Alpha globin gene sequencing 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
API: message_batches
Reasoning effort: low
Max output tokens: 4096
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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

HC HBA1/HBA2 FULL GENE SEQUENCE

Payers reporting CPT 81259

Payer pricing summary

Low

$90

Average

$889

Median

$814

High

$2.1k

Payer rate distribution

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1	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	193	$600	$982	$971	99%	6–60	$9 – $4.5k
2	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	724	$600	$625	$314	50%	2–20	$1 – $5.4k
3	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	278	$618	$632	$96	15%	2–20	$272 – $1.2k
4	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	474	$603	$1.2k	$1.4k	113%	1–10	$1 – $6.5k
5	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	439	$842	$1.3k	$1.3k	95%	1–10	$0 – $10.1k
6	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	53	$600	$765	$315	41%	1–10	$588 – $1.7k
7	Premera fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	17	$719	$720	$162	22%	1–10	$600 – $1.5k
8	Wellmark case rate · outpatient · +13 other terms	13	$612	$666	$196	29%	1–10	$600 – $1.4k
9	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	658	$642	$1.2k	$1.0k	89%	—	$0 – $12.9k
10	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	427	$1.1k	$1.2k	$840	71%	—	$5 – $6.0k
11	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	251	$667	$702	$302	43%	—	$1 – $1.8k
12	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	187	$600	$605	$17	3%	—	$588 – $694
13	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	165	$1.2k	$1.3k	$429	33%	—	$588 – $1.8k
14	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	124	$624	$607	$26	4%	—	$529 – $648
15	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	118	$606	$708	$447	63%	—	$5 – $2.8k
16	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	102	$1.1k	$1.1k	$244	22%	—	$588 – $1.5k
17	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	74	$544	$551	$34	6%	—	$279 – $635
18	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	57	$609	$640	$137	21%	—	$1 – $1.2k
19	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	55	$600	$681	$456	67%	—	$304 – $2.7k
20	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	49	$953	$888	$391	44%	—	$327 – $2.0k
21	Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	46	$617	$615	$13	2%	—	$600 – $630
22	Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	44	$630	$628	$30	5%	—	$504 – $960
23	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	43	$887	$913	$473	52%	—	$384 – $2.7k
24	Medica facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	36	$600	$609	$155	25%	—	$204 – $1.6k
25	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	36	$600	$2.0k	$7.6k	384%	—	$468 – $50k

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