Nickel 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
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Max output tokens: 4096
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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

HB Ref Nickel

Payers reporting CPT 83885

Payer pricing summary

Low

$10

Average

$60

Median

$49

High

$178

Payer rate distribution

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	730	$25	$28	$27	95%	—	$1 – $365
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	688	$28	$93	$378	405%	—	$0 – $8.4k
3	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	493	$25	$56	$73	131%	—	$1 – $432
4	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	487	$50	$62	$55	88%	—	$5 – $330
5	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	451	$36	$66	$70	107%	—	$1 – $553
6	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	304	$25	$29	$14	50%	—	$21 – $213
7	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	268	$27	$29	$13	43%	—	$1 – $106
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	192	$27	$47	$43	92%	—	$5 – $239
9	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	192	$25	$25	$1	3%	—	$24 – $28
10	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	165	$47	$53	$18	33%	—	$24 – $75
11	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	132	$25	$25	$2	7%	—	$21 – $41
12	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	106	$40	$38	$14	37%	—	$16 – $108
13	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	105	$25	$30	$20	68%	—	$5 – $167
14	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	92	$26	$42	$46	109%	—	$1 – $217
15	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	86	$22	$22	$3	14%	—	$8 – $26
16	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	57	$70	$139	$147	106%	—	$14 – $488
17	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	57	$25	$33	$15	44%	—	$24 – $71
18	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	54	$34	$53	$53	99%	—	$12 – $241
19	Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	48	$25	$25	$1	2%	—	$25 – $26
20	Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	46	$26	$26	$3	11%	—	$21 – $42
21	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	44	$25	$35	$51	145%	—	$11 – $333
22	Amerihealth Caritas facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	43	$14	$18	$7	41%	—	$11 – $45
23	Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	43	$25	$25	$1	4%	—	$20 – $28
24	Medica facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	30	$25	$25	$7	29%	—	$8 – $64
25	Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	29	$94	$97	$46	48%	—	$25 – $211

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