Tissue culture of skin or solid tissue biopsy

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 CHROM CULTURE SKIN

Payers reporting CPT 88233

Payer pricing summary

Low

$52

Average

$367

Median

$332

High

$987

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1	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	296	$157	$166	$69	42%	11	$1 – $609
2	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	509	$226	$363	$326	90%	4–40	$1 – $3.2k
3	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	804	$142	$169	$122	72%	1–10	$1 – $1.4k
4	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	735	$184	$398	$483	122%	1–10	$0 – $8.4k
5	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	528	$142	$292	$395	135%	—	$1 – $1.9k
6	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	513	$320	$349	$265	76%	—	$5 – $1.7k
7	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	309	$145	$155	$51	33%	—	$100 – $821
8	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	210	$161	$229	$212	93%	—	$53 – $1.1k
9	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	191	$141	$142	$4	3%	—	$138 – $163
10	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	168	$272	$297	$101	34%	—	$133 – $431
11	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	145	$141	$142	$13	9%	—	$84 – $235
12	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	125	$144	$162	$87	54%	—	$5 – $783
13	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	116	$253	$246	$61	25%	—	$75 – $359
14	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	106	$508	$510	$449	88%	—	$74 – $2.0k
15	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	104	$128	$134	$70	52%	—	$36 – $643
16	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	94	$146	$189	$147	78%	—	$1 – $896
17	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	83	$137	$141	$42	29%	—	$17 – $472
18	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	72	$141	$250	$283	113%	—	$71 – $1.7k
19	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	67	$249	$517	$483	93%	—	$94 – $1.9k
20	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	67	$141	$202	$112	56%	—	$36 – $559
21	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	60	$126	$130	$31	24%	—	$18 – $331
22	Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	60	$148	$321	$227	71%	—	$118 – $1.6k
23	Medicare fee schedule · both · +11 other terms	53	$141	$144	$12	9%	—	$141 – $190
24	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	49	$142	$124	$53	43%	—	$21 – $268
25	Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	49	$145	$144	$3	2%	—	$141 – $148

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