Nosebleed control by packing or cautery at the back of the nose

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.

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Provider: anthropic
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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

Ctrl Nasopharyngeal Hemrrg Smpl W/Pst Nsl Packs

Payers reporting CPT 42970

Payer pricing summary

Low

$212

Average

$1.2k

Median

$595

High

$12.9k

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	508	$296	$834	$1.5k	177%	—	$1 – $17.9k
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	447	$305	$1.3k	$2.3k	178%	—	$79 – $21.3k
3	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	349	$241	$621	$1.1k	172%	—	$1 – $12.8k
4	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	341	$504	$1.1k	$1.8k	152%	—	$1 – $18.0k
5	Cigna case rate · outpatient · +21 other terms	233	$1.8k	$4.3k	$7.1k	165%	—	$0 – $40.7k
6	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	205	$188	$195	$194	99%	—	$1 – $2.8k
7	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	157	$235	$340	$569	167%	—	$92 – $4.3k
8	Oscar case rate · outpatient · +15 other terms	130	$2.5k	$2.7k	$763	29%	—	$363 – $7.5k
9	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	124	$349	$1.2k	$1.8k	155%	—	$104 – $12.8k
10	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	95	$402	$553	$673	122%	—	$127 – $4.3k
11	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	71	$111	$167	$134	80%	—	$96 – $541
12	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	69	$423	$633	$1.1k	179%	—	$216 – $8.2k
13	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	68	$248	$259	$53	20%	—	$220 – $410
14	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	54	$229	$721	$2.2k	302%	—	$128 – $12.2k
15	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	53	$296	$438	$877	200%	—	$86 – $4.3k
16	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	48	$394	$498	$323	65%	—	$218 – $1.5k
17	Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient · +1 other terms	39	$5.8k	$6.7k	$5.2k	77%	—	$2.1k – $14.6k
18	Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient · +5 other terms	38	$948	$934	$82	9%	—	$349 – $948
19	Amerihealth Caritas case rate · outpatient · +7 other terms	31	$482	$1.8k	$1.4k	77%	—	$130 – $3.3k
20	Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	31	$259	$805	$1.3k	167%	—	$214 – $4.4k
21	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	28	$92	$156	$69	44%	—	$92 – $244
22	Medica case rate · outpatient · +12 other terms	28	$827	$1.0k	$702	69%	—	$220 – $2.9k
23	Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	27	$159	$155	$55	36%	—	$80 – $358
24	Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	27	$215	$947	$1.8k	187%	—	$125 – $5.1k
25	Medicare fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	26	$402	$916	$1.3k	137%	—	$202 – $4.1k

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