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Heat Treatment of a Tumor From Outside the Body

Louisiana 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 Louisiana, 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 $513 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$525$347 to $676
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$513$407 to $661

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $513 · 10th to 90th $295 to $813Professionalmedian $525 · 10th to 90th $309 to $776
$200$500$1Kfacility $513professional $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
$660.69
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$724.44
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$2,290.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$741.31
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$123.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$616.60
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$707.95
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$776.25
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$125.89
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$676.08
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$524.81
Christus
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$69.18
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,584.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$707.95
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$51.29
Typical High
$114.82
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$602.56
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,071.52
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$575.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$104.71
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$478.63
6 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
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$1,148.15
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$457.09
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
FX · Film X-ray
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$1,819.70
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$371.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$134.90
Typical High
$147.91
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
FX · Film X-ray
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$602.56

Where Louisiana 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.

Louisiana· 29th 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.