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Procedure price report · Therapeutic radiology

High-dose internal radiation treatment, 2 to 12 channels

CPT 77771the billing code this page is about

One session of high-dose-rate brachytherapy delivered through two to twelve applicator channels or needles placed inside the body.

Hospitals typically charge $3,062 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,113 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,101. Most fall between $1,174 and $5,847 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,113
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2024 – 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 1,113 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
$763$1,433$3,062$5,021$7,968

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($763 vs $7,968).

How the prices are spread

$518 – $696: 44 hospitals$518$696 – $935: 84 hospitals$935 – $1,256: 56 hospitals$935$1,256 – $1,687: 70 hospitals$1,687 – $2,267: 115 hospitals$1,687$2,267 – $3,046: 130 hospitals$3,046 – $4,092: 193 hospitals$3,046$4,092 – $5,498: 124 hospitals$5,498 – $7,387: 122 hospitals$5,498$7,387 – $9,925: 68 hospitals$7,387median $3,062price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,006 of 1,113 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$518$69644
$696$93584
$935$1,25656
$1,256$1,68770
$1,687$2,267115
$2,267$3,046130
$3,046$4,092193
$4,092$5,498124
$5,498$7,387122
$7,387$9,92568

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$712
Median cash price$3,062
Cash as a multiple of Medicare4.3×

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 $3,062.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,386 across 22 hospitalsWA$2,386Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 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: median $944 across 20 hospitalsMN$944Illinois: median $3,854 across 40 hospitalsIL$3,854Wisconsin: median $3,340 across 43 hospitalsWI$3,340Michigan: median $3,320 across 37 hospitalsMI$3,320New York: median $869 across 40 hospitalsNY$869Massachusetts: median $2,675 across 13 hospitalsMA$2,675Oregon: median $1,857 across 18 hospitalsOR$1,857Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $374 across 17 hospitalsIA$374Indiana: median $3,688 across 37 hospitalsIN$3,688Ohio: median $3,974 across 63 hospitalsOH$3,974Pennsylvania: median $2,554 across 53 hospitalsPA$2,554New Jersey: median $926 across 41 hospitalsNJ$926Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $5,975 across 80 hospitalsCA$5,975Utah: median $3,755 across 14 hospitalsUT$3,755Colorado: median $6,695 across 24 hospitalsCO$6,695Nebraska: median $2,233 across 12 hospitalsNE$2,233Missouri: median $3,634 across 21 hospitalsMO$3,634Kentucky: median $2,786 across 19 hospitalsKY$2,786West Virginia: median $1,047 across 11 hospitalsWV$1,047Virginia: median $1,888 across 33 hospitalsVA$1,888Maryland: median $1,426 across 23 hospitalsMD$1,426Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,074 across 11 hospitalsAZ$2,074New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $4,228 across 10 hospitalsKS$4,228Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,247 across 36 hospitalsTN$1,247North Carolina: median $2,961 across 33 hospitalsNC$2,961South Carolina: median $3,079 across 33 hospitalsSC$3,079Oklahoma: median $332 across 11 hospitalsOK$332Louisiana: median $905 across 20 hospitalsLA$905Mississippi: median $1,857 across 11 hospitalsMS$1,857Alabama: median $1,516 across 11 hospitalsAL$1,516Georgia: median $3,840 across 53 hospitalsGA$3,840Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,424 across 84 hospitalsTX$3,424Florida: median $3,454 across 64 hospitalsFL$3,454
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,062. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO24$6,695+119%$4,978 – $12,738
California CA80$5,975+95%$2,562 – $9,645
Kansas KS10$4,228+38%$656 – $5,051
Ohio OH63$3,974+30%$3,112 – $6,721
Illinois IL40$3,854+26%$1,198 – $6,493
Georgia GA53$3,840+25%$1,808 – $8,174
Utah UT14$3,755+23%$3,755 – $4,781
Indiana IN37$3,688+20%$2,198 – $5,293
Missouri MO21$3,634+19%$1,959 – $4,032
Florida FL64$3,454+13%$2,406 – $5,550
Texas TX84$3,424+12%$1,763 – $6,125
Wisconsin WI43$3,340+9%$2,005 – $4,668
Michigan MI37$3,320+8%$1,712 – $4,453
South Carolina SC33$3,079+1%$2,500 – $4,522
North Carolina NC33$2,961−3%$2,103 – $3,084
Kentucky KY19$2,786−9%$1,662 – $9,768
Massachusetts MA13$2,675−13%$2,546 – $4,864
Pennsylvania PA53$2,554−17%$823 – $9,494
Washington WA22$2,386−22%$1,730 – $2,600
Nebraska NE12$2,233−27%$905 – $2,694
Arizona AZ11$2,074−32%$1,232 – $2,328
Virginia VA33$1,888−38%$552 – $2,729
Oregon OR18$1,857−39%$368 – $5,490
Mississippi MS11$1,857−39%$720 – $2,195
Alabama AL11$1,516−50%$903 – $1,630
Maryland MD23$1,426−53%$883 – $2,392
Tennessee TN36$1,247−59%$318 – $1,909
West Virginia WV11$1,047−66%$562 – $3,894
Minnesota MN20$944−69%$582 – $1,222
New Jersey NJ41$926−70%$768 – $5,168
Louisiana LA20$905−70%$602 – $1,799
New York NY40$869−72%$821 – $4,522
Iowa IA17$374−88%$374 – $5,389
Oklahoma OK11$332−89%$332 – $1,415
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $3,062.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,022$2,961$1,154 – $5,975
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access76$3,340$1,433 – $4,948
Ownership
For-profit99$3,340$1,630 – $7,456
Government129$2,547$903 – $4,289
Non-profit877$3,104$1,154 – $5,945
System affiliation
Part of a system1,024$3,084$1,268 – $5,975
Independent89$1,695$891 – $4,579

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,305
Median cash price$3,062
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

860 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,136 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,326; most fall between $1,433 and $5,975.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 860 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
$886$1,763$3,136$5,051$8,005

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($886 vs $8,005).

Of the 937 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 860 gave a usable cash price; 46 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 31 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,113 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (28%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,212 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,113
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here58
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded39
Hospitals that filed this code1,212

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 4, 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 Hdr Rdncl Ntrstl/Intrcav Brachytx 2-12 Channel|PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT.

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, “High-dose internal radiation treatment, 2 to 12 channels (CPT 77771) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-77771-high-dose-internal-radiation-treatment-2-to-12-channels