CPT 82486
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
Gas/liquid chromatography
Low
$11
Average
$415
Median
$47
High
$6.3k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
18 payers; the 90th percentile is 8.2× 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 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms | 30 | $110 | $133 | $64 | 48% | — | $35 – $284 |
| 2 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms | 22 | $113 | $103 | $44 | 42% | — | $7 – $134 |
| 3 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 19 | $9 | $9 | $3 | 32% | — | $9 – $40 |
| 4 | Cigna fee schedule · both · +3 other terms | 11 | $51 | $48 | $7 | 14% | — | $30 – $51 |
| 5 | Ambetter fee schedule · both · +1 other terms | 10 | $21 | $21 | — | — | — | $21 – $21 |
| 6 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 6 | $18 | $22 | $9 | 43% | — | $18 – $43 |
| 7 | UnitedHealthcare facility · fee schedule · outpatient | 6 | $18 | $32 | $33 | 102% | — | $5 – $92 |
| 8 | First Health fee schedule · both | 5 | $21 | $21 | $2 | 8% | — | $19 – $22 |
| 9 | Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient | 3 | $117 | $121 | $58 | 48% | — | $28 – $169 |
| 10 | Aetna Better Health fee schedule · inpatient | 2 | $54 | $54 | — | — | — | $54 – $54 |
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