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Procedure price report · Other Laboratory

Cholesterol blood panel

CPT 80061the billing code this page is about

A group of blood tests measuring total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and triglycerides, run together as one panel.

Hospitals typically charge $74 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,395 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $80. Most fall between $27 and $161 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,395
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 3,395 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
$15$34$74$141$257

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $257).

How the prices are spread

$11 – $16: 192 hospitals$11$16 – $22: 164 hospitals$22 – $32: 293 hospitals$22$32 – $47: 334 hospitals$47 – $68: 399 hospitals$47$68 – $97: 509 hospitals$97 – $141: 490 hospitals$97$141 – $203: 349 hospitals$203 – $293: 213 hospitals$203$293 – $422: 118 hospitals$293median $74price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,061 of 3,395 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$11$16192
$16$22164
$22$32293
$32$47334
$47$68399
$68$97509
$97$141490
$141$203349
$203$293213
$293$422118

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $74.

Alaska: median $98 across 19 hospitalsAK$98Maine: median $76 across 28 hospitalsME$76Vermont: median $62 across 14 hospitalsVT$62New Hampshire: median $91 across 25 hospitalsNH$91Washington: median $77 across 77 hospitalsWA$77Idaho: median $52 across 25 hospitalsID$52Montana: median $67 across 34 hospitalsMT$67North Dakota: median $86 across 33 hospitalsND$86Minnesota: median $68 across 108 hospitalsMN$68Illinois: median $140 across 148 hospitalsIL$140Wisconsin: median $93 across 108 hospitalsWI$93Michigan: median $42 across 95 hospitalsMI$42New York: median $55 across 119 hospitalsNY$55Massachusetts: median $82 across 54 hospitalsMA$82Oregon: median $58 across 51 hospitalsOR$58Nevada: median $106 across 22 hospitalsNV$106Wyoming: median $38 across 16 hospitalsWY$38South Dakota: median $174 across 41 hospitalsSD$174Iowa: median $72 across 89 hospitalsIA$72Indiana: median $75 across 96 hospitalsIN$75Ohio: median $51 across 140 hospitalsOH$51Pennsylvania: median $76 across 122 hospitalsPA$76New Jersey: median $15 across 56 hospitalsNJ$15Connecticut: median $60 across 22 hospitalsCT$60Rhode Island: median $109 across 10 hospitalsRI$109California: median $101 across 162 hospitalsCA$101Utah: median $71 across 42 hospitalsUT$71Colorado: median $82 across 72 hospitalsCO$82Nebraska: median $114 across 78 hospitalsNE$114Missouri: median $81 across 75 hospitalsMO$81Kentucky: median $92 across 68 hospitalsKY$92West Virginia: median $63 across 43 hospitalsWV$63Virginia: median $74 across 73 hospitalsVA$74Maryland: median $52 across 41 hospitalsMD$52Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $102 across 42 hospitalsAZ$102New Mexico: median $116 across 30 hospitalsNM$116Kansas: median $75 across 91 hospitalsKS$75Arkansas: median $48 across 37 hospitalsAR$48Tennessee: median $41 across 83 hospitalsTN$41North Carolina: median $90 across 86 hospitalsNC$90South Carolina: median $87 across 53 hospitalsSC$87Oklahoma: median $62 across 73 hospitalsOK$62Louisiana: median $45 across 54 hospitalsLA$45Mississippi: median $39 across 54 hospitalsMS$39Alabama: median $53 across 44 hospitalsAL$53Georgia: median $76 across 110 hospitalsGA$76Hawaii: median $102 across 21 hospitalsHI$102Texas: median $145 across 249 hospitalsTX$145Florida: median $98 across 155 hospitalsFL$98
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $74. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD41$174+134%$95 – $282
Texas TX249$145+95%$27 – $359
Illinois IL148$140+88%$57 – $222
New Mexico NM30$116+55%$59 – $151
Nebraska NE78$114+53%$37 – $153
Rhode Island RI10$109+46%$29 – $130
Nevada NV22$106+42%$24 – $165
Hawaii HI21$102+37%$60 – $125
Arizona AZ42$102+37%$24 – $426
California CA162$101+36%$13 – $339
Florida FL155$98+32%$17 – $964
Alaska AK19$98+32%$12 – $204
Wisconsin WI108$93+24%$55 – $148
Kentucky KY68$92+24%$31 – $175
New Hampshire NH25$91+23%$47 – $170
North Carolina NC86$90+21%$45 – $159
South Carolina SC53$87+17%$42 – $117
North Dakota ND33$86+16%$34 – $113
Massachusetts MA54$82+10%$43 – $126
Colorado CO72$82+10%$30 – $171
Missouri MO75$81+8%$32 – $128
Washington WA77$77+4%$31 – $127
Georgia GA110$76+2%$25 – $163
Maine ME28$76+2%$37 – $146
Pennsylvania PA122$76+2%$20 – $203
Kansas KS91$75+1%$45 – $116
Indiana IN96$750%$25 – $170
Virginia VA73$740%$23 – $173
Iowa IA89$72−3%$50 – $111
Utah UT42$71−5%$60 – $98
Minnesota MN108$68−8%$30 – $129
Montana MT34$67−10%$39 – $105
West Virginia WV43$63−16%$22 – $123
Vermont VT14$62−17%$38 – $121
Oklahoma OK73$62−17%$28 – $106
Connecticut CT22$60−19%$42 – $109
Oregon OR51$58−22%$25 – $85
New York NY119$55−26%$18 – $118
Alabama AL44$53−29%$16 – $270
Idaho ID25$52−30%$21 – $83
Maryland MD41$52−31%$40 – $62
Ohio OH140$51−31%$35 – $90
Arkansas AR37$48−36%$17 – $90
Louisiana LA54$45−39%$20 – $106
Michigan MI95$42−44%$18 – $86
Tennessee TN83$41−45%$23 – $133
Mississippi MS54$39−48%$22 – $100
Wyoming WY16$38−50%$26 – $114
New Jersey NJ56$15−79%$15 – $45
Delaware DE7not 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 $74.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,318$69$24 – $182
Children’s63$111$54 – $233
Critical access1,004$84$36 – $145
Ownership
For-profit473$130$33 – $552
Government650$73$27 – $143
Non-profit2,262$69$27 – $146
System affiliation
Part of a system2,735$76$28 – $171
Independent660$68$25 – $138

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$125
Median cash price$74
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

2,285 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $75 and the average of the middle 60% is $80; most fall between $28 and $164.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,285 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
$15$35$75$142$252

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $252).

Of the 2,545 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,285 gave a usable cash price; 148 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 112 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,395 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 — counted3,395
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here202
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 code3,734

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 Other Laboratory family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Occ Hlth Lab Lipid 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, “Cholesterol blood panel (CPT 80061) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-80061-cholesterol-blood-panel