Diagnostic nuclear medicine test for the digestive system

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Provider: anthropic
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Max output tokens: 4096
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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

SHUNT PATENCY (OTHER)

Payers reporting CPT 78299

Payer pricing summary

Low

$69

Average

$677

Median

$567

High

$1.6k

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	547	$589	$629	$424	67%	—	$109 – $11.8k
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	392	$422	$614	$697	114%	—	$1 – $8.4k
3	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	315	$857	$972	$562	58%	—	$190 – $3.9k
4	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	278	$751	$892	$504	56%	—	$1 – $3.0k
5	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	241	$402	$385	$143	37%	—	$1 – $1.2k
6	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	130	$405	$448	$158	35%	—	$250 – $942
7	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	123	$514	$520	$183	35%	—	$126 – $1.6k
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	94	$402	$194	$475	244%	—	$0 – $2.9k
9	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	68	$691	$617	$259	42%	—	$250 – $1.1k
10	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	66	$579	$802	$533	66%	—	$400 – $3.1k
11	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	60	$404	$408	$24	6%	—	$372 – $454
12	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	45	$397	$361	$128	36%	—	$250 – $683
13	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	40	$819	$777	$166	21%	—	$471 – $1.1k
14	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	35	$400	$545	$279	51%	—	$363 – $1.5k
15	Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	31	$439	$425	$28	7%	—	$361 – $473
16	Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	30	$363	$370	$38	10%	—	$321 – $474
17	Medicare fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	24	$400	$399	$4	1%	—	$378 – $400
18	Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	22	$1.3k	$1.3k	$589	45%	—	$377 – $2.7k
19	Phcs percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +5 other terms	21	$2.0k	$1.7k	$1.2k	71%	—	$198 – $3.4k
20	Regence facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	21	$421	$624	$389	62%	—	$372 – $1.5k
21	Medica facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	18	$428	$417	$25	6%	—	$394 – $534
22	Medical Mutual facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	17	$382	$724	$1.2k	164%	—	$206 – $6.0k
23	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	17	$661	$654	$60	9%	—	$377 – $817
24	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	16	$417	$575	$459	80%	—	$377 – $2.3k
25	Highmark fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	16	$537	$538	$195	36%	—	$180 – $1.2k

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