Infectious agent detection test using optical method

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

87899 IMMUNOASSAY WITH DIRECT VISUAL OBSERVATION FOR OTHER ORGANISM

Payers reporting CPT 87899

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$10

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$306

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$53

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14	Sanford Health Plan fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	23	$45	$37	$36	96%	1–10	$16 – $194
15	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	340	$17	$21	$12	59%	—	$6 – $110
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20	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	131	$16	$24	$26	108%	—	$3 – $196
21	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	131	$95	$112	$85	76%	—	$8 – $481
22	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	124	$16	$17	$15	92%	—	$5 – $301
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24	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	112	$17	$32	$29	91%	—	$1 – $112
25	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	84	$16	$28	$39	140%	—	$6 – $245

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