Specimen transport fee from office to lab

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

HANDLING AND/OR CONVEYANCE OF SPECIMEN FOR TRANSFER FROM PHYSICIAN OFFICE TO LABORATORY

Payers reporting CPT 99000

Payer pricing summary

Low

Average

$1.8k

Median

$22

High

$32.8k

Payer rate distribution

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	528	$6	$8	$13	157%	13–22	$2 – $145
2	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	185	$25	$27	$17	63%	—	$0 – $110
3	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	102	$21	$143	$862	604%	—	$2 – $8.3k
4	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	81	$18	$224	$1.1k	478%	—	$1 – $8.4k
5	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	55	$21	$17	$14	82%	—	$1 – $96
6	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	40	$14	$27	$31	116%	—	$7 – $106
7	Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	29	$55	$55	$17	30%	—	$20 – $105
8	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	28	$12	$13	$3	23%	—	$4 – $15
9	Molina facility · case rate · outpatient · +20 other terms	27	$3	$3	$1	19%	—	$2 – $4
10	Baylor Scott White Health Plan facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	26	$27	$19	$6	31%	—	$6 – $29
11	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	24	$3	$504	$3.1k	619%	—	$3 – $20k
12	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	20	$28	$72	$59	82%	—	$5 – $149
13	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	18	$10	$15	$15	104%	—	$2 – $98
14	Bcbs La fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	17	$0	$0	—	—	—	$0 – $0
15	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	17	$6	$17	$17	101%	—	$4 – $44
16	Phcs fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	15	$27	$52	$49	94%	—	$22 – $140
17	Medcost fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	14	$21	$23	$3	14%	—	$18 – $29
18	Medicaid fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	14	$31	$45	$37	82%	—	$20 – $142
19	Regence fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	14	$6	$7	$3	39%	—	$5 – $18
20	Highmark fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	13	$6	$8	$12	144%	—	$6 – $113
21	Optum facility · case rate · outpatient · +12 other terms	13	$2	$3	$1	22%	—	$2 – $4
22	Wellmark fee schedule · both · +14 other terms	13	$3	$3	$1	40%	—	$3 – $11
23	Bcbs Mn fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	12	$4	$3	$1	29%	—	$2 – $4
24	Bcbs Nj fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	12	$4	$4	$1	15%	—	$4 – $6
25	Healthcare Highways percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +2 other terms	12	$37	$29	$16	56%	—	$5 – $57

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