RC 306

Infectious agent antigen detection test

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

LABORATORY - BACTERIOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY

Payers reporting RC 306

69 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 · +36 other terms	544	$63.91	$351.23	$0.02 – $47,414
2	Aetna facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +32 other terms	392	$47.59	$62.93	$0.01 – $8,399
3	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	325	$44.30	$566.47	$0.84 – $129,840
4	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	299	$95.69	$520.44	$0.02 – $63,613
5	Blue Cross Blue Shield facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	287	$49.11	$123.49	$0.01 – $12,145
6	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	187	$55.49	$1,276	$0.01 – $75,264
7	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	160	$45.10	$57.26	$0.49 – $13,297
8	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	155	$45.57	$64.36	$2.25 – $4,366
9	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	131	$38.67	$37.95	$0.01 – $3,689
10	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	114	$36.78	$35.09	$0.01 – $2,532
11	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	93	$70.32	$127.35	$0.02 – $7,210
12	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	91	$71.57	$73.33	$0.01 – $1,462
13	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	88	$42.19	$68.16	$0.03 – $19,500
14	Medicare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	76	$36.22	$36.89	$0.35 – $4,543
15	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	76	$150.90	$239.75	$0.02 – $9,995
16	Optum facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	68	$38.77	$39.85	$0.01 – $2,126
17	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	67	$29.84	$29.85	$1.21 – $1,153
18	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	61	$47.41	$49.38	$1.02 – $967.71
19	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	58	$46.00	$76.74	$1.08 – $4,442
20	Oscar facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	57	$58.06	$54.85	$4.27 – $687.69
21	Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	52	$41.19	$47.44	$1.59 – $2,473
22	Medica facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	46	$37.47	$42.10	$4.04 – $2,947
23	Wellmark facility · fee schedule · both · +14 other terms	44	$52.87	$87.13	$1.93 – $2,787
24	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	38	$122.56	$113.31	$1.02 – $5,739
25	Carefirst facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +12 other terms	37	$125.07	$588.76	$0.06 – $18,309

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