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
Aspiration and/or injection of fluid from large joint
Tulare, CA
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Adventist Health Tulare’s median price of $110 is 72% below the median hospital's median price ($393), higher than 8% of the 2,601 hospitals reporting CPT 20610. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Negotiated rates from the hospital’s own file: 6 payers, 24 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.
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| 1 | Blue Cross Blue Shield blue shield mcare fee schedule · outpatient | $39.10 | $39.10 | $39.10 – $39.10 |
| 2 | Blue Cross Blue Shield tricare blue shield-all plans fee schedule · outpatient | $39.10 | $39.10 | $39.10 – $39.10 |
| 3 | UnitedHealthcare uhc mcr adv fee schedule · outpatient | $39.10 | $39.10 | $39.10 – $39.10 |
| 4 | Medicaid medi-cal fee schedule · outpatient | $39.90 | $39.90 | $34.00 – $45.79 |
| 5 | Aetna aetna-all plans fee schedule · outpatient | $43.19 | $43.19 | $43.19 – $43.19 |
| 6 | Blue Cross Blue Shield blue cross mcal fee schedule · outpatient | $55.59 | $55.59 | $34.00 – $77.17 |
| 7 | Cigna cigna-all plans fee schedule · outpatient | $55.88 | $55.88 | $55.88 – $55.88 |
| 8 | UnitedHealthcare uhc all payer - all other plans fee schedule · outpatient | $60.13 | $60.13 | $60.13 – $60.13 |
| 9 | UnitedHealthcare uhc jll fee schedule · outpatient | $60.13 | $60.13 | $60.13 – $60.13 |
| 10 | Blue Cross Blue Shield blue shield epn fee schedule · outpatient | $106.84 | $106.84 | $106.84 – $106.84 |
| 11 | Blue Cross Blue Shield blue shield-all other plans fee schedule · outpatient | $112.91 | $112.91 | $112.91 – $112.91 |
| 12 | Blue Cross Blue Shield blue cross non mcs - all other plans fee schedule · outpatient | $127.71 | $127.71 | $127.71 – $127.71 |
| 13 | Blue Cross Blue Shield blue shield mcare other · outpatient | $394.79 | $394.79 | $394.79 – $394.79 |
| 14 | Blue Cross Blue Shield tricare blue shield-all plans other · outpatient | $394.79 | $394.79 | $394.79 – $394.79 |
| 15 | UnitedHealthcare uhc mcr adv other · outpatient | $394.79 | $394.79 | $394.79 – $394.79 |
| 16 | Blue Cross Blue Shield blue shield epn percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | $717.80 | $717.80 | $574.17 – $861.42 |
| 17 | Blue Cross Blue Shield blue shield-all other plans percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | $992.65 | $992.65 | $794.03 – $1,191 |
| 18 | Cigna cigna-all plans percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | $1,052 | $1,052 | $841.27 – $1,262 |
| 19 | UnitedHealthcare uhc jll case rate · outpatient | $1,241 | $1,241 | $992.81 – $1,489 |
| 20 | UnitedHealthcare uhc all payer - all other plans case rate · outpatient | $1,307 | $1,307 | $1,045 – $1,568 |
| 21 | MultiPlan multiplan - all plans percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | $1,931 | $1,931 | $1,544 – $2,317 |
| 22 | Aetna aetna-all plans case rate · outpatient | $2,667 | $2,667 | $2,667 – $2,667 |
| 23 | Blue Cross Blue Shield blue cross exchange case rate · outpatient | $7,596 | $7,596 | $7,596 – $7,596 |
| 24 | Blue Cross Blue Shield blue cross non mcs - all other plans case rate · outpatient | $8,529 | $8,529 | $8,529 – $8,529 |
Last updated: May 22, 2026
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