Immediate fine-needle biopsy sample adequacy check

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.

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Provider: anthropic
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Max output tokens: 4096
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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

HC CYTO-FNA IMMED TC

Payers reporting CPT 88172

Payer pricing summary

Low

$29

Average

$230

Median

$179

High

$760

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1	Medicare other · both · +20 other terms	42	$180	$198	$73	37%	87–132	$157 – $728
2	Bcbs Al facility · other · outpatient · +3 other terms	4	$56	$50	$19	39%	67–85	$17 – $68
3	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms	803	$149	$164	$174	106%	39–147	$1 – $5.0k
4	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	480	$186	$229	$200	87%	30–48	$1 – $1.3k
5	Bcbs Mt fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	1	$393	$393	—	—	17	$393 – $393
6	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	524	$73	$112	$105	93%	13–130	$1 – $881
7	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	670	$158	$165	$267	162%	4–40	$0 – $8.4k
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	210	$139	$157	$228	145%	3–30	$1 – $1.2k
9	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	415	$167	$134	$86	64%	2–20	$1 – $643
10	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	55	$217	$257	$157	61%	2–20	$17 – $554
11	Bcbs In other · both	11	$622	$642	$101	16%	2–20	$414 – $826
12	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	209	$161	$154	$97	63%	—	$1 – $395
13	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	171	$173	$171	$66	38%	—	$13 – $402
14	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	122	$274	$258	$181	70%	—	$23 – $722
15	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	109	$175	$209	$176	84%	—	$6 – $1.2k
16	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	99	$171	$217	$448	206%	—	$81 – $4.9k
17	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	90	$296	$359	$672	187%	—	$77 – $7.1k
18	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	81	$164	$147	$70	47%	—	$1 – $370
19	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	78	$171	$222	$547	246%	—	$18 – $5.7k
20	Oscar facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	68	$249	$222	$85	38%	—	$29 – $320
21	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	60	$196	$440	$1.3k	286%	—	$13 – $7.2k
22	Optum facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	59	$160	$175	$102	58%	—	$129 – $1.1k
23	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	53	$47	$75	$65	86%	—	$8 – $191
24	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	37	$51	$73	$50	68%	—	$5 – $205
25	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	36	$23	$41	$37	90%	—	$19 – $194

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