CPT 82240

Bile acid blood 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
Prompt version (hash): 444523875572
Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

CHOLYLGLYCINE (BILE ACID)

Payer pricing summary

Low

$14

Average

$64

Median

$43

High

$491

Payer rate distribution

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	648	$27	$28	$16	57%	—	$3 – $239
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	615	$29	$87	$418	478%	—	$0 – $8.4k
3	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	442	$27	$59	$73	124%	—	$18 – $355
4	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	428	$51	$69	$55	79%	—	$5 – $328
5	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	409	$38	$61	$62	102%	—	$1 – $600
6	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	267	$27	$28	$5	18%	—	$12 – $83
7	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	243	$30	$31	$14	45%	—	$1 – $115
8	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	196	$27	$27	$1	3%	—	$26 – $31
9	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	163	$51	$57	$19	34%	—	$16 – $81
10	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	158	$35	$52	$48	92%	—	$5 – $199
11	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	130	$28	$27	$1	4%	—	$22 – $29
12	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	101	$43	$39	$12	29%	—	$17 – $72
13	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	77	$27	$35	$19	53%	—	$5 – $99
14	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	74	$24	$25	$3	14%	—	$24 – $41
15	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	63	$27	$30	$7	23%	—	$25 – $60
16	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	47	$27	$35	$15	42%	—	$26 – $76
17	Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	44	$28	$28	$1	5%	—	$22 – $43
18	Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	43	$27	$27	$1	2%	—	$27 – $28
19	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	42	$45	$43	$24	55%	—	$18 – $121
20	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	32	$27	$27	$9	35%	—	$22 – $53
21	Healthcare Highways fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	29	$62	$68	$13	19%	—	$38 – $80
22	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	28	$32	$30	$8	28%	—	$4 – $40
23	Baylor Scott White Health Plan facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	27	$37	$39	$10	25%	—	$25 – $58
24	Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	27	$96	$103	$52	51%	—	$27 – $229
25	Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	27	$27	$27	$1	4%	—	$21 – $28

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