Anesthesia for chest procedure

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.

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Provider: anthropic
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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

CHEST PROCEDURE

Payers reporting CPT 00520

Payer pricing summary

Low

Average

$1.3k

Median

$269

High

$8.3k

Payer rate distribution

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1	Molina facility · case rate · outpatient · +12 other terms	29	$127	$106	$96	91%	—	$15 – $308
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	23	$38	$1.0k	$2.2k	217%	—	$15 – $8.4k
3	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	21	$29	$68	$73	107%	—	$4 – $428
4	Humana professional · case rate · outpatient · +17 other terms	19	$21	$21	—	—	—	$21 – $21
5	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	18	$78	$94	$63	67%	—	$0 – $509
6	Regence professional · case rate · outpatient · +5 other terms	17	$21	$21	—	—	—	$21 – $21
7	Anthem facility · case rate · outpatient · +15 other terms	15	$182	$199	$47	23%	—	$124 – $308
8	Caresource facility · case rate · outpatient · +9 other terms	15	$185	$199	$46	23%	—	$124 – $314
9	Optum facility · case rate · outpatient · +6 other terms	13	$164	$161	$74	46%	—	$14 – $279
10	Cigna professional · other · outpatient · +17 other terms	11	$79	$79	$28	35%	—	$21 – $130
11	Medicaid fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	10	$509	$509	—	—	—	$509 – $509
12	WellCare professional · fee schedule · both · +9 other terms	10	$15	$17	$13	78%	—	$0 – $57
13	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	9	$79	$86	$64	75%	—	$20 – $509
14	Aetna Better Health professional · fee schedule · both · +6 other terms	8	$10	$11	$9	81%	—	$0 – $21
15	Amerihealth Caritas other · outpatient · +5 other terms	8	$3.1k	$1.5k	$1.8k	124%	—	$15 – $4.3k
16	Bcbs Il professional · fee schedule · both · +2 other terms	7	$10	$8	$10	120%	—	$0 – $21
17	Ambetter other · outpatient · +7 other terms	6	$4.2k	$3.4k	$1.1k	33%	—	$1.7k – $4.3k
18	Highmark other · outpatient · +7 other terms	6	$4.2k	$3.4k	$1.1k	33%	—	$1.7k – $4.3k
19	Tricare other · outpatient · +5 other terms	6	$4.2k	$3.4k	$1.1k	33%	—	$1.7k – $4.3k
20	Bcbs Mn fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	5	$1	$1	$0	66%	—	$0 – $1
21	Clover fee schedule · inpatient · +1 other terms	5	$22	$22	—	—	—	$22 – $22
22	First Health professional · fee schedule · both · +6 other terms	5	$64	$64	—	—	—	$64 – $64
23	Medicare fee schedule · inpatient · +1 other terms	5	$20	$20	—	—	—	$20 – $20
24	Oscar fee schedule · inpatient · +6 other terms	5	$102	$102	—	—	—	$102 – $102
25	MultiPlan professional · fee schedule · both · +13 other terms	4	$64	$61	$6	10%	—	$50 – $66

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