Bacterial identification by DNA sequencing

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 DNA/RNA SEQUENCING

Payers reporting CPT 87153

Payer pricing summary

Low

$72

Average

$248

Median

$231

High

$542

Payer rate distribution

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	782	$116	$131	$94	72%	7–70	$1 – $1.3k
2	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	279	$128	$138	$59	43%	2–20	$1 – $346
3	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	702	$130	$304	$429	141%	1–10	$0 – $8.4k
4	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	495	$167	$234	$262	112%	1–10	$1 – $2.7k
5	Bcbs Mt fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	1	$265	$265	—	—	1–10	$265 – $265
6	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	506	$117	$249	$338	136%	—	$1 – $1.7k
7	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	477	$221	$271	$179	66%	—	$5 – $1.2k
8	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	300	$119	$127	$45	35%	—	$66 – $709
9	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	210	$127	$199	$183	92%	—	$12 – $865
10	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	181	$115	$116	$3	2%	—	$113 – $133
11	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	165	$223	$247	$82	33%	—	$113 – $353
12	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	131	$120	$117	$10	9%	—	$69 – $197
13	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	125	$115	$124	$61	50%	—	$5 – $468
14	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	111	$115	$120	$51	42%	—	$82 – $449
15	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	108	$208	$213	$54	25%	—	$62 – $294
16	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	91	$292	$368	$415	113%	—	$80 – $1.7k
17	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	90	$118	$164	$146	89%	—	$1 – $772
18	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	77	$112	$109	$30	28%	—	$16 – $384
19	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	65	$197	$323	$334	103%	—	$77 – $1.6k
20	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	64	$115	$121	$21	17%	—	$68 – $188
21	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	64	$115	$163	$144	88%	—	$68 – $1.0k
22	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	60	$115	$136	$54	40%	—	$82 – $344
23	Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	54	$121	$167	$35	21%	—	$97 – $360
24	Medicare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	52	$113	$115	$31	27%	—	$20 – $409
25	Medica facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	49	$115	$119	$27	22%	—	$39 – $298

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