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
HB=SMEAR,FAT,FECES,QUAL
Based on 219–687 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$3
Average
$26
Median
$10
High
$2.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Childrens Hospital Colorado Aurora, CO | $55 | $54 | $15 | 28% | 152–215 | $8 – $77 |
| 2 | Monument Health Rapid City Hospital Inc City, SD | $60 | $52 | $21 | 40% | 23–32 | $7 – $73 |
| 3 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Corbin, KY | $53 | $49 | $43 | 88% | 6–60 | $4 – $143 |
| 4 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Paducah, KY | $24 | $40 | $42 | 106% | 4–40 | $4 – $143 |
| 5 | Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital At Stanford PALO ALTO, CA | $180 | $1.3k | $2.7k | 214% | 3–30 | $143 – $8k |
| 6 | Good Samaritan Hospital Kearney, NE | $39 | $34 | $25 | 74% | 3–30 | $6 – $74 |
| 7 | Alegent Health Bergan Mercy Health System Omaha, NE | $14 | $18 | $12 | 64% | 3–30 | $6 – $37 |
| 8 | Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center Thief River Falls, MN | $19 | $17 | $5 | 29% | 2–20 | $9 – $24 |
| 9 | Saint Francis Medical Center Grand Island, NE | $45 | $44 | $34 | 78% | 2–20 | $6 – $100 |
| 10 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Albany, IN | $23 | $32 | $29 | 89% | 2–20 | $4 – $107 |
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