Unscheduled molecular diagnostic 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
Prompt version (hash): 444523875572
Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

Molecular diagnostics

Payers reporting CPT 83896

Payer pricing summary

Low

$13

Average

$1.0k

Median

$54

High

$8.8k

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1	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	20	$22	$18	$8	43%	—	$8 – $28
2	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	9	$17	$36	$23	64%	—	$5 – $79
3	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	8	$26	$30	$23	76%	—	$12 – $80
4	Anthem facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	7	$6	$9	$10	115%	—	$6 – $41
5	First Health fee schedule · both · +5 other terms	6	$5	$10	$17	170%	—	$4 – $63
6	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	6	$12	$16	$7	45%	—	$12 – $31
7	MultiPlan facility · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +4 other terms	5	$9	$9	$2	22%	—	$5 – $10
8	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	4	$53	$47	$25	53%	—	$26 – $119
9	Excellus facility · fee schedule · outpatient	3	$4	$13	$9	72%	—	$4 – $22
10	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · inpatient	2	$13	$13	—	—	—	$13 – $13
11	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	2	$232	$164	$195	119%	—	$20 – $439
12	Phcs facility · percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges · +2 other terms	2	$45	$45	—	—	—	$45 – $45
13	UnitedHealthcare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	2	$14	$8	$6	79%	—	$5 – $22
14	Ambetter fee schedule · both · +1 other terms	1	$63	$63	—	—	—	$63 – $63
15	Highmark other · both · +1 other terms	1	$51	$51	—	—	—	$51 – $51
16	Medicaid fee schedule · both · +1 other terms	1	$63	$63	—	—	—	$63 – $63
17	Medical Mutual fee schedule · inpatient · +2 other terms	1	$53	$53	$11	22%	—	$41 – $66
18	Medicare fee schedule · both · +2 other terms	1	$63	$63	—	—	—	$63 – $63
19	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	1	$26	$26	$5	21%	—	$20 – $31
20	Optum percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	1	$20	$20	$6	29%	—	$12 – $29
21	Oscar facility · per diem · outpatient · +1 other terms	1	$17.5k	$17.5k	—	—	—	$17.5k – $17.5k
22	WellCare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	1	$11	$11	—	—	—	$11 – $11