Joint or bursa drainage or injection without ultrasound guidance

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

Inj/Asp/Arthro Interm Jt/Bursa

Payers reporting CPT 20605

71 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	673	$324.49	$511.74	$1.00 – $27,157
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +42 other terms	607	$338.79	$768.98	$1.05 – $21,319
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +39 other terms	476	$330.16	$537.06	$0.01 – $16,400
4	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	440	$296.66	$311.86	$1.00 – $19,398
5	Cigna case rate · outpatient · +39 other terms	350	$3,153	$4,476	$0.62 – $40,673
6	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	268	$246.87	$219.74	$1.00 – $6,459
7	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	210	$322.68	$313.68	$2.18 – $4,280
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +38 other terms	165	$261.72	$343.59	$21.91 – $6,285
9	Oscar case rate · outpatient · +25 other terms	136	$2,636	$2,683	$461.57 – $7,454
10	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	126	$493.01	$520.84	$1.00 – $3,831
11	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	114	$440.63	$450.46	$19.00 – $4,280
12	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	111	$541.87	$548.08	$34.13 – $8,168
13	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	95	$32.96	$108.59	$25.89 – $1,070
14	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	95	$290.40	$312.17	$30.51 – $4,891
15	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	93	$308.52	$739.69	$27.81 – $11,169
16	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	81	$298.93	$310.26	$1.08 – $4,280
17	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	81	$313.60	$380.02	$9.60 – $13,117
18	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	72	$286.81	$369.20	$1.00 – $3,297
19	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	61	$557.20	$921.83	$23.54 – $7,246
20	Amerihealth Caritas facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	53	$33.56	$225.40	$21.50 – $9,492
21	Medicare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	53	$316.34	$479.21	$27.31 – $22,000
22	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	52	$154.55	$225.27	$21.50 – $1,094
23	Medica facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	51	$41.01	$177.68	$21.41 – $1,262
24	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	43	$66.97	$69.03	$12.43 – $173.17
25	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	42	$290.78	$225.10	$24.72 – $405.01

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