Lithium blood level test

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.

Model: claude-haiku-5-5
Provider: anthropic
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Max output tokens: 4096
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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

HC LITHIUM

Payers reporting CPT 80178

Payer pricing summary

Low

Average

$242

Median

$40

High

$4.9k

Payer rate distribution

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	879	$7	$10	$35	341%	140–464	$0 – $2.1k
2	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	609	$12	$26	$91	349%	66–327	$1 – $2.5k
3	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	255	$9	$19	$29	148%	36–225	$1 – $317
4	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	596	$7	$16	$24	145%	22–103	$1 – $252
5	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	803	$8	$29	$229	783%	18–180	$0 – $8.4k
6	Sanford Health Plan fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	25	$29	$27	$32	118%	11	$7 – $178
7	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	50	$22	$29	$44	150%	7–70	$4 – $180
8	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	131	$7	$22	$46	216%	6–60	$3 – $395
9	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	334	$8	$9	$9	108%	5–50	$1 – $215
10	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	561	$14	$26	$214	824%	4–40	$3 – $6.9k
11	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	138	$11	$10	$6	55%	3–30	$4 – $57
12	Bcbs Al facility · other · outpatient · +5 other terms	4	$15	$15	$2	10%	3–30	$14 – $18
13	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	342	$7	$7	$3	42%	2–20	$5 – $43
14	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	130	$7	$7	$4	50%	2–20	$3 – $27
15	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	84	$7	$20	$32	163%	2–20	$6 – $143
16	Bcbs Ar fee schedule · both	1	$7	$7	—	—	2–20	$7 – $7
17	Healthpartners fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	27	$20	$18	$4	22%	1–10	$7 – $22
18	Bcbs Mt fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	1	$11	$11	$4	39%	1–10	$7 – $15
19	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	198	$7	$7	$0	3%	—	$6 – $7
20	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	168	$13	$14	$5	34%	—	$6 – $20
21	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	152	$7	$7	$1	10%	—	$4 – $11
22	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	140	$74	$82	$108	132%	—	$1 – $969
23	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	119	$6	$9	$13	153%	—	$3 – $135
24	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	117	$9	$10	$8	76%	—	$1 – $42
25	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	76	$27	$57	$105	187%	—	$6 – $851

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