CPT 87550

Tuberculosis bacteria test using DNA probe

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

Mycobacteria dna dir probe

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Average

$58

Median

$33

High

$514

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All methodologies Case rate 35 Fee schedule 55 Per diem 5 Percent of billed charges 30 Other 25

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	650	$20	$24	$23	98%	—	$5 – $308
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	622	$23	$88	$407	464%	—	$0 – $8.4k
3	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	444	$20	$47	$63	135%	—	$12 – $356
4	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	434	$44	$56	$46	83%	—	$5 – $278
5	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	414	$30	$56	$58	103%	—	$1 – $453
6	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	275	$21	$24	$13	54%	—	$17 – $180
7	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	240	$22	$24	$10	44%	—	$3 – $87
8	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	194	$20	$20	$1	3%	—	$20 – $23
9	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	160	$39	$43	$14	33%	—	$20 – $61
10	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	159	$31	$47	$47	100%	—	$10 – $234

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Tuberculosis bacteria test using DNA probe

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