Creatine kinase (CK) 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

CK TOTAL

Payers reporting CPT 82550

Payer pricing summary

Low

Average

$180

Median

$35

High

$3.1k

Payer rate distribution

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +38 other terms	897	$7	$11	$25	239%	2,175–3,219	$0 – $697
2	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	610	$11	$23	$77	332%	1,549–2,206	$0 – $4.1k
3	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	254	$9	$16	$26	163%	996–1,572	$1 – $347
4	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	822	$9	$19	$25	131%	580–1,624	$1 – $285
5	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	335	$7	$8	$7	90%	511–601	$1 – $184
6	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	580	$14	$17	$26	150%	335–614	$1 – $430
7	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	619	$7	$15	$22	142%	258–555	$1 – $217
8	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	112	$7	$9	$7	82%	104–176	$1 – $62
9	Bcbs Al facility · other · outpatient · +5 other terms	5	$7	$7	$1	10%	86–122	$6 – $8
10	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	84	$7	$21	$40	191%	53–107	$6 – $197
11	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	134	$7	$25	$120	479%	45–297	$2 – $2.3k
12	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	137	$11	$10	$4	46%	38–65	$4 – $44
13	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	76	$17	$56	$109	194%	32	$4 – $660
14	Healthpartners fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	28	$20	$17	$4	23%	26–98	$7 – $22
15	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	360	$7	$7	$3	45%	25–88	$4 – $42
16	Regence fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	34	$7	$10	$9	88%	21–30	$4 – $89
17	Florida Blue fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	1	$49	$49	$12	25%	20–92	$38 – $72
18	Bcbs Ar fee schedule · both	1	$7	$7	—	—	15	$7 – $7
19	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	131	$7	$7	$3	44%	12–21	$3 – $24
20	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	152	$7	$7	$1	14%	8–80	$4 – $11
21	Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	66	$7	$32	$28	88%	4–40	$5 – $138
22	Wellmark facility · fee schedule · both · +21 other terms	34	$7	$15	$12	79%	1–10	$6 – $71
23	Medical Mutual fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	26	$8	$12	$9	73%	1–10	$6 – $50
24	Sanford Health Plan fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	23	$18	$30	$41	140%	1–10	$6 – $228
25	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	199	$7	$7	$0	3%	—	$6 – $7

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