# Gentamicin blood level in Augusta, GA Billing code `80170`. Prices for this code at 5 hospitals within 35 miles of Augusta, 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/augusta/gentamicin-blood-level HC ASSAY OF GENTAMICIN - GENTAMICIN TROUGH ## 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, 1 publish a facility charge; 4 do not label which half the figure is. ## Typical price | | Amount | |---|---| | Lowest reported | $18 | | Typical | $85 | | Highest reported | $154 | Too few hospitals here for a decile to mean anything, so these are the true extremes and a single unusual figure can set one of them. ## Every hospital publishing this code | Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Doctors Hospital | AUGUSTA (5.1 mi) | 3/5 | $18 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $436 | $14 | $393 | 192 | | WellStar MCG Health, Affiliated with Med Col | AUGUSTA (2.2 mi) | 1/5 | $27 | $27 | not mentioned | $161 | $16 | $51 | 20 | | Aiken Regional Medical Center | AIKEN, SC (20.3 mi) | 2/5 | $85 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $184 | $19 | $391 | 36 | | Piedmont Augusta Hospital | AUGUSTA (2.6 mi) | 2/5 | $154 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $125 | $10 | $374 | 16 | | University Mcduffie County Regional Medical Center | THOMSON (30.0 mi) | not rated | $154 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $125 | $15 | $374 | 18 | ## 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 2 of the 5 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 3 it is higher. 1 of these 5 hospitals have not published an updated price file in over a year, or do not say when they last did. Hospitals are required to update at least annually, so those figures may not reflect what they charge now: Aiken Regional Medical Center. ## 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 --- Every procedure with a published price in GA: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga Prices that look wrong: info@clearcharge.org 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 2026-03-01 to 2026-07-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.