RC 306
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
LABORATORY - BACTERIOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY
Based on 2,555,710–4,451,767 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$12
Average
$2.0k
Median
$136
High
$3296.6k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $70 | $120 | $149 | 124% | 79,064–83,870 | $4 – $1.2k |
| 2 | St Johns Hospital Of The Hospital Sisters Of The Third Order Of St Francis Springfield, IL | $85 | $160 | $243 | 152% | 76,973–86,657 | $4 – $3.1k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $105 | $183 | $267 | 146% | 68,342–110,822 | $1 – $3.9k |
| 4 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $166 | $259 | $352 | 136% | 47,048–53,978 | $21 – $4.9k |
| 5 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA | $209 | $294 | $378 | 129% | 45,159–52,953 | $22 – $3.3k |
| 6 | St Elizabeths Hospital Of The Hospital Sisters Of The Third Order Of St Francis O'Fallon, IL | $57 | $140 | $241 | 172% | 44,464–50,269 | $4 – $4.2k |
| 7 | Oneida Health ONEIDA, NY | $32 | $76 | $162 | 213% | 43,977–67,692 | $2 – $3.6k |
| 8 | Mayo Clinic Arizona Phoenix, AZ | $128 | $179 | $161 | 90% | 42,803–62,360 | $4 – $1.0k |
| 9 | Sarasota Memorial Hospital Sarasota, FL | $85 | $105 | $74 | 71% | 41,605–41,614 | $8 – $591 |
| 10 | Sarasota Memorial Hospital - Venice North Venice, FL | $85 | $105 | $74 | 71% | 41,579–41,588 | $8 – $591 |
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