Table 2.

Cost of Rapid HIV Testing at 45 Hospitals in the U.S., 2006

	Range	Mean	Median
Procedure time (min)
Pre-test counseling	0–35	11.9	10
Specimen collection	1–25	4.5	4
Rapid test processing	5–60	19.5	15
Post-test counseling (neg.)	1–20	8.3	8
Post-test counseling (pos.)	4–60	21.1	20
Procedure compensation (per h, $)
Pre-test counseling	0–113.07	57.31	54.81
Specimen collection	14.49–72.20	31.90	31.68
Rapid test processing	12.81–53.50	28.43	28.80
Post-test counseling (neg.)	17.40–113.08	64.67	58.92
Post-test counseling (pos.)	17.40–135.44	76.53	84.36
Personnel costs ($)
Pre-test counseling	0.00–34.20	11.05	7.49
Specimen collection	0.43–10.42	2.32	1.75
Rapid test processing	2.16–31.59	9.22	7.80
Post-test counseling (neg.)	0.50–30.04	9.02	7.03
Post-test counseling (pos.)	5.91–59.52	25.12	19.65
Personnel and materials costs ($)
Total personnel costs (neg.)	10.00–68.94	31.64	28.06
Total personnel costs (pos.)	14.57–98.78	47.73	45.41
Rapid test kits	8.25–25.00	14.94	15.00
Miscellaneous disposables	—	1.50	1.50
Total cost of counseling and testing ($)
Negative test result	24.64–87.94	48.07	44.56
Preliminary-positive test result	29.07–113.74	64.17	64.17