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Procedure price report · Other Laboratory

Digoxin blood level, free (unbound) portion

CPT 80163the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures only the unbound, active portion of the heart medication digoxin in the bloodstream.

Hospitals typically charge $59 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 415 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $68. Most fall between $22 and $139 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
415
States
42
Filings dated
Nov 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 415 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$27$59$121$257

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $257).

How the prices are spread

$13 – $18: 44 hospitals$13$18 – $25: 34 hospitals$25 – $34: 45 hospitals$25$34 – $46: 28 hospitals$46 – $63: 48 hospitals$46$63 – $86: 25 hospitals$86 – $118: 66 hospitals$86$118 – $161: 34 hospitals$161 – $220: 29 hospitals$161$220 – $300: 25 hospitals$220median $59price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (378 of 415 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$13$1844
$18$2534
$25$3445
$34$4628
$46$6348
$63$8625
$86$11866
$118$16134
$161$22029
$220$30025

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $59.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $68 across 18 hospitalsMN$68Illinois: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: median $95 across 11 hospitalsWI$95Michigan: median $47 across 15 hospitalsMI$47New York: median $13 across 22 hospitalsNY$13Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $30 across 11 hospitalsIA$30Indiana: median $24 across 18 hospitalsIN$24Ohio: median $60 across 50 hospitalsOH$60Pennsylvania: median $11 across 18 hospitalsPA$11New Jersey: median $15 across 24 hospitalsNJ$15Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $38 across 33 hospitalsCA$38Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $99 across 32 hospitalsVA$99Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $79 across 16 hospitalsAZ$79New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $112 across 46 hospitalsTX$112Florida: median $179 across 10 hospitalsFL$179
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $59. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL10$179+203%$70 – $725
Texas TX46$112+89%$62 – $295
Virginia VA32$99+67%$51 – $127
Wisconsin WI11$95+61%$21 – $96
Arizona AZ16$79+33%$22 – $106
Minnesota MN18$68+14%$49 – $89
Ohio OH50$60+1%$27 – $327
Michigan MI15$47−20%$18 – $133
California CA33$38−36%$38 – $108
Iowa IA11$30−50%$30 – $30
Indiana IN18$24−60%$19 – $139
New Jersey NJ24$15−75%$13 – $15
New York NY22$13−78%$13 – $48
Pennsylvania PA18$11−82%$9 – $25
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $59.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care347$56$19 – $160
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access59$76$26 – $106
Ownership
For-profit52$79$32 – $216
Government38$86$13 – $199
Non-profit320$51$21 – $127
System affiliation
Part of a system373$56$23 – $133
Independent42$70$19 – $199

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$129
Median cash price$59
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

305 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $89 and the average of the middle 60% is $88; most fall between $37 and $177.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 305 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$38$89$133$295

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($26 vs $295).

Of the 338 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 305 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

415 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 452 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted415
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here21
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code452

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 5, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 ASSAY OF DIGOXIN FREE.

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, “Digoxin blood level, free (unbound) portion (CPT 80163) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-80163-digoxin-blood-level-free-unbound-portion