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
Detection test by nucleic acid for clostridium difficile, amplified probe technique
Low
$6
Average
$2.3k
Median
$173
High
$3376.9k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Lexington, KY | $313 | $316 | $133 | 42% | 419 | $30 – $1.2k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $186 | $176 | $118 | 67% | 344–371 | $23 – $372 |
| 3 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Corbin, KY | $471 | $372 | $174 | 47% | 295 | $30 – $1.2k |
| 4 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc. Louisville, KY | $280 | $321 | $126 | 39% | 282 | $22 – $1.2k |
| 5 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $186 | $174 | $18 | 10% | 252–288 | $147 – $193 |
| 6 | Baystate Franklin Medical Center Greenfield, MA | $3.1k | $3.1k | — | — | 192 | $3.1k – $3.1k |
| 7 | Holland Community Hospital Holland, MI | $174 | $142 | $51 | 36% | 175 | $35 – $193 |
| 8 | West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. Morgantown, WV | $300 | $281 | $67 | 24% | 149–248 | $24 – $339 |
| 9 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $91 | $110 | $48 | 43% | 132–186 | $19 – $328 |
| 10 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Paducah, KY | $218 | $234 | $74 | 32% | 132 | $30 – $1.2k |
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