# Heparin blood level in Columbus, GA

Billing code `85520`. Prices for this code at 6 hospitals within 35 miles of Columbus, 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/columbus/heparin-blood-level

HC HEPARIN ASSAY - HEPARIN LEVEL

## 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, 2 publish a facility charge; 1 publish both, mixed together; 3 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lowest reported | $13 |
| Typical | $157 |
| Highest reported | $274 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Center Barbour | EUFAULA, AL (32.3 mi) | not rated | $13 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $58 | $5 | $98 | 15 |
| St Francis Hospital- Emory Healthcare | COLUMBUS (~0 mi) | 3/5 | $14 | $14 | not mentioned | not published | $13 | $33 | 10 |
| Piedmont Columbus Regional Northside | COLUMBUS (3.3 mi) | 5/5 | $29 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $153 | $9 | $435 | 17 |
| The East Alabama Healthcare Authority | OPELIKA, AL (28.9 mi) | 3/5 | see split | $251 | $13 | $173 | $6 | $314 | 70 |
| Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown | COLUMBUS (3.3 mi) | 2/5 | $241 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $153 | $9 | $435 | 16 |
| Warm Springs Medical Center | WARM SPRINGS (30.1 mi) | not rated | $274 | $274 | not mentioned | $156 | $165 | $312 | 26 |

## 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.

3 of these 6 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: Medical Center Barbour, The East Alabama Healthcare Authority, Warm Springs 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

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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 2024-07-11 to 2026-07-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.