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 Laboratory Testing
Based on 53,579–88,292 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$5
Average
$1.3k
Median
$39
High
$3018.2k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $43 | $41 | $14 | 33% | 4,099–4,162 | $12 – $61 |
| 2 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $111 | $104 | $26 | 25% | 3,957–4,074 | $49 – $149 |
| 3 | Missouri Baptist Medical Center Saint Louis, MO | $29 | $45 | $27 | 61% | 3,840–3,930 | $12 – $85 |
| 4 | Mayo Clinic Arizona Phoenix, AZ | $97 | $89 | $13 | 14% | 3,692–4,286 | $12 – $109 |
| 5 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $97 | $123 | $106 | 86% | 2,608–2,896 | $5 – $338 |
| 6 | Christian Hospital St. Louis, MO | $48 | $46 | $27 | 59% | 2,210–2,246 | $12 – $85 |
| 7 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA | $106 | $101 | $27 | 27% | 1,905–2,004 | $49 – $149 |
| 8 | Public Hospital Dis No 1 Skagit dba Skagit Valley Hospital Vernon, WA | $17 | $60 | $60 | 99% | 1,629 | $2 – $174 |
| 9 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $24 | $27 | $14 | 54% | 1,389–1,434 | $11 – $56 |
| 10 | Alton Memorial Hospital Alton, IL | $58 | $49 | $27 | 55% | 955–973 | $12 – $85 |
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