Ultrasound-guided needle placement at Essentia Health Duluth

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.

Model: claude-haiku-5-5
Provider: anthropic
API: message_batches
Reasoning effort: low
Max output tokens: 4096
Prompt version (hash): 444523875572
Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

US GUIDE NEEDLE BX S&I

Duluth, MN

See all hospitals reporting CPT 76942 →

SharePost on X LinkedIn

Pricing by billing methodology

Price type

How this price compares nationally

Essentia Health Duluth’s median price of $529 is 54% above the median hospital's median price ($344), higher than 65% of the 2,401 hospitals reporting CPT 76942. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.

Payers reporting CPT 76942 at Essentia Health Duluth

Negotiated rates from the hospital’s own file: 8 payers, 26 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	Blue Cross Blue Shield bcbs mn facility · fee schedule · outpatient	$1	$1	—	—	—	$1 – $1
2	Medica medicaid facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	$263	$263	$1	0%	—	$262 – $264
3	Healthpartners medicaid facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	$317	$317	$1	0%	—	$315 – $318
4	Blue Cross Blue Shield shp facility · percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges	$328	$328	—	—	—	$328 – $328
5	Blue Cross Blue Shield medicaid facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	$329	$329	$1	0%	—	$327 – $330
6	Blue Cross Blue Shield shp facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	$329	$329	$1	0%	—	$328 – $330
7	Sanford Health Plan commercia-ndpers facility · percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges	$340	$340	—	—	—	$340 – $340
8	Sanford Health Plan commercia-ndpers facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	$341	$341	$2	0%	—	$340 – $343
9	Sanford Health Plan commercial facility · percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges	$358	$358	—	—	—	$358 – $358
10	Blue Cross Blue Shield bcbs mn facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	$358	$358	$2	0%	—	$356 – $360
11	Sanford Health Plan commercial facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	$359	$359	$2	0%	—	$358 – $361
12	Medica commercial-fi facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	$440	$440	$2	0%	—	$438 – $442
13	Medica commercial-si facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	$452	$452	$2	0%	—	$450 – $454
14	Medica commercial facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	$463	$463	$23	5%	—	$438 – $488
15	Blue Cross Blue Shield medicaid facility · percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges	$475	$475	—	—	—	$475 – $475
16	Ucare commercial facility · percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges	$521	$521	—	—	—	$521 – $521
17	Ucare commercial facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	$523	$523	$2	0%	—	$521 – $526
18	Blue Cross Blue Shield bcbs mn facility · percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges	$529	$529	—	—	—	$529 – $529
19	Cigna commercial facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	$569	$569	$3	0%	—	$566 – $571
20	Healthpartners commercial facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	$569	$569	$3	0%	—	$566 – $571
21	Healthpartners shp facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	$569	$569	$3	0%	—	$566 – $571
22	UnitedHealthcare commercial facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	$582	$582	$3	0%	—	$580 – $585
23	Blue Cross Blue Shield commercial facility · percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges	$602	$602	—	—	—	$602 – $602
24	Blue Cross Blue Shield commercial facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	$605	$605	$3	0%	—	$602 – $607
25	Aetna commercial facility · percent of total billed charges · inpatientfrom % of charges	$673	$673	—	—	—	$673 – $673

Page 1 of 2 · 26 rates

Last updated: Jan 1, 2026

Compare to other hospitals

See Ultrasound-guided needle placement pricing across every hospital in the network reporting it, or ask Claude or any MCP client directly — see how to connect.