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Heat Treatment of a Tumor From Outside the Body

Alabama rates for HCPCS 77600

A cancer treatment in which a device applied against the outside of the body warms tumor tissue above normal body temperature for a set period. It is given alongside radiation or chemotherapy, because warmed tumor cells are more vulnerable to those treatments.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Heat Treatment of a Tumor From Outside the Body cost?

$417

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $417 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $457 from a physician practice, and about $269 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$457$407 to $891
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$269$263 to $269

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $269 · 10th to 90th $263 to $269Professionalmedian $457 · 10th to 90th $347 to $891
$200$500$1Kfacility $269professional $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
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$891.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$67.61
Median
$125.89
Typical High
$125.89
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$758.58
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$269.15
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Professional
Modifier
32 · Mandated service
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$501.19
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$1,380.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$707.95
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$128.82
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$588.84
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$616.60
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$537.03
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$100.00
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$457.09
3 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
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$151.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$446.68
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$177.83

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 6.3 times more in Alaska than in Kentucky. 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.

Alabama· 46th of 51

$417

AK $2,188KY $347

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.