Drainage of external ear lesion

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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Provider: anthropic
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Max output tokens: 4096
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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

HC DRAIN EXTERNAL EAR/ABSCESS/HEMATOMA SIMPLE

Payers reporting CPT 69000

Payer pricing summary

Low

$163

Average

$860

Median

$692

High

$4.7k

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1	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	249	$497	$421	$467	111%	3–30	$1 – $3.5k
2	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +41 other terms	609	$700	$969	$1.5k	154%	1–10	$1 – $20.7k
3	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	411	$687	$635	$750	118%	1–10	$1 – $12.8k
4	Bcbs Al facility · other · outpatient · +5 other terms	4	$177	$190	$43	22%	1–10	$147 – $258
5	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	554	$769	$1.3k	$1.8k	146%	—	$0 – $21.3k
6	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	446	$762	$1.3k	$1.7k	133%	—	$0 – $15.6k
7	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	250	$707	$1.1k	$1.6k	153%	—	$45 – $11.1k
8	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	184	$718	$728	$532	73%	—	$88 – $4.3k
9	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	150	$503	$591	$929	157%	—	$33 – $6.3k
10	Oscar case rate · outpatient · +23 other terms	130	$2.5k	$2.6k	$720	28%	—	$990 – $7.5k
11	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	104	$925	$1.1k	$995	92%	—	$10 – $5.1k
12	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	97	$1.3k	$1.3k	$1.0k	78%	—	$123 – $8.3k
13	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	93	$751	$951	$339	36%	—	$82 – $1.8k
14	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	88	$135	$223	$293	131%	—	$81 – $2.6k
15	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	78	$670	$776	$692	89%	—	$62 – $4.9k
16	Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	75	$702	$870	$1.0k	117%	—	$115 – $5.1k
17	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	71	$489	$505	$611	121%	—	$1 – $4.3k
18	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	66	$646	$728	$449	62%	—	$81 – $2.6k
19	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	56	$630	$690	$603	87%	—	$45 – $2.4k
20	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	47	$739	$1.2k	$1.9k	164%	—	$96 – $7.2k
21	Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient · +5 other terms	45	$5.8k	$6.6k	$5.1k	78%	—	$2.1k – $14.6k
22	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	40	$482	$458	$288	63%	—	$111 – $755
23	Amerihealth Caritas facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	39	$396	$621	$1.2k	192%	—	$43 – $9.6k
24	Medicare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	39	$744	$1.2k	$2.5k	209%	—	$80 – $22k
25	Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient · +7 other terms	38	$948	$947	$17	2%	—	$929 – $1.1k

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