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Heating A Tumor With A Probe Inside The Body

Louisiana 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 Louisiana, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $708 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $676 from a physician practice, and about $813 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$676$398 to $871
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$813$603 to $1,096

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $813 · 10th to 90th $457 to $1,445Professionalmedian $676 · 10th to 90th $282 to $912
$200$500$1Kfacility $813professional $676

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
$870.96
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$954.99
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$1,023.29
Typical High
$3,019.95
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$977.24
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$151.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$831.76
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,318.26
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$912.01
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$112.20
Typical High
$138.04
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$794.33
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$691.83
Christus
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$89.13
Typical High
$89.13
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$1,778.28
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$891.25
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$131.83
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$758.58
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,548.82
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$741.31
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$120.23
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$645.65
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
$380.19
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$1,513.56
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$602.56
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
FX · Film X-ray
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$489.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$199.53
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
FX · Film X-ray
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$794.33

Where Louisiana 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.

Louisiana· 26th 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.