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Heating A Tumor With A Probe Inside The Body

Alabama rates for HCPCS 77620

A treatment that raises the temperature of a tumor using a heating probe placed inside a body cavity next to it. Warming the tissue makes radiation therapy work better and is given in combination with it.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Heating A Tumor With A Probe Inside The Body cost?

$708

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $708 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $537 from a physician practice, and about $708 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$537$468 to $1,023
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$708$708 to $708

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $708 · 10th to 90th $708 to $708Professionalmedian $537 · 10th to 90th $372 to $1,023
$200$500$1Kfacility $708professional $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
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$870.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$1,023.29
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$141.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$870.96
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$707.95
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Professional
Modifier
21 + 22 · Increased work
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$602.56
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,621.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$912.01
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$141.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$741.31
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$891.25
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$691.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$107.15
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$588.84
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
$457.09
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$512.86
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$204.17

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 6.0 times more in Alaska than in Indiana. 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.

Alabama· 27th of 51

$708

AK $2,570IN $427

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.