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 SPUTUM COLLECTION
Low
$18
Average
$9.5k
Median
$175
High
$5404.1k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $61 | $79 | $40 | 50% | 600–654 | $35 – $161 |
| 2 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $58 | $75 | $38 | 51% | 552–606 | $33 – $152 |
| 3 | University of New Mexico Hospital | UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center - A Campus of UNM Hospital Albuquerque, NM | $87 | $71 | $30 | 42% | 12–120 | $20 – $92 |
| 4 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $366 | $327 | $92 | 28% | 7–70 | $192 – $429 |
| 5 | Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital At Stanford PALO ALTO, CA | $134 | $148 | $17 | 11% | 4–40 | $134 – $169 |
| 6 | Inspira Medical Center Vineland Vineland, NJ | $48 | $61 | $23 | 38% | 3–30 | $47 – $101 |
| 7 | The Charlotte Mecklenburg Hospital Authority Concord, NC | $92 | $93 | $44 | 48% | 3–30 | $21 – $166 |
| 8 | UCHealth Estes Valley Medical Center Estes Park, CO | $128 | $109 | $27 | 25% | 2–20 | $66 – $131 |
| 9 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA | $196 | $196 | $5 | 2% | 2–20 | $192 – $201 |
| 10 | Acadian Medical Center EUNICE, LA | $334 | $271 | $100 | 37% | 1–10 | $63 – $334 |
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