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
HC MENINGITIS-ENCEPHALITIS PANEL, CSF
Crowley, LA
See all hospitals reporting CPT 87483 →Price type
Acadia General Hospital, Inc’s median price of $417 is 16% below the median hospital's median price ($496), higher than 9% of the 2,293 hospitals reporting CPT 87483. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Negotiated rates from the hospital’s own file: 10 payers, 10 plan rates. A facility fee, a professional fee, a per diem and a case rate are different bills, so each is listed on its own. Open a payer to see it across hospitals.
Filter by billing methodology
Filter by billing class
| # | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aetna Better Health all payor fee schedule · outpatient | $44 | $44 | — | — | — | $44 – $44 |
| 2 | Amerihealth Caritas all payor fee schedule · outpatient | $44 | $44 | — | — | — | $44 – $44 |
| 3 | Humana all payor fee schedule · outpatient | $230 | $230 | $187 | 81% | — | $44 – $417 |
| 4 | UnitedHealthcare all payor fee schedule · outpatient | $417 | $292 | $176 | 60% | — | $44 – $417 |
| 5 | Optum all payor fee schedule · outpatient | $417 | $417 | — | — | — | $417 – $417 |
| 6 | WellCare all payor fee schedule · outpatient | $438 | $438 | — | — | — | $438 – $438 |
| 7 | Tricare all payor fee schedule · outpatient | $480 | $480 | — | — | — | $480 – $480 |
| 8 | Aetna all payor fee schedule · outpatient | $514 | $514 | $97 | 19% | — | $417 – $611 |
| 9 | Bcbs La all payor fee schedule · outpatient | $643 | $541 | $193 | 36% | — | $208 – $670 |
| 10 | Cigna all payor other · outpatient | $983 | $983 | — | — | — | $983 – $983 |
Last updated: Apr 1, 2026
See Central nervous system pathogen DNA or RNA detection test pricing across every hospital in the network reporting it, or ask Claude or any MCP client directly — see how to connect.