $151
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$138$112 to $191

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $138 · 10th to 90th $98 to $309Professionalmedian $100 · 10th to 90th $68 to $1,413
$20$50$100$200$500$1Kfacility $138professional $100

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$112.20
Typical High
$138.04
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$107.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$35.48
Typical High
$61.66
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$13.49
Median
$14.13
Typical High
$24.55
BCBS Tennessee
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$181.97
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$309.03
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$173.78
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,412.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$416.87
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$181.97
1 more rate 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
FX · Film X-ray
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$109.65

Where Tennessee 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.

Tennessee· 19th of 51

$100

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.