Frozen section pathology consultation, one specimen

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 FROZEN SECTION 1ST BLOCK

Payers reporting CPT 88331

Payer pricing summary

Low

$44

Average

$330

Median

$252

High

$3.0k

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1	Medicare other · both · +20 other terms	40	$180	$187	$24	13%	277–286	$157 – $251
2	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +38 other terms	822	$149	$363	$2.6k	703%	79–241	$1 – $42.7k
3	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	530	$119	$187	$766	410%	25–88	$14 – $16.8k
4	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	505	$190	$412	$1.9k	472%	25–61	$1 – $33.8k
5	Bcbs Mt fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	1	$393	$393	—	—	21	$393 – $393
6	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +38 other terms	674	$170	$281	$1.1k	384%	15–150	$1 – $18.2k
7	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	211	$123	$178	$229	129%	12–120	$1 – $1.2k
8	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	423	$168	$177	$116	65%	5–50	$1 – $929
9	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	212	$150	$154	$99	64%	2–20	$1 – $729
10	Bcbs In other · both	11	$622	$642	$101	16%	2–20	$414 – $826
11	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	56	$208	$252	$175	69%	1–10	$26 – $614
12	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	34	$160	$154	$71	46%	1–10	$17 – $578
13	Wellmark facility · fee schedule · both · +20 other terms	30	$170	$172	$104	61%	1–10	$37 – $639
14	Ucare professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	21	$55	$59	$23	40%	1–10	$15 – $113
15	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	172	$173	$172	$66	38%	—	$20 – $402
16	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	132	$274	$310	$222	72%	—	$29 – $921
17	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	112	$172	$202	$185	92%	—	$1 – $1.2k
18	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	105	$171	$221	$438	198%	—	$81 – $4.9k
19	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	92	$299	$376	$692	184%	—	$77 – $7.1k
20	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	91	$171	$225	$513	228%	—	$34 – $5.7k
21	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	81	$175	$219	$71	33%	—	$1 – $432
22	Oscar facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	68	$249	$225	$79	35%	—	$55 – $320
23	Optum facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	62	$160	$194	$235	121%	—	$33 – $2.2k
24	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	61	$86	$106	$98	92%	—	$13 – $621
25	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	59	$194	$210	$185	88%	—	$8 – $1.0k

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