Carpal tunnel injection

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.

Model: claude-haiku-5-5
Provider: anthropic
API: message_batches
Reasoning effort: low
Max output tokens: 4096
Prompt version (hash): 444523875572
Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

HC INJECTION THERAPEUTIC CARPAL TUNNEL

Payers reporting CPT 20526

Payer pricing summary

Low

$68

Average

$629

Median

$402

High

$5.0k

Payer rate distribution

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1	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	400	$297	$343	$718	209%	17–35	$1 – $12.8k
2	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +43 other terms	596	$298	$631	$1.3k	203%	15–24	$1 – $17.9k
3	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	108	$380	$482	$634	131%	2–20	$3 – $4.3k
4	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +41 other terms	544	$332	$1.0k	$1.9k	192%	1–10	$1 – $21.3k
5	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms	426	$354	$714	$1.5k	204%	1–10	$0 – $15.6k
6	Ucare professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	24	$37	$44	$28	64%	1–10	$16 – $200
7	Cigna case rate · outpatient · +36 other terms	323	$2.9k	$4.5k	$6.0k	134%	—	$1 – $40.7k
8	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	247	$219	$175	$191	109%	—	$1 – $1.2k
9	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	192	$307	$343	$483	141%	—	$21 – $4.3k
10	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	145	$287	$307	$613	200%	—	$9 – $6.3k
11	Oscar case rate · outpatient · +24 other terms	129	$2.5k	$2.7k	$709	27%	—	$462 – $7.5k
12	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	93	$517	$445	$309	70%	—	$23 – $2.3k
13	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	84	$46	$93	$113	121%	—	$40 – $1.0k
14	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	74	$475	$542	$371	68%	—	$36 – $1.6k
15	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	71	$299	$260	$101	39%	—	$52 – $343
16	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	68	$321	$359	$465	129%	—	$1 – $4.3k
17	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	62	$278	$245	$205	83%	—	$48 – $1.1k
18	Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	59	$298	$556	$1.2k	210%	—	$48 – $5.1k
19	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	58	$368	$429	$384	89%	—	$43 – $2.1k
20	Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient · +4 other terms	42	$5.8k	$6.6k	$5.1k	78%	—	$2.1k – $14.6k
21	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	41	$174	$215	$172	80%	—	$26 – $731
22	Amerihealth Caritas facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	39	$78	$338	$1.2k	347%	—	$50 – $9.5k
23	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	38	$321	$912	$2.1k	227%	—	$37 – $7.2k
24	Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient · +6 other terms	38	$948	$935	$69	7%	—	$444 – $948
25	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	37	$51	$202	$125	62%	—	$38 – $327

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