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Heating A Tumor With A Probe Inside The Body

Massachusetts 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?

$1,000

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,000 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,000 from a physician practice, and about $912 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 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$1,000$676 to $2,042
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$912$589 to $1,148

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $912 · 10th to 90th $117 to $1,820Professionalmedian $1,000 · 10th to 90th $204 to $4,169
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $912professional $1,000

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
$371.54
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$1,348.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$660.69
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$104.71
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$537.03
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$2,818.38
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$4,168.69
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$676.08
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$3,715.35
BCBS Massachusetts
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,862.09
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$2,398.83
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$2,187.76
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$257.04
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,949.84
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,230.27
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,230.27
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$2,187.76
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$263.03
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,995.26
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$2,818.38
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$4,168.69
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$676.08
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$3,715.35
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$2,187.76
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$2,290.87
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$112.20
Typical High
$263.03
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$158.49
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,995.26
Well Sense
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,047.13
Well Sense
Setting
Facility
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$141.25
Well Sense
Setting
Facility
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$1,047.13
Well Sense
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$407.38
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
$186.21
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$323.59
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$131.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
FX · Film X-ray
Typical Low
$295.12
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$524.81

Where Massachusetts 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.

Massachusetts· 11th of 51

$1,000

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.