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
SPECIAL FLUORESCENT AND/OR ACID FAST STAIN FOR MICROORGANISM
Low
$0
Average
$178
Median
$10
High
$22.1k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $6 | $9 | $4 | 43% | 625–652 | $5 – $89 |
| 2 | Oneida Health ONEIDA, NY | $11 | $28 | $61 | 214% | 118–766 | $5 – $621 |
| 3 | University of New Mexico Hospital | UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center - A Campus of UNM Hospital Albuquerque, NM | $5 | $7 | $3 | 41% | 115–160 | $5 – $20 |
| 4 | Tufts Medical Center BOSTON, MA | $19 | $19 | — | — | 85–103 | $5 – $23 |
| 5 | Lowell General Hospital Lowell, MA | $19 | $19 | — | — | 61–106 | $7 – $22 |
| 6 | The Toledo Hospital Toledo, OH | $13 | $46 | $48 | 104% | 59–104 | $3 – $118 |
| 7 | OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center Oklahoma City, OK | $5 | $6 | $2 | 29% | 51–177 | $5 – $448 |
| 8 | Parkland Health Dallas, TX | $5 | $10 | $7 | 72% | 46–118 | $5 – $156 |
| 9 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $5 | $5 | $0 | 3% | 45–450 | $4 – $208 |
| 10 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $3 | $3 | — | — | 45–450 | $3 – $208 |
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