X-ray of thoracic and lumbar spine

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

72080 X-RAY OF MIDDLE AND LOWER SPINE

Payers reporting CPT 72080

Payer pricing summary

Low

$26

Average

$190

Median

$171

High

$528

Payer rate distribution

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1	Medicare other · both · +22 other terms	45	$92	$98	$28	28%	67–256	$33 – $271
2	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	200	$95	$75	$89	120%	26–116	$2 – $791
3	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +38 other terms	690	$97	$163	$284	174%	20–200	$1 – $8.4k
4	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	527	$115	$145	$164	113%	18–81	$1 – $4.0k
5	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +41 other terms	762	$128	$137	$135	99%	15–150	$1 – $2.6k
6	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	516	$124	$166	$121	73%	8–80	$2 – $1.4k
7	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	257	$83	$70	$43	62%	3–30	$1 – $256
8	Bcbs Al facility · other · outpatient · +5 other terms	4	$81	$83	$7	9%	3–30	$76 – $99
9	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	410	$88	$118	$491	417%	2–20	$1 – $14.4k
10	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	64	$117	$205	$266	130%	2–20	$12 – $968
11	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	28	$17	$40	$28	70%	2–20	$10 – $109
12	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	77	$88	$77	$39	51%	1–10	$1 – $186
13	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	164	$92	$95	$41	43%	—	$11 – $418
14	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	126	$379	$330	$288	87%	—	$1 – $1.3k
15	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	109	$124	$159	$163	102%	—	$10 – $929
16	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	101	$147	$129	$68	53%	—	$8 – $376
17	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	98	$87	$117	$379	323%	—	$6 – $4.9k
18	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	85	$38	$47	$34	72%	—	$23 – $319
19	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	73	$87	$122	$406	332%	—	$6 – $4.6k
20	Oscar facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	68	$128	$124	$49	39%	—	$39 – $351
21	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	66	$113	$423	$2.3k	551%	—	$7 – $17.9k
22	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	59	$93	$126	$110	87%	—	$10 – $720
23	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	59	$43	$59	$37	62%	—	$17 – $143
24	Optum facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	58	$84	$108	$77	72%	—	$44 – $559
25	Amerihealth Caritas facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	50	$34	$58	$47	81%	—	$17 – $354

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