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
HC Obtain Sputum Specimen
Low
$0
Average
$1.2k
Median
$193
High
$12.2k
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Showing only prices reported under the per diem methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 115 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 414895.0× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many hospitals fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital At Stanford PALO ALTO, CA | $184 | $2.8k | $3.7k | 133% | 4–40 | $141 – $8k |
| 2 | Deaconess Hospital, Inc Newburgh, IN | $168 | $168 | — | — | — | $168 – $168 |
| 3 | Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital St. Louis Chesterfield, MO | $37 | $37 | — | — | — | $37 – $37 |
| 4 | The Queens Medical Center Ewa Beach, HI | $4.8k | $4.8k | $356 | 7% | — | $4.5k – $5.3k |
| 5 | Metro Knoxville HMA LLC Powell, TN | $153 | $153 | $1 | 1% | — | $152 – $155 |
| 6 | Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital Oklahoma City, LLC City, OK | $39 | $39 | — | — | — | $39 – $39 |
| 7 | Manatee Memorial Hospital Bradenton, FL | $673 | $602 | $88 | 15% | — | $474 – $673 |
| 8 | United Hospital Center Bridgeport, WV | $12.2k | $12.2k | — | — | — | $12.2k – $12.2k |
| 9 | Queens North Hawaii Community Hospital Waimea, HI | $3.7k | $3.4k | $462 | 14% | — | $2.7k – $3.7k |
| 10 | Fairfield Medical Center Lancaster, OH | $6.2k | $6.2k | — | — | — | $6.2k – $6.2k |
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