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
Bx/Exc Lymph Node Opn Dp Crv Node W/Exc Fat Pad
Low
$598
Average
$3.6k
Median
$3.3k
High
$16.3k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
64 payers; the 90th percentile is 5.0× 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 | Cigna case rate · outpatient · +19 other terms | 314 | $3.9k | $6.7k | $8.8k | 132% | 1–10 | $488 – $54.4k |
| 2 | UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms | 512 | $3.8k | $4.0k | $4.7k | 119% | — | $87 – $112.5k |
| 3 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms | 459 | $4.0k | $4.3k | $3.1k | 72% | — | $79 – $26.6k |
| 4 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms | 363 | $5.0k | $6.1k | $4.2k | 69% | — | $1 – $27.9k |
| 5 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms | 358 | $3.8k | $3.1k | $1.6k | 51% | — | $1 – $12.8k |
| 6 | Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms | 217 | $2.7k | $2.2k | $2.0k | 93% | — | $1 – $10.6k |
| 7 | WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms | 163 | $3.9k | $4.0k | $1.5k | 38% | — | $373 – $9.0k |
| 8 | Oscar case rate · outpatient · +14 other terms | 137 | $5.6k | $5.2k | $1.6k | 31% | — | $2.4k – $10.1k |
| 9 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms | 123 | $3.1k | $3.2k | $4.5k | 143% | — | $242 – $28.7k |
| 10 | Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms | 98 | $4.9k | $5.6k | $4.9k | 87% | — | $14 – $27.0k |
| 11 | Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms | 81 | $6.6k | $5.0k | $3.0k | 60% | — | $618 – $9.4k |
| 12 | Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient · +1 other terms | 76 | $3.7k | $4.1k | $974 | 24% | — | $1.6k – $5.5k |
| 13 | Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms | 71 | $1.2k | $1.3k | $665 | 50% | — | $438 – $4.4k |
| 14 | Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms | 69 | $4.0k | $3.6k | $1.1k | 31% | — | $455 – $4.4k |
| 15 | Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms | 55 | $3.2k | $2.8k | $1.8k | 63% | — | $1.4k – $6.7k |
| 16 | Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient · +5 other terms | 46 | $2.4k | $2.4k | $524 | 21% | — | $2.3k – $5.8k |
| 17 | Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms | 35 | $3.8k | $4.3k | $3.5k | 81% | — | $455 – $14.5k |
| 18 | MultiPlan case rate · outpatient · +16 other terms | 34 | $4.0k | $5.5k | $2.9k | 52% | — | $869 – $11.5k |
| 19 | Amerihealth Caritas case rate · outpatient · +7 other terms | 33 | $496 | $5.3k | $4.2k | 79% | — | $468 – $10.5k |
| 20 | Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 33 | $4.5k | $4.4k | $2.1k | 48% | — | $964 – $12.6k |
| 21 | First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms | 33 | $4.1k | $3.4k | $2.4k | 72% | — | $449 – $8.0k |
| 22 | Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms | 31 | $4.2k | $4.1k | $239 | 6% | — | $3.5k – $4.5k |
| 23 | Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms | 28 | $1.0k | $2.4k | $1.4k | 60% | — | $1.0k – $4.2k |
| 24 | Medica case rate · outpatient · +11 other terms | 28 | $4.2k | $3.5k | $1.2k | 35% | — | $1.1k – $6.3k |
| 25 | Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms | 28 | $3.6k | $3.3k | $819 | 25% | — | $2.1k – $4.6k |
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