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 Specimen Handling Pt-Lab
Low
$2
Average
$336
Median
$28
High
$25k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Tufts Medical Center BOSTON, MA | $108 | $108 | — | — | 123–150 | $108 – $108 |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $21 | $21 | — | — | 7–70 | $21 – $21 |
| 3 | Guthrie Cortland Medical Center Cortland, NY | $47 | $47 | — | — | 7–70 | $47 – $47 |
| 4 | ROBERT PACKER HOSPITAL Doing Business As: ROBERT PACKER HOSPITAL, TOWANDA CAMPUS Towanda, PA | $44 | $43 | $2 | 5% | 4–40 | $38 – $44 |
| 5 | Sanford Jackson Hospital Jackson, MN | $24 | $24 | — | — | 3–30 | $24 – $24 |
| 6 | OUR LADY OF LOURDES MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC. Doing Business As: LOURDES Binghamton, NY | $52 | $48 | $9 | 19% | 3–30 | $25 – $52 |
| 7 | Grundy County Memorial Hospital Grundy Center, IA | $13 | $13 | — | — | 2–20 | $13 – $13 |
| 8 | Northfield Hospital Northfield, MN | $9 | $9 | — | — | 2–20 | $9 – $9 |
| 9 | Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Inc Milwaukee, WI | $8 | $8 | — | — | 2–20 | $8 – $8 |
| 10 | Hendrick Medical Center Abilene, TX | $16 | $16 | — | — | 1–10 | $16 – $16 |
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