CPT 71021
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
$18
Average
$530
Median
$132
High
$8.5k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
32 payers; the 90th percentile is 18.0× 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 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms | 46 | $134 | $174 | $96 | 55% | — | $27 – $332 |
| 2 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms | 43 | $135 | $172 | $61 | 36% | — | $45 – $267 |
| 3 | Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms | 37 | $124 | $118 | $57 | 48% | — | $32 – $275 |
| 4 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms | 19 | $28 | $29 | $12 | 43% | — | $17 – $110 |
| 5 | Ambetter fee schedule · both · +4 other terms | 10 | $32 | $32 | — | — | — | $32 – $32 |
| 6 | Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 10 | $59 | $59 | — | — | — | $59 – $59 |
| 7 | UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · both · +15 other terms | 10 | $32 | $32 | — | — | — | $32 – $32 |
| 8 | MultiPlan per diem · outpatient · +7 other terms | 7 | $134 | $134 | — | — | — | $134 – $134 |
| 9 | First Health fee schedule · both · +6 other terms | 5 | $29 | $29 | $11 | 38% | — | $17 – $44 |
| 10 | Kaiser per diem · outpatient · +4 other terms | 4 | $96 | $97 | $9 | 9% | — | $86 – $109 |
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