Tissue decalcification for lab study

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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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

HB Decalcify Tissue

Payers reporting CPT 88311

Payer pricing summary

Low

Average

$180

Median

$69

High

$2.2k

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1	Bcbs Mt percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms	1	$43	$43	$0	1%	264	$43 – $44
2	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms	764	$10	$180	$1.3k	749%	166–418	$1 – $28.5k
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	403	$24	$301	$2.5k	826%	75–120	$0 – $36.3k
4	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	487	$21	$119	$885	744%	41–131	$1 – $16.8k
5	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	465	$21	$58	$523	895%	33–96	$1 – $13.0k
6	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	189	$15	$23	$28	126%	30–147	$0 – $464
7	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	277	$20	$40	$34	85%	1–10	$1 – $236
8	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	123	$15	$417	$1.5k	354%	1–10	$1 – $12.2k
9	WellCare fee schedule · both · +21 other terms	62	$12	$13	$5	42%	1–10	$5 – $24
10	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	42	$83	$77	$72	93%	1–10	$5 – $236
11	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	13	$20	$19	$4	20%	1–10	$6 – $20
12	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	106	$101	$82	$72	88%	—	$5 – $272
13	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	65	$23	$41	$14	34%	—	$1 – $73
14	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	64	$13	$19	$23	120%	—	$1 – $148
15	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	63	$17	$18	$13	71%	—	$2 – $57
16	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	59	$18	$1.0k	$2.7k	263%	—	$6 – $16.4k
17	Amerihealth Caritas facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	53	$20	$22	$10	47%	—	$6 – $70
18	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	44	$21	$62	$44	70%	—	$7 – $164
19	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	39	$32	$43	$30	69%	—	$3 – $120
20	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	31	$95	$1.2k	$7.1k	608%	—	$6 – $50k
21	Ambetter fee schedule · both · +20 other terms	29	$24	$25	$14	54%	—	$7 – $65
22	Phcs fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	28	$109	$107	$46	43%	—	$5 – $230
23	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	27	$37	$359	$563	157%	—	$2 – $2.8k
24	Baylor Scott White Health Plan facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	26	$79	$66	$17	25%	—	$20 – $85
25	Devoted facility · other · outpatient · +13 other terms	25	$3.0k	$2.9k	$4.3k	150%	—	$11 – $16.7k

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