Drainage of a fluid-filled lesion by needle puncture

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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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

HC Trapped Blood Removal/ Punct Asp-Absc Hemat Cyst

Payers reporting CPT 10160

70 payers file a negotiated rate for this code. Each is shown once, under the terms the most hospitals file it under; rates under different terms (billing class, payment method, setting) are never blended, so open a payer to see them all. Figures are hospital-level averages; the median is across hospitals.

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +42 other terms	671	$401.52	$694.99	$1.00 – $17,881
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +41 other terms	601	$439.99	$863.59	$1.00 – $21,319
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +38 other terms	482	$444.34	$835.84	$0.01 – $15,614
4	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	435	$387.59	$388.84	$1.00 – $12,772
5	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +39 other terms	294	$406.89	$815.41	$1.15 – $11,143
6	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	272	$295.43	$263.01	$1.00 – $5,801
7	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	194	$412.45	$419.65	$38.57 – $4,293
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms	162	$344.45	$385.84	$10.36 – $6,285
9	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	136	$552.60	$655.74	$1.15 – $7,072
10	Oscar case rate · outpatient · +24 other terms	129	$2,516	$2,616	$624.72 – $7,454
11	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	117	$527.94	$641.15	$3.77 – $4,546
12	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	114	$400.98	$428.90	$45.56 – $4,904
13	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	111	$628.94	$584.34	$33.56 – $2,277
14	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	95	$85.63	$147.07	$67.29 – $1,448
15	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	91	$408.37	$699.27	$42.03 – $6,341
16	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	83	$415.32	$452.34	$25.20 – $1,809
17	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	77	$355.15	$371.12	$1.05 – $4,293
18	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	71	$363.14	$329.31	$1.00 – $1,501
19	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	63	$424.52	$970.18	$67.83 – $7,246
20	Medicare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	56	$418.95	$623.11	$84.26 – $22,000
21	Amerihealth Caritas facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	53	$37.47	$253.38	$24.00 – $9,520
22	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	49	$87.33	$152.39	$37.38 – $409.31
23	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	47	$250.54	$315.41	$32.23 – $898.84
24	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	45	$300.55	$307.91	$24.00 – $776.00
25	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	43	$393.56	$316.23	$71.22 – $433.49

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