CPT 78162
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.
Original text from hospital filings
Iron absorption exam
Low
$355
Average
$11.1k
Median
$537
High
$50k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
5 payers; the 90th percentile is 81.0× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many payers fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient | 4 | $377 | $355 | $119 | 34% | — | $196 – $523 |
| 2 | Aetna facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 3 | $861 | $5.2k | $6.2k | 118% | — | $861 – $13.9k |
| 3 | Anthem facility · fee schedule · outpatient | 1 | $537 | $537 | $337 | 63% | — | $200 – $874 |
| 4 | Cigna fee schedule · outpatient | 1 | $444 | $444 | — | — | — | $444 – $444 |
| 5 | Humana facility · fee schedule · outpatient | 1 | $50k | $50k | — | — | — | $50k – $50k |
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