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
Low
$3
Average
$3.7k
Median
$69
High
$3364.2k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $38 | $38 | $4 | 10% | 158–176 | $33 – $42 |
| 2 | St Louis Childrens Hospital Saint Louis, MO | $51 | $48 | $7 | 15% | 95–158 | $33 – $58 |
| 3 | City Hospital, Inc. Martinsburg, WV | $38 | $37 | $2 | 6% | 8–80 | $34 – $40 |
| 4 | Lake Regional Health System Osage Beach, MO | $111 | $111 | $3 | 3% | 8–80 | $108 – $114 |
| 5 | Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital At Stanford PALO ALTO, CA | $346 | $217 | $193 | 89% | 7–70 | $8 – $435 |
| 6 | Mercy Hospital Aurora Aurora, MO | $25 | $39 | $31 | 79% | 6–60 | $6 – $99 |
| 7 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $69 | $92 | $42 | 45% | 5–50 | $38 – $171 |
| 8 | West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. Morgantown, WV | $32 | $32 | — | — | 5–50 | $32 – $32 |
| 9 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $55 | $54 | $7 | 13% | 4–40 | $12 – $58 |
| 10 | Norton Hospitals INC Louisville, KY | $24 | $25 | $13 | 51% | 4–40 | $5 – $53 |
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