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
HB Ref Viral Identification, ID by Non-Immunologic Method (Lc)
Based on 1,090–5,293 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$2
Average
$1.2k
Median
$58
High
$2285.6k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $122 | $124 | $87 | 70% | 215–323 | $14 – $318 |
| 2 | Public Hospital Dis No 1 Skagit dba Skagit Valley Hospital Vernon, WA | $49 | $109 | $106 | 98% | 152–215 | $3 – $280 |
| 3 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $74 | $69 | $11 | 16% | 137–218 | $34 – $79 |
| 4 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $68 | $66 | $28 | 43% | 49–130 | $31 – $116 |
| 5 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Lexington, KY | $275 | $346 | $345 | 100% | 49–67 | $29 – $1.1k |
| 6 | Dignity Community Care Chandler, AZ | $35 | $67 | $45 | 67% | 30–300 | $19 – $172 |
| 7 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Albany, IN | $187 | $256 | $234 | 92% | 22 | $29 – $848 |
| 8 | Stony Brook University Hospital Stony Brook, NY | $34 | $239 | $891 | 372% | 22–220 | $6 – $4.3k |
| 9 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Corbin, KY | $439 | $391 | $349 | 89% | 19–55 | $29 – $1.1k |
| 10 | Lake Regional Health System Osage Beach, MO | $34 | $71 | $51 | 72% | 18–180 | $32 – $169 |
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