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Heat Treatment of a Tumor From Outside the Body

Georgia 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?

$525

Typical negotiated rate. In Georgia, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $525 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $525 from a physician practice, and about $479 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$525$398 to $676
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$479$372 to $776

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $479 · 10th to 90th $269 to $1,148Professionalmedian $525 · 10th to 90th $257 to $1,096
$200$500$1Kfacility $479professional $525

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
$363.08
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$416.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$457.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$58.88
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$89.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$371.54
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$933.25
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$954.99
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$67.61
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$154.88
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$831.76
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,412.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$1,621.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$218.78
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$1,445.44
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$1,122.02
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$125.89
Typical High
$204.17
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$977.24
Oscar Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$794.33
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,445.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$190.55
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$1,288.25
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
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$218.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$87.10
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
FX · Film X-ray
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$354.81

Where Georgia 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.

Georgia· 31st of 51

$525

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.