CAR-T cell preparation and receipt

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

HC CAR-T; RECEIPT AND PREP OF CELLS FOR ADMIN

Payers reporting CPT 38227

Payer pricing summary

Low

$18

Average

$5.5k

Median

$2.3k

High

$35.2k

Payer rate distribution

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1	UnitedHealthcare case rate · outpatient · +21 other terms	293	$4.8k	$5.7k	$4.3k	75%	—	$1 – $30k
2	Cigna case rate · outpatient · +19 other terms	130	$6.8k	$9.4k	$8.7k	93%	—	$1 – $40.7k
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	126	$171	$956	$2.1k	224%	—	$1 – $15.6k
4	Aetna case rate · outpatient · +20 other terms	94	$3.5k	$4.1k	$1.9k	46%	—	$35 – $12.0k
5	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	68	$37	$432	$941	218%	—	$1 – $4.0k
6	Molina case rate · outpatient · +15 other terms	65	$2.3k	$2.5k	$952	38%	—	$35 – $4.0k
7	Oscar case rate · outpatient · +14 other terms	57	$3.6k	$4.4k	$1.4k	32%	—	$3.3k – $7.3k
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	44	$37	$1.7k	$2.9k	172%	—	$34 – $8.8k
9	Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient · +2 other terms	33	$948	$944	$8	1%	—	$929 – $948
10	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	25	$34	$36	$2	7%	—	$34 – $39
11	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	21	$39	$36	$2	7%	—	$34 – $39
12	Bcbs La fee schedule · outpatient	20	$0	$31	$156	507%	—	$0 – $822
13	Caresource facility · case rate · outpatient · +10 other terms	20	$130	$121	$51	42%	—	$36 – $234
14	Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient	18	$125	$131	$49	37%	—	$47 – $223
15	Medicare fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	18	$34	$34	—	—	—	$34 – $34
16	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	17	$34	$425	$394	93%	—	$34 – $1.2k
17	WellCare case rate · outpatient · +9 other terms	16	$36	$147	$334	227%	—	$35 – $1.1k
18	Ambetter case rate · outpatient · +9 other terms	14	$2.0k	$2.7k	$3.0k	110%	—	$0 – $10.1k
19	Wellmark fee schedule · both · +3 other terms	13	$79	$79	$6	8%	—	$74 – $88
20	Bcbs Nj fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	12	$36	$46	$17	37%	—	$31 – $85
21	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	12	$39	$39	—	—	—	$39 – $39
22	First Health per diem · outpatient · +10 other terms	11	$365	$365	—	—	—	$365 – $365
23	Medical Mutual facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	10	$34	$41	$9	21%	—	$34 – $53
24	Medica case rate · outpatient · +10 other terms	9	$2.8k	$2.8k	$47	2%	—	$2.8k – $2.9k
25	Ucare fee schedule · both · +10 other terms	9	$27	$27	—	—	—	$27 – $27

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