Phone or online consultation with a physician

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 ECONSULT INTERNAL

Payers reporting CPT 99451

Payer pricing summary

Low

$24

Average

$84

Median

$55

High

$652

Payer rate distribution

Filter by billing methodology

Filter by billing class

#
1	Ucare professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	20	$30	$30	$6	20%	1,771–1,816	$19 – $51
2	Medica professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	21	$35	$35	$7	19%	177–186	$25 – $62
3	Optum professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	30	$32	$32	$4	12%	57–93	$24 – $36
4	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	95	$34	$42	$18	43%	—	$6 – $152
5	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	94	$33	$353	$1.3k	369%	—	$23 – $8.4k
6	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	87	$33	$50	$31	61%	—	$25 – $152
7	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	64	$36	$87	$88	102%	—	$30 – $412
8	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	60	$42	$47	$15	32%	—	$29 – $102
9	Blue Cross Blue Shield facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	48	$63	$68	$56	83%	—	$18 – $323
10	Molina professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	43	$35	$32	$5	17%	—	$19 – $49
11	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	33	$33	$65	$91	140%	—	$30 – $523
12	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	32	$35	$55	$26	47%	—	$28 – $110
13	WellCare professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	32	$32	$33	$3	10%	—	$19 – $39
14	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	23	$35	$721	$3.6k	505%	—	$27 – $20k
15	Medicare fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	19	$33	$32	$1	2%	—	$30 – $33
16	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	17	$50	$49	$10	20%	—	$33 – $62
17	Aetna Better Health professional · fee schedule · both · +9 other terms	15	$28	$30	$11	36%	—	$23 – $66
18	Highmark fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	15	$38	$39	$12	30%	—	$25 – $122
19	MultiPlan fee schedule · both · +14 other terms	15	$65	$86	$32	37%	—	$56 – $145
20	Medicaid fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	14	$38	$38	$7	18%	—	$27 – $45
21	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	14	$32	$2.3k	$10.4k	451%	—	$16 – $50k
22	Wellmark fee schedule · both · +10 other terms	13	$44	$44	$7	16%	—	$32 – $48
23	Bcbs Mn fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	12	$165	$132	$65	49%	—	$35 – $206
24	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · both · +2 other terms	12	$32	$32	$0	1%	—	$32 – $33
25	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	12	$25	$28	$24	83%	—	$1 – $60

Page 1 of 3 · 51 payers