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Heat Treatment of a Tumor From Outside the Body

Arkansas 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?

$437

Typical negotiated rate. In Arkansas, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $437 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $479 from a physician practice, and about $257 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$479$417 to $603
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$257$229 to $309

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $257 · 10th to 90th $229 to $513Professionalmedian $479 · 10th to 90th $302 to $776
$200$500$1Kfacility $257professional $479

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
$263.03
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$436.52
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$467.74
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$75.86
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$398.11
BCBS Arkansas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$309.03
BCBS Arkansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$602.56
BCBS Arkansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$102.33
BCBS Arkansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$501.19
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$691.83
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$851.14
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$138.04
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$724.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$1,148.15
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$933.25
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$138.04
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$812.83
2 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
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$218.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$87.10

Where Arkansas 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.

Arkansas· 44th of 51

$437

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.