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 Collection for Sars-Cov-2
Low
$3
Average
$42
Median
$34
High
$176
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
43 payers; the 90th percentile is 7.5× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many payers fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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| 1 | UnitedHealthcare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms | 77 | $23 | $22 | $17 | 79% | — | $2 – $104 |
| 2 | Aetna facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms | 55 | $40 | $53 | $28 | 54% | — | $13 – $143 |
| 3 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms | 46 | $84 | $87 | $68 | 78% | — | $1 – $243 |
| 4 | Molina facility · case rate · outpatient · +8 other terms | 27 | $3 | $3 | $1 | 19% | — | $2 – $4 |
| 5 | Baylor Scott White Health Plan facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 26 | $29 | $21 | $9 | 43% | — | $3 – $32 |
| 6 | Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms | 25 | $44 | $38 | $9 | 24% | — | $23 – $53 |
| 7 | Anthem facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 19 | $23 | $58 | $65 | 112% | — | $2 – $206 |
| 8 | Caresource facility · case rate · outpatient · +3 other terms | 15 | $2 | $3 | $1 | 23% | — | $2 – $4 |
| 9 | Tricare fee schedule · both · +5 other terms | 14 | $21 | $22 | $1 | 4% | — | $21 – $25 |
| 10 | Medcost fee schedule · both · +3 other terms | 13 | $36 | $36 | — | — | — | $36 – $36 |
| 11 | Optum other · outpatient · +6 other terms | 13 | $52 | $54 | $23 | 43% | — | $11 – $100 |
| 12 | Bcbs La other · outpatient · +1 other terms | 12 | $29 | $30 | $9 | 31% | — | $11 – $50 |
| 13 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms | 9 | $4 | $22 | $24 | 108% | — | $1 – $79 |
| 14 | WellCare fee schedule · both · +7 other terms | 9 | $36 | $36 | — | — | — | $36 – $36 |
| 15 | Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms | 8 | $116 | $119 | $33 | 28% | — | $69 – $196 |
| 16 | Aetna Better Health facility · case rate · outpatient · +1 other terms | 7 | $3 | $3 | $0 | 11% | — | $2 – $3 |
| 17 | Amerihealth Caritas facility · case rate · outpatient · +4 other terms | 7 | $3 | $3 | $0 | 3% | — | $3 – $3 |
| 18 | Bcbs Mn fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 7 | $23 | $23 | $0 | 1% | — | $23 – $23 |
| 19 | Regence fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 5 | $43 | $43 | $7 | 16% | — | $33 – $52 |
| 20 | Beechstreet percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges · +2 other terms | 4 | $36 | $37 | $2 | 5% | — | $36 – $41 |
| 21 | Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 4 | $20 | $15 | $11 | 69% | — | $4 – $34 |
| 22 | First Health other · outpatient · +7 other terms | 3 | $53 | $52 | $1 | 1% | — | $52 – $53 |
| 23 | Medicare fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 3 | $24 | $35 | $17 | 47% | — | $23 – $59 |
| 24 | MultiPlan other · outpatient · +8 other terms | 3 | $44 | $46 | $6 | 14% | — | $40 – $55 |
| 25 | Wellmark facility · case rate · outpatient | 3 | $6 | $5 | $2 | 32% | — | $3 – $7 |
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