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
HGB QUANT TRANSCUTANEOUS [PULMLB]
Based on 1,709–2,357 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$2
Average
$24
Median
$7
High
$3.6k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hendrick Medical Center Abilene, TX | $32 | $38 | $18 | 47% | 251–260 | $14 – $68 |
| 2 | Hendrick Medical Center Abilene, TX | $32 | $38 | $18 | 47% | 251–260 | $14 – $68 |
| 3 | Allina Health Systems Buffalo, MN | $15 | $16 | $8 | 51% | 215–251 | $5 – $31 |
| 4 | Allina Health Systems Owatonna, MN | $17 | $17 | $8 | 50% | 214–241 | $5 – $31 |
| 5 | Allina Health Systems Cambridge, MN | $16 | $16 | $8 | 51% | 214–250 | $5 – $31 |
| 6 | Allina Health Systems Faribault, MN | $15 | $16 | $8 | 53% | 212–239 | $5 – $31 |
| 7 | Allina Health Systems Shakopee, MN | $15 | $15 | $8 | 54% | 210–228 | $5 – $31 |
| 8 | Dignity Health Santa Maria, CA | $14 | $14 | $8 | 57% | 40–76 | $5 – $25 |
| 9 | Wentworth Douglass Hospital Dover, NH | $28 | $26 | $4 | 17% | 27–72 | $17 – $30 |
| 10 | Methodist Hospitals of Dallas Dallas, TX | $8 | $10 | $5 | 57% | 16–25 | $2 – $23 |
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