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 ACID FAST ANY SOURCE
Based on 12,691–39,115 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$2
Average
$1.1k
Median
$26
High
$2609.8k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $68 | $64 | $14 | 21% | 1,841–2,687 | $5 – $72 |
| 2 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $11 | $25 | $30 | 120% | 857–929 | $5 – $89 |
| 3 | Mayo Clinic Arizona Phoenix, AZ | $33 | $30 | $4 | 14% | 604–982 | $5 – $37 |
| 4 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $55 | $53 | $14 | 26% | 581–689 | $25 – $76 |
| 5 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $23 | $21 | $8 | 38% | 443–506 | $6 – $32 |
| 6 | Holy Cross Hospital-Silver Spring Silver Spring, MD | $58 | $59 | $110 | 187% | 441–2,169 | $6 – $4.6k |
| 7 | Mayo Clinic Florida Jacksonville, FL | $80 | $75 | $15 | 20% | 368–584 | $5 – $92 |
| 8 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $49 | $61 | $54 | 89% | 314–989 | $4 – $208 |
| 9 | Saint Joseph Health System, Inc Lexington, KY | $6 | $35 | $42 | 121% | 306–333 | $5 – $119 |
| 10 | University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Authority Madison, WI | $43 | $41 | $29 | 70% | 238–418 | $5 – $100 |
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