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.
Original text from hospital filings
Elbow arthroscopy
Low
$599
Average
$3.6k
Median
$3.3k
High
$8.8k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
61 payers; the 90th percentile is 5.3× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many payers fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms | 495 | $3.2k | $5.3k | $6.6k | 125% | — | $89 – $95.3k |
| 2 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms | 457 | $3.4k | $4.3k | $3.6k | 86% | — | $20 – $37.3k |
| 3 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms | 354 | $4.4k | $5.8k | $4.1k | 70% | — | $1 – $39.1k |
| 4 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms | 347 | $3.2k | $2.7k | $1.4k | 50% | — | $1 – $12.8k |
| 5 | Cigna case rate · outpatient · +17 other terms | 320 | $8.0k | $9.8k | $7.5k | 76% | — | $1.1k – $54.4k |
| 6 | Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms | 214 | $2.4k | $2.0k | $1.6k | 80% | — | $1 – $8.9k |
| 7 | WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms | 157 | $3.3k | $3.4k | $1.2k | 36% | — | $341 – $7.6k |
| 8 | Oscar case rate · outpatient · +13 other terms | 137 | $9.4k | $8.4k | $3.0k | 36% | — | $3.5k – $17.8k |
| 9 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms | 123 | $3.1k | $2.9k | $3.8k | 133% | — | $444 – $23.9k |
| 10 | Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms | 98 | $4.1k | $4.8k | $4.1k | 85% | — | $85 – $23.4k |
| 11 | Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient · +1 other terms | 76 | $8.5k | $8.2k | $1.3k | 16% | — | $2.0k – $9.6k |
| 12 | Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms | 73 | $5.1k | $4.2k | $2.4k | 58% | — | $606 – $7.9k |
| 13 | Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms | 70 | $1.4k | $1.3k | $387 | 29% | — | $435 – $3.0k |
| 14 | Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms | 69 | $3.3k | $3.0k | $922 | 30% | — | $455 – $3.7k |
| 15 | Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient · +4 other terms | 46 | $2.4k | $2.4k | $388 | 16% | — | $2.3k – $4.9k |
| 16 | Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms | 43 | $3.2k | $2.6k | $1.3k | 50% | — | $1.5k – $5.6k |
| 17 | Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms | 35 | $3.2k | $3.6k | $2.9k | 80% | — | $455 – $12.1k |
| 18 | MultiPlan case rate · outpatient · +14 other terms | 34 | $5.7k | $6.5k | $2.5k | 39% | — | $965 – $11.5k |
| 19 | Amerihealth Caritas case rate · outpatient · +7 other terms | 33 | $567 | $7.9k | $6.6k | 83% | — | $536 – $16.0k |
| 20 | Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 33 | $4.0k | $3.9k | $1.9k | 47% | — | $1.1k – $11.4k |
| 21 | First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms | 33 | $3.4k | $3.4k | $2.9k | 85% | — | $446 – $10.2k |
| 22 | Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 31 | $3.5k | $3.4k | $214 | 6% | — | $3.0k – $3.8k |
| 23 | Medica case rate · outpatient · +9 other terms | 28 | $5.9k | $6.9k | $3.6k | 52% | — | $2.5k – $16.0k |
| 24 | Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 27 | $1.1k | $2.1k | $1.0k | 50% | — | $1.1k – $3.4k |
| 25 | Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms | 27 | $3.0k | $2.9k | $1.3k | 47% | — | $1.4k – $5.4k |
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