CPT 42725
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 of throat abscess
Low
$502
Average
$4.8k
Median
$4.3k
High
$16.8k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
59 payers; the 90th percentile is 5.8× 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 · +7 other terms | 488 | $5.8k | $6.5k | $7.7k | 118% | — | $1 – $173.8k |
| 2 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms | 440 | $5.9k | $5.9k | $4.5k | 76% | — | $1 – $40.5k |
| 3 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms | 344 | $5.7k | $4.7k | $2.3k | 49% | — | $1 – $17.1k |
| 4 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms | 340 | $7.9k | $9.2k | $5.5k | 60% | — | $1 – $42.9k |
| 5 | Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 223 | $5.9k | $5.4k | $4.8k | 89% | — | $194 – $30.6k |
| 6 | Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 209 | $3.5k | $3.5k | $2.9k | 81% | — | $1 – $13.7k |
| 7 | WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 154 | $6.0k | $6.2k | $2.3k | 37% | — | $138 – $13.9k |
| 8 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 122 | $5.6k | $5.1k | $7.0k | 138% | — | $703 – $43.3k |
| 9 | Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 98 | $7.5k | $8.7k | $7.4k | 85% | — | $30 – $42.0k |
| 10 | Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms | 71 | $9.1k | $7.0k | $4.9k | 70% | — | $1.0k – $14.3k |
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