Column chromatography, qualitative and quantitative analysis

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

HB Ref Chromotography

Payers reporting CPT 82542

Payer pricing summary

Low

$14

Average

$189

Median

$106

High

$1.3k

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	861	$24	$39	$77	195%	161–1,124	$1 – $2.0k
2	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	311	$27	$29	$16	56%	73–127	$1 – $311
3	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	242	$34	$40	$49	122%	73–730	$4 – $760
4	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	588	$38	$83	$103	124%	49–202	$1 – $802
5	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	542	$47	$60	$75	125%	46–460	$5 – $1.4k
6	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	114	$24	$51	$75	147%	39–165	$1 – $474
7	Bcbs Mt fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	1	$40	$40	$16	39%	33–42	$24 – $55
8	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	572	$24	$52	$101	195%	22–220	$1 – $1.6k
9	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	782	$31	$104	$230	221%	5–50	$0 – $8.4k
10	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	150	$24	$25	$4	16%	4–40	$14 – $41
11	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	322	$25	$36	$53	145%	3–30	$8 – $813
12	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	74	$24	$40	$62	155%	3–30	$18 – $680
13	Bcbs Al facility · other · outpatient · +5 other terms	4	$17	$18	$2	11%	1–10	$16 – $21
14	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	187	$24	$24	$1	2%	—	$24 – $26
15	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	166	$47	$50	$17	34%	—	$24 – $74
16	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	131	$25	$35	$35	99%	—	$3 – $451
17	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	128	$42	$45	$10	22%	—	$13 – $61
18	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	123	$22	$24	$5	22%	—	$8 – $82
19	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	122	$238	$264	$330	125%	—	$7 – $3.1k
20	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	118	$24	$31	$45	147%	—	$6 – $320
21	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	79	$39	$73	$62	85%	—	$16 – $244
22	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	74	$61	$127	$214	168%	—	$10 – $2.0k
23	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	67	$23	$23	$5	21%	—	$13 – $57
24	Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	64	$25	$140	$107	76%	—	$20 – $461
25	Medicare fee schedule · both · +15 other terms	62	$24	$25	$2	9%	—	$24 – $33

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