CT chest scan for lung cancer screening

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.

Model: claude-haiku-5-5
Provider: anthropic
API: message_batches
Reasoning effort: low
Max output tokens: 4096
Prompt version (hash): 444523875572
Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

PR CT Thorax Low Dose for Lung Cancer Screening W/O Contrast Material|PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT

Payers reporting CPT 71271

Payer pricing summary

Low

$106

Average

$674

Median

$348

High

$7.4k

Payer rate distribution

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1	Medicare other · both · +20 other terms	47	$111	$151	$222	147%	5,279–5,369	$97 – $1.6k
2	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	207	$367	$310	$489	158%	1,141–1,231	$2 – $7.7k
3	Bcbs Al facility · other · outpatient · +4 other terms	5	$171	$180	$19	11%	802	$154 – $201
4	Wellmark case rate · outpatient · +25 other terms	22	$149	$242	$125	52%	737–782	$100 – $522
5	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms	509	$211	$262	$231	88%	286–385	$1 – $2.8k
6	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +39 other terms	606	$162	$361	$408	113%	210–507	$1 – $8.4k
7	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +40 other terms	787	$160	$234	$326	139%	208–406	$1 – $3.3k
8	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	338	$244	$539	$522	97%	127–208	$28 – $5.2k
9	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	256	$118	$140	$96	69%	104–176	$1 – $983
10	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	74	$130	$266	$301	113%	85–166	$47 – $1.7k
11	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	423	$123	$227	$253	112%	82–127	$1 – $2.1k
12	Bcbs Wy other · both · +3 other terms	1	$235	$235	—	—	34	$235 – $235
13	Bcbs In other · both · +1 other terms	11	$381	$394	$62	16%	18–180	$254 – $507
14	Premera facility · fee schedule · both · +17 other terms	22	$142	$319	$404	127%	9–90	$92 – $1.5k
15	Carefirst facility · fee schedule · both · +16 other terms	21	$142	$311	$397	128%	4–40	$92 – $1.5k
16	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	62	$213	$320	$522	163%	2–20	$60 – $2.8k
17	Excellus facility · fee schedule · both · +19 other terms	22	$142	$233	$358	154%	2–20	$35 – $1.5k
18	Bcbs Ar fee schedule · both	1	$106	$106	—	—	2–20	$106 – $106
19	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	111	$194	$313	$461	148%	1–10	$39 – $5.3k
20	Bcbs Mo professional · other · both · +2 other terms	1	$261	$261	—	—	1–10	$261 – $261
21	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	190	$113	$130	$69	53%	—	$21 – $513
22	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	122	$275	$573	$770	135%	—	$65 – $5.6k
23	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	115	$187	$198	$433	219%	—	$99 – $7.1k
24	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	106	$103	$124	$299	242%	—	$90 – $4.9k
25	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	98	$104	$123	$284	231%	—	$74 – $4.6k

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