Cast wedging procedure

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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Provider: anthropic
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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

HB=CAST WEDGING

Payers reporting CPT 29740

Payer pricing summary

Low

$82

Average

$597

Median

$357

High

$6.5k

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	513	$271	$743	$1.5k	198%	—	$11 – $17.9k
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	444	$290	$1.0k	$2.8k	269%	—	$22 – $33.6k
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	376	$350	$759	$1.5k	200%	—	$1 – $15.6k
4	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	371	$261	$350	$818	233%	—	$26 – $12.8k
5	Cigna case rate · outpatient · +27 other terms	222	$1.8k	$4.4k	$7.1k	164%	—	$0 – $40.7k
6	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	215	$185	$149	$158	106%	—	$3 – $824
7	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	158	$267	$359	$559	156%	—	$45 – $4.3k
8	Oscar case rate · outpatient · +18 other terms	130	$2.5k	$2.6k	$789	30%	—	$415 – $7.5k
9	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	127	$262	$359	$710	198%	—	$53 – $7.0k
10	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	96	$398	$569	$696	122%	—	$60 – $4.3k
11	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	83	$523	$656	$1.0k	155%	—	$138 – $8.2k
12	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	66	$54	$64	$43	67%	—	$47 – $313
13	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	66	$267	$252	$71	28%	—	$66 – $312
14	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	66	$245	$271	$192	71%	—	$61 – $1.0k
15	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	53	$421	$402	$81	20%	—	$67 – $475
16	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	45	$270	$453	$1.0k	221%	—	$54 – $4.3k
17	Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	42	$254	$730	$1.4k	198%	—	$58 – $5.1k
18	Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient · +2 other terms	39	$5.8k	$6.6k	$5.1k	77%	—	$2.1k – $14.6k
19	Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient · +3 other terms	38	$948	$935	$75	8%	—	$399 – $948
20	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	34	$62	$148	$104	71%	—	$45 – $279
21	Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	32	$297	$824	$1.3k	160%	—	$252 – $4.4k
22	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	30	$171	$219	$166	76%	—	$19 – $731
23	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	28	$283	$211	$179	85%	—	$43 – $690
24	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	26	$81	$151	$76	50%	—	$67 – $311
25	Baylor Scott White Health Plan facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	25	$355	$354	$71	20%	—	$267 – $464

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