Heavy metal blood test, quantitative, per metal

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

HC IODINE

Payers reporting CPT 83018

Payer pricing summary

Low

$13

Average

$171

Median

$61

High

$2.0k

Payer rate distribution

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1	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	755	$28	$97	$295	305%	42–420	$0 – $8.4k
2	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	832	$22	$31	$44	143%	37–370	$1 – $626
3	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	227	$25	$39	$37	96%	34–340	$4 – $326
4	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	553	$34	$74	$253	341%	23–50	$1 – $15.2k
5	Bcbs Mt fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	1	$36	$36	$14	39%	21–30	$22 – $50
6	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	517	$45	$60	$63	106%	1–10	$5 – $725
7	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	308	$24	$26	$13	51%	1–10	$1 – $221
8	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	66	$22	$38	$58	155%	1–10	$22 – $619
9	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	557	$22	$50	$86	171%	—	$1 – $663
10	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	315	$23	$30	$29	99%	—	$18 – $335
11	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	186	$22	$22	$0	2%	—	$22 – $24
12	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	166	$42	$46	$16	34%	—	$22 – $67
13	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	144	$23	$22	$3	13%	—	$13 – $37
14	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	125	$39	$39	$8	22%	—	$12 – $56
15	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	125	$22	$28	$20	69%	—	$1 – $182
16	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	122	$20	$20	$12	62%	—	$9 – $103
17	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	109	$23	$48	$68	141%	—	$1 – $340
18	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	106	$104	$152	$190	125%	—	$14 – $1.0k
19	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	103	$21	$27	$29	110%	—	$10 – $198
20	Medicare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	70	$22	$22	$8	34%	—	$1 – $119
21	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	65	$32	$61	$88	144%	—	$11 – $923
22	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	61	$22	$18	$9	48%	—	$4 – $43
23	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	61	$37	$94	$79	84%	—	$15 – $304
24	Medica facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	61	$22	$24	$7	29%	—	$7 – $77
25	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	61	$22	$23	$6	25%	—	$12 – $53

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