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
Cath For Collecting Specimen
Low
$1
Average
$1.5k
Median
$590
High
$19.7k
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Showing only prices reported under the case rate methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 414 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 474.0× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many hospitals fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Avera Holy Family Hospital Estherville, IA | $120 | $120 | — | — | 2–20 | $21 – $120 |
| 2 | Avera St. Luke's Aberdeen, SD | $9 | $9 | — | — | 1–10 | $9 – $87 |
| 3 | Avera Queen of Peace Mitchell, SD | $33 | $33 | — | — | 1–10 | $14 – $33 |
| 4 | Public Hospital Dist No 1 Skagit dba Cascade Valley Hospital Arlington, WA | $10 | $44 | $58 | 134% | 1–10 | $10 – $145 |
| 5 | The Finley Hospital Dubuque, IA | $10 | $12 | $4 | 36% | — | $6 – $20 |
| 6 | Northwest Iowa Hospital Corporation Sioux City, IA | $9 | $9 | $0 | 1% | — | $6 – $59 |
| 7 | St Luke's Methodist Hospital Cedar Rapids, IA | $9 | $9 | $0 | 1% | — | $6 – $17 |
| 8 | Trinity Medical Center Rock Island, IL | $10 | $12 | $4 | 36% | — | $6 – $20 |
| 9 | Trinity Medical Center Bettendorf, IA | $10 | $10 | $2 | 18% | — | $6 – $15 |
| 10 | Unity Healthcare Muscatine, IA | $10 | $12 | $4 | 35% | — | $6 – $20 |
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