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
$699
Average
$4.0k
Median
$3.5k
High
$11.6k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
53 payers; the 90th percentile is 2.4× 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 fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 605 | $2.9k | $3.0k | $1.6k | 54% | — | $118 – $25.8k |
| 2 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 585 | $3.0k | $5.6k | $5.1k | 91% | — | $0 – $61.7k |
| 3 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms | 412 | $2.9k | $7.0k | $8.0k | 114% | — | $131 – $31.1k |
| 4 | Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms | 397 | $5.3k | $6.7k | $4.3k | 65% | — | $5 – $28.9k |
| 5 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms | 380 | $3.4k | $5.4k | $4.1k | 77% | — | $0 – $40.7k |
| 6 | WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms | 250 | $3.0k | $3.0k | $569 | 19% | — | $89 – $5.7k |
| 7 | Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 206 | $4.2k | $4.0k | $1.9k | 48% | — | $119 – $8.6k |
| 8 | Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 193 | $2.9k | $2.9k | $89 | 3% | — | $2.8k – $3.3k |
| 9 | Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 163 | $5.6k | $6.1k | $2.1k | 35% | — | $119 – $8.8k |
| 10 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 148 | $3.2k | $5.5k | $5.6k | 102% | — | $66 – $21.5k |
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