CPT 49021
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 abdominal abscess
Low
$1
Average
$5.7k
Median
$1.4k
High
$33.5k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
23 payers; the 90th percentile is 46.8× 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 · +4 other terms | 12 | $940 | $1.5k | $1.7k | 112% | — | $323 – $6.7k |
| 2 | Blue Cross Blue Shield facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +6 other terms | 10 | $1.7k | $1.8k | $909 | 51% | — | $169 – $3.7k |
| 3 | MultiPlan facility · percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges · +4 other terms | 8 | $2.0k | $2.0k | $710 | 35% | — | $336 – $2.8k |
| 4 | UnitedHealthcare facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +5 other terms | 8 | $1.2k | $1.0k | $1.1k | 106% | — | $252 – $4.4k |
| 5 | Cigna facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +5 other terms | 6 | $1.4k | $1.8k | $1.7k | 93% | — | $236 – $4.4k |
| 6 | Caresource percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 5 | $18.6k | $18.6k | — | — | — | $18.6k – $18.6k |
| 7 | Phcs percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +4 other terms | 5 | $37.5k | $37.5k | — | — | — | $37.5k – $37.5k |
| 8 | Humana facility · percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges · +3 other terms | 4 | $1.4k | $1.3k | $533 | 41% | — | $479 – $1.9k |
| 9 | Molina facility · percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 4 | $1.3k | $1.3k | $161 | 12% | — | $1.1k – $1.5k |
| 10 | Ambetter professional · percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 3 | $585 | $416 | $531 | 128% | — | $7 – $1.2k |
← Hospitals reporting CPT 49021 · Snapshot 20261113T090226Z-3ce6c0b8