CPT 44900
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
Drain appendix abscess open
Low
$423
Average
$1.5k
Median
$1.0k
High
$7.3k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
50 payers; the 90th percentile is 4.5× 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 · +6 other terms | 232 | $1.9k | $3.7k | $5.8k | 156% | — | $70 – $36.8k |
| 2 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 196 | $5.2k | $8.5k | $7.2k | 85% | — | $0 – $33.7k |
| 3 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 156 | $1.3k | $4.7k | $5.7k | 123% | — | $79 – $33.6k |
| 4 | Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 122 | $2.9k | $5.3k | $5.3k | 100% | — | $0 – $20.7k |
| 5 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 109 | $767 | $2.1k | $1.8k | 84% | — | $659 – $8.3k |
| 6 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 87 | $727 | $2.0k | $2.1k | 107% | — | $339 – $9.5k |
| 7 | Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 41 | $752 | $635 | $298 | 47% | — | $30 – $1.9k |
| 8 | Molina professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms | 37 | $370 | $430 | $268 | 62% | — | $122 – $1.0k |
| 9 | Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 31 | $1.2k | $1.3k | $532 | 41% | — | $630 – $3.4k |
| 10 | WellCare fee schedule · both · +6 other terms | 27 | $691 | $762 | $240 | 31% | — | $361 – $1.4k |
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