CPT 49081
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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Original text from hospital filings
Removal of abdominal fluid
Low
$96
Average
$7.2k
Median
$739
High
$35k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
17 payers; the 90th percentile is 158.9× 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 | Cigna professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +5 other terms | 9 | $184 | $177 | $24 | 14% | — | $119 – $220 |
| 2 | Aetna professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +5 other terms | 8 | $214 | $220 | $11 | 5% | — | $214 – $242 |
| 3 | UnitedHealthcare professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +5 other terms | 7 | $61 | $86 | $47 | 54% | — | $61 – $190 |
| 4 | First Health professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 6 | $214 | $224 | $23 | 10% | — | $214 – $275 |
| 5 | Humana professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 6 | $211 | $178 | $72 | 40% | — | $80 – $245 |
| 6 | Blue Cross Blue Shield percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +6 other terms | 5 | $34.9k | $34.9k | — | — | — | $34.9k – $34.9k |
| 7 | Caresource percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 5 | $18.6k | $18.6k | — | — | — | $18.6k – $18.6k |
| 8 | MultiPlan professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +3 other terms | 5 | $202 | $171 | $54 | 32% | — | $96 – $220 |
| 9 | Phcs percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +3 other terms | 5 | $37.5k | $37.5k | — | — | — | $37.5k – $37.5k |
| 10 | Ambetter professional · percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 3 | $92 | $74 | $76 | 102% | — | $7 – $177 |
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