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
Low
$2
Average
$7.2k
Median
$20
High
$3362.5k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St. Joseph's Hospital of Buckhannon, Inc. Buckhannon, WV | $8 | $14 | $7 | 50% | 64–154 | $8 – $23 |
| 2 | Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital Corporation Parkersburg, WV | $29 | $28 | $2 | 7% | 32–50 | $26 – $30 |
| 3 | West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. Morgantown, WV | $22 | $21 | $2 | 9% | 31–67 | $19 – $24 |
| 4 | City Hospital, Inc. Martinsburg, WV | $30 | $31 | $2 | 8% | 24–78 | $28 – $34 |
| 5 | Herbert J Thomas Memorial Hospital Association South Charleston, WV | $30 | $30 | $0 | 1% | 16–34 | $29 – $30 |
| 6 | Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center Thief River Falls, MN | $30 | $31 | $11 | 36% | 8–80 | $11 – $53 |
| 7 | The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX | $10 | $14 | $9 | 62% | 8–80 | $7 – $33 |
| 8 | Methodist Medical Center of Illinois Peoria, IL | $9 | $9 | $3 | 32% | 6–60 | $4 – $15 |
| 9 | Lafayette County Darlington, WI | $30 | $30 | $7 | 23% | 5–50 | $21 – $42 |
| 10 | Sanford Wheaton Wheaton, MN | $29 | $28 | $8 | 28% | 3–30 | $8 – $42 |
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