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
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Low
$944
Average
$3.6k
Median
$2.8k
High
$10.8k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
56 payers; the 90th percentile is 4.7× 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 | Optum professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms | 25 | $700 | $781 | $373 | 48% | 1–10 | $126 – $1.7k |
| 2 | UnitedHealthcare case rate · outpatient · +23 other terms | 373 | $4.6k | $6.4k | $4.7k | 73% | — | $1 – $30k |
| 3 | Cigna case rate · outpatient · +19 other terms | 221 | $6.8k | $12.8k | $8.7k | 68% | — | $1 – $40.7k |
| 4 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms | 187 | $12.2k | $17.4k | $12.9k | 74% | — | $0 – $58.9k |
| 5 | Aetna case rate · outpatient · +22 other terms | 165 | $4.2k | $5.8k | $3.9k | 68% | — | $678 – $18.7k |
| 6 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms | 100 | $1.6k | $4.2k | $3.5k | 85% | — | $1.4k – $11.6k |
| 7 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms | 88 | $2.2k | $5.2k | $5.7k | 109% | — | $1.4k – $28.3k |
| 8 | Molina case rate · outpatient · +15 other terms | 84 | $2.6k | $4.0k | $4.4k | 112% | — | $264 – $20.2k |
| 9 | Oscar case rate · outpatient · +13 other terms | 57 | $3.6k | $4.5k | $1.5k | 32% | — | $3.3k – $7.3k |
| 10 | Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient | 53 | $5.8k | $8.5k | $4.8k | 57% | — | $2.1k – $14.6k |
| 11 | WellCare facility · case rate · outpatient · +10 other terms | 45 | $12.6k | $10.2k | $6.5k | 63% | — | $1.4k – $19.0k |
| 12 | Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms | 37 | $1.6k | $1.7k | $420 | 25% | — | $1.4k – $3.4k |
| 13 | Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient | 33 | $948 | $944 | $8 | 1% | — | $929 – $948 |
| 14 | Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 31 | $2.7k | $2.8k | $1.1k | 41% | — | $1.4k – $7.2k |
| 15 | Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 28 | $732 | $1.9k | $1.6k | 83% | — | $126 – $5.2k |
| 16 | Medica case rate · outpatient · +10 other terms | 25 | $2.2k | $1.9k | $563 | 30% | — | $671 – $2.9k |
| 17 | Caresource facility · case rate · outpatient · +12 other terms | 21 | $2.7k | $3.9k | $4.3k | 112% | — | $1.4k – $21.5k |
| 18 | Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 21 | $1.6k | $1.6k | $19 | 1% | — | $1.5k – $1.6k |
| 19 | Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms | 18 | $1.5k | $1.6k | $50 | 3% | — | $1.5k – $1.6k |
| 20 | Ambetter facility · case rate · outpatient · +9 other terms | 18 | $30.5k | $25.2k | $11.8k | 47% | — | $1.8k – $34.6k |
| 21 | Medicare fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms | 18 | $1.6k | $1.5k | $46 | 3% | — | $1.4k – $1.6k |
| 22 | Ucare professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms | 14 | $655 | $607 | $149 | 25% | — | $82 – $805 |
| 23 | Wellmark fee schedule · both · +10 other terms | 13 | $2.9k | $2.9k | $887 | 31% | — | $1.4k – $3.8k |
| 24 | Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · both · +7 other terms | 12 | $1.2k | $1.2k | — | — | — | $1.2k – $1.2k |
| 25 | Bcbs Mn fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 12 | $7.6k | $6.6k | $3.0k | 46% | — | $1.4k – $11.4k |
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