Technetium-99m pyrophosphate bone imaging agent

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
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Max output tokens: 4096
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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

KIT PREPARATION OF TC-99M-SODIUM PYROPHOSPHATE 12 MG IV SOLUTION

Payers reporting HCPCS A9538

Payer pricing summary

Low

$17

Average

$284

Median

$201

High

$3.9k

Payer rate distribution

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	445	$67	$125	$353	283%	4–40	$1 – $7.1k
2	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	218	$122	$176	$210	120%	2–20	$1 – $1.7k
3	Kaiser fee schedule · both · +18 other terms	47	$64	$62	$40	65%	1–10	$20 – $682
4	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	246	$122	$239	$307	128%	—	$0 – $1.7k
5	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	121	$146	$249	$328	132%	—	$1 – $1.5k
6	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	94	$192	$241	$172	71%	—	$1 – $1.2k
7	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	90	$76	$109	$148	136%	—	$4 – $1.8k
8	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	64	$182	$250	$167	67%	—	$40 – $880
9	Healthcare Highways percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +3 other terms	44	$197	$223	$175	78%	—	$46 – $741
10	First Health fee schedule · inpatient · +16 other terms	30	$204	$262	$167	64%	—	$52 – $754
11	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	25	$90	$77	$42	55%	—	$1 – $174
12	Superior Healthplan percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms	25	$38	$47	$33	70%	—	$13 – $153
13	Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms	20	$216	$201	$54	27%	—	$85 – $285
14	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	19	$84	$171	$114	67%	—	$50 – $517
15	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	19	$138	$145	$38	26%	—	$33 – $191
16	WellCare professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	18	$25	$22	$4	17%	—	$16 – $25
17	Excellus facility · fee schedule · both · +9 other terms	17	$56	$43	$22	52%	—	$16 – $75
18	Premera facility · fee schedule · both · +8 other terms	17	$56	$49	$20	41%	—	$16 – $75
19	Regence facility · fee schedule · both · +13 other terms	17	$56	$49	$20	42%	—	$16 – $75
20	Carefirst facility · fee schedule · both · +8 other terms	16	$56	$50	$20	41%	—	$16 – $75
21	Phcs fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	16	$130	$205	$128	63%	—	$76 – $396
22	Wellmark facility · fee schedule · both · +12 other terms	16	$56	$50	$20	41%	—	$16 – $75
23	Ambetter other · outpatient · +13 other terms	15	$1.5k	$1.4k	$299	21%	—	$87 – $1.8k
24	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	15	$34	$47	$47	98%	—	$1 – $177
25	Medicaid fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	15	$112	$363	$833	229%	—	$1 – $3.5k

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