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 CHRONIC HEPATITIS C 6 ASSAYS
Based on 1,759–5,791 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$11
Average
$172
Median
$127
High
$9.5k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Public Hospital Dist No 1 Skagit dba Cascade Valley Hospital Arlington, WA | $134 | $287 | $472 | 164% | 300 | $16 – $1.6k |
| 2 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $122 | $121 | $42 | 35% | 188–251 | $72 – $180 |
| 3 | Lake Regional Health System Osage Beach, MO | $72 | $204 | $224 | 110% | 156–516 | $42 – $760 |
| 4 | Indiana University Health Bloomington Inc. Bloomington, IN | $72 | $140 | $98 | 70% | 110–128 | $47 – $349 |
| 5 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $655 | $644 | $113 | 18% | 101 | $431 – $835 |
| 6 | Alton Memorial Hospital Alton, IL | $362 | $303 | $170 | 56% | 71–98 | $72 – $534 |
| 7 | Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital Corporation Parkersburg, WV | $76 | $95 | $53 | 56% | 60–96 | $68 – $427 |
| 8 | Anderson Hospital Maryville, IL | $87 | $2.3k | $8.5k | 375% | 58–130 | $47 – $50k |
| 9 | St. Joseph's Hospital of Buckhannon, Inc. Buckhannon, WV | $96 | $145 | $68 | 47% | 56–146 | $75 – $253 |
| 10 | West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. Morgantown, WV | $76 | $91 | $42 | 46% | 39–84 | $47 – $238 |
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