Erythrocyte sedimentation rate 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.

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Provider: anthropic
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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

SED RATE

Payers reporting CPT 85651

Payer pricing summary

Low

Average

$350

Median

$22

High

$8.0k

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1	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	537	$7	$16	$39	237%	668–821	$0 – $825
2	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms	816	$4	$7	$13	187%	254–416	$0 – $174
3	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	551	$4	$10	$13	134%	117–198	$1 – $118
4	Regence fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	25	$4	$5	$9	161%	112–121	$3 – $98
5	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	220	$6	$12	$19	167%	89–215	$1 – $333
6	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	755	$6	$15	$19	131%	88–322	$1 – $155
7	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	292	$5	$5	$5	95%	31–58	$1 – $91
8	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	529	$9	$13	$17	135%	30–84	$2 – $249
9	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	120	$4	$22	$57	264%	6–60	$2 – $351
10	Florida Blue fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	1	$27	$27	$7	24%	5–50	$21 – $39
11	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	99	$5	$7	$7	102%	2–20	$1 – $38
12	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	80	$4	$15	$24	166%	2–20	$3 – $107
13	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	43	$16	$19	$25	128%	1–10	$3 – $142
14	Wellmark facility · fee schedule · both · +18 other terms	18	$6	$11	$9	83%	1–10	$4 – $45
15	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	333	$4	$5	$2	48%	—	$2 – $37
16	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	190	$4	$4	$0	2%	—	$4 – $5
17	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	168	$8	$9	$3	34%	—	$2 – $13
18	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	145	$4	$4	$0	11%	—	$3 – $7
19	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	116	$7	$7	$2	36%	—	$3 – $21
20	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	106	$4	$4	$0	8%	—	$3 – $6
21	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	99	$59	$63	$79	126%	—	$2 – $408
22	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	80	$4	$6	$9	161%	—	$2 – $64
23	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	61	$9	$39	$80	206%	—	$2 – $400
24	Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	60	$4	$12	$14	121%	—	$4 – $62
25	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	51	$4	$5	$2	32%	—	$1 – $12

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