COVID-19 specimen collection

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

Specimen collect COVID-19

Payers reporting HCPCS G2023

Payer pricing summary

Low

$10

Average

$38

Median

$32

High

$113

Payer rate distribution

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1	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	51	$57	$74	$67	91%	—	$4 – $260
2	Anthem facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	38	$23	$50	$55	109%	—	$2 – $211
3	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	36	$23	$31	$18	57%	—	$3 – $115
4	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	34	$23	$20	$9	47%	—	$3 – $48
5	Molina facility · case rate · outpatient · +10 other terms	27	$3	$3	$1	19%	—	$2 – $4
6	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	20	$23	$24	$4	15%	—	$23 – $54
7	Healthpartners fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	18	$71	$71	$9	12%	—	$62 – $80
8	Humana professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	17	$23	$23	$4	16%	—	$2 – $23
9	Caresource facility · case rate · outpatient · +1 other terms	15	$2	$3	$1	23%	—	$2 – $4
10	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	15	$23	$23	—	—	—	$23 – $23
11	Medcost percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges	13	$16	$20	$6	32%	—	$14 – $39
12	Optum facility · case rate · outpatient · +4 other terms	13	$2	$2	$1	21%	—	$2 – $4
13	Wellmark fee schedule · both · +3 other terms	13	$23	$23	$0	0%	—	$23 – $24
14	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · both · +4 other terms	12	$24	$24	—	—	—	$24 – $24
15	Ucare facility · percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms	12	$46	$46	—	—	—	$46 – $46
16	WellCare fee schedule · both · +6 other terms	12	$24	$24	$0	0%	—	$23 – $24
17	Aetna Better Health facility · case rate · outpatient · +3 other terms	7	$3	$3	$0	11%	—	$2 – $3
18	Bcbs Mn fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	7	$24	$24	$0	1%	—	$23 – $24
19	Sanford Health Plan facility · percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms	7	$31	$31	$1	3%	—	$30 – $32
20	Kaiser percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +2 other terms	5	$35	$28	$14	51%	—	$10 – $58
21	Devoted facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms	4	$31	$33	$3	9%	—	$31 – $38
22	MultiPlan facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms	3	$23	$23	—	—	—	$23 – $23
23	Bcbs La other · outpatient · +1 other terms	2	$32	$32	$1	2%	—	$31 – $33
24	Bcbs Tx facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	2	$94	$94	$6	7%	—	$87 – $102
25	Carefirst fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	2	$95	$95	—	—	—	$95 – $95

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