Lidocaine local anesthetic injection, preservative-free 1%

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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Original text from hospital filings

LIDOCAINE HCL (PF) 2 % INJ SOLN

Payers reporting HCPCS J2003

64 payers file a negotiated rate for this code. Each is shown once, under the terms the most hospitals file it under; rates under different terms (billing class, payment method, setting) are never blended, so open a payer to see them all. Figures are hospital-level averages; the median is across hospitals.

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	459	$0.11	$32.40	$0.01 – $23,292
2	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	267	$0.02	$20.03	$0.01 – $1,368
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	181	$0.04	$3.27	$0.01 – $377.41
4	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	153	$0.02	$26.73	$0.01 – $1,368
5	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	83	$45.96	$56.68	$0.01 – $506.66
6	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	69	$0.02	$11.97	$0.01 – $360.00
7	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	67	$365.96	$249.50	$0.01 – $365.96
8	Humana other · outpatient · +18 other terms	41	$7.34	$310.17	$1.04 – $12,146
9	First Health fee schedule · inpatient · +17 other terms	33	$39.08	$42.49	$0.76 – $299.25
10	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	32	$39.09	$46.56	$0.02 – $289.60
11	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	31	$1.68	$25.72	$0.02 – $282.31
12	Medcost percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +5 other terms	30	$21.18	$21.88	$0.06 – $204.57
13	Healthcare Highways percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +2 other terms	29	$24.23	$29.42	$0.08 – $200.04
14	Wellmark fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	29	$0.01	$0.01	$0.01 – $0.01
15	Baylor Scott White Health Plan facility · percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges · +1 other terms	26	$14.56	$12.93	$4.27 – $49.52
16	Amerihealth Caritas other · outpatient · +8 other terms	25	$7.59	$83.93	$1.04 – $4,042
17	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	25	$17.74	$48.83	$0.01 – $189.15
18	Phcs fee schedule · inpatient · +12 other terms	23	$70.65	$50.17	$0.09 – $350.72
19	Beechstreet percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +3 other terms	22	$24.36	$28.04	$0.20 – $234.70
20	Aetna Better Health other · outpatient · +10 other terms	20	$6.20	$6.82	$1.04 – $79.83
21	Bcbs La fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	20	$0.01	$0.01	$0.01 – $0.01
22	Ambetter other · outpatient · +12 other terms	19	$12.10	$59.40	$1.53 – $4,002
23	Optum other · outpatient · +15 other terms	19	$15.09	$36.15	$3.10 – $55.00
24	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	17	$18.88	$19.95	$0.40 – $323.00
25	Molina facility · case rate · outpatient · +19 other terms	15	$8.73	$9.73	$6.12 – $14.81

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