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
LABORATORY - CHEMISTRY
Based on 2,508–5,100 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$3
Average
$1.4k
Median
$32
High
$2609.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $36 | $31 | $10 | 33% | 1,548–1,566 | $17 – $42 |
| 2 | Spencer Municipal Hospital Spencer, IA | $66 | $66 | $42 | 63% | 267–321 | $15 – $113 |
| 3 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $210 | $204 | $44 | 22% | 174 | $42 – $270 |
| 4 | St Louis Childrens Hospital Saint Louis, MO | $48 | $43 | $13 | 30% | 95–158 | $17 – $58 |
| 5 | Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN | $22 | $26 | $14 | 52% | 70–88 | $0 – $60 |
| 6 | Lake Regional Health System Osage Beach, MO | $17 | $41 | $35 | 86% | 29–191 | $16 – $114 |
| 7 | Progress West Hospital O'Fallon, MO | $50 | $47 | $14 | 30% | 26–107 | $17 – $77 |
| 8 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $34 | $32 | $13 | 39% | 25–34 | $16 – $53 |
| 9 | OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center Oklahoma City, OK | $17 | $53 | $114 | 216% | 24–240 | $15 – $448 |
| 10 | Missouri Baptist Medical Center Saint Louis, MO | $40 | $42 | $17 | 40% | 21–93 | $17 – $67 |
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