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
Drug test presumptive; read by instrument-assisted direct optical observation
Low
$1
Average
$42
Median
$41
High
$121
Each payer's average rate across its hospitals, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
17 payers; the 90th percentile is 4.8× 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 | Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms | 28 | $119 | $127 | $75 | 59% | — | $26 – $320 |
| 2 | Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 14 | $15 | $18 | $27 | 145% | — | $1 – $122 |
| 3 | Wellmark fee schedule · both | 13 | $19 | $19 | — | — | — | $19 – $19 |
| 4 | Aetna facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +4 other terms | 10 | $24 | $24 | — | — | — | $24 – $24 |
| 5 | First Health professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges | 6 | $64 | $67 | $7 | 10% | — | $64 – $82 |
| 6 | Caresource professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges | 4 | $32 | $32 | — | — | — | $32 – $32 |
| 7 | MultiPlan professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges · +1 other terms | 3 | $64 | $46 | $25 | 55% | — | $10 – $64 |
| 8 | Ambetter professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges | 2 | $55 | $55 | — | — | — | $55 – $55 |
| 9 | Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient | 2 | $13 | $14 | $1 | 11% | — | $12 – $15 |
| 10 | Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 2 | $19 | $19 | — | — | — | $19 – $19 |
| 11 | Phcs professional · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges | 2 | $64 | $64 | — | — | — | $64 – $64 |
| 12 | Amerihealth Caritas fee schedule · outpatient | 1 | $13 | $13 | — | — | — | $13 – $13 |
| 13 | Anthem fee schedule · both | 1 | $19 | $19 | — | — | — | $19 – $19 |
| 14 | Bcbs Ca facility · fee schedule · outpatient | 1 | $1 | $1 | $0 | 8% | — | $0 – $1 |
| 15 | Healthpartners facility · fee schedule · outpatient | 1 | $62 | $62 | — | — | — | $62 – $62 |
| 16 | Kaiser facility · fee schedule · outpatient | 1 | $63 | $63 | — | — | — | $63 – $63 |
| 17 | UnitedHealthcare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms | 1 | $18 | $18 | — | — | — | $18 – $18 |
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