Fine needle aspiration cytopathology evaluation

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

PR CYTOP FNA INTERP & REPORT

Payers reporting CPT 88173

Payer pricing summary

Low

$49

Average

$187

Median

$177

High

$546

Payer rate distribution

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms	847	$58	$110	$230	210%	276–591	$1 – $5.0k
2	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	220	$114	$154	$199	129%	266–329	$2 – $2.1k
3	Medicare other · both · +19 other terms	48	$55	$63	$28	44%	243–306	$49 – $243
4	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	552	$177	$196	$212	108%	125–224	$32 – $3.1k
5	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	513	$114	$154	$150	97%	114–249	$1 – $3.0k
6	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	696	$114	$201	$202	101%	65–92	$1 – $2.2k
7	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	218	$66	$70	$37	53%	49–130	$1 – $343
8	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	436	$68	$207	$223	107%	3–30	$1 – $843
9	Bcbs In other · both	11	$190	$196	$31	16%	3–30	$127 – $253
10	Bcbs Al facility · other · outpatient · +4 other terms	5	$51	$44	$20	45%	3–30	$5 – $63
11	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	57	$143	$194	$169	87%	1–10	$23 – $705
12	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	36	$248	$306	$142	46%	1–10	$15 – $469
13	Bcbs Mt fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	1	$90	$90	$33	36%	1–10	$57 – $123
14	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	191	$60	$69	$31	45%	—	$12 – $195
15	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	128	$244	$249	$184	74%	—	$28 – $926
16	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	112	$90	$100	$75	75%	—	$11 – $810
17	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	104	$52	$90	$410	458%	—	$28 – $4.9k
18	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	91	$92	$160	$679	425%	—	$24 – $7.0k
19	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	90	$52	$106	$525	497%	—	$26 – $5.7k
20	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	81	$82	$155	$73	47%	—	$1 – $346
21	Oscar facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	68	$82	$83	$24	29%	—	$24 – $134
22	Optum facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	63	$50	$54	$30	56%	—	$29 – $335
23	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	57	$85	$198	$558	282%	—	$21 – $3.8k
24	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	56	$95	$95	$44	46%	—	$16 – $184
25	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	55	$69	$82	$48	59%	—	$15 – $330

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