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Procedure price report · Therapeutic radiology

Heat therapy with a probe in a body cavity, one session

CPT 77620the billing code this page is about

One session of hyperthermia delivered through one or more probes placed inside a body cavity, such as the rectum or vagina.

Hospitals typically charge $681 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 163 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $799. Most fall between $191 and $1,880 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
163
States
27
Filings dated
Dec 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 163 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
$137$223$681$1,880$4,407

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 32× what the cheapest tenth charges ($137 vs $4,407).

How the prices are spread

$57 – $88: 3 hospitals$57$88 – $136: 4 hospitals$136 – $210: 25 hospitals$136$210 – $324: 4 hospitals$324 – $501: 12 hospitals$324$501 – $774: 46 hospitals$774 – $1,196: 14 hospitals$774$1,196 – $1,847: 5 hospitals$1,847 – $2,853: 17 hospitals$1,847$2,853 – $4,407: 25 hospitals$2,853median $681price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (155 of 163 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$57$883
$88$1364
$136$21025
$210$3244
$324$50112
$501$77446
$774$1,19614
$1,196$1,8475
$1,847$2,85317
$2,853$4,40725

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$565
Median cash price$681
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.21×

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 $681.

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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $685 across 22 hospitalsNY$685Massachusetts: 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 $191 across 13 hospitalsIA$191Indiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $56 across 13 hospitalsPA$56New Jersey: median $640 across 11 hospitalsNJ$640Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,407 across 24 hospitalsCA$4,407Utah: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $137 across 10 hospitalsOK$137Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 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 $1,880 across 18 hospitalsTX$1,880Florida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $681. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA24$4,407+547%$3,485 – $4,407
Texas TX18$1,880+176%$1,880 – $1,880
New York NY22$6850%$656 – $690
New Jersey NJ11$640−6%$640 – $681
Iowa IA13$191−72%$191 – $191
Oklahoma OK10$137−80%$137 – $137
Pennsylvania PA13$56−92%$51 – $471
Illinois IL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not 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
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 $681.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care148$685$191 – $1,880
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access9fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit19fewer than 20 hospitals
Government17fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit126$681$191 – $1,880
System affiliation
Part of a system144$685$191 – $1,880
Independent19fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,020
Median cash price$681
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

102 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $819 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,133; most fall between $157 and $3,485.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 102 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
$106$191$819$2,413$4,407

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 42× what the cheapest tenth charges ($106 vs $4,407).

Of the 139 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 102 gave a usable cash price; 24 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

163 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 203 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted163
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here27
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code203

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 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 Generated by Intracavitary Probes.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Heat therapy with a probe in a body cavity, one session (CPT 77620) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-77620-heat-therapy-with-a-probe-in-a-body-cavity-one-session