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
HB Ref Culture, Mycoplasma
Based on 1,224–4,653 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$3
Average
$1.2k
Median
$36
High
$2282.7k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $64 | $80 | $67 | 84% | 396–684 | $6 – $232 |
| 2 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $192 | $187 | $38 | 20% | 150 | $61 – $243 |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $141 | $171 | $111 | 65% | 125–1,124 | $22 – $794 |
| 4 | Columbus Regional Healthcare System, Inc Whiteville, NC | $91 | $83 | $49 | 59% | 89–161 | $15 – $148 |
| 5 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Lexington, KY | $131 | $164 | $163 | 100% | 71 | $13 – $528 |
| 6 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $30 | $40 | $19 | 48% | 48–84 | $15 – $80 |
| 7 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Corbin, KY | $208 | $185 | $165 | 89% | 34–43 | $13 – $519 |
| 8 | SwedishAmerican Hospital Rockford, IL | $25 | $231 | $264 | 114% | 33–51 | $15 – $866 |
| 9 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $135 | $145 | $45 | 31% | 23–77 | $92 – $207 |
| 10 | Parkland Health Dallas, TX | $30 | $58 | $73 | 125% | 18–72 | $13 – $271 |
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