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Hays Medical Center · Hays, KS

Lipid panel (cholesterol)

Procedure code (CPT) 80061 · Labs · Hospital's own wording: "LIPID PANEL"

Cash price — what the hospital publishes for people paying out of pocket
$46.20
Cash price$46.20 — the discounted cash price in the hospital's published file.
List price$140 — the hospital's gross (list) charge before any discount or insurance.
Medicare rate (2026)$13.39 — Medicare’s published national payment rate for this procedure (CMS Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule). It is a total rate: lab tests are paid at 100%, with no patient share. The amount paid to a specific hospital varies with local wage adjustments.
Insurance-negotiated range$13.39 – $29.46 — the lowest and highest rates this hospital has negotiated with insurance plans for this procedure, as published in its file.

The low end of a negotiated range can reflect a government program fee schedule (such as Medicaid) rather than a rate most patients would pay, and the high end can reflect contract formulas. Your own plan's rate sits somewhere inside the range and depends on your coverage.

Where this price comes from

These figures are taken word-for-word from Hays Medical Center's own published price file, file date March 21, 2026. Open the hospital's source file. Prices are published figures, not a quote or a guarantee of your final bill — see how to read these numbers.

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