CPT 32151

Lung foreign body removal through chest incision

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

Remove lung foreign body

Payer pricing summary

Low

$528

Average

$1.9k

Median

$1.3k

High

$8.9k

Payer rate distribution

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All methodologies Case rate 45 Fee schedule 48 Per diem 5 Percent of billed charges 21 Other 17

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	209	$3.0k	$4.4k	$6.1k	140%	—	$157 – $36.8k
2	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	179	$9.2k	$11.5k	$8.6k	75%	—	$0 – $36.2k
3	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	148	$1.9k	$5.0k	$5.9k	116%	—	$79 – $33.6k
4	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	113	$3.0k	$5.5k	$5.3k	96%	—	$0 – $20.7k
5	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	101	$966	$2.7k	$2.3k	84%	—	$861 – $8.3k
6	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	87	$1.3k	$3.3k	$4.2k	130%	—	$678 – $23.7k
7	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	37	$947	$917	$244	27%	—	$678 – $1.9k
8	Molina professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	32	$444	$522	$331	63%	—	$154 – $1.3k
9	Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	31	$1.6k	$1.7k	$685	41%	—	$811 – $4.3k
10	WellCare fee schedule · both · +6 other terms	26	$869	$1.0k	$256	25%	—	$777 – $1.7k
11	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	21	$966	$957	$10	1%	—	$939 – $966
12	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient	21	$444	$528	$452	86%	—	$154 – $2.5k
13	Medicare fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	18	$947	$931	$23	2%	—	$863 – $966
14	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	15	$1.8k	$1.5k	$547	37%	—	$459 – $2.5k
15	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	13	$703	$1.2k	$1.3k	114%	—	$1 – $4.4k
16	Wellmark fee schedule · both · +1 other terms	13	$1.7k	$1.7k	$481	29%	—	$889 – $2.2k
17	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	12	$943	$935	$10	1%	—	$922 – $943
18	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	12	$1.7k	$2.5k	$3.3k	134%	—	$0 – $13.4k
19	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · both · +2 other terms	12	$784	$784	—	—	—	$784 – $784
20	Bcbs Mn fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	12	$4.6k	$3.5k	$2.0k	57%	—	$128 – $5.7k
21	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · both · +1 other terms	12	$903	$907	$12	1%	—	$903 – $948
22	Highmark fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	12	$1.2k	$1.3k	$479	37%	—	$589 – $5.1k
23	MultiPlan fee schedule · both · +2 other terms	12	$1.8k	$1.9k	$408	22%	—	$1.6k – $3.2k
24	Bcbs Nj fee schedule · outpatient	11	$728	$923	$360	39%	—	$646 – $1.8k
25	Caresource facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	11	$1.7k	$1.5k	$331	22%	—	$964 – $1.9k

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