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
$635
Average
$2.7k
Median
$2.0k
High
$9.7k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
21 payers; the 90th percentile is 7.5× 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 | Humana other · outpatient · +3 other terms | 36 | $2.8k | $2.3k | $1.2k | 50% | — | $786 – $7.0k |
| 2 | Oscar other · both · +2 other terms | 10 | $1k | $1k | — | — | — | $1k – $1k |
| 3 | Cigna other · outpatient · +2 other terms | 6 | $7.5k | $6.7k | $2.5k | 37% | — | $1.3k – $8.7k |
| 4 | Aetna other · both · +4 other terms | 5 | $860 | $937 | $171 | 18% | — | $860 – $1.3k |
| 5 | Bcbs Mn facility · other · outpatient | 5 | $5.4k | $5.4k | $629 | 12% | — | $4.8k – $6.0k |
| 6 | Blue Cross Blue Shield facility · other · outpatient · +3 other terms | 5 | $4.5k | $4.5k | $1.5k | 33% | — | $2.0k – $6.4k |
| 7 | Caresource other · outpatient · +1 other terms | 5 | $6.5k | $7.4k | $1.6k | 21% | — | $5.8k – $9.4k |
| 8 | Healthpartners facility · other · outpatient | 4 | $2.6k | $2.6k | — | — | — | $2.6k – $2.6k |
| 9 | Highmark other · both | 4 | $1.7k | $2.0k | $1.1k | 54% | — | $1.4k – $5.1k |
| 10 | First Health other · outpatient · +1 other terms | 3 | $2.7k | $2.6k | $130 | 5% | — | $2.4k – $2.7k |
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