Parathyroid nuclear medicine scan

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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

Nuclear medicine study of parathyroid

Payers reporting CPT 78070

Payer pricing summary

Low

$180

Average

$1.2k

Median

$762

High

$10.4k

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1	Bcbs Al facility · other · outpatient · +4 other terms	5	$1.3k	$1.2k	$449	37%	32–50	$349 – $1.7k
2	Medicare other · both · +20 other terms	43	$423	$471	$169	36%	27–153	$368 – $1.6k
3	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	661	$499	$928	$1.7k	184%	5–50	$1 – $51.4k
4	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms	745	$589	$632	$531	84%	3–30	$1 – $11.8k
5	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	501	$579	$637	$461	72%	2–20	$1 – $7.1k
6	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	409	$424	$601	$792	132%	2–20	$1 – $4.8k
7	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	180	$661	$518	$567	109%	2–20	$8 – $4.7k
8	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	418	$764	$874	$623	71%	1–10	$1 – $7.2k
9	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	84	$402	$411	$215	52%	1–10	$1 – $1.2k
10	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	65	$759	$712	$742	104%	1–10	$45 – $3.8k
11	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	41	$696	$783	$415	53%	1–10	$30 – $2.2k
12	Bcbs In other · both · +1 other terms	11	$1.5k	$1.5k	$237	16%	1–10	$970 – $1.9k
13	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	248	$383	$405	$249	61%	—	$1 – $2.2k
14	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	174	$402	$403	$168	42%	—	$30 – $1.0k
15	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	122	$1.2k	$1.2k	$908	74%	—	$48 – $6.1k
16	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	111	$706	$774	$596	77%	—	$373 – $7.1k
17	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	108	$584	$817	$701	86%	—	$37 – $3.3k
18	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	103	$401	$449	$430	96%	—	$346 – $4.9k
19	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	91	$400	$477	$485	102%	—	$74 – $4.6k
20	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	83	$313	$354	$183	52%	—	$121 – $1.5k
21	Oscar facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	69	$563	$566	$148	26%	—	$319 – $1.1k
22	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	62	$460	$485	$414	85%	—	$28 – $1.8k
23	Optum facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	57	$387	$495	$364	74%	—	$220 – $2.6k
24	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	55	$274	$317	$321	101%	—	$24 – $1.8k
25	Amerihealth Caritas facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	47	$113	$302	$362	120%	—	$63 – $2.0k

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