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Heat Treatment of a Tumor From Outside the Body

Maryland 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?

$490

Typical physician fee. In Maryland, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $490 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $372 to $617.

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.

How much rates vary

Professionalmedian $490 · 10th to 90th $78 to $794
$100$200$500$1Kprofessional $490

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
$426.58
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$512.86
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$75.86
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$457.09
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$616.60
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$75.86
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$549.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$977.24
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$141.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$851.14
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$912.01
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$85.11
Typical High
$120.23
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$794.33
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$1,096.48
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$165.96
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$933.25
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$933.25
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$112.20
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$812.83
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
$234.42
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$257.04
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$102.33
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
FX · Film X-ray
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$416.87

Where Maryland 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.

Maryland· 38th of 51

$490

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.