Complex stain smear for microscopic examination

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 STAIN MICROSPORIDUM

Payers reporting CPT 87209

Payer pricing summary

Low

$11

Average

$243

Median

$52

High

$4.5k

Payer rate distribution

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1	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	243	$20	$33	$40	122%	168–447	$3 – $329
2	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	585	$26	$45	$45	100%	126–351	$1 – $406
3	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	855	$18	$22	$22	100%	123–474	$1 – $558
4	Bcbs Mt fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	1	$34	$34	$11	33%	85–94	$18 – $41
5	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	114	$20	$25	$19	74%	68–95	$1 – $113
6	Bcbs Al facility · other · outpatient · +4 other terms	4	$10	$11	$1	11%	62–71	$10 – $12
7	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	769	$23	$70	$343	491%	60–366	$0 – $8.4k
8	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	561	$18	$41	$54	131%	21–210	$1 – $558
9	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	320	$20	$21	$11	54%	20–92	$1 – $193
10	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	70	$18	$48	$65	135%	15–24	$13 – $290
11	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	531	$36	$47	$124	266%	11–110	$5 – $3.8k
12	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	75	$26	$40	$56	141%	4–40	$8 – $268
13	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	317	$19	$20	$7	35%	3–30	$4 – $111
14	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	124	$17	$18	$9	49%	2–20	$7 – $68
15	Regence fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	33	$19	$26	$16	62%	2–20	$12 – $98
16	Healthpartners fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	27	$54	$50	$11	21%	2–20	$18 – $61
17	Bcbs Ar fee schedule · both	1	$20	$20	—	—	2–20	$20 – $20
18	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	145	$18	$18	$2	8%	1–10	$11 – $30
19	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	130	$18	$24	$27	112%	1–10	$3 – $217
20	Medical Mutual fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	26	$23	$29	$11	38%	1–10	$13 – $54
21	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	187	$18	$18	$0	2%	—	$13 – $19
22	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	167	$35	$38	$13	34%	—	$6 – $55
23	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	126	$32	$32	$8	25%	—	$10 – $46
24	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	114	$18	$18	$6	34%	—	$5 – $57
25	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	113	$83	$109	$332	304%	—	$1 – $4.6k

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