CPT 81538
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
Oncology lung
Low
$997
Average
$2.9k
Median
$2.9k
High
$8.0k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
33 payers; the 90th percentile is 2.8× 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 | UnitedHealthcare case rate · outpatient · +1 other terms | 48 | $2.9k | $2.8k | $443 | 16% | — | $386 – $3.2k |
| 2 | Molina facility · case rate · outpatient · +2 other terms | 42 | $1.4k | $1.9k | $1.5k | 79% | — | $269 – $5.9k |
| 3 | Aetna case rate · outpatient · +1 other terms | 40 | $2.9k | $2.9k | $42 | 1% | — | $2.8k – $3.0k |
| 4 | Humana facility · case rate · outpatient · +1 other terms | 29 | $2.9k | $2.5k | $712 | 29% | — | $1.2k – $3.0k |
| 5 | Caresource facility · case rate · outpatient · +1 other terms | 22 | $698 | $2.0k | $1.9k | 97% | — | $414 – $5.7k |
| 6 | Anthem facility · case rate · outpatient · +1 other terms | 20 | $661 | $2.2k | $3.1k | 144% | — | $414 – $11.5k |
| 7 | Optum facility · case rate · outpatient | 14 | $598 | $997 | $773 | 78% | — | $518 – $2.9k |
| 8 | WellCare case rate · outpatient · +1 other terms | 14 | $2.9k | $3.0k | $111 | 4% | — | $2.9k – $3.2k |
| 9 | Ambetter case rate · outpatient · +1 other terms | 13 | $4.2k | $3.4k | $1.7k | 50% | — | $0 – $4.6k |
| 10 | Blue Cross Blue Shield case rate · outpatient · +1 other terms | 13 | $2.9k | $2.3k | $2.3k | 100% | — | $359 – $8.5k |
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