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 CYTOMEGALOVIRUS DETECTION/PCR
Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Based on 1,113–6,873 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$16
Average
$142
Median
$88
High
$2.4k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Mayo Clinic Florida Jacksonville, FL | $334 | $492 | $229 | 47% | 153–297 | $35 – $828 |
| 2 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $274 | $285 | $87 | 31% | 150 | $103 – $460 |
| 3 | Seattle Children's Hospital Seattle, WA | $247 | $307 | $190 | 62% | 94–580 | $56 – $815 |
| 4 | University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Authority Madison, WI | $212 | $180 | $109 | 61% | 88–403 | $35 – $371 |
| 5 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $147 | $201 | $193 | 96% | 54–270 | $13 – $943 |
| 6 | Childrens Hospital Colorado Aurora, CO | $209 | $215 | $85 | 40% | 51–375 | $25 – $471 |
| 7 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $254 | $239 | $48 | 20% | 38–200 | $30 – $267 |
| 8 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $102 | $91 | $22 | 24% | 26–116 | $34 – $119 |
| 9 | Mayo Clinic Arizona Phoenix, AZ | $206 | $191 | $27 | 14% | 26–260 | $35 – $236 |
| 10 | Hca Healthone Presbyterian St Lukes Denver, CO | $215 | $545 | $724 | 133% | 24–33 | $22 – $2.5k |
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