Viral culture identification follow-up testing

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

REF IMMUNOFLUORESENCE EA

Payers reporting CPT 87253

Payer pricing summary

Low

$12

Average

$94

Median

$51

High

$1.0k

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1	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	686	$29	$82	$345	419%	3–30	$0 – $8.4k
2	Wellmark case rate · outpatient · +11 other terms	13	$21	$41	$46	114%	2–20	$20 – $158
3	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	754	$20	$27	$53	197%	1–10	$1 – $1.6k
4	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	202	$24	$39	$36	94%	1–10	$4 – $284
5	Healthpartners fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	25	$61	$57	$11	20%	1–10	$21 – $69
6	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	504	$20	$51	$77	152%	—	$1 – $1.1k
7	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	492	$30	$46	$41	89%	—	$1 – $598
8	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	487	$43	$56	$65	116%	—	$5 – $946
9	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	288	$21	$23	$12	53%	—	$15 – $170
10	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	277	$23	$24	$13	52%	—	$1 – $193
11	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	182	$20	$20	$0	2%	—	$20 – $23
12	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	163	$39	$43	$15	33%	—	$20 – $62
13	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	138	$21	$20	$2	9%	—	$12 – $33
14	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	117	$20	$25	$17	69%	—	$5 – $174
15	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	99	$33	$26	$11	43%	—	$13 – $100
16	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	93	$18	$19	$2	11%	—	$7 – $21
17	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	92	$67	$104	$113	108%	—	$13 – $692
18	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	89	$22	$31	$32	106%	—	$1 – $246
19	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	58	$20	$35	$69	196%	—	$11 – $668
20	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	56	$20	$27	$13	46%	—	$20 – $60
21	Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	52	$21	$79	$56	70%	—	$17 – $163
22	Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	43	$21	$21	$0	2%	—	$20 – $21
23	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	39	$41	$48	$45	94%	—	$12 – $218
24	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	37	$34	$61	$60	98%	—	$13 – $258
25	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	36	$22	$23	$6	26%	—	$3 – $30

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