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
HANDLING AND/OR CONVEYANCE OF SPECIMEN FOR TRANSFER FROM PHYSICIAN OFFICE TO LABORATORY
Based on 414–1,467 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$0
Average
$2.3k
Median
$13
High
$2971.5k
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| 1 | Herbert J Thomas Memorial Hospital Association South Charleston, WV | $30 | $29 | $1 | 4% | 94–112 | $27 – $30 |
| 2 | St. Joseph's Hospital of Buckhannon, Inc. Buckhannon, WV | $8 | $14 | $7 | 50% | 64–154 | $8 – $23 |
| 3 | Dignity Community Care Glendale, CA | $7 | $14 | $11 | 78% | 44–62 | $4 – $35 |
| 4 | Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital Corporation Parkersburg, WV | $27 | $23 | $9 | 40% | 33–60 | $7 – $30 |
| 5 | West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. Morgantown, WV | $22 | $21 | $2 | 9% | 31–67 | $19 – $24 |
| 6 | City Hospital, Inc. Martinsburg, WV | $29 | $28 | $7 | 26% | 25–88 | $8 – $34 |
| 7 | Northern Maine Medical Center FORT KENT, ME | $34 | $35 | $11 | 31% | 20 | $4 – $49 |
| 8 | Range Regional Health Services Hibbing, MN | $37 | $44 | $34 | 77% | 18–180 | $1 – $150 |
| 9 | Princeton Community Hospital Assn Inc. Princeton, WV | $30 | $26 | $11 | 43% | 17–44 | $7 – $36 |
| 10 | Lafayette County Darlington, WI | $25 | $21 | $14 | 67% | 10–100 | $1 – $42 |
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