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
87799 DETECTION TEST BY NUCLEIC ACID FOR ORGANISM
Based on 32,700–84,072 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$19
Average
$1.4k
Median
$122
High
$3006.6k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $86 | $124 | $107 | 86% | 4,565–4,601 | $40 – $352 |
| 2 | Mayo Clinic Arizona Phoenix, AZ | $267 | $246 | $35 | 14% | 3,071–3,791 | $43 – $302 |
| 3 | Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Atlanta, GA | $603 | $593 | $244 | 41% | 1,837–2,152 | $69 – $1.2k |
| 4 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $218 | $260 | $219 | 84% | 1,479 | $18 – $1.1k |
| 5 | Prisma Health Baptist Easley Hospital EASLEY, SC | $45 | $145 | $184 | 127% | 861–897 | $36 – $653 |
| 6 | Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital GREENVILLE, SC | $45 | $148 | $185 | 125% | 861–897 | $36 – $653 |
| 7 | Dignity Health Phoenix, AZ | $89 | $182 | $210 | 115% | 854–1,124 | $18 – $912 |
| 8 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $194 | $243 | $172 | 71% | 737–1,061 | $43 – $937 |
| 9 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $219 | $208 | $39 | 19% | 696–1,200 | $42 – $231 |
| 10 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $77 | $146 | $147 | 101% | 660–3,234 | $21 – $754 |
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