Ultrasound-guided joint or bursa drainage or 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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Original text from hospital filings

HC US ED Aspirate/Inj Major Jnt

Payers reporting CPT 20611

72 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 · +43 other terms	662	$335.87	$701.43	$1.00 – $10,533
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +42 other terms	602	$342.41	$917.71	$1.00 – $21,319
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +38 other terms	453	$377.27	$784.98	$0.01 – $21,570
4	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	431	$300.24	$362.78	$1.00 – $8,334
5	Cigna case rate · outpatient · +38 other terms	288	$2,781	$4,674	$0.40 – $40,673
6	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	262	$270.26	$267.43	$1.00 – $6,459
7	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	204	$325.55	$340.06	$21.22 – $4,280
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms	165	$286.64	$412.10	$34.59 – $6,285
9	Oscar case rate · outpatient · +24 other terms	129	$2,516	$2,599	$461.57 – $7,454
10	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	117	$684.32	$804.80	$1.10 – $4,802
11	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	114	$438.12	$451.24	$0.29 – $4,280
12	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	107	$543.79	$634.99	$53.26 – $10,522
13	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	89	$59.76	$132.52	$46.84 – $1,070
14	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	86	$290.40	$362.88	$48.29 – $6,485
15	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	83	$308.52	$759.20	$39.12 – $21,719
16	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	79	$313.60	$351.20	$49.68 – $2,089
17	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	72	$317.99	$395.13	$1.08 – $4,280
18	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	62	$609.70	$996.46	$47.34 – $7,246
19	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	62	$331.35	$512.21	$52.87 – $5,290
20	Amerihealth Caritas facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	52	$105.92	$350.41	$49.82 – $9,492
21	Medicare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	49	$322.63	$563.02	$37.86 – $22,000
22	Medica facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	44	$283.22	$169.81	$33.99 – $1,999
23	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	43	$290.78	$226.27	$49.71 – $405.01
24	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	42	$251.65	$382.64	$42.30 – $2,753
25	Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient · +6 other terms	39	$5,841	$6,621	$2,069 – $14,612

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