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
Repair Lumbar Hernia
Low
$861
Average
$4.8k
Median
$4.4k
High
$16.3k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
64 payers; the 90th percentile is 5.0× 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 fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms | 474 | $6.0k | $6.0k | $4.4k | 73% | 1–10 | $79 – $39.9k |
| 2 | UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms | 517 | $5.7k | $5.9k | $7.3k | 124% | — | $50 – $171.5k |
| 3 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms | 365 | $7.6k | $8.9k | $5.9k | 66% | — | $1 – $42.3k |
| 4 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms | 359 | $5.7k | $4.7k | $2.3k | 49% | — | $1 – $17.5k |
| 5 | Cigna case rate · outpatient · +21 other terms | 313 | $3.7k | $5.0k | $4.9k | 99% | — | $872 – $40.7k |
| 6 | Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms | 225 | $4.2k | $3.6k | $3.0k | 85% | — | $1 – $16.4k |
| 7 | WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms | 165 | $6.1k | $6.2k | $2.3k | 37% | — | $119 – $13.7k |
| 8 | Oscar case rate · outpatient · +15 other terms | 137 | $7.2k | $6.9k | $2.2k | 32% | — | $3.1k – $13.8k |
| 9 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms | 126 | $4.8k | $4.9k | $7.1k | 145% | — | $484 – $44.2k |
| 10 | Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms | 98 | $7.4k | $8.5k | $7.5k | 88% | — | $40 – $41.0k |
| 11 | Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms | 81 | $10.0k | $7.5k | $4.8k | 63% | — | $840 – $14.6k |
| 12 | Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient · +1 other terms | 76 | $5.1k | $5.4k | $708 | 13% | — | $1.6k – $6.3k |
| 13 | Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms | 70 | $2.4k | $2.3k | $709 | 30% | — | $491 – $5.5k |
| 14 | Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms | 69 | $5.9k | $5.4k | $1.8k | 33% | — | $649 – $6.8k |
| 15 | Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms | 57 | $4.4k | $3.9k | $2.9k | 73% | — | $612 – $10.3k |
| 16 | Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient · +4 other terms | 46 | $2.4k | $2.5k | $998 | 40% | — | $2.3k – $8.8k |
| 17 | First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms | 35 | $6.3k | $4.5k | $3.0k | 67% | — | $644 – $12.3k |
| 18 | Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms | 35 | $5.8k | $6.6k | $5.4k | 81% | — | $649 – $22.3k |
| 19 | MultiPlan case rate · outpatient · +19 other terms | 34 | $4.0k | $4.9k | $2.4k | 49% | — | $869 – $11.5k |
| 20 | Amerihealth Caritas case rate · outpatient · +10 other terms | 33 | $496 | $5.0k | $4.6k | 92% | — | $468 – $11.4k |
| 21 | Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 33 | $7.1k | $7.0k | $3.3k | 47% | — | $1.9k – $20.1k |
| 22 | Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms | 32 | $6.4k | $6.3k | $382 | 6% | — | $5.5k – $7.3k |
| 23 | Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms | 32 | $5.5k | $4.8k | $1.7k | 35% | — | $677 – $7.2k |
| 24 | Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms | 29 | $2.0k | $4.1k | $2.0k | 48% | — | $2.0k – $6.2k |
| 25 | Medica case rate · outpatient · +13 other terms | 28 | $4.5k | $4.4k | $1.6k | 37% | — | $1.4k – $8.2k |
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