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Caffeine blood level

CPT 80155the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures the amount of caffeine in the bloodstream.

Hospitals typically charge $80 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,446 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $80. Most fall between $38 and $144 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,446
States
49
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 1,446 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
$26$42$80$127$198

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($26 vs $198).

How the prices are spread

$19 – $25: 65 hospitals$19$25 – $34: 90 hospitals$34 – $45: 181 hospitals$34$45 – $59: 143 hospitals$59 – $79: 163 hospitals$59$79 – $104: 245 hospitals$104 – $139: 180 hospitals$104$139 – $184: 118 hospitals$184 – $245: 89 hospitals$184$245 – $325: 28 hospitals$245median $80price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,302 of 1,446 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$19$2565
$25$3490
$34$45181
$45$59143
$59$79163
$79$104245
$104$139180
$139$184118
$184$24589
$245$32528

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $80.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $59 across 36 hospitalsWA$59Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $75 across 27 hospitalsMN$75Illinois: median $102 across 50 hospitalsIL$102Wisconsin: median $80 across 49 hospitalsWI$80Michigan: median $57 across 48 hospitalsMI$57New York: median $68 across 66 hospitalsNY$68Massachusetts: median $123 across 20 hospitalsMA$123Oregon: median $70 across 14 hospitalsOR$70Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 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 $66 across 25 hospitalsIA$66Indiana: median $76 across 43 hospitalsIN$76Ohio: median $86 across 75 hospitalsOH$86Pennsylvania: median $82 across 77 hospitalsPA$82New Jersey: median $42 across 36 hospitalsNJ$42Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $145 across 76 hospitalsCA$145Utah: median $118 across 28 hospitalsUT$118Colorado: median $71 across 34 hospitalsCO$71Nebraska: median $42 across 16 hospitalsNE$42Missouri: median $102 across 42 hospitalsMO$102Kentucky: median $85 across 23 hospitalsKY$85West Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $55 across 38 hospitalsVA$55Maryland: median $40 across 31 hospitalsMD$40Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $44 across 12 hospitalsAZ$44New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $95 across 18 hospitalsKS$95Arkansas: median $69 across 17 hospitalsAR$69Tennessee: median $74 across 30 hospitalsTN$74North Carolina: median $87 across 59 hospitalsNC$87South Carolina: median $123 across 29 hospitalsSC$123Oklahoma: median $139 across 39 hospitalsOK$139Louisiana: median $59 across 30 hospitalsLA$59Mississippi: median $56 across 19 hospitalsMS$56Alabama: median $45 across 16 hospitalsAL$45Georgia: median $44 across 47 hospitalsGA$44Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $97 across 121 hospitalsTX$97Florida: median $39 across 69 hospitalsFL$39
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $80. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA76$145+81%$18 – $188
Oklahoma OK39$139+74%$89 – $170
Massachusetts MA20$123+54%$75 – $216
South Carolina SC29$123+54%$62 – $125
Utah UT28$118+47%$118 – $139
Illinois IL50$102+27%$74 – $185
Missouri MO42$102+27%$65 – $146
Texas TX121$97+21%$28 – $195
Kansas KS18$95+19%$49 – $165
North Carolina NC59$87+9%$68 – $134
Ohio OH75$86+8%$59 – $173
Kentucky KY23$85+6%$33 – $435
Pennsylvania PA77$82+3%$31 – $155
Wisconsin WI49$800%$44 – $103
Indiana IN43$76−5%$35 – $239
Minnesota MN27$75−6%$40 – $96
Tennessee TN30$74−7%$50 – $108
Colorado CO34$71−11%$28 – $191
Oregon OR14$70−13%$58 – $98
Arkansas AR17$69−14%$26 – $111
New York NY66$68−15%$39 – $130
Iowa IA25$66−17%$48 – $94
Washington WA36$59−26%$36 – $117
Louisiana LA30$59−26%$27 – $114
Michigan MI48$57−29%$23 – $127
Mississippi MS19$56−30%$40 – $80
Virginia VA38$55−32%$26 – $141
Alabama AL16$45−44%$38 – $87
Arizona AZ12$44−45%$38 – $88
Georgia GA47$44−45%$38 – $89
New Jersey NJ36$42−47%$39 – $83
Nebraska NE16$42−47%$17 – $82
Maryland MD31$40−50%$31 – $47
Florida FL69$39−52%$21 – $149
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $80.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,196$78$38 – $145
Children’s40$99$35 – $194
Critical access205$87$51 – $127
Ownership
For-profit201$89$33 – $249
Government164$68$39 – $109
Non-profit1,076$80$39 – $143
System affiliation
Part of a system1,295$80$38 – $143
Independent151$75$40 – $147

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$146
Median cash price$80
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

1,035 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $80 and the average of the middle 60% is $81; most fall between $38 and $139.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,035 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
$25$44$80$125$188

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($25 vs $188).

Of the 1,156 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,035 gave a usable cash price; 68 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 53 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,446 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (37%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,575 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,446
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here66
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 — excluded63
Hospitals that filed this code1,575

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 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 HC Caffeine.

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, “Caffeine blood level (CPT 80155) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-80155-caffeine-blood-level