Lumbar spine X-ray, bending views only

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

HC LUMBAR SPINE FLEX/EXT ONLY

Payers reporting CPT 72120

Payer pricing summary

Low

$31

Average

$228

Median

$199

High

$669

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1	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	508	$157	$189	$166	88%	87–105	$1 – $1.5k
2	Bcbs Mt fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	1	$177	$177	$67	38%	86–95	$110 – $244
3	Medicare other · both · +20 other terms	46	$111	$116	$16	14%	33–87	$97 – $162
4	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	246	$97	$84	$55	65%	25–34	$1 – $421
5	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	640	$115	$182	$217	119%	11–110	$1 – $5.5k
6	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	186	$114	$98	$120	122%	5–50	$2 – $1.0k
7	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +40 other terms	742	$168	$177	$205	116%	4–40	$1 – $4.8k
8	Bcbs In other · both · +1 other terms	11	$381	$394	$62	16%	3–30	$254 – $507
9	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	491	$165	$210	$192	92%	2–20	$9 – $2.2k
10	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	394	$107	$139	$188	135%	1–10	$1 – $3.4k
11	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	153	$108	$113	$50	45%	—	$9 – $318
12	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	117	$567	$522	$473	91%	—	$14 – $1.9k
13	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	108	$153	$201	$211	105%	—	$11 – $1.1k
14	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	97	$162	$151	$95	63%	—	$10 – $542
15	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	87	$102	$145	$429	296%	—	$6 – $4.9k
16	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	81	$44	$55	$41	75%	—	$35 – $385
17	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	72	$106	$108	$52	48%	—	$1 – $238
18	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	70	$105	$171	$435	255%	—	$6 – $4.6k
19	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	65	$136	$137	$99	72%	—	$8 – $482
20	Oscar facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	64	$147	$138	$50	36%	—	$47 – $294
21	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	63	$152	$270	$381	141%	—	$9 – $1.5k
22	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	58	$109	$239	$320	134%	—	$13 – $1.5k
23	Optum facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	54	$103	$134	$98	73%	—	$61 – $672
24	Amerihealth Caritas facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	52	$44	$67	$41	61%	—	$21 – $235
25	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	51	$58	$68	$42	61%	—	$21 – $166

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