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
87116 CULTURE FOR ACID-FAST BACILLI
Low
$0
Average
$72
Median
$17
High
$4.5k
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| 1 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $11 | $18 | $8 | 43% | 652–670 | $11 – $30 |
| 2 | Oneida Health ONEIDA, NY | $11 | $28 | $36 | 129% | 109–676 | $11 – $184 |
| 3 | Tufts Medical Center BOSTON, MA | $38 | $38 | — | — | 89–107 | $38 – $38 |
| 4 | Parkland Health Dallas, TX | $10 | $20 | $14 | 72% | 82–163 | $9 – $46 |
| 5 | Lowell General Hospital Lowell, MA | $38 | $38 | — | — | 63–108 | $38 – $38 |
| 6 | OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center Oklahoma City, OK | $11 | $12 | $4 | 32% | 32–113 | $10 – $29 |
| 7 | Self Regional Healthcare Greenwood, SC | $11 | $25 | $22 | 88% | 22–76 | $11 – $70 |
| 8 | Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. Hazard, KY | $11 | $11 | — | — | 22–40 | $11 – $11 |
| 9 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center GRENADA, MS | $11 | $16 | $7 | 42% | 20–74 | $11 – $30 |
| 10 | University of New Mexico Hospital | UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center - A Campus of UNM Hospital Albuquerque, NM | $11 | $14 | $6 | 39% | 19–37 | $10 – $26 |
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