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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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Provider: anthropic
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Max output tokens: 4096
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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

CARLE LAB CORONAVIRUS,NOVEL

Payers reporting HCPCS U0004

Payer pricing summary

Low

$38

Average

$132

Median

$104

High

$397

Payer rate distribution

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1	Blue Cross Blue Shield facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	56	$125	$182	$168	92%	—	$51 – $525
2	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	56	$100	$100	$43	43%	—	$22 – $300
3	Aetna facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	39	$157	$193	$120	62%	—	$51 – $611
4	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	37	$83	$110	$87	79%	—	$21 – $375
5	Humana facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	34	$75	$160	$92	58%	—	$41 – $285
6	Molina facility · case rate · outpatient · +7 other terms	27	$32	$34	$9	27%	—	$21 – $68
7	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	24	$100	$101	$21	21%	—	$75 – $220
8	Healthpartners fee schedule · outpatient · +3 other terms	18	$227	$227	$28	12%	—	$199 – $255
9	WellCare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	18	$77	$76	$4	5%	—	$60 – $79
10	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	16	$135	$144	$30	21%	—	$54 – $180
11	Caresource facility · case rate · outpatient · +1 other terms	15	$31	$33	$8	23%	—	$21 – $53
12	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient	15	$75	$75	—	—	—	$75 – $75
13	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	14	$140	$144	$34	23%	—	$64 – $177
14	Optum other · outpatient · +5 other terms	13	$185	$189	$50	26%	—	$57 – $275
15	Wellmark fee schedule · both · +3 other terms	13	$84	$84	—	—	—	$84 – $84
16	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · both · +5 other terms	12	$76	$76	—	—	—	$76 – $76
17	Bcbs La other · outpatient · +1 other terms	12	$93	$97	$20	21%	—	$57 – $138
18	Highmark fee schedule · outpatient · +5 other terms	10	$56	$56	—	—	—	$56 – $56
19	Phcs fee schedule · inpatient · +1 other terms	10	$113	$140	$33	24%	—	$113 – $180
20	Aetna Better Health facility · case rate · outpatient · +5 other terms	7	$32	$33	$1	3%	—	$31 – $35
21	Bcbs Mn fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	7	$76	$76	$1	1%	—	$75 – $76
22	Excellus facility · fee schedule · outpatient	5	$47	$75	$45	60%	—	$39 – $150
23	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	4	$110	$108	$12	11%	—	$90 – $125
24	Devoted facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	4	$123	$130	$13	10%	—	$121 – $154
25	Medicaid facility · case rate · outpatient · +2 other terms	4	$54	$54	$27	50%	—	$27 – $80

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