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
Gastrostomy open neonatal
Knoxville, TN
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The University of Tennessee Medical Center’s median price of $899 is 24% below the median hospital's median price ($1.2k), higher than 19% of the 1,462 hospitals reporting CPT 43831. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Negotiated rates from the hospital’s own file: 8 payers, 29 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 uhc community tenncare facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $275.52 | $275.52 | $275.52 – $275.52 |
| 2 | UnitedHealthcare tenncare facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $727.69 | $727.69 | $727.69 – $727.69 |
| 3 | Cigna cigna healthspring medadv facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $856.10 | $856.10 | $856.10 – $856.10 |
| 4 | Humana choice medadv ppo facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $856.10 | $856.10 | $856.10 – $856.10 |
| 5 | Humana humana medicare facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $856.10 | $856.10 | $856.10 – $856.10 |
| 6 | Humana medadv hmo,pos,ppo facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $856.10 | $856.10 | $856.10 – $856.10 |
| 7 | Humana medadv hvn facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $856.10 | $856.10 | $856.10 – $856.10 |
| 8 | Optum united optum vaccn facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $856.10 | $856.10 | $856.10 – $856.10 |
| 9 | Optum vaccn transplant facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $856.10 | $856.10 | $856.10 – $856.10 |
| 10 | UnitedHealthcare medadv/aarp facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $856.10 | $856.10 | $856.10 – $856.10 |
| 11 | UnitedHealthcare medicare facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $856.10 | $856.10 | $856.10 – $856.10 |
| 12 | UnitedHealthcare uhc community d-snp facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $856.10 | $856.10 | $856.10 – $856.10 |
| 13 | Blue Cross Blue Shield medadv d-snp facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $881.79 | $881.79 | $881.79 – $881.79 |
| 14 | Aetna medadv ppo facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $890.35 | $890.35 | $890.35 – $890.35 |
| 15 | Devoted medadv facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $890.35 | $890.35 | $890.35 – $890.35 |
| 16 | Blue Cross Blue Shield medadv ppo facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $898.91 | $898.91 | $898.91 – $898.91 |
| 17 | WellCare medadv facility · fee schedule · outpatient | $898.91 | $898.91 | $898.91 – $898.91 |
| 18 | Blue Cross Blue Shield bcbs network e facility · case rate · outpatient | $1,134 | $1,134 | $1,134 – $1,134 |
| 19 | Blue Cross Blue Shield bcbs network l facility · case rate · outpatient | $1,134 | $1,134 | $1,134 – $1,134 |
| 20 | Blue Cross Blue Shield bcbs network s facility · case rate · outpatient | $1,270 | $1,270 | $1,270 – $1,270 |
| 21 | UnitedHealthcare tn individual exchange benefit facility · case rate · outpatient | $1,365 | $1,365 | $1,365 – $1,365 |
| 22 | Blue Cross Blue Shield bcbs network p facility · case rate · outpatient | $1,428 | $1,428 | $1,428 – $1,428 |
| 23 | UnitedHealthcare commercial facility · case rate · outpatient | $1,433 | $1,433 | $1,433 – $1,433 |
| 24 | UnitedHealthcare core facility · case rate · outpatient | $1,433 | $1,433 | $1,433 – $1,433 |
| 25 | UnitedHealthcare nexus aco oap facility · case rate · outpatient | $1,433 | $1,433 | $1,433 – $1,433 |
Last updated: Jan 1, 2026
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