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High-Dose Skin Brachytherapy, Larger Area

Michigan 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?

$407

Typical physician fee. In Michigan, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $407 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $347 to $537.

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 $407 · 10th to 90th $295 to $575
$500professional $407

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
$87.10
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$87.10
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$407.38
Typical High
$457.09
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$616.60
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$724.44
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$58.88
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$162.18
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$467.74
Priority Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$602.56
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$549.54

Where Michigan 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.

Michigan· 23rd of 51

$407

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.