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
87517 DETECTION TEST BY NUCLEIC ACID FOR HEPATITIS B VIRUS
Based on 5,676–18,150 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$5
Average
$1.1k
Median
$113
High
$2285.8k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $86 | $108 | $77 | 71% | 803–875 | $40 – $270 |
| 2 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $386 | $373 | $107 | 29% | 299–380 | $171 – $524 |
| 3 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $165 | $157 | $56 | 36% | 264–318 | $44 – $236 |
| 4 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $115 | $140 | $84 | 60% | 244–352 | $43 – $317 |
| 5 | Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. Hazard, KY | $112 | $295 | $288 | 97% | 228–282 | $36 – $726 |
| 6 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $340 | $456 | $405 | 89% | 222–600 | $26 – $1.6k |
| 7 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $102 | $123 | $80 | 65% | 215–278 | $43 – $300 |
| 8 | Parkland Health Dallas, TX | $134 | $157 | $160 | 102% | 169–412 | $36 – $642 |
| 9 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA | $385 | $350 | $94 | 27% | 157–238 | $193 – $451 |
| 10 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $390 | $530 | $403 | 76% | 151–1,222 | $60 – $1.6k |
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