CPT 21725

Sternocleidomastoid muscle release surgery for torticollis

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
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Max output tokens: 4096
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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

Revision of neck muscle

Payer pricing summary

Low

$322

Average

$1.1k

Median

$966

High

$3.4k

Payer rate distribution

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All methodologies Case rate 46 Fee schedule 58 Per diem 6 Percent of billed charges 22 Other 24

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	488	$776	$1.5k	$1.8k	121%	—	$90 – $20.7k
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	467	$791	$2.3k	$3.6k	157%	—	$79 – $37.3k
3	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	364	$689	$1.1k	$1.5k	127%	—	$322 – $12.8k
4	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	348	$1.3k	$2.0k	$2.6k	130%	—	$1 – $39.1k
5	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	223	$1.5k	$3.2k	$3.9k	123%	—	$133 – $19.5k
6	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	213	$535	$562	$652	116%	—	$74 – $9.2k
7	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	166	$710	$816	$545	67%	—	$95 – $4.3k
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	124	$894	$2.4k	$3.8k	162%	—	$325 – $28.3k
9	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	94	$1.0k	$1.3k	$926	70%	—	$435 – $5.1k
10	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	74	$1.3k	$1.3k	$1.3k	98%	—	$357 – $11.7k
11	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	69	$722	$704	$71	10%	—	$536 – $795
12	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	64	$325	$347	$79	23%	—	$283 – $660
13	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	53	$646	$2.1k	$5.1k	244%	—	$536 – $26.8k
14	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	50	$1.4k	$1.4k	$1.5k	103%	—	$1 – $8.4k
15	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	43	$690	$836	$966	116%	—	$357 – $4.3k
16	Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	33	$897	$877	$414	47%	—	$258 – $2.5k
17	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	33	$739	$1.8k	$3.2k	175%	—	$258 – $10.2k
18	Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	31	$786	$1.2k	$1.2k	96%	—	$639 – $4.4k
19	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	28	$270	$469	$214	46%	—	$270 – $739
20	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	28	$1.1k	$1.2k	$972	78%	—	$661 – $10.2k
21	Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	27	$642	$1.2k	$1.7k	140%	—	$221 – $5.1k
22	Bcbs La fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	25	$469	$591	$381	64%	—	$272 – $1.8k
23	Medicare fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	24	$536	$1.1k	$1.3k	114%	—	$484 – $4.2k
24	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	23	$975	$996	$335	34%	—	$467 – $1.6k
25	Regence facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	21	$746	$1.1k	$605	57%	—	$651 – $2.6k

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