# Strep A antigen test in Macon, GA

Billing code `87430`. Prices for this code at 7 hospitals within 35 miles of Macon, 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/macon/strep-a-antigen-test

HC IA STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A

## 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; 3 publish both, mixed together; 3 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lowest reported | $17 |
| Typical | $56 |
| Highest reported | $68 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emory Houston Hospital Warner Robins | WARNER ROBINS (14.3 mi) | 2/5 | $17 | $17 | not mentioned | not published | $13 | $36 | 12 |
| Atrium Health Navicent the Medical Center | MACON (3.2 mi) | 2/5 | see split | $42 | $31 | $60 | $7 | $111 | 45 |
| Monroe County Hospital | FORSYTH (22.5 mi) | not rated | $44 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $17 | $13 | $84 | 25 |
| Piedmont Macon North Hospital | MACON (7.8 mi) | 4/5 | $56 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $34 | $15 | $101 | 15 |
| Coliseum Medical Centers | MACON (6.9 mi) | 3/5 | $56 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $34 | $15 | $101 | 15 |
| Atrium Health Navicent Peach | BYRON (16.2 mi) | 1/5 | see split | $79 | $31 | $61 | $15 | $113 | 43 |
| Navicent Health Baldwin | MILLEDGEVILLE (26.5 mi) | 2/5 | see split | $88 | $31 | $58 | $17 | $99 | 42 |

## 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 5 of the 6 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 1 it is higher.

1 of these 7 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: Monroe County Hospital.

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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 2025-11-19 to 2026-07-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.
