MRI of thoracic spine without contrast

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

MRI Thoracic Spine Limited

Payers reporting CPT 72146

Payer pricing summary

Low

$133

Average

$1.4k

Median

$998

High

$8.5k

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1	Medicare other · both · +21 other terms	53	$254	$336	$368	109%	621–855	$221 – $2.7k
2	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +38 other terms	538	$556	$784	$959	122%	163–235	$1 – $13.9k
3	Bcbs Al facility · other · outpatient · +4 other terms	6	$344	$285	$133	47%	136–181	$123 – $439
4	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	216	$638	$573	$840	147%	111–282	$6 – $10.7k
5	Bcbs Mt fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	1	$457	$457	$138	30%	71–80	$261 – $555
6	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +39 other terms	808	$417	$529	$590	111%	53–215	$1 – $7.1k
7	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	262	$266	$305	$198	65%	49–148	$1 – $2.4k
8	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +39 other terms	646	$369	$847	$904	107%	25–250	$1 – $6.3k
9	Florida Blue fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	1	$2.2k	$2.2k	$521	24%	14–41	$1.7k – $3.2k
10	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	375	$576	$953	$947	99%	10–100	$39 – $10.5k
11	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	457	$260	$545	$729	134%	5–50	$1 – $7.0k
12	Bcbs In other · both · +1 other terms	11	$871	$916	$131	14%	5–50	$579 – $1.2k
13	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	77	$391	$1.1k	$1.3k	114%	2–20	$56 – $4.4k
14	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	64	$1.0k	$1.2k	$1.6k	130%	2–20	$83 – $5.9k
15	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	58	$223	$788	$1.0k	130%	2–20	$75 – $4.2k
16	Premera facility · fee schedule · both · +18 other terms	24	$244	$489	$393	80%	2–20	$198 – $1.5k
17	Bcbs Ar fee schedule · both	1	$242	$242	—	—	2–20	$242 – $242
18	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	112	$474	$726	$925	127%	1–10	$69 – $6.2k
19	Carefirst facility · fee schedule · both · +16 other terms	23	$244	$476	$379	80%	1–10	$198 – $1.5k
20	Medical Mutual fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	18	$619	$683	$426	62%	1–10	$180 – $2.4k
21	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	202	$258	$304	$163	54%	—	$55 – $1.4k
22	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	129	$3.1k	$2.4k	$2.1k	86%	—	$90 – $7.2k
23	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	121	$371	$380	$326	86%	—	$48 – $2.5k
24	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	103	$239	$287	$383	133%	—	$206 – $4.9k
25	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	91	$302	$393	$253	64%	—	$1 – $1.6k

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