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 Smear W Interp Gram Stain
Low
$4
Average
$602
Median
$60
High
$5.6k
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Showing only prices reported under the per diem methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 118 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 423.4× 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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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Methodist Lebonheur Childrens Hosp MEMPHIS, TN | $5.7k | $5.6k | $283 | 5% | 29–47 | $5.1k – $5.9k |
| 2 | Mount Carmel St Ann's Westerville, OH | $69 | $60 | $13 | 22% | 26–44 | $4 – $632 |
| 3 | Mount Carmel Grove City Grove City, OH | $69 | $60 | $13 | 22% | 12 | $4 – $632 |
| 4 | Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital At Stanford PALO ALTO, CA | $8k | $4.4k | $3.9k | 88% | 11–110 | $24 – $8k |
| 5 | Mount Carmel New Albany Surgical Hospital New Albany, OH | $69 | $60 | $13 | 22% | 4–40 | $4 – $632 |
| 6 | Mount Carmel Dublin Dublin, OH | $69 | $60 | $13 | 22% | 2–20 | $4 – $69 |
| 7 | Tristar Ashland City Medical Center Ashland City, TN | $2k | $2k | — | — | — | $125 – $2k |
| 8 | Hca Healthone Mountain Ridge Thornton, CO | $350 | $350 | — | — | — | $52 – $473 |
| 9 | Hca Healthone Northeast Er THORNTON, CO | $350 | $350 | — | — | — | $52 – $473 |
| 10 | IOM Health System LP Fort Wayne, IN | $4 | $4 | — | — | — | $1 – $218 |
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