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
COVID-19 Qual RT-PCR (CQ)
Low
$76
Average
$786
Median
$261
High
$8k
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Showing only prices reported under the per diem methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 15 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 7.6× 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 | Dukes Health System LLC Peru, IN | $80 | $80 | $39 | 49% | — | $38 – $955 |
| 2 | Lutheran Musculoskeletal Center LLC Fort Wayne, IN | $261 | $261 | $127 | 49% | — | $49 – $597 |
| 3 | Dupont Hospital LLC Wayne, IN | $261 | $261 | $127 | 49% | — | $50 – $537 |
| 4 | Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital At Stanford PALO ALTO, CA | $8k | $8k | — | — | — | $203 – $8k |
| 5 | Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital Springfield LLC Springfield, MO | $213 | $213 | — | — | — | $128 – $213 |
| 6 | Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital Oklahoma City South, LLC City, OK | $315 | $315 | — | — | — | $236 – $315 |
| 7 | Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital St. Louis Chesterfield, MO | $103 | $103 | — | — | — | $103 – $103 |
| 8 | Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital South Louis, MO | $141 | $141 | $36 | 26% | — | $105 – $178 |
| 9 | Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital Oklahoma City, LLC City, OK | $315 | $315 | — | — | — | $236 – $315 |
| 10 | Tufts Medical Center BOSTON, MA | $110 | $110 | — | — | — | $38 – $309 |
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