# Custom radiation treatment device in Atlanta, GA

Billing code `77334`. Prices for this code at 25 hospitals within 35 miles of Atlanta, taken from the machine-readable standard charge files each hospital is required to publish under the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR 180.50).

Source page: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/atlanta/custom-radiation-treatment-device

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## Before quoting any figure below

- **Hospital charges only.** The surgeon, anaesthetist, radiologist and pathologist bill separately and appear in no hospital price file, by construction. Every figure below is part of a total, never the total.
- **A negotiated rate is not a bill.** It is what a hospital and an insurer agreed. What a patient owes depends on their deductible, coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximum.
- **Each hospital's figure is a median across its own plans.** The spread inside one hospital is often wider than the gap between two of them.
- **"not mentioned" is not $0.** It means this hospital's file does not label a row that way. Silence is not a statement that the charge does not exist.
- **A hospital absent from the table says nothing about its prices.** It may publish this code under a revenue or drug code this site cannot map to a procedure.

A procedure code is billed twice -- once by the hospital for its own costs, once by the doctor for their work -- and hospitals publish different sides of that split under the same code. Of the hospitals here, 2 publish a physician fee; 11 publish a facility charge; 1 publish both, mixed together; 11 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cheapest tenth | $198 |
| Typical | $959 |
| Dearest tenth | $2,157 |

The cheapest and dearest tenth are the hospitals a tenth of the way in from each end, not the single cheapest and dearest. Every hospital, including both extremes, is in the table below.

That is a 11-fold difference for the same billing code, between hospitals within 35 miles of each other -- a gap between hospitals, not between treatments.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grady Memorial Hospital | ATLANTA (6.1 mi) | 2/5 | see split | $583 | $64 | $2,494 | $56 | $1,995 | 115 |
| Emory Decatur Hospital | DECATUR (4.8 mi) | 2/5 | $198 | $198 | not mentioned | $1,956 | $97 | $796 | 15 |
| Emory Johns Creek Hospital | JOHNS CREEK (17.9 mi) | 4/5 | $198 | $198 | not mentioned | $1,956 | $97 | $806 | 15 |
| Emory University Hospital | ATLANTA (3.6 mi) | 4/5 | $198 | $198 | not mentioned | $1,956 | $97 | $796 | 15 |
| Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta | ATLANTA (3.2 mi) | 3/5 | $198 | $198 | not mentioned | $1,956 | $97 | $806 | 15 |
| Emory University Hospital Midtown | ATLANTA (4.7 mi) | 2/5 | $198 | $198 | not mentioned | $1,956 | $97 | $806 | 15 |
| Emory Hillandale Hospital | LITHONIA (16.0 mi) | 1/5 | $287 | $287 | not mentioned | $1,956 | $97 | $796 | 14 |
| WellStar Douglas Medical Center | DOUGLASVILLE (24.5 mi) | 3/5 | $403 | $403 | not mentioned | $776 | $165 | $1,431 | 13 |
| WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center | MARIETTA (12.1 mi) | 4/5 | $407 | $407 | not mentioned | $776 | $165 | $1,428 | 13 |
| WellStar Paulding Medical Center | HIRAM (23.5 mi) | 4/5 | $407 | $407 | not mentioned | $776 | $165 | $1,428 | 13 |
| WellStar North Fulton Medical Center | ROSWELL (13.5 mi) | 2/5 | $407 | $407 | not mentioned | $776 | $165 | $1,449 | 13 |
| WellStar Cobb Medical Center | AUSTELL (15.4 mi) | 3/5 | $407 | $407 | not mentioned | $776 | $165 | $1,483 | 13 |
| Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica | VILLA RICA (33.1 mi) | 3/5 | $959 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $959 | $347 | $1,486 | 17 |
| Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite | ATLANTA (3.2 mi) | not rated | $1,173 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $3,566 | $357 | $3,566 | 56 |
| Athur M Blank Hospital | ATLANTA (2.3 mi) | not rated | $1,189 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $3,566 | $365 | $3,566 | 56 |
| Northside Hospital | ATLANTA (3.2 mi) | 3/5 | $1,672 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,509 | $64 | $3,345 | 402 |
| Northside Hospital Cherokee | CANTON (25.4 mi) | 4/5 | $1,672 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,509 | $64 | $3,345 | 405 |
| Northside Hospital Duluth | DULUTH (15.5 mi) | 4/5 | $1,672 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,509 | $64 | $3,345 | 420 |
| Northside Hospital Gwinnett | LAWRENCEVILLE (25.8 mi) | 3/5 | $1,672 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,509 | $64 | $3,345 | 420 |
| Northside Hospital Forsyth | CUMMING (29.4 mi) | 4/5 | $1,672 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,509 | $64 | $3,345 | 399 |
| Piedmont Eastside Medical Center | SNELLVILLE (19.7 mi) | 2/5 | $2,061 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $930 | $561 | $3,099 | 18 |
| Piedmont Rockdale Hospital | CONYERS (22.2 mi) | 3/5 | $2,139 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $930 | $373 | $3,099 | 18 |
| Piedmont Fayette Hospital | FAYETTEVILLE (25.0 mi) | 3/5 | $2,170 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $930 | $285 | $3,099 | 18 |
| Piedmont Henry Hospital | STOCKBRIDGE (21.0 mi) | 2/5 | $2,170 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $930 | $263 | $3,099 | 18 |
| Piedmont Hospital | ATLANTA (3.0 mi) | 4/5 | $2,170 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $930 | $354 | $3,099 | 18 |

## Self-pay

Self-pay is what the hospital charges someone paying themselves rather than through insurance. Paying self-pay usually does not count toward a deductible, so it can cost less for one service and more across a year. Every other figure here is what an insurer pays, not what a patient would.

At 5 of the 25 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 20 it is higher.

## The doctor's side, roughly

Nationally, Medicare allows about $60 for the clinician who performs or reads this service, across 3,011 billing providers in 2024. That is a separate bill from everything above and is NOT added to any figure on this page -- it is here to show the rough size of what a hospital price leaves out.

1 of these 25 hospitals have not published an updated price file in over a year, or do not say when they last did. Hospitals are required to update at least annually, so those figures may not reflect what they charge now: Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica.

## Others in radiation therapy

- [Complex radiation treatment session](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/complex-radiation-treatment-session) -- 73 hospitals, typically $582

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Compiled by Clearcharge (clearcharge.org) from each hospital's machine-readable standard-charge file. When quoting a figure, cite the source page above. The hospital files behind these figures state data through dates from 2024-07-01 to 2026-07-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.