COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 amplified nucleic acid test

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 COVID-19 LAB TEST - 2 DAY COMPLETION

Payers reporting CPT 87635

Payer pricing summary

Low

$29

Average

$217

Median

$100

High

$2.8k

Payer rate distribution

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	870	$52	$57	$29	51%	1,546–2,104	$1 – $462
2	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	576	$64	$107	$104	97%	394–538	$0 – $810
3	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	781	$53	$101	$315	314%	280–460	$0 – $8.4k
4	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	577	$52	$64	$36	56%	273–471	$1 – $262
5	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	108	$54	$55	$11	21%	218–245	$1 – $104
6	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	135	$55	$67	$32	48%	212–284	$1 – $242
7	Bcbs Al facility · other · outpatient · +4 other terms	6	$146	$123	$57	46%	141–159	$20 – $187
8	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	322	$57	$62	$27	44%	36–126	$1 – $280
9	Bcbs Ar fee schedule · both	1	$58	$58	—	—	36	$58 – $58
10	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	236	$56	$70	$73	104%	33–96	$9 – $502
11	Wellmark facility · fee schedule · both · +27 other terms	39	$70	$99	$55	56%	8–80	$28 – $343
12	Healthpartners fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	28	$155	$145	$31	22%	5–50	$52 – $174
13	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	70	$46	$50	$7	15%	3–30	$35 – $121
14	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	404	$71	$118	$358	305%	1–10	$5 – $4.1k
15	Sanford Health Plan fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	25	$53	$81	$45	55%	1–10	$17 – $196
16	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	353	$53	$55	$14	25%	—	$21 – $264
17	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	196	$51	$52	$1	2%	—	$50 – $58
18	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	169	$99	$108	$37	34%	—	$31 – $157
19	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	146	$53	$52	$5	10%	—	$31 – $86
20	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	134	$90	$88	$22	25%	—	$51 – $131
21	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	131	$50	$54	$54	101%	—	$0 – $739
22	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	122	$125	$122	$63	52%	—	$17 – $386
23	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	118	$52	$55	$35	63%	—	$21 – $352
24	Optum facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	82	$51	$51	$3	7%	—	$31 – $62
25	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	80	$84	$145	$119	82%	—	$37 – $486

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