CPT 87481 · 1,240 hospitals reporting

Detection test for candida species (yeast); amplified probe technique

The same procedure costs $50.08 at one hospital and $1,300 at another — a 26× spread for what's billed under the same code. Median: $105.

Cheapest published

$50.08

168 entries below $50 already filtered. Remaining low values usually reflect partial-cost line items (professional fee only), not full bills.

Median across 1,240 hospitals

$105

The realistic middle of the cash-price distribution. Use this as your benchmark.

Most expensive

$1,300

Highest published price. Often a gross-charge "list price" rarely actually paid.

Price distribution

452 hospitals · log-scale x-axis

Each bar = number of hospitals charging in that price range. Emerald bar contains the median. Amber dots = entries we flagged as likely partial-cost line items (excluded from the table below).

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Why some prices look unrealistically low or high

Hospitals publish their machine-readable files (MRFs) the way they choose. A single procedure code can appear with very different prices depending on what's being charged:

Global price — facility + implant + anesthesia + surgeon. This is what you'd actually be billed.
Professional fee only — surgeon's portion. Often $500–$2,500 for a major procedure that costs $20K+ globally.
Facility fee only — operating room and recovery, no implant or surgeon.
Per-unit / per-minute charges — e.g. anesthesia time billed at $0.68/min appearing under a CPT code.
Rate multipliers — values like 0.85 meaning "85% of Medicare" rather than dollars.

We filter the most obvious artifacts (under $50, or 25× above the median), but rows in the $500–$2K range for a major procedure are typically professional-only and we can't always tell. Use the median and high-end as the realistic range; treat very low rows as partial-cost line items, not full bills.

500 hospitals reporting

Hospital	State	Gross	Cash price	Min negotiated	Max negotiated	Your insurer
ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER	CT	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
BROWARD HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER	FL	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
WEST BOCA MEDICAL CENTER	FL	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
ADVOCATE SHERMAN HOSPITAL	IL	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
ADVOCATE TRINITY HOSPITAL	IL	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
ADVOCATE ILLINOIS MASONIC MEDICAL CENTER	IL	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
ADVOCATE CONDELL MEDICAL CENTER	IL	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
ADVOCATE CHRIST HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER	IL	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
ADVOCATE LUTHERAN GENERAL HOSPITAL	IL	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
ADVOCATE GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL	IL	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
ADVOCATE GOOD SHEPHERD HOSPITAL	IL	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
FLOYD COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER	IA	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI HEALTH CARE	MO	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
JAMAICA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER	NY	$105	$105	—	—	5 insurers
MOUNT PLEASANT HOSPITAL	SC	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
AURORA MEDICAL CTR MANITOWOC COUNTY	WI	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
AURORA MEDICAL CENTER SHEBOYGAN COUNTY	WI	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
AURORA MEDICAL CTR WASHINGTON COUNTY	WI	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
AURORA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL BURLINGTON	WI	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
AURORA LAKELAND MEDICAL CENTER	WI	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
AURORA MEDICAL CENTER BAY AREA	WI	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
AURORA ST LUKES MEDICAL CENTER	WI	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
WEST ALLIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	WI	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
AURORA MEDICAL CENTER KENOSHA	WI	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
AURORA BAYCARE MEDICAL CTR	WI	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
AURORA MEDICAL CTR OSHKOSH	WI	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
AURORA MEDICAL CENTER - SUMMIT	WI	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
AURORA MEDICAL CENTER	WI	$210	$105	—	—	5 insurers
NORTHWEST SURGICAL HOSPITAL	OK	—	$105	—	—	5 insurers
WALLOWA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	OR	$117	$105	$111	$115	0 insurers
UNITYPOINT HEALTH - MERITER	WI	$130	$104	—	—	5 insurers
UNIONTOWN HOSPITAL	PA	$212	$106	—	—	5 insurers
OCHSNER STENNIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	MS	$150	$104	—	—	5 insurers
BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL	CT	$211	$107	—	—	5 insurers
COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF SAN BERNARDINO	CA	$275	$108	$165	$275	5 insurers
COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF SAN BERNARDINO	CA	$275	$108	$35.09	$275	5 insurers
BATON ROUGE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER	LA	$146	$102	—	—	5 insurers
THE GENERAL	LA	$146	$102	—	—	5 insurers
SIGNATURE HEALTHCARE BROCKTON HOSPITAL	MA	$145	$102	—	—	5 insurers
University of Arkansas Medical Sciences	AR	$168	$101	—	—	5 insurers