Laparoscopic appendix removal

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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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

Laparoscopic Appendectomy

Payers reporting CPT 44970

68 payers file a negotiated rate for this code. Each is shown once, under the terms the most hospitals file it under; rates under different terms (billing class, payment method, setting) are never blended, so open a payer to see them all. Figures are hospital-level averages; the median is across hospitals.

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	561	$5,875	$7,258	$1.47 – $171,452
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	546	$6,219	$6,476	$19.59 – $39,913
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	444	$6,923	$8,731	$1.00 – $53,560
4	Cigna case rate · outpatient · +27 other terms	363	$8,337	$9,474	$82.00 – $54,447
5	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	355	$5,914	$5,531	$1.00 – $23,177
6	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	208	$5,670	$5,515	$1.00 – $16,371
7	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	190	$6,377	$6,383	$106.64 – $13,673
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	143	$4,818	$4,900	$313.58 – $44,239
9	Oscar case rate · outpatient · +24 other terms	129	$9,408	$9,026	$3,542 – $17,846
10	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	102	$7,413	$7,645	$130.00 – $40,994
11	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	84	$10,295	$10,036	$679.86 – $16,099
12	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	82	$6,106	$5,423	$580.48 – $6,755
13	Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient · +3 other terms	76	$8,517	$8,346	$3,436 – $9,565
14	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	74	$5,891	$6,073	$5.04 – $26,417
15	Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	74	$6,030	$5,866	$553.80 – $7,737
16	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	54	$310.41	$389.84	$40.30 – $2,077
17	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	53	$5,799	$4,325	$449.76 – $10,560
18	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	53	$7,967	$8,404	$561.00 – $12,348
19	Optum professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	52	$253.53	$216.74	$40.30 – $640.25
20	Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient · +6 other terms	46	$2,369	$2,520	$2,323 – $8,766
21	Medica professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	45	$251.86	$246.10	$40.30 – $1,193
22	Ucare professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	42	$182.63	$178.98	$31.17 – $468.16
23	Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	34	$6,376	$6,357	$5,457 – $7,291
24	Medicare professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	34	$173.73	$206.56	$40.30 – $552.48
25	Amerihealth Caritas case rate · outpatient · +15 other terms	33	$796.93	$8,016	$752.85 – $15,978

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