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Heat Treatment of a Tumor From Outside the Body

Illinois 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?

$575

Typical negotiated rate. In Illinois, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $575 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $537 from a physician practice, and about $912 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$537$214 to $813
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$912$562 to $1,698

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $912 · 10th to 90th $457 to $4,677Professionalmedian $537 · 10th to 90th $107 to $1,122
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $912professional $537

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
$436.52
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$1,659.59
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$588.84
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$66.07
Typical High
$87.10
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$524.81
BCBS Illinois
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$5,370.32
BCBS Illinois
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$1,202.26
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$4,365.16
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$218.78
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$870.96
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$138.04
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$758.58
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,412.54
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$107.15
Typical High
$223.87
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$1,174.90
Hally Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$707.95
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,047.13
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$851.14
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$134.90
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$724.44
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
$218.78
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$245.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
FX · Film X-ray
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$398.11

Where Illinois 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.

Illinois· 25th of 51

$575

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.