Pacemaker or defibrillator programming check and adjustment

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

HC Programming Device Eval

Payers reporting CPT 93281

Payer pricing summary

Low

$37

Average

$187

Median

$143

High

$1.3k

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1	Ucare professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	23	$53	$52	$24	45%	21–39	$26 – $146
2	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	352	$82	$105	$80	76%	3–30	$1 – $554
3	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	301	$41	$123	$508	413%	2–20	$1 – $8.3k
4	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	105	$72	$131	$201	154%	2–20	$21 – $2.6k
5	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	129	$40	$45	$14	32%	1–10	$23 – $87
6	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	389	$44	$137	$600	440%	—	$1 – $8.4k
7	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms	368	$43	$523	$2.1k	403%	—	$1 – $27.9k
8	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	173	$43	$88	$103	117%	—	$31 – $610
9	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	128	$46	$56	$38	68%	—	$1 – $386
10	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	85	$61	$85	$66	78%	—	$24 – $378
11	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	60	$67	$184	$885	482%	—	$37 – $7.0k
12	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	57	$38	$38	$3	7%	—	$34 – $44
13	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	53	$42	$135	$183	136%	—	$34 – $720
14	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	49	$58	$78	$66	85%	—	$15 – $327
15	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	48	$84	$157	$183	117%	—	$35 – $653
16	Tricare fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	43	$36	$36	$4	10%	—	$32 – $48
17	Oscar facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	39	$57	$231	$814	352%	—	$43 – $4.0k
18	Amerihealth Caritas facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	34	$53	$46	$25	54%	—	$14 – $165
19	Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	34	$41	$40	$3	7%	—	$34 – $45
20	Medicare fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	30	$37	$39	$3	7%	—	$32 – $43
21	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	30	$41	$61	$33	55%	—	$38 – $211
22	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	28	$54	$429	$289	67%	—	$1 – $649
23	Baylor Scott White Health Plan facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	25	$47	$47	$9	20%	—	$36 – $62
24	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	24	$115	$212	$208	98%	—	$3 – $566
25	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	24	$116	$120	$55	46%	—	$20 – $202

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