Knee arthroscopy with meniscus removal and cartilage smoothing

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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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

HB Arthroscop Knee Med and Lat

Payers reporting CPT 29881

68 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 · +30 other terms	601	$3,245	$4,201	$1.47 – $95,348
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	545	$3,506	$4,292	$19.59 – $47,967
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	434	$4,188	$5,207	$1.00 – $41,400
4	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	409	$3,185	$2,891	$1.00 – $16,666
5	Cigna case rate · outpatient · +23 other terms	366	$9,292	$11,454	$82.00 – $54,447
6	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	271	$2,398	$2,178	$1.00 – $10,151
7	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	209	$3,374	$3,345	$199.65 – $7,604
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	136	$3,145	$2,970	$230.61 – $23,943
9	Oscar case rate · outpatient · +22 other terms	136	$7,168	$7,049	$3,058 – $13,753
10	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	101	$5,304	$4,815	$92.00 – $9,975
11	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	101	$4,123	$3,996	$70.00 – $23,411
12	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	83	$1,374	$1,552	$519.85 – $11,406
13	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	82	$3,338	$2,972	$531.86 – $3,656
14	Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient · +2 other terms	76	$5,126	$5,459	$2,671 – $6,287
15	Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	71	$3,266	$3,174	$500.86 – $5,440
16	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	70	$3,126	$2,732	$367.98 – $5,715
17	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	64	$3,554	$3,597	$3.36 – $14,691
18	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	46	$2,969	$2,895	$535.45 – $12,078
19	Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient · +4 other terms	46	$2,369	$2,421	$2,323 – $4,875
20	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	45	$577.34	$468.94	$36.64 – $1,714
21	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	44	$4,695	$4,898	$499.00 – $13,733
22	Amerihealth Caritas facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	42	$848.46	$1,859	$597.85 – $7,346
23	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	37	$3,240	$2,611	$1,143 – $3,489
24	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	37	$3,417	$3,581	$525.03 – $16,328
25	Medica professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	36	$214.72	$263.34	$36.64 – $1,467

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