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 Laboratory Testing
Based on 54,877–62,104 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$22
Average
$125
Median
$96
High
$3.7k
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| 1 | Missouri Baptist Medical Center Saint Louis, MO | $140 | $123 | $34 | 27% | 12,100–12,172 | $64 – $168 |
| 2 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $614 | $580 | $141 | 24% | 3,571–3,724 | $321 – $835 |
| 3 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $187 | $168 | $41 | 24% | 3,562–3,580 | $70 – $200 |
| 4 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $154 | $146 | $38 | 26% | 3,328–3,391 | $51 – $220 |
| 5 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA | $614 | $578 | $144 | 25% | 2,838–2,964 | $321 – $835 |
| 6 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $119 | $148 | $82 | 55% | 2,751–2,823 | $60 – $329 |
| 7 | The Carle Foundation Hospital Urbana, IL | $97 | $154 | $106 | 69% | 2,632 | $32 – $375 |
| 8 | Indiana University Health Inc. Indianapolis, IN | $122 | $136 | $73 | 53% | 2,283–2,427 | $34 – $257 |
| 9 | High Point Regional Health High Point, NC | $118 | $147 | $88 | 60% | 1,963–2,017 | $53 – $347 |
| 10 | Public Hospital Dis No 1 Skagit dba Skagit Valley Hospital Vernon, WA | $111 | $89 | $44 | 50% | 1,778–1,814 | $5 – $153 |
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