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Blood panel for fatty liver disease risk

CPT 0003Mthe billing code this page is about

A laboratory panel that measures ten blood markers and combines them with patient information in a calculation that reports a score related to fatty liver disease with inflammation and scarring.

Hospitals typically charge $577 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 428 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $644. Most fall between $408 and $1,056 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
428
States
44
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 428 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$257$433$577$952$1,212

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($257 vs $1,212).

How the prices are spread

$228 – $274: 28 hospitals$228$274 – $329: 17 hospitals$329 – $395: 19 hospitals$329$395 – $474: 42 hospitals$474 – $569: 80 hospitals$474$569 – $684: 39 hospitals$684 – $821: 54 hospitals$684$821 – $986: 34 hospitals$986 – $1,184: 51 hospitals$986$1,184 – $1,421: 23 hospitals$1,184median $577price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (387 of 428 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$228$27428
$274$32917
$329$39519
$395$47442
$474$56980
$569$68439
$684$82154
$821$98634
$986$1,18451
$1,184$1,42123

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $577.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: median $1,145 across 13 hospitalsMN$1,145Illinois: median $1,056 across 16 hospitalsIL$1,056Wisconsin: median $1,091 across 19 hospitalsWI$1,091Michigan: median $254 across 11 hospitalsMI$254New York: median $770 across 12 hospitalsNY$770Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $463 across 11 hospitalsOR$463Nevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $483 across 15 hospitalsIA$483Indiana: median $725 across 18 hospitalsIN$725Ohio: median $577 across 21 hospitalsOH$577Pennsylvania: median $622 across 25 hospitalsPA$622New Jersey: median $554 across 18 hospitalsNJ$554Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $591 across 13 hospitalsCO$591Nebraska: median $843 across 10 hospitalsNE$843Missouri: median $473 across 19 hospitalsMO$473Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $586 across 10 hospitalsWV$586Virginia: median $586 across 11 hospitalsVA$586Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $314 across 11 hospitalsTN$314North Carolina: median $933 across 39 hospitalsNC$933South Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $256 across 22 hospitalsGA$256Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $755 across 31 hospitalsTX$755Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $577. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Minnesota MN13$1,145+99%$976 – $1,145
Wisconsin WI19$1,091+89%$968 – $1,421
Illinois IL16$1,056+83%$634 – $1,056
North Carolina NC39$933+62%$506 – $1,133
Nebraska NE10$843+46%$532 – $1,091
New York NY12$770+34%$425 – $1,683
Texas TX31$755+31%$755 – $755
Indiana IN18$725+26%$638 – $961
Pennsylvania PA25$622+8%$332 – $1,213
Colorado CO13$591+2%$482 – $767
Virginia VA11$586+2%$422 – $846
West Virginia WV10$586+2%$458 – $780
Ohio OH21$5770%$435 – $577
New Jersey NJ18$554−4%$530 – $554
Iowa IA15$483−16%$393 – $483
Missouri MO19$473−18%$409 – $567
Oregon OR11$463−20%$327 – $479
Tennessee TN11$314−46%$285 – $559
Georgia GA22$256−56%$256 – $511
Michigan MI11$254−56%$254 – $254
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $577.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care325$562$332 – $968
Children’s2fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access98$769$463 – $1,144
Ownership
For-profit38$541$275 – $755
Government45$591$493 – $1,133
Non-profit342$577$408 – $1,056
System affiliation
Part of a system390$577$408 – $1,056
Independent38$591$390 – $1,258

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,186
Median cash price$577
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

300 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $577 and the average of the middle 60% is $657; most fall between $422 and $1,056.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 300 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$256$453$577$937$1,285

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($256 vs $1,285).

Of the 306 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 300 gave a usable cash price; 0 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

428 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 432 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted428
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here0
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code432

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Pathology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as LIVER DIS 10 ASSAYS W/NASH.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Blood panel for fatty liver disease risk (CPT 0003M) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-0003m-blood-panel-for-fatty-liver-disease-risk