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.
Original text from hospital filings
HC (SUP SHELL A6229) GAUZE >16<=48 SQ IN WATR/SAL
Low
$1
Average
$9
Median
$5
High
$74
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
50 payers; the 90th percentile is 2.9× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many payers fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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| 1 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms | 301 | $5 | $8 | $8 | 105% | — | $2 – $40 |
| 2 | UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms | 291 | $5 | $5 | $1 | 16% | — | $2 – $12 |
| 3 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms | 267 | $5 | $6 | $3 | 48% | — | $2 – $31 |
| 4 | WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 185 | $5 | $5 | $1 | 16% | — | $5 – $10 |
| 5 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms | 174 | $5 | $6 | $2 | 39% | — | $0 – $21 |
| 6 | Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms | 163 | $5 | $5 | $0 | 2% | — | $5 – $5 |
| 7 | Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 116 | $5 | $5 | $0 | 3% | — | $5 – $6 |
| 8 | Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 97 | $7 | $7 | $3 | 39% | — | $4 – $13 |
| 9 | Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms | 77 | $5 | $6 | $1 | 24% | — | $5 – $13 |
| 10 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms | 75 | $5 | $5 | $1 | 16% | — | $5 – $12 |
| 11 | Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient | 40 | $5 | $5 | $0 | 1% | — | $5 – $5 |
| 12 | Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 39 | $5 | $5 | $0 | 2% | — | $5 – $5 |
| 13 | Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 37 | $5 | $5 | $0 | 3% | — | $5 – $5 |
| 14 | Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient | 31 | $5 | $5 | $1 | 30% | — | $4 – $18 |
| 15 | Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms | 25 | $5 | $6 | $2 | 42% | — | $5 – $13 |
| 16 | Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 24 | $5 | $5 | $0 | 3% | — | $5 – $5 |
| 17 | Caresource facility · case rate · outpatient · +5 other terms | 20 | $15 | $14 | $5 | 37% | — | $5 – $27 |
| 18 | Medicare fee schedule · outpatient | 18 | $5 | $5 | $0 | 1% | — | $5 – $5 |
| 19 | Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 16 | $6 | $6 | $0 | 2% | — | $6 – $6 |
| 20 | Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms | 15 | $9 | $8 | $1 | 11% | — | $7 – $9 |
| 21 | Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 13 | $2 | $4 | $1 | 36% | — | $2 – $5 |
| 22 | Wellmark fee schedule · both · +1 other terms | 13 | $5 | $5 | $0 | 3% | — | $4 – $5 |
| 23 | Bcbs Mn fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 12 | $4 | $3 | $2 | 71% | — | $0 – $5 |
| 24 | Bcbs Nj fee schedule · outpatient | 12 | $5 | $11 | $7 | 68% | — | $5 – $22 |
| 25 | Highmark fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 10 | $5 | $5 | $2 | 36% | — | $2 – $12 |
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