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
DRAINAGE ABSCESS PAROTID SIMPLE
Low
$197
Average
$1.9k
Median
$1.7k
High
$8.1k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
66 payers; the 90th percentile is 7.8× 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 | UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms | 522 | $1.5k | $2.0k | $2.6k | 133% | — | $36 – $43.5k |
| 2 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms | 464 | $1.6k | $2.1k | $1.9k | 93% | — | $35 – $21.3k |
| 3 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms | 352 | $2.3k | $2.9k | $2.3k | 80% | — | $1 – $18.0k |
| 4 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms | 351 | $1.5k | $1.3k | $941 | 71% | — | $1 – $12.8k |
| 5 | Cigna case rate · outpatient · +23 other terms | 315 | $3.0k | $5.0k | $6.7k | 134% | — | $678 – $40.7k |
| 6 | Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms | 221 | $752 | $860 | $775 | 90% | — | $1 – $3.6k |
| 7 | WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms | 160 | $1.5k | $1.5k | $686 | 44% | — | $133 – $4.4k |
| 8 | Oscar case rate · outpatient · +16 other terms | 137 | $2.8k | $2.5k | $1.0k | 41% | — | $1.4k – $7.5k |
| 9 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms | 128 | $1.0k | $1.5k | $2.3k | 153% | — | $85 – $12.8k |
| 10 | Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms | 98 | $1.9k | $2.2k | $2.0k | 88% | — | $25 – $10.9k |
| 11 | Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms | 76 | $2.3k | $1.8k | $1.2k | 64% | — | $51 – $3.7k |
| 12 | Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient · +1 other terms | 76 | $2.2k | $2.0k | $746 | 38% | — | $1.1k – $4.3k |
| 13 | Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms | 70 | $531 | $537 | $180 | 33% | — | $157 – $1.4k |
| 14 | Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms | 68 | $1.5k | $1.4k | $449 | 32% | — | $154 – $1.7k |
| 15 | Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms | 54 | $653 | $1.0k | $914 | 90% | — | $197 – $4.4k |
| 16 | MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms | 50 | $1.8k | $2.2k | $650 | 30% | — | $189 – $7.3k |
| 17 | Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient · +5 other terms | 38 | $948 | $970 | $176 | 18% | — | $929 – $2.2k |
| 18 | Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms | 36 | $1.5k | $2.2k | $2.6k | 118% | — | $154 – $12.2k |
| 19 | Amerihealth Caritas case rate · outpatient · +9 other terms | 33 | $370 | $2.0k | $1.6k | 78% | — | $350 – $3.7k |
| 20 | Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 33 | $2.0k | $1.9k | $940 | 49% | — | $421 – $5.6k |
| 21 | Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 31 | $1.6k | $1.8k | $812 | 44% | — | $1.4k – $4.5k |
| 22 | First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms | 31 | $1.6k | $1.8k | $2.2k | 122% | — | $161 – $7.2k |
| 23 | Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 28 | $442 | $970 | $529 | 55% | — | $442 – $1.6k |
| 24 | Medica case rate · outpatient · +16 other terms | 28 | $2.3k | $2.3k | $712 | 31% | — | $977 – $3.2k |
| 25 | Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms | 28 | $1.4k | $1.8k | $1.5k | 85% | — | $666 – $5.2k |
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