CPT 00550
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
Anes for sternal debridement
Low
$0
Average
$248
Median
$76
High
$3.0k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
33 payers; the 90th percentile is 68.9× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many payers fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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| 1 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 28 | $38 | $892 | $1.5k | 168% | — | $15 – $8.4k |
| 2 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms | 22 | $92 | $142 | $178 | 126% | — | $0 – $718 |
| 3 | UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 18 | $29 | $54 | $22 | 42% | — | $17 – $80 |
| 4 | Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms | 12 | $376 | $182 | $265 | 145% | — | $21 – $718 |
| 5 | Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 11 | $583 | $249 | $260 | 104% | — | $20 – $614 |
| 6 | WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 11 | $750 | $489 | $358 | 73% | — | $20 – $768 |
| 7 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms | 10 | $718 | $619 | $241 | 39% | — | $29 – $718 |
| 8 | Medicaid fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 10 | $82 | $82 | — | — | — | $82 – $82 |
| 9 | Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms | 10 | $17 | $68 | $70 | 102% | — | $16 – $171 |
| 10 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 9 | $20 | $22 | $4 | 18% | — | $20 – $33 |
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