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
$428
Average
$3.8k
Median
$2.0k
High
$33.5k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
32 payers; the 90th percentile is 15.9× 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 facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +7 other terms | 25 | $895 | $1.2k | $783 | 63% | — | $273 – $3.2k |
| 2 | Cigna facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +7 other terms | 20 | $2.1k | $2.2k | $813 | 38% | — | $880 – $4.7k |
| 3 | MultiPlan facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +6 other terms | 14 | $2.0k | $2.0k | $327 | 17% | — | $880 – $2.5k |
| 4 | UnitedHealthcare professional · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +7 other terms | 13 | $3.2k | $4.2k | $1.6k | 39% | — | $1.3k – $5.7k |
| 5 | Clover facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 10 | $428 | $428 | — | — | — | $428 – $428 |
| 6 | First Health facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +5 other terms | 9 | $3.2k | $2.9k | $798 | 28% | — | $803 – $3.7k |
| 7 | Healthpartners professional · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 9 | $4.7k | $4.6k | $318 | 7% | — | $4.3k – $5.1k |
| 8 | Blue Cross Blue Shield percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +5 other terms | 7 | $34.9k | $25.2k | $15.3k | 61% | — | $393 – $34.9k |
| 9 | Humana professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +6 other terms | 6 | $1.9k | $1.9k | $652 | 34% | — | $835 – $2.9k |
| 10 | Medica facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +3 other terms | 6 | $2.7k | $2.7k | $522 | 20% | — | $1.0k – $3.2k |
← Hospitals reporting CPT 44900 · Snapshot 20261113T090226Z-3ce6c0b8