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
$88
Average
$6.9k
Median
$5.1k
High
$33.5k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
16 payers; the 90th percentile is 34.1× 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 facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 16 | $328 | $582 | $1.2k | 200% | — | $91 – $5.4k |
| 2 | First Health facility · percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 16 | $417 | $818 | $1.6k | 190% | — | $417 – $6.8k |
| 3 | Cigna facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 15 | $320 | $718 | $1.5k | 208% | — | $294 – $6.3k |
| 4 | Humana facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 15 | $417 | $417 | — | — | — | $417 – $417 |
| 5 | Superior Healthplan facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 13 | $89 | $88 | $28 | 32% | — | $48 – $167 |
| 6 | UnitedHealthcare facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 13 | $96 | $87 | $18 | 21% | — | $51 – $108 |
| 7 | Blue Cross Blue Shield percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 3 | $6.2k | $5.9k | $804 | 14% | — | $3.9k – $6.2k |
| 8 | Medica percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges | 3 | $5.7k | $5.7k | — | — | — | $5.7k – $5.7k |
| 9 | Phcs percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges | 3 | $5.7k | $5.7k | — | — | — | $5.7k – $5.7k |
| 10 | Optum facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 2 | $417 | $417 | — | — | — | $417 – $417 |
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