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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Comprehensive metabolic blood panel

CPT 80053the billing code this page is about

A group of blood tests measuring blood sugar, salts and minerals, kidney and liver measures, and protein levels, all run together as one panel.

Hospitals typically charge $108 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,388 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $116. Most fall between $38 and $242 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,388
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 3,388 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$47$108$207$399

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $399).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $18: 138 hospitals$12$18 – $27: 198 hospitals$27 – $40: 232 hospitals$27$40 – $60: 340 hospitals$60 – $89: 398 hospitals$60$89 – $132: 501 hospitals$132 – $197: 520 hospitals$132$197 – $293: 419 hospitals$293 – $436: 191 hospitals$293$436 – $649: 128 hospitals$436median $108price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,065 of 3,388 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$18138
$18$27198
$27$40232
$40$60340
$60$89398
$89$132501
$132$197520
$197$293419
$293$436191
$436$649128

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $108.

Alaska: median $179 across 19 hospitalsAK$179Maine: median $104 across 27 hospitalsME$104Vermont: median $100 across 14 hospitalsVT$100New Hampshire: median $89 across 25 hospitalsNH$89Washington: median $84 across 77 hospitalsWA$84Idaho: median $51 across 25 hospitalsID$51Montana: median $104 across 33 hospitalsMT$104North Dakota: median $89 across 33 hospitalsND$89Minnesota: median $93 across 106 hospitalsMN$93Illinois: median $167 across 146 hospitalsIL$167Wisconsin: median $117 across 107 hospitalsWI$117Michigan: median $65 across 97 hospitalsMI$65New York: median $51 across 120 hospitalsNY$51Massachusetts: median $102 across 52 hospitalsMA$102Oregon: median $53 across 51 hospitalsOR$53Nevada: median $123 across 22 hospitalsNV$123Wyoming: median $88 across 16 hospitalsWY$88South Dakota: median $233 across 41 hospitalsSD$233Iowa: median $108 across 90 hospitalsIA$108Indiana: median $65 across 94 hospitalsIN$65Ohio: median $64 across 138 hospitalsOH$64Pennsylvania: median $69 across 122 hospitalsPA$69New Jersey: median $12 across 57 hospitalsNJ$12Connecticut: median $48 across 23 hospitalsCT$48Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $255 across 163 hospitalsCA$255Utah: median $72 across 42 hospitalsUT$72Colorado: median $112 across 72 hospitalsCO$112Nebraska: median $161 across 83 hospitalsNE$161Missouri: median $121 across 78 hospitalsMO$121Kentucky: median $118 across 69 hospitalsKY$118West Virginia: median $49 across 42 hospitalsWV$49Virginia: median $121 across 73 hospitalsVA$121Maryland: median $41 across 41 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $212 across 42 hospitalsAZ$212New Mexico: median $123 across 30 hospitalsNM$123Kansas: median $75 across 93 hospitalsKS$75Arkansas: median $130 across 40 hospitalsAR$130Tennessee: median $77 across 83 hospitalsTN$77North Carolina: median $103 across 89 hospitalsNC$103South Carolina: median $150 across 53 hospitalsSC$150Oklahoma: median $72 across 71 hospitalsOK$72Louisiana: median $52 across 54 hospitalsLA$52Mississippi: median $61 across 54 hospitalsMS$61Alabama: median $89 across 44 hospitalsAL$89Georgia: median $140 across 108 hospitalsGA$140Hawaii: median $92 across 21 hospitalsHI$92Texas: median $236 across 246 hospitalsTX$236Florida: median $334 across 148 hospitalsFL$334
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $108. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL148$334+211%$25 – $1,473
California CA163$255+138%$50 – $471
Texas TX246$236+119%$115 – $573
South Dakota SD41$233+117%$142 – $408
Arizona AZ42$212+97%$30 – $603
Alaska AK19$179+67%$117 – $252
Illinois IL146$167+56%$75 – $298
Nebraska NE83$161+50%$78 – $202
South Carolina SC53$150+39%$59 – $260
Georgia GA108$140+30%$38 – $264
Arkansas AR40$130+21%$33 – $300
Nevada NV22$123+14%$24 – $252
New Mexico NM30$123+14%$63 – $220
Missouri MO78$121+13%$60 – $215
Virginia VA73$121+13%$59 – $247
Kentucky KY69$118+10%$50 – $173
Wisconsin WI107$117+9%$66 – $196
Colorado CO72$112+4%$68 – $200
Iowa IA90$1080%$63 – $160
Maine ME27$104−3%$70 – $193
Montana MT33$104−3%$48 – $138
North Carolina NC89$103−4%$39 – $245
Massachusetts MA52$102−5%$39 – $175
Vermont VT14$100−7%$53 – $175
Minnesota MN106$93−13%$31 – $212
Hawaii HI21$92−15%$65 – $105
New Hampshire NH25$89−17%$45 – $135
Alabama AL44$89−17%$25 – $364
North Dakota ND33$89−17%$73 – $136
Wyoming WY16$88−18%$38 – $175
Washington WA77$84−22%$42 – $125
Tennessee TN83$77−28%$26 – $187
Kansas KS93$75−30%$31 – $152
Oklahoma OK71$72−33%$36 – $163
Utah UT42$72−33%$61 – $153
Pennsylvania PA122$69−35%$19 – $201
Michigan MI97$65−40%$32 – $146
Indiana IN94$65−40%$23 – $165
Ohio OH138$64−41%$35 – $176
Mississippi MS54$61−43%$22 – $132
Oregon OR51$53−51%$39 – $88
Louisiana LA54$52−51%$19 – $157
New York NY120$51−53%$16 – $168
Idaho ID25$51−53%$45 – $86
West Virginia WV42$49−54%$48 – $166
Connecticut CT23$48−55%$33 – $415
Maryland MD41$41−62%$31 – $49
New Jersey NJ57$12−89%$12 – $40
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 $108.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,318$105$32 – $260
Children’s67$114$56 – $395
Critical access993$112$49 – $197
Ownership
For-profit470$181$50 – $918
Government643$115$44 – $212
Non-profit2,265$97$34 – $218
System affiliation
Part of a system2,733$110$38 – $251
Independent655$96$34 – $189

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$181
Median cash price$108
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

2,280 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $112 and the average of the middle 60% is $122; most fall between $44 and $246.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,280 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
$22$53$112$215$392

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $392).

Of the 2,540 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,280 gave a usable cash price; 147 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

3,388 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 3,734 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,388
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here210
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 — excluded135
Hospitals that filed this code3,734

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 PR Occ Hlth Lab - Comp 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, “Comprehensive metabolic blood panel (CPT 80053) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-80053-comprehensive-metabolic-blood-panel