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 ORGANISM ID (LC 183271 183279 183295 183303 183321 183329)
Santa Barbara, CA
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Cottage Health’s median price of $83 is 873% above the median hospital's median price ($9), higher than 94% of the 1,590 hospitals reporting CPT 87158. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Last updated: Jan 1, 2026
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