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]
Low
$4
Average
$405
Median
$24
High
$27.9k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hendrick Medical Center Abilene, TX | $42 | $41 | $18 | 43% | 251–260 | $14 – $68 |
| 2 | Hendrick Medical Center Abilene, TX | $42 | $41 | $18 | 43% | 251–260 | $14 – $68 |
| 3 | Wentworth Douglass Hospital Dover, NH | $28 | $26 | $4 | 17% | 27–72 | $17 – $30 |
| 4 | FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE, INC. dba FRANCISCAN HEALTH CROWN POINT CROWN POINT, IN | $29 | $31 | $8 | 25% | 4–40 | $18 – $42 |
| 5 | FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE, INC. dba FRANCISCAN HEALTH CRAWFORDSVILLE CRAWFORDSVILLE, IN | $32 | $33 | $5 | 14% | 4–40 | $28 – $39 |
| 6 | SwedishAmerican Hospital Rockford, IL | $49 | $51 | $19 | 37% | 3–30 | $23 – $94 |
| 7 | Mclaren Greater Lansing LANSING, MI | $4 | $4 | $1 | 18% | 3–30 | $3 – $5 |
| 8 | Hendrick Medical Center Brownwood, TX | $51 | $49 | $9 | 18% | 2–20 | $28 – $57 |
| 9 | Columbia Lutheran Charities Astoria, OR | $39 | $44 | $20 | 45% | 2–20 | $10 – $70 |
| 10 | Samaritan Medical Center Watertown, NY | $79 | $80 | $11 | 14% | 2–20 | $64 – $94 |
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