CPT 32096

Open chest surgery to biopsy lung tissue

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

Open wedge/bx lung infiltr

Payer pricing summary

Low

$390

Average

$1.4k

Median

$931

High

$7.3k

Payer rate distribution

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All methodologies Case rate 45 Fee schedule 50 Per diem 5 Percent of billed charges 31 Other 14

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	209	$3.0k	$4.2k	$6.1k	145%	—	$134 – $36.8k
2	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	181	$7.4k	$10.3k	$7.8k	76%	—	$0 – $53.6k
3	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	148	$1.8k	$4.9k	$5.7k	118%	—	$79 – $33.6k
4	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	104	$2.9k	$4.3k	$4.2k	96%	—	$0 – $20.7k
5	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	87	$947	$2.2k	$2.7k	124%	—	$666 – $20.6k
6	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	82	$756	$1.8k	$1.6k	88%	—	$679 – $8.3k
7	Molina professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	41	$353	$415	$260	63%	—	$54 – $1.0k
8	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	37	$756	$784	$191	24%	—	$666 – $1.9k
9	Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	31	$1.3k	$1.3k	$551	41%	—	$652 – $3.5k
10	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	28	$353	$892	$754	85%	—	$54 – $2.5k
11	WellCare fee schedule · both · +6 other terms	26	$695	$757	$256	34%	—	$460 – $1.4k
12	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	21	$771	$764	$8	1%	—	$751 – $771
13	Medicare fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	18	$756	$743	$18	2%	—	$691 – $771
14	Oscar facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	16	$5.9k	$5.9k	$1.2k	21%	—	$4.7k – $7.1k
15	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	15	$1.4k	$1.3k	$396	31%	—	$459 – $2.0k
16	Aetna Better Health professional · fee schedule · both · +6 other terms	14	$632	$675	$214	32%	—	$156 – $1.0k
17	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	13	$1.3k	$2.1k	$3.3k	156%	—	$0 – $13.4k
18	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · both · +3 other terms	13	$464	$458	$21	5%	—	$385 – $464
19	Wellmark fee schedule · both · +3 other terms	13	$1.3k	$1.3k	$383	29%	—	$711 – $1.7k
20	Bcbs Mn fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	12	$3.7k	$2.8k	$1.6k	57%	—	$128 – $4.6k
21	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · both · +1 other terms	12	$722	$725	$10	1%	—	$722 – $758
22	Highmark fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	12	$945	$999	$427	43%	—	$374 – $5.1k
23	MultiPlan fee schedule · both · +3 other terms	12	$1.4k	$1.5k	$325	22%	—	$1.2k – $2.6k
24	Bcbs Nj fee schedule · outpatient	11	$593	$751	$293	39%	—	$526 – $1.4k
25	Optum professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	11	$371	$377	$221	59%	—	$54 – $827

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