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
$1.0k
Average
$6.9k
Median
$3.3k
High
$32.5k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
10 payers; the 90th percentile is 6.0× 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 | Aetna other · outpatient · +1 other terms | 28 | $8.5k | $10.0k | $4.5k | 45% | — | $2.5k – $15.6k |
| 2 | Cigna other · outpatient · +1 other terms | 16 | $9.5k | $10.1k | $5.0k | 50% | — | $5.8k – $28.4k |
| 3 | Humana other · outpatient · +2 other terms | 10 | $4.7k | $4.7k | — | — | — | $4.7k – $4.7k |
| 4 | UnitedHealthcare other · outpatient · +2 other terms | 7 | $2.9k | $3.9k | $1.4k | 37% | — | $2.6k – $5.7k |
| 5 | Anthem other · outpatient · +1 other terms | 6 | $4.8k | $3.5k | $2.3k | 67% | — | $90 – $6.7k |
| 6 | Blue Cross Blue Shield other · outpatient · +1 other terms | 4 | $2.8k | $3.3k | $1.4k | 41% | — | $2.8k – $6.7k |
| 7 | Molina facility · other · outpatient | 3 | $1.0k | $2.2k | $1.8k | 83% | — | $760 – $4.7k |
| 8 | Caresource facility · other · outpatient | 1 | $1.0k | $1.0k | — | — | — | $1.0k – $1.0k |
| 9 | Medicare professional · other · outpatient | 1 | $2.8k | $2.8k | — | — | — | $2.8k – $2.8k |
| 10 | Tricare professional · other · outpatient | 1 | $32.5k | $32.5k | — | — | — | $32.5k – $32.5k |
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