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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 July 2026.

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

$871

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $871 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $871 from a physician practice, and about $871 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$871$676 to $912
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$871$661 to $1,000

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $871 · 10th to 90th $513 to $1,230Professionalmedian $871 · 10th to 90th $437 to $1,000
$200$500$1Kfacility $871professional $871

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,000.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$1,023.29
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,288.25
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$977.24
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$691.83
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,778.28
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,122.02
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$1,479.11
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$758.58

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 5.5 times more in Wyoming than in Rhode Island. 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· 16th of 51

$871

WY $2,399RI $437

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.