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
ELISA detection of aquaporin-4 (neuromyelitis optica [NMO]) antibody
Based on 201–1,281 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$7
Average
$97
Median
$21
High
$1.7k
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| 1 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Lexington, KY | $473 | $1.0k | $1.3k | 129% | 37–82 | $5 – $5.8k |
| 2 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Paducah, KY | $408 | $947 | $1.3k | 137% | 28–73 | $5 – $5.7k |
| 3 | FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE, INC. dba FRANCISCAN HEALTH MUNSTER MUNSTER, IN | $43 | $51 | $39 | 75% | 16–25 | $9 – $109 |
| 4 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Corbin, KY | $785 | $1.2k | $1.4k | 116% | 15–150 | $5 – $5.7k |
| 5 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc. Louisville, KY | $408 | $945 | $1.3k | 134% | 11 | $5 – $5.7k |
| 6 | Virtua_West_Jersey_Health_System_Inc Marlton, NJ | $12 | $116 | $301 | 259% | 6–60 | $10 – $1.2k |
| 7 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $108 | $259 | $259 | 100% | 6–60 | $6 – $913 |
| 8 | Public Hospital Dis No 1 Skagit dba Skagit Valley Hospital Vernon, WA | $14 | $35 | $66 | 188% | 6–60 | $3 – $295 |
| 9 | Virtua_West_Jersey_Health_System_Inc Voorhees, NJ | $12 | $116 | $301 | 259% | 6–60 | $10 – $1.2k |
| 10 | FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE, INC. dba FRANCISCAN HEALTH INDIANAPOLIS INDIANAPOLIS, IN | $17 | $58 | $59 | 102% | 5–50 | $9 – $168 |
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