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High-Dose Skin Brachytherapy, Larger Area

Colorado rates for HCPCS 77768

A radiation treatment in which a machine moves a sealed radioactive source into applicators held against the skin, delivers a high dose to a surface growth over a few minutes, and then withdraws the source completely. This is the version for a larger surface area, treated through more than one applicator channel. Nothing radioactive stays in the body afterward.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does High-Dose Skin Brachytherapy, Larger Area cost?

$389

Typical physician fee. In Colorado, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $389 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $389 to $501.

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 $389 · 10th to 90th $282 to $661
$200$500$1Kprofessional $389

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
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$77.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$457.09
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$741.31
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$794.33
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$1,905.46
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$117.49
Typical High
$407.38
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$158.49
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$912.01
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$870.96

Where Colorado sits

The same service costs 4.1 times more in Wyoming than in Florida. 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.

Colorado· 30th of 51

$389

WY $1,096FL $269

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.