CT-guided needle placement

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.

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Provider: anthropic
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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

HC CT GUIDE NEEDLE BX ASPRTN/INJECT

Payers reporting CPT 77012

Payer pricing summary

Low

Average

$1.0k

Median

$877

High

$3.6k

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1	Bcbs Mt percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms	1	$1.1k	$1.1k	$11	1%	192	$1.1k – $1.1k
2	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	365	$240	$422	$582	138%	23–86	$1 – $8.4k
3	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +38 other terms	395	$359	$729	$660	90%	15–51	$1 – $8.4k
4	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	170	$328	$369	$666	180%	10–100	$28 – $5.3k
5	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	202	$800	$933	$1.3k	135%	6–60	$49 – $11.1k
6	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms	324	$238	$694	$1.0k	151%	3–30	$1 – $6.6k
7	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	43	$452	$787	$877	111%	3–30	$56 – $2.6k
8	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	101	$117	$172	$185	107%	2–20	$1 – $1.7k
9	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	211	$270	$493	$531	108%	1–10	$1 – $2.9k
10	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	37	$2.9k	$1.9k	$1.3k	72%	1–10	$82 – $5.1k
11	Bcbs Al facility · other · outpatient · +3 other terms	4	$132	$137	$14	10%	1–10	$123 – $160
12	Bcbs Sc fee schedule · both	1	$634	$634	—	—	1–10	$634 – $634
13	Florida Blue fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	1	$1.5k	$1.5k	$386	26%	1–10	$1.1k – $2.1k
14	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	106	$2.1k	$1.9k	$1.4k	72%	—	$88 – $5.8k
15	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	65	$159	$661	$969	147%	—	$49 – $4.3k
16	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	57	$191	$598	$673	113%	—	$52 – $2.8k
17	Amerihealth Caritas facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	51	$191	$217	$87	40%	—	$50 – $595
18	WellCare fee schedule · both · +23 other terms	43	$85	$97	$50	52%	—	$48 – $223
19	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	42	$193	$261	$200	77%	—	$1 – $1.0k
20	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	38	$64	$159	$209	132%	—	$50 – $1.2k
21	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	32	$144	$152	$111	73%	—	$62 – $540
22	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	32	$68	$155	$111	72%	—	$63 – $445
23	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	31	$2.4k	$6.9k	$13.8k	201%	—	$28 – $50k
24	Ambetter fee schedule · both · +21 other terms	30	$113	$254	$427	168%	—	$51 – $2.8k
25	Optum professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	29	$94	$85	$30	35%	—	$47 – $140

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