CPT 78596
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
Lung differential function
Low
$271
Average
$7.5k
Median
$1.7k
High
$50k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
8 payers; the 90th percentile is 36.6× 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 · +2 other terms | 17 | $1.4k | $1.6k | $548 | 35% | — | $435 – $2.4k |
| 2 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 8 | $2.2k | $2.3k | $685 | 30% | — | $1.2k – $3.3k |
| 3 | Anthem facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 5 | $577 | $3.2k | $6.6k | 208% | — | $92 – $21.9k |
| 4 | First Health fee schedule · both | 5 | $271 | $271 | $140 | 52% | — | $79 – $407 |
| 5 | Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 4 | $1.8k | $2.1k | $914 | 44% | — | $760 – $2.9k |
| 6 | Aetna Better Health fee schedule · inpatient | 2 | $1.3k | $1.3k | — | — | — | $1.3k – $1.3k |
| 7 | Kaiser fee schedule · both | 2 | $539 | $539 | $360 | 67% | — | $180 – $899 |
| 8 | Humana facility · fee schedule · outpatient | 1 | $50k | $50k | — | — | — | $50k – $50k |
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