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
IDENTIFICATION OF ORGANISMS BY GENETIC ANALYSIS; DIRECT PROBE TECHNIQUE
Based on 1,140–4,515 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$4
Average
$75
Median
$43
High
$2.4k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Virginia Health Care Cooperative Inc. Summersville, WV | $225 | $539 | $536 | 99% | 257–284 | $95 – $1.4k |
| 2 | Dignity Community Care Chandler, AZ | $21 | $43 | $35 | 81% | 124–376 | $11 – $203 |
| 3 | Wheeling Hospital, Inc. Wheeling, WV | $21 | $40 | $67 | 167% | 104–140 | $5 – $384 |
| 4 | Dignity Health Merced, CA | $20 | $27 | $12 | 44% | 94–184 | $15 – $52 |
| 5 | Dignity Health Carmichael, CA | $20 | $36 | $36 | 100% | 59–194 | $2 – $176 |
| 6 | Dignity Health Gilbert, AZ | $24 | $44 | $32 | 73% | 58–346 | $11 – $186 |
| 7 | Lodi Memorial Hospital Association Inc Lodi, CA | $24 | $61 | $68 | 111% | 44–314 | $4 – $238 |
| 8 | Dignity Community Care Northridge, CA | $20 | $38 | $48 | 124% | 40–400 | $2 – $259 |
| 9 | Dignity Community Care Sacramento, CA | $20 | $41 | $42 | 103% | 38–92 | $6 – $176 |
| 10 | MVHS, Inc. Utica, NY | $26 | $33 | $25 | 76% | 33 | $19 – $146 |
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