# Immunoglobulin level (IgA, IgD, IgG or IgM) in Athens, GA

Billing code `82784`. Prices for this code at 10 hospitals within 35 miles of Athens, taken from the machine-readable standard charge files each hospital is required to publish under the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR 180.50).

Source page: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/athens/immunoglobulin-level-iga-igd-igg-or-igm

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## Before quoting any figure below

- **Hospital charges only.** The surgeon, anaesthetist, radiologist and pathologist bill separately and appear in no hospital price file, by construction. Every figure below is part of a total, never the total.
- **A negotiated rate is not a bill.** It is what a hospital and an insurer agreed. What a patient owes depends on their deductible, coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximum.
- **Each hospital's figure is a median across its own plans.** The spread inside one hospital is often wider than the gap between two of them.
- **"not mentioned" is not $0.** It means this hospital's file does not label a row that way. Silence is not a statement that the charge does not exist.
- **A hospital absent from the table says nothing about its prices.** It may publish this code under a revenue or drug code this site cannot map to a procedure.

A procedure code is billed twice -- once by the hospital for its own costs, once by the doctor for their work -- and hospitals publish different sides of that split under the same code. Of the hospitals here, 4 publish a facility charge; 6 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cheapest tenth | $10 |
| Typical | $35 |
| Dearest tenth | $139 |

The cheapest and dearest tenth are the hospitals a tenth of the way in from each end, not the single cheapest and dearest. Every hospital, including both extremes, is in the table below.

That is a 14-fold difference for the same billing code, between hospitals within 35 miles of each other -- a gap between hospitals, not between treatments.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary's Hospital | ATHENS (0.0 mi) | 1/5 | $9 | $9 | not mentioned | $34 | $9 | $48 | 1,540 |
| NGMC Barrow | WINDER (16.3 mi) | 4/5 | $10 | $10 | not mentioned | $108 | $5 | $27 | 13 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center | GAINESVILLE (34.5 mi) | 3/5 | $10 | $10 | not mentioned | $108 | $5 | $27 | 13 |
| Piedmont Newton Hospital | COVINGTON (33.7 mi) | 3/5 | $18 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $90 | $6 | $254 | 14 |
| Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center | ATHENS (0.0 mi) | 4/5 | $20 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $90 | $6 | $245 | 15 |
| St Marys Good Samaritan Hospital | GREENSBORO (29.6 mi) | 4/5 | $35 | $35 | not mentioned | $42 | $5 | $58 | 1,728 |
| Piedmont Eastside Medical Center | SNELLVILLE (34.4 mi) | 2/5 | $47 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $90 | $8 | $269 | 14 |
| Morgan Medical Center | MADISON (24.6 mi) | not rated | $131 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $63 | $131 | 28 |
| Northside Hospital Gwinnett | LAWRENCEVILLE (28.8 mi) | 3/5 | $135 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $254 | $7 | $338 | 2,520 |
| Piedmont Walton Hospital | MONROE (18.9 mi) | 4/5 | $174 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $90 | $8 | $269 | 14 |

## Self-pay

Self-pay is what the hospital charges someone paying themselves rather than through insurance. Paying self-pay usually does not count toward a deductible, so it can cost less for one service and more across a year. Every other figure here is what an insurer pays, not what a patient would.

At 1 of the 9 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 8 it is higher.

## Others in lab & pathology

- [Complete blood count (CBC) with differential](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/complete-blood-count-cbc-with-differential) -- 114 hospitals, typically $16
- [Lipid panel (cholesterol)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/lipid-panel-cholesterol) -- 114 hospitals, typically $27
- [Vitamin D level](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/vitamin-d-level) -- 114 hospitals, typically $53
- [Vitamin B12](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/vitamin-b12) -- 114 hospitals, typically $27
- [Hemoglobin A1c (3-month blood sugar)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/hemoglobin-a1c-3-month-blood-sugar) -- 114 hospitals, typically $18
- [Lipase (pancreas enzyme)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/lipase-pancreas-enzyme) -- 114 hospitals, typically $15
- [Magnesium](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/magnesium) -- 114 hospitals, typically $13
- [BNP (heart failure blood test)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/bnp-heart-failure-blood-test) -- 114 hospitals, typically $68

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Compiled by Clearcharge (clearcharge.org) from each hospital's machine-readable standard-charge file. When quoting a figure, cite the source page above. The hospital files behind these figures state data through dates from 2026-02-15 to 2026-07-28; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.