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.
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SPECIAL GRAM OR GIEMSA STAIN FOR MICROORGANISM
Low
$3
Average
$14.0k
Median
$9
High
$2532.4k
Each hospital's average Highmark rate, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
181 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 8.0× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many hospitals fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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237 hospital rates
iThe hospitals that file a Highmark rate for this code, one row per hospital and set of terms (billing class, payment method, setting). Rates under different terms are never blended, so the terms are shown under each hospital’s name. Figures are the hospital’s averages across its plans.| # | Plans | |||||||
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| 1 | Armstrong County Memorial Hospital Kittanning, PA facility · other · outpatient | 4 | $10 | $9 | $2 | 25% | 275–293 | $5 – $11 |
| 2 | Lancaster General Health Lancaster, PA facility · other · outpatient | 5 | $10 | $10 | $3 | 26% | 154–163 | $7 – $15 |
| 3 | Strong Memorial Hospital Rochester, NY percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 1 | $12 | $12 | — | — | 80 | $12 – $12 |
| 4 | Community Health Association Ripley, WV facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 2 | $20 | $20 | $1 | 3% | 33–51 | $20 – $21 |
| 5 | St. Joseph's Hospital of Buckhannon, Inc. Buckhannon, WV facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 2 | $22 | $22 | $6 | 28% | 19–37 | $16 – $29 |
| 6 | Holy Cross Hospital-Silver Spring Silver Spring, MD facility · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges | 1 | $58 | $58 | — | — | 9–90 | $58 – $58 |
| 7 | GRMC, Inc. Oakland, MD percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges | 3 | $9 | $22 | $17 | 76% | 7–70 | $4 – $42 |
| 8 | Grant Memorial Hospital Inc Petersburg, WV facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 2 | $17 | $17 | $0 | 3% | 4–40 | $16 – $17 |
| 9 | NEMOURS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL Philadelphia, PA percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 1 | $37 | $37 | $9 | 25% | 4–40 | $28 – $47 |
| 10 | Preston Memorial Hospital Kingwood, WV percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 3 | $24 | $23 | $3 | 13% | 4–40 | $18 – $28 |
| 11 | STONEWALL JACKSON HOSPITAL Weston, WV fee schedule · outpatient | 2 | $19 | $16 | $7 | 43% | 4–40 | $4 – $20 |
| 12 | Mercy Health Lakeshore Campus Shelby, MI facility · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges | 1 | $33 | $33 | $15 | 44% | 2–20 | $19 – $48 |
| 13 | Nicholas H. Noyes Memorial Hospital Dansville, NY percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 2 | $20 | $20 | $0 | 0% | 2–20 | $20 – $20 |
| 14 | ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL Albany, NY professional · fee schedule · outpatient | 10 | $4 | $5 | $3 | 51% | — | $2 – $9 |
| 15 | ALLE-KISKI MEDICAL CENTER NATRONA HEIGHTS, PA fee schedule · inpatient | 11 | $3 | $3 | — | — | — | $3 – $3 |
| 16 | ALLE-KISKI MEDICAL CENTER NATRONA HEIGHTS, PA fee schedule · outpatient | 20 | $4 | $4 | $2 | 36% | — | $2 – $7 |
| 17 | Albert Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia, PA fee schedule · outpatient | 1 | $4 | $4 | — | — | — | $4 – $4 |
| 18 | Alice Hyde Medical Center Malone, NY facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 1 | $102 | $102 | — | — | — | $102 – $102 |
| 19 | Alice Hyde Medical Center Malone, NY professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges | 1 | $11 | $11 | — | — | — | $11 – $11 |
| 20 | Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. Hinton, WV percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 1 | $15 | $15 | — | — | — | $15 – $15 |
| 21 | Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. Beckley, WV other · outpatient | 2 | $24 | $24 | $3 | 11% | — | $21 – $27 |
| 22 | Armstrong County Memorial Hospital Kittanning, PA facility · fee schedule · outpatient | 4 | $4 | $4 | $0 | 6% | — | $4 – $5 |
| 23 | Armstrong County Memorial Hospital Kittanning, PA facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 1 | $60 | $60 | — | — | — | $60 – $60 |
| 24 | Beebe Medical Center Inc. Lewes, DE facility · fee schedule · outpatient | 1 | $10 | $10 | — | — | — | $10 – $10 |
| 25 | Boone Memorial Hospital Madison, WV other · both | 1 | $10 | $8 | $3 | 35% | — | $4 – $10 |
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