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
Sternal Bar
Low
$88
Average
$405
Median
$346
High
$1.2k
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
55 payers; the 90th percentile is 2.7× 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 | UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms | 373 | $285 | $307 | $144 | 47% | — | $125 – $1.3k |
| 2 | Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms | 367 | $291 | $333 | $184 | 55% | — | $127 – $2.1k |
| 3 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms | 323 | $271 | $419 | $468 | 112% | — | $150 – $2.2k |
| 4 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms | 228 | $285 | $381 | $217 | 57% | — | $0 – $1.4k |
| 5 | WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms | 214 | $285 | $302 | $69 | 23% | — | $250 – $662 |
| 6 | Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms | 164 | $265 | $281 | $17 | 6% | — | $255 – $346 |
| 7 | Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms | 143 | $428 | $403 | $150 | 37% | — | $175 – $762 |
| 8 | Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 116 | $272 | $286 | $14 | 5% | — | $255 – $349 |
| 9 | Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms | 109 | $275 | $386 | $220 | 57% | — | $250 – $1.1k |
| 10 | Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms | 86 | $265 | $472 | $435 | 92% | — | $165 – $2.2k |
| 11 | Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms | 75 | $271 | $509 | $364 | 72% | — | $255 – $2.3k |
| 12 | Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms | 47 | $482 | $493 | $97 | 20% | — | $212 – $636 |
| 13 | Clover fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms | 41 | $306 | $302 | $32 | 10% | — | $255 – $339 |
| 14 | Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 40 | $306 | $305 | $1 | 0% | — | $285 – $306 |
| 15 | Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 36 | $285 | $333 | $98 | 29% | — | $267 – $577 |
| 16 | Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms | 34 | $255 | $278 | $89 | 32% | — | $139 – $452 |
| 17 | Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms | 33 | $260 | $365 | $164 | 45% | — | $255 – $727 |
| 18 | Medica facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 23 | $299 | $273 | $66 | 24% | — | $98 – $439 |
| 19 | Medicare fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms | 23 | $255 | $255 | $3 | 1% | — | $251 – $260 |
| 20 | Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 18 | $306 | $302 | $6 | 2% | — | $290 – $306 |
| 21 | Bcbs Tx fee schedule · outpatient | 18 | $285 | $285 | — | — | — | $285 – $285 |
| 22 | Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 18 | $287 | $294 | $27 | 9% | — | $250 – $339 |
| 23 | Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +8 other terms | 17 | $527 | $548 | $295 | 54% | — | $247 – $1.6k |
| 24 | Regence facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms | 17 | $276 | $278 | $9 | 3% | — | $260 – $298 |
| 25 | Medical Mutual facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 15 | $293 | $337 | $83 | 25% | — | $159 – $462 |
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