Extended cytopathology examination

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 CYTOPATH SMEAR OTHER SOURCE - LAB CYTOPATHOTHR SOURCEXTENSIVE

Payers reporting CPT 88162

Payer pricing summary

Low

$33

Average

$138

Median

$126

High

$543

Payer rate distribution

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	710	$51	$67	$63	94%	—	$4 – $1.6k
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	589	$81	$204	$411	202%	—	$0 – $8.4k
3	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	468	$147	$168	$130	77%	—	$19 – $825
4	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	411	$99	$127	$99	78%	—	$1 – $610
5	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	381	$67	$169	$170	101%	—	$22 – $682
6	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	175	$56	$66	$34	52%	—	$1 – $268
7	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	170	$106	$109	$153	140%	—	$2 – $1.8k
8	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	163	$56	$68	$35	52%	—	$20 – $344
9	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	88	$88	$92	$53	57%	—	$20 – $394
10	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	79	$121	$171	$172	101%	—	$50 – $788
11	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	75	$98	$126	$85	67%	—	$35 – $349
12	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	73	$56	$58	$13	22%	—	$47 – $96
13	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	60	$80	$132	$68	52%	—	$22 – $350
14	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	47	$99	$92	$46	50%	—	$1 – $202
15	Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	46	$51	$54	$13	25%	—	$31 – $125
16	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	39	$94	$80	$35	44%	—	$47 – $192
17	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	37	$94	$98	$48	49%	—	$50 – $251
18	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	31	$59	$59	$27	45%	—	$14 – $99
19	Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	31	$193	$203	$86	42%	—	$50 – $426
20	Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	29	$59	$57	$4	8%	—	$47 – $63
21	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	26	$156	$197	$137	70%	—	$23 – $425
22	Baylor Scott White Health Plan facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	25	$66	$66	$13	20%	—	$50 – $87
23	Phcs fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	25	$563	$382	$287	75%	—	$66 – $815
24	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	23	$96	$94	$81	87%	—	$2 – $401
25	Superior Healthplan facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	21	$55	$54	$1	2%	—	$52 – $55

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