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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Basic metabolic blood panel

CPT 80048the billing code this page is about

A group of blood tests measuring blood sugar, kidney function, electrolytes, and total calcium, run together as one panel.

Hospitals typically charge $83 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,405 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $91. Most fall between $34 and $181 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,405
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 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 3,405 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
$19$41$83$156$293

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $293).

How the prices are spread

$11 – $15: 111 hospitals$11$15 – $23: 190 hospitals$23 – $34: 200 hospitals$23$34 – $50: 411 hospitals$50 – $73: 438 hospitals$50$73 – $108: 533 hospitals$108 – $158: 529 hospitals$108$158 – $233: 343 hospitals$233 – $344: 189 hospitals$233$344 – $507: 121 hospitals$344median $83price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,065 of 3,405 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$11$15111
$15$23190
$23$34200
$34$50411
$50$73438
$73$108533
$108$158529
$158$233343
$233$344189
$344$507121

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $83.

Alaska: median $147 across 19 hospitalsAK$147Maine: median $76 across 28 hospitalsME$76Vermont: median $80 across 14 hospitalsVT$80New Hampshire: median $54 across 25 hospitalsNH$54Washington: median $69 across 76 hospitalsWA$69Idaho: median $46 across 25 hospitalsID$46Montana: median $82 across 35 hospitalsMT$82North Dakota: median $73 across 33 hospitalsND$73Minnesota: median $77 across 108 hospitalsMN$77Illinois: median $139 across 145 hospitalsIL$139Wisconsin: median $92 across 108 hospitalsWI$92Michigan: median $47 across 97 hospitalsMI$47New York: median $48 across 118 hospitalsNY$48Massachusetts: median $74 across 52 hospitalsMA$74Oregon: median $45 across 51 hospitalsOR$45Nevada: median $121 across 22 hospitalsNV$121Wyoming: median $100 across 16 hospitalsWY$100South Dakota: median $165 across 41 hospitalsSD$165Iowa: median $83 across 90 hospitalsIA$83Indiana: median $52 across 94 hospitalsIN$52Ohio: median $66 across 142 hospitalsOH$66Pennsylvania: median $55 across 122 hospitalsPA$55New Jersey: median $10 across 57 hospitalsNJ$10Connecticut: median $47 across 23 hospitalsCT$47Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $193 across 165 hospitalsCA$193Utah: median $49 across 42 hospitalsUT$49Colorado: median $95 across 72 hospitalsCO$95Nebraska: median $136 across 85 hospitalsNE$136Missouri: median $105 across 78 hospitalsMO$105Kentucky: median $83 across 68 hospitalsKY$83West Virginia: median $63 across 43 hospitalsWV$63Virginia: median $64 across 72 hospitalsVA$64Maryland: median $30 across 41 hospitalsMD$30Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $124 across 42 hospitalsAZ$124New Mexico: median $104 across 30 hospitalsNM$104Kansas: median $60 across 94 hospitalsKS$60Arkansas: median $80 across 40 hospitalsAR$80Tennessee: median $54 across 83 hospitalsTN$54North Carolina: median $88 across 85 hospitalsNC$88South Carolina: median $118 across 53 hospitalsSC$118Oklahoma: median $45 across 72 hospitalsOK$45Louisiana: median $41 across 54 hospitalsLA$41Mississippi: median $44 across 54 hospitalsMS$44Alabama: median $75 across 43 hospitalsAL$75Georgia: median $109 across 108 hospitalsGA$109Hawaii: median $79 across 21 hospitalsHI$79Texas: median $183 across 250 hospitalsTX$183Florida: median $354 across 155 hospitalsFL$354
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $83. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL155$354+328%$35 – $1,430
California CA165$193+133%$61 – $383
Texas TX250$183+121%$90 – $514
South Dakota SD41$165+100%$121 – $297
Alaska AK19$147+78%$86 – $215
Illinois IL145$139+68%$58 – $217
Nebraska NE85$136+64%$59 – $167
Arizona AZ42$124+49%$22 – $380
Nevada NV22$121+46%$53 – $215
South Carolina SC53$118+42%$45 – $222
Georgia GA108$109+32%$30 – $164
Missouri MO78$105+27%$55 – $149
New Mexico NM30$104+26%$54 – $164
Wyoming WY16$100+20%$68 – $123
Colorado CO72$95+15%$54 – $140
Wisconsin WI108$92+11%$35 – $152
North Carolina NC85$88+6%$44 – $161
Iowa IA90$830%$55 – $132
Kentucky KY68$830%$43 – $144
Montana MT35$82−1%$44 – $101
Vermont VT14$80−3%$44 – $120
Arkansas AR40$80−4%$19 – $111
Hawaii HI21$79−5%$43 – $91
Minnesota MN108$77−8%$25 – $168
Maine ME28$76−8%$50 – $152
Alabama AL43$75−9%$27 – $269
Massachusetts MA52$74−11%$43 – $110
North Dakota ND33$73−12%$57 – $98
Washington WA76$69−17%$41 – $106
Ohio OH142$66−21%$38 – $122
Virginia VA72$64−22%$43 – $209
West Virginia WV43$63−25%$39 – $114
Kansas KS94$60−28%$28 – $104
Pennsylvania PA122$55−33%$14 – $142
Tennessee TN83$54−35%$21 – $146
New Hampshire NH25$54−35%$37 – $106
Indiana IN94$52−37%$19 – $146
Utah UT42$49−41%$41 – $106
New York NY118$48−42%$15 – $119
Michigan MI97$47−43%$26 – $99
Connecticut CT23$47−44%$26 – $232
Idaho ID25$46−45%$38 – $90
Oklahoma OK72$45−45%$31 – $115
Oregon OR51$45−46%$34 – $68
Mississippi MS54$44−47%$19 – $134
Louisiana LA54$41−51%$19 – $148
Maryland MD41$30−64%$23 – $36
New Jersey NJ57$10−88%$9 – $30
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not 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 $83.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,326$80$28 – $203
Children’s67$94$52 – $384
Critical access1,002$88$42 – $152
Ownership
For-profit476$144$48 – $778
Government647$85$41 – $159
Non-profit2,272$75$31 – $162
System affiliation
Part of a system2,743$86$35 – $191
Independent662$75$33 – $142

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$142
Median cash price$83
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

2,290 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $86 and the average of the middle 60% is $95; most fall between $37 and $187.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,290 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
$20$43$86$164$274

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $274).

Of the 2,539 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,290 gave a usable cash price; 136 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 113 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,405 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (86%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,728 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,405
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here186
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded136
Hospitals that filed this code3,728

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 July 20, 2026 and September 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Basic Metabolic Panel.

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, “Basic metabolic blood panel (CPT 80048) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-80048-basic-metabolic-blood-panel