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
88233 TISSUE CULTURE TO IDENTIFY SKIN DISORDERS
Low
$41
Average
$255
Median
$202
High
$4.3k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $236 | $217 | $60 | 28% | 13–31 | $130 – $285 |
| 2 | Dignity Community Care Sacramento, CA | $141 | $138 | $62 | 45% | 6–60 | $33 – $416 |
| 3 | Dignity Health Sacramento, CA | $141 | $139 | $64 | 46% | 6–60 | $33 – $416 |
| 4 | Dignity Health Phoenix, AZ | $141 | $265 | $203 | 77% | 4–40 | $27 – $900 |
| 5 | Dignity Health Henderson, NV | $252 | $279 | $153 | 55% | 3–30 | $90 – $605 |
| 6 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $304 | $318 | $96 | 30% | 3–30 | $144 – $466 |
| 7 | Prisma Health Baptist Columbia Hospital COLUMBIA, SC | $141 | $164 | $118 | 72% | 2–20 | $47 – $802 |
| 8 | Dignity Health Santa Cruz, CA | $169 | $258 | $289 | 112% | 1–10 | $129 – $1.3k |
| 9 | Public Hospital Dist No 1 Skagit dba Cascade Valley Hospital Arlington, WA | $169 | $252 | $195 | 77% | 1–10 | $141 – $723 |
| 10 | Piedmont Athens Regional Athens, GA | $180 | $254 | $150 | 59% | 1–10 | $89 – $500 |
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