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Procedure price report · Therapeutic radiology

Heat therapy to a shallow tumor, one session

CPT 77600the billing code this page is about

One session of externally applied heat treatment (hyperthermia) directed at tissue up to about 4 centimeters below the skin surface, usually given alongside radiation.

Hospitals typically charge $503 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 195 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $584. Most fall between $191 and $1,298 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
195
States
33
Filings dated
Jun 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 195 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$118$287$503$1,113$2,050

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($118 vs $2,050).

How the prices are spread

$54 – $82: 1 hospitals$54$82 – $125: 16 hospitals$125 – $191: 12 hospitals$125$191 – $292: 16 hospitals$292 – $444: 31 hospitals$292$444 – $677: 31 hospitals$677 – $1,032: 29 hospitals$677$1,032 – $1,574: 14 hospitals$1,574 – $2,399: 24 hospitals$1,574$2,399 – $3,656: 4 hospitals$2,399median $503price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (178 of 195 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$54$821
$82$12516
$125$19112
$191$29216
$292$44431
$444$67731
$677$1,03229
$1,032$1,57414
$1,574$2,39924
$2,399$3,6564

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$394
Median cash price$503
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.28×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $503.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $803 across 17 hospitalsIL$803Wisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: median $943 across 12 hospitalsMI$943New York: median $311 across 22 hospitalsNY$311Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $163 across 11 hospitalsIA$163Indiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $83 across 20 hospitalsPA$83New Jersey: median $291 across 10 hospitalsNJ$291Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,050 across 25 hospitalsCA$2,050Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $118 across 10 hospitalsOK$118Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $894 across 18 hospitalsTX$894Florida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $503. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA25$2,050+308%$2,050 – $2,050
Michigan MI12$943+88%$530 – $943
Texas TX18$894+78%$894 – $894
Illinois IL17$803+60%$293 – $6,412
New York NY22$311−38%$311 – $481
New Jersey NJ10$291−42%$287 – $310
Iowa IA11$163−68%$163 – $163
Oklahoma OK10$118−76%$118 – $118
Pennsylvania PA20$83−83%$44 – $503
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $503.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care183$510$221 – $1,393
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access9fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit25$816$293 – $1,159
Government19fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit151$530$163 – $2,050
System affiliation
Part of a system173$510$191 – $1,757
Independent22$369$221 – $628

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,106
Median cash price$503
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

123 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $679 and the average of the middle 60% is $937; most fall between $163 and $2,050.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 123 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$127$198$679$1,298$2,050

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($127 vs $2,050).

Of the 158 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 123 gave a usable cash price; 21 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

195 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 230 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted195
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here21
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code230

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 5, 2026 and September 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Therapeutic radiology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HYPERTHERMIA EXT GEN SUPFC.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Heat therapy to a shallow tumor, one session (CPT 77600) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-77600-heat-therapy-to-a-shallow-tumor-one-session