Ear tube placement under local anesthesia

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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 TYMPANOSTOMY LOCAL/TOPICAL ANESTHESIA

Payers reporting CPT 69433

Payer pricing summary

Low

$166

Average

$967

Median

$624

High

$6.6k

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms	561	$512	$921	$1.5k	160%	23–50	$1 – $17.9k
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms	487	$583	$1.9k	$3.5k	188%	6–60	$1 – $37.3k
3	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	368	$504	$569	$900	158%	1–10	$1 – $12.8k
4	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	102	$675	$808	$801	99%	1–10	$50 – $4.3k
5	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	380	$787	$1.5k	$1.9k	131%	—	$0 – $18.0k
6	Cigna case rate · outpatient · +29 other terms	312	$2.9k	$4.5k	$6.1k	136%	—	$1 – $40.7k
7	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	230	$370	$326	$384	118%	—	$1 – $3.5k
8	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	165	$514	$574	$551	96%	—	$65 – $4.3k
9	Oscar case rate · outpatient · +21 other terms	136	$2.6k	$2.6k	$678	26%	—	$796 – $7.5k
10	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	125	$495	$588	$835	142%	—	$69 – $6.3k
11	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	75	$902	$764	$551	72%	—	$58 – $2.3k
12	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	74	$149	$175	$86	49%	—	$97 – $561
13	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	69	$516	$471	$149	32%	—	$127 – $601
14	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	65	$468	$598	$869	145%	—	$113 – $5.7k
15	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	61	$458	$524	$760	145%	—	$1 – $4.3k
16	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	45	$569	$796	$211	27%	—	$83 – $897
17	Healthcare Highways case rate · outpatient · +1 other terms	42	$5.8k	$6.7k	$5.1k	77%	—	$2.1k – $14.6k
18	Superior Healthplan case rate · outpatient · +4 other terms	38	$948	$942	$26	3%	—	$765 – $948
19	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	32	$124	$253	$183	72%	—	$118 – $535
20	Tricare other · outpatient · +19 other terms	32	$492	$482	$134	28%	—	$183 – $702
21	Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	31	$569	$1.1k	$1.3k	117%	—	$487 – $4.4k
22	Amerihealth Caritas case rate · outpatient · +13 other terms	30	$675	$1.7k	$1.3k	78%	—	$130 – $3.3k
23	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	30	$543	$1.7k	$3.3k	198%	—	$118 – $10.2k
24	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	30	$262	$355	$175	49%	—	$107 – $731
25	Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	29	$251	$241	$130	54%	—	$108 – $574

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