Advanced life support esophageal intubation supplies

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

INTUBATION

Payers reporting HCPCS A0396

Payer pricing summary

Low

Average

$5.3k

Median

$58

High

$101.7k

Payer rate distribution

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1	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	71	$98	$159	$101	64%	—	$27 – $289
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	28	$63	$97	$92	96%	—	$16 – $289
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	27	$87	$93	$61	66%	—	$0 – $274
4	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · both · +11 other terms	26	$31	$43	$15	36%	—	$30 – $82
5	Cigna fee schedule · both · +8 other terms	16	$68	$66	$21	31%	—	$27 – $132
6	Regence fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	15	$34	$61	$15	24%	—	$26 – $87
7	Wellmark fee schedule · both · +1 other terms	13	$1	$3	$9	365%	—	$1 – $58
8	Baylor Scott White Health Plan facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	12	$7	$6	$2	26%	—	$2 – $8
9	Superior Healthplan facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms	12	$3	$3	$1	31%	—	$2 – $6
10	Highmark fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	10	$62	$62	—	—	—	$62 – $62
11	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	10	$60	$60	$15	26%	—	$36 – $77
12	Anthem professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	8	$26	$26	—	—	—	$26 – $26
13	Bcbs Mn fee schedule · both · +3 other terms	8	$18	$18	$0	1%	—	$18 – $18
14	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · inpatient · +3 other terms	7	$28	$28	—	—	—	$28 – $28
15	Bcbs Id fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	4	$119	$119	—	—	—	$119 – $119
16	Amerihealth Caritas professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	3	$24	$24	$1	3%	—	$23 – $25
17	Bcbs Ks fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	3	$29	$31	$2	6%	—	$29 – $33
18	First Health professional · fee schedule · both · +5 other terms	3	$29	$29	—	—	—	$29 – $29
19	Kaiser fee schedule · both	2	$154	$154	—	—	—	$154 – $154
20	Molina percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +2 other terms	2	$35	$35	$19	55%	—	$11 – $70
21	Optum facility · fee schedule · outpatient	2	$58	$58	$4	7%	—	$54 – $62
22	Bcbs Il professional · fee schedule · both	1	$58	$58	—	—	—	$58 – $58
23	Bcbs La facility · fee schedule · outpatient	1	$0	$0	—	—	—	$0 – $0
24	Bcbs Nc facility · fee schedule · outpatient	1	$23	$23	$5	22%	—	$16 – $27
25	Bcbs Nv fee schedule · outpatient	1	$30	$30	—	—	—	$30 – $30

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