HCPCS G0479 at Seattle Children's Hospital

Drug test(s), presumptive, any number of drug classes; any number of devices or procedures by instrumented chemistry analyzers utilizing immunoassay, enzyme assay, tof, maldi, ldtd, desi, dart, ghpc, gc mass spectrometry), includes sample validation when performed, per date of service

Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle

Description from CMS's HCPCS Level II code file.

What Seattle Children's Hospital publishes for this code: as an outpatient

Seattle Children's Hospital’s prices for HCPCS G0479, as an outpatient
Who pays	Hospital’s fee (lowest – highest)	Doctor’s fee the hospital lists
Commercial insuranceInsurer rates	$149 – $26598 plans	—
Other government programInsurer rates	$1131 plan	—
UnknownInsurer rates	$243 – $2482 plans	—
Cash pricePaying yourself, without insurance	$276	—
List priceBefore any discount; few people pay it	$276	—

Lowest and highest amounts Seattle Children's Hospital lists for this code as an outpatient, including lines it lists for both settings or without saying which. This is one line of a bill; most care brings several.

Bills to expect

The hospital’s fee is the price above. Doctors usually send their own bills. Their amounts here are what original Medicare allows in Seattle (King County) for 2026, and a private-plan estimate of 118% to 179% of that (the range found across studies of what insurers pay doctors). Those are estimates, not quotes.

Bills to expect for HCPCS G0479 at Seattle Children's Hospital
Bill	What it’s for	Original Medicare allows	Private plan estimate
Hospital's feeThe hospital	The service	—	The price above

Original Medicare amounts are only for people on original Medicare. Your share depends on your plan’s deductible, copay and coinsurance.

Compare HCPCS G0479 at every Washington hospital, with Medicare’s reference amounts.