Needle insertion into three or more muscles without 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.

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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

HC PT NEEDLE INSERTION W/O INJECTION 3 OR MORE MUSCLES

Payers reporting CPT 20561

68 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	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms	452	$33.67	$803.69	$1.05 – $21,319
2	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms	435	$34.40	$579.23	$1.00 – $10,533
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	362	$71.74	$449.73	$1.00 – $14,407
4	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	297	$26.90	$209.74	$1.10 – $6,955
5	Cigna case rate · outpatient · +32 other terms	255	$1,687	$4,562	$0.40 – $40,673
6	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	159	$27.55	$100.74	$9.95 – $4,243
7	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	141	$33.99	$36.13	$1.05 – $92.70
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	132	$34.61	$144.33	$13.99 – $6,285
9	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	98	$48.23	$172.23	$20.61 – $4,243
10	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	96	$51.71	$162.55	$22.76 – $8,101
11	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	72	$26.73	$26.94	$21.80 – $37.52
12	Oscar case rate · outpatient · +19 other terms	64	$3,569	$3,992	$38.29 – $7,276
13	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	54	$35.74	$208.03	$1.08 – $4,243
14	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	52	$47.75	$48.66	$23.00 – $79.00
15	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	51	$25.36	$34.91	$21.18 – $212.69
16	Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient · +4 other terms	39	$5,841	$8,031	$2,069 – $14,612
17	Clover facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	38	$30.25	$28.92	$22.54 – $32.22
18	Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient · +6 other terms	38	$948.00	$915.45	$36.80 – $948.00
19	Medica facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	35	$31.00	$137.38	$13.49 – $1,999
20	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	27	$32.98	$75.06	$17.24 – $2,089
21	Medicare fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	25	$21.80	$569.84	$20.61 – $4,120
22	Phcs fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	25	$55.86	$52.23	$33.75 – $79.00
23	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	25	$29.09	$49.23	$21.87 – $117.54
24	Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	25	$27.25	$7,401	$11.76 – $50,000
25	Bcbs La fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	24	$1.57	$2.19	$0.01 – $48.72

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