CPT 42802
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
Biopsy of throat
Low
$0
Average
$6.7k
Median
$314
High
$35k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
18 payers; the 90th percentile is 33846.3× 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 | Aetna professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges | 13 | $327 | $225 | $142 | 63% | — | $1 – $369 |
| 2 | Cigna professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 9 | $280 | $270 | $37 | 14% | — | $182 – $336 |
| 3 | MultiPlan professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges | 8 | $245 | $218 | $126 | 58% | — | $1 – $336 |
| 4 | First Health professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges | 6 | $327 | $342 | $35 | 10% | — | $327 – $420 |
| 5 | Humana professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges | 6 | $322 | $285 | $92 | 32% | — | $163 – $374 |
| 6 | UnitedHealthcare professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 6 | $93 | $135 | $74 | 55% | — | $93 – $290 |
| 7 | Blue Cross Blue Shield percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +3 other terms | 5 | $34.9k | $34.9k | — | — | — | $34.9k – $34.9k |
| 8 | Caresource percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 5 | $18.6k | $18.6k | — | — | — | $18.6k – $18.6k |
| 9 | Phcs percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +3 other terms | 5 | $37.5k | $37.5k | — | — | — | $37.5k – $37.5k |
| 10 | Ambetter professional · percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 3 | $166 | $166 | $159 | 96% | — | $7 – $324 |
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