CPT 22534

Additional spine segment fusion via side approach

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

Lat thor/lumb addl seg

Payer pricing summary

Low

$158

Average

$1.2k

Median

$580

High

$8.1k

Payer rate distribution

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All methodologies Case rate 46 Fee schedule 51 Per diem 4 Percent of billed charges 29 Other 13

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	218	$774	$1.7k	$2.8k	165%	—	$61 – $24.1k
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	189	$1.5k	$3.1k	$3.9k	128%	—	$60 – $22.4k
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	183	$3.5k	$5.1k	$5.9k	116%	—	$0 – $36.2k
4	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	110	$2.9k	$5.3k	$5.5k	104%	—	$0 – $20.7k
5	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	87	$479	$1.5k	$3.8k	247%	—	$207 – $27.3k
6	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	82	$345	$2.0k	$4.4k	223%	—	$279 – $23.5k
7	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	41	$340	$337	$221	65%	—	$41 – $1.9k
8	Molina professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	39	$136	$172	$108	63%	—	$56 – $473
9	Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	31	$585	$603	$250	41%	—	$296 – $1.6k
10	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	27	$136	$424	$352	83%	—	$56 – $1.1k
11	WellCare fee schedule · both · +6 other terms	26	$307	$366	$97	26%	—	$278 – $628
12	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	21	$347	$344	$4	1%	—	$337 – $347
13	Bcbs La fee schedule · outpatient	19	$8.1k	$8.1k	$1.5k	19%	—	$4.1k – $11.2k
14	Medicare fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	18	$340	$335	$9	3%	—	$308 – $347
15	Optum professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	18	$281	$223	$97	44%	—	$38 – $372
16	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	15	$637	$587	$196	33%	—	$220 – $888
17	Wellmark fee schedule · both · +3 other terms	13	$632	$630	$190	30%	—	$317 – $818
18	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	12	$355	$346	$11	3%	—	$333 – $355
19	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	12	$573	$1.6k	$3.6k	226%	—	$0 – $13.4k
20	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · both · +3 other terms	12	$281	$281	—	—	—	$281 – $281
21	Bcbs Mn fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	12	$700	$10.7k	$16.6k	155%	—	$354 – $65.9k
22	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · both · +1 other terms	12	$324	$325	$4	1%	—	$324 – $340
23	Highmark fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	12	$394	$579	$1.1k	197%	—	$217 – $11.1k
24	MultiPlan fee schedule · both · +4 other terms	12	$644	$682	$155	23%	—	$561 – $1.2k
25	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	12	$254	$266	$238	90%	—	$1 – $703

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