CPT 88153

Cervical or vaginal cytology slide screening with physician oversight

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

Cytopath c/v redo

Payer pricing summary

Low

Average

$30

Median

$26

High

$67

Payer rate distribution

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All methodologies Case rate 34 Fee schedule 56 Per diem 2 Percent of billed charges 11 Other 21

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1	Aetna other · outpatient · +2 other terms	38	$45	$58	$39	67%	—	$21 – $131
2	Humana other · outpatient · +4 other terms	38	$24	$27	$6	23%	—	$24 – $40
3	UnitedHealthcare other · outpatient · +3 other terms	35	$24	$29	$13	46%	—	$14 – $67
4	Ambetter other · inpatient · +1 other terms	31	$40	$37	$6	15%	—	$30 – $46
5	Blue Cross Blue Shield other · outpatient · +2 other terms	27	$25	$26	$6	23%	—	$20 – $56
6	WellCare other · inpatient · +1 other terms	20	$24	$24	$1	2%	—	$24 – $25
7	Cigna other · outpatient · +1 other terms	18	$69	$80	$45	57%	—	$7 – $239
8	Molina other · inpatient · +2 other terms	16	$36	$34	$10	31%	—	$25 – $53
9	Oscar other · outpatient · +1 other terms	15	$38	$36	$2	7%	—	$34 – $38
10	Optum other · inpatient · +1 other terms	10	$24	$24	—	—	—	$24 – $24

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