X-ray of spine, one view

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

HB=XR SPINE ENTIRE THOR/LUMB 1 VIEW

Payers reporting CPT 72081

Payer pricing summary

Low

$31

Average

$426

Median

$152

High

$6.9k

Payer rate distribution

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +39 other terms	751	$127	$134	$133	99%	139–274	$1 – $2.6k
2	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	518	$127	$149	$126	85%	105–123	$0 – $1.7k
3	Bcbs Mt fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	1	$202	$202	—	—	91	$202 – $202
4	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	197	$117	$93	$114	123%	74–182	$2 – $1.1k
5	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	493	$133	$175	$140	80%	56–101	$1 – $1.4k
6	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +38 other terms	677	$95	$180	$346	193%	50–176	$1 – $8.4k
7	Florida Blue fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	1	$129	$129	$31	24%	24–42	$101 – $192
8	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	258	$81	$74	$52	70%	3–30	$1 – $767
9	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	29	$20	$48	$34	72%	2–20	$6 – $134
10	Bcbs In other · both · +1 other terms	11	$318	$328	$51	16%	2–20	$211 – $422
11	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	397	$88	$125	$145	116%	1–10	$1 – $1.2k
12	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	86	$46	$60	$48	80%	1–10	$23 – $352
13	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	73	$90	$87	$39	45%	1–10	$1 – $272
14	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	53	$109	$104	$64	62%	1–10	$10 – $514
15	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	165	$90	$91	$38	42%	—	$10 – $206
16	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	121	$306	$421	$494	117%	—	$17 – $2.0k
17	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	109	$126	$177	$191	108%	—	$13 – $1.3k
18	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	101	$150	$139	$109	79%	—	$12 – $1.0k
19	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	97	$87	$124	$411	330%	—	$8 – $4.9k
20	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	86	$87	$123	$373	303%	—	$7 – $4.6k
21	Oscar facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	68	$127	$122	$46	37%	—	$49 – $351
22	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	65	$177	$264	$335	127%	—	$15 – $1.2k
23	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	65	$88	$90	$77	86%	—	$9 – $399
24	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	65	$43	$62	$36	58%	—	$19 – $143
25	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	59	$81	$224	$293	131%	—	$14 – $1.2k

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