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High-Dose Skin Brachytherapy, Larger Area

South Dakota 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?

$631

Typical physician fee. In South Dakota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $631 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $380 to $891.

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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Professionalmedian $631 · 10th to 90th $331 to $1,122
$500$1Kprofessional $631

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
$75.86
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$75.86
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$380.19
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,122.02
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$794.33
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$794.33
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$173.78
Sanford Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$707.95
Sanford Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$125.89
Typical High
$144.54
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$1,023.29
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$812.83
Typical High
$831.76

Where South Dakota 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.

South Dakota· 6th of 51

$631

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.