Wet mount smear stain and interpretation

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

SMEAR FOR INFECTIOUS AGENTS

Payers reporting CPT 87210

Payer pricing summary

Low

Average

$39

Median

$32

High

$228

Payer rate distribution

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1	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	318	$6	$7	$7	101%	476–548	$1 – $193
2	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	237	$9	$14	$19	137%	329–698	$1 – $284
3	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms	884	$6	$10	$18	182%	273–660	$0 – $452
4	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	599	$9	$20	$35	171%	265–454	$0 – $932
5	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	601	$6	$14	$24	178%	75–156	$1 – $684
6	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	810	$8	$34	$262	768%	65–650	$0 – $8.4k
7	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	579	$12	$18	$39	211%	31–184	$3 – $587
8	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	116	$6	$11	$11	100%	11–110	$1 – $55
9	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	135	$6	$16	$41	256%	6–60	$1 – $520
10	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	114	$5	$11	$40	367%	3–30	$3 – $395
11	Healthpartners fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	27	$18	$16	$3	21%	3–30	$6 – $20
12	Regence fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	34	$6	$8	$5	68%	2–20	$4 – $54
13	Bcbs Ar fee schedule · both	1	$7	$7	—	—	2–20	$7 – $7
14	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	355	$6	$7	$5	63%	1–10	$3 – $48
15	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	74	$13	$45	$79	176%	1–10	$5 – $641
16	Bcbs Al facility · other · outpatient · +5 other terms	4	$10	$11	$1	11%	1–10	$10 – $12
17	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	197	$6	$6	$0	3%	—	$6 – $7
18	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	169	$11	$12	$4	34%	—	$3 – $18
19	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	152	$6	$6	$1	14%	—	$3 – $10
20	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	139	$10	$9	$4	49%	—	$4 – $37
21	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	137	$76	$74	$74	100%	—	$1 – $662
22	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	119	$6	$8	$11	146%	—	$1 – $91
23	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	83	$6	$16	$34	213%	—	$4 – $195
24	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	70	$6	$6	$1	19%	—	$3 – $14
25	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	68	$9	$13	$11	83%	—	$4 – $56

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