New patient phone-only telehealth visit

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

Psych Synchronous Audio-Only Visit New Sf Mdm 15 Min

Payers reporting CPT 98008

Payer pricing summary

Low

Average

$18.3k

Median

$97

High

$276.1k

Payer rate distribution

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1	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	90	$142	$151	$62	41%	—	$0 – $303
2	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	80	$48	$75	$40	54%	—	$23 – $200
3	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	67	$48	$60	$25	41%	—	$36 – $137
4	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	64	$49	$507	$1.6k	307%	—	$31 – $8.4k
5	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	40	$51	$60	$19	31%	—	$45 – $144
6	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	38	$48	$48	$2	5%	—	$41 – $51
7	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	26	$49	$49	$2	4%	—	$41 – $51
8	Molina facility · case rate · outpatient · +16 other terms	25	$60	$64	$21	33%	—	$26 – $106
9	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	22	$48	$49	$1	3%	—	$47 – $51
10	Optum professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	21	$50	$46	$7	16%	—	$31 – $52
11	Caresource facility · case rate · outpatient · +9 other terms	20	$65	$70	$18	26%	—	$42 – $108
12	Medicare fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	19	$51	$50	$2	4%	—	$41 – $51
13	Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient	18	$137	$143	$53	37%	—	$51 – $243
14	Medica professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	16	$52	$54	$11	20%	—	$38 – $89
15	Ucare professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	14	$52	$51	$5	9%	—	$37 – $55
16	WellCare case rate · outpatient · +12 other terms	14	$50	$51	$3	6%	—	$45 – $56
17	Wellmark fee schedule · both · +6 other terms	13	$61	$60	$4	6%	—	$42 – $61
18	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	12	$48	$48	—	—	—	$48 – $48
19	Medical Mutual facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	10	$49	$61	$13	21%	—	$49 – $78
20	Tricare professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	10	$42	$41	$4	11%	—	$34 – $51
21	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	9	$88	$84	$13	15%	—	$47 – $88
22	Aetna Better Health professional · fee schedule · both · +5 other terms	8	$0	$3	$10	345%	—	$0 – $36
23	Bcbs Il professional · fee schedule · both · +3 other terms	8	$11	$18	$28	154%	—	$0 – $92
24	Bcbs Mn fee schedule · both · +6 other terms	8	$78	$78	$1	1%	—	$77 – $79
25	First Health professional · fee schedule · both · +14 other terms	8	$0	$25	$20	79%	—	$0 – $42

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