Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.
Original text from hospital filings
BRACHYTX, NON-STR, GOLD-198
Lake Charles, LA
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Ochsner Lake Area Hospital’s median price of $789 is 28% above the median hospital's median price ($614), higher than 54% of the 781 hospitals reporting HCPCS C1716. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Last updated: Jan 13, 2026
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