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 CULT MYCOBACTERIA DEFIN ID
Based on 163–1,342 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$6
Average
$62
Median
$32
High
$2.4k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $78 | $74 | $14 | 19% | 47–182 | $14 – $82 |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $82 | $77 | $49 | 63% | 36–360 | $15 – $161 |
| 3 | Holy Cross Hospital-Silver Spring Silver Spring, MD | $219 | $215 | $21 | 10% | 8–80 | $15 – $221 |
| 4 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $46 | $43 | $12 | 29% | 5–50 | $15 – $60 |
| 5 | Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center LLC Wilmington, NC | $15 | $48 | $67 | 139% | 4–40 | $14 – $215 |
| 6 | Dignity Community Care San Luis Obispo, CA | $21 | $51 | $44 | 87% | 4–40 | $15 – $154 |
| 7 | St. Charles Redmond Redmond, OR | $33 | $117 | $186 | 159% | 3–30 | $11 – $694 |
| 8 | Self Regional Healthcare Greenwood, SC | $141 | $103 | $57 | 56% | 3–30 | $15 – $148 |
| 9 | University of New Mexico Hospital | UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center - A Campus of UNM Hospital Albuquerque, NM | $15 | $20 | $8 | 41% | 3–30 | $13 – $39 |
| 10 | St. Charles Bend Bend, OR | $33 | $117 | $186 | 159% | 3–30 | $11 – $694 |
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