CMS Price Transparency Data

Drug screening test

Facility: CHI Health - Mercy Corning

Billing Code: G0480 (HCPCS)

The BaseRate · fair price medium confidence

A fair price for this

$138

about 1.2× the $114 Medicare rate · typically $59–$445

modeled estimate · not a bill or quote

Medicare pays $114 Fair price $138 Cash price $106 Hospital's list price $220

How we calculate the fair BaseRate →

What each insurance company pays

Which insurers have negotiated a price with this hospital for this procedure — and which haven’t.

3 of 6 major insurers have a published price at this hospital

✓ UnitedHealthcare✓ Blue Cross Blue Shield✓ Humana AetnaCignaKaiser Permanente

Crossed out = this hospital hasn’t published a negotiated price for that insurer for this procedure. It doesn’t necessarily mean they aren’t accepted — ask your insurer.

Insurance company	Price range	vs. Medicare
UnitedHealthcaremajor	$95 - $216	83%
Blue Cross Blue Shieldmajor	$114 - $132	100%
Humanamajor	$114	100%
Ambetter (Centene)	$96 - $117	84%
Amerigroup	$96 - $120	84%
Medica	$114 - $211	100%
Molina	$98	86%
+ 8 smaller / regional plans	$114 - $254

Excludes 3 rental-network / third-party entries (e.g. Multiplan, PHCS) — these are pricing networks, not insurers.

Self-Pay How to get the cash price

Tell the billing desk you want to be billed as self-pay — not through insurance — before your visit.
Ask for the cash / prompt-pay discount in writing, with the exact price (about 106), before you agree to anything.
Get it in writing that they won’t also bill your insurance, so the cash price is what you owe.
Check the HCPCS code on your bill matches exactly: G0480.

Insurance Before you use insurance

Call your insurance company to confirm CHI Health - Mercy Corning is in-network.
Ask your insurer whether prior approval is required for HCPCS code G0480.
Confirm the doctor or provider is in-network too — not just the hospital building.
Check your Explanation of Benefits against the hospital’s final itemized bill.

Estimate your out-of-pocket cost

A rough estimate of what you’d pay with insurance (deductible + coinsurance) versus paying the cash price yourself.

How you’d pay

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