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
Tissue culture skin/biopsy
Edmonds, WA
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Swedish Edmonds’s median price of $218 is 14% above the median hospital's median price ($192), higher than 57% of the 2,175 hospitals reporting CPT 88233. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Negotiated rates from the hospital’s own file: 7 payers, 11 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 | UnitedHealthcare aco tiered/doctors plan other commercial plan fee schedule · outpatient | $141 | $141 | — | — | — | $141 – $141 |
| 2 | Aetna medicare managed care - hmo fee schedule · outpatient | $145 | $145 | — | — | — | $145 – $145 |
| 3 | UnitedHealthcare medicare managed care plan fee schedule · outpatient | $148 | $148 | — | — | — | $148 – $148 |
| 4 | Humana choice care medicare managed care plan fee schedule · outpatient | $149 | $149 | — | — | — | $149 – $149 |
| 5 | Molina medicare managed care plan fee schedule · outpatient | $152 | $152 | — | — | — | $152 – $152 |
| 6 | UnitedHealthcare all commercial plans fee schedule · outpatient | $169 | $169 | — | — | — | $169 – $169 |
| 7 | Kaiser all commercial plans fee schedule · outpatient | $211 | $211 | — | — | — | $211 – $211 |
| 8 | Aetna whole health other commercial plan fee schedule · outpatient | $225 | $225 | — | — | — | $225 – $225 |
| 9 | Blue Cross Blue Shield premera lifewise exchange fee schedule · outpatient | $253 | $253 | — | — | — | $253 – $253 |
| 10 | Cigna all commercial plans fee schedule · outpatient | $274 | $274 | — | — | — | $274 – $274 |
| 11 | Aetna all commercial plans fee schedule · outpatient | $307 | $307 | — | — | — | $307 – $307 |
Last updated: Apr 1, 2026
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