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Gabapentin blood level test

CPT 80171the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures the amount of gabapentin, used for seizures and nerve pain, in the blood.

Hospitals typically charge $68 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,520 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $76. Most fall between $30 and $157 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,520
States
50
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 2,520 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$35$68$131$248

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $248).

How the prices are spread

$17 – $22: 155 hospitals$17$22 – $30: 236 hospitals$30 – $41: 262 hospitals$30$41 – $55: 283 hospitals$55 – $75: 275 hospitals$55$75 – $101: 295 hospitals$101 – $137: 286 hospitals$101$137 – $186: 213 hospitals$186 – $251: 141 hospitals$186$251 – $340: 123 hospitals$251median $68price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,269 of 2,520 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$17$22155
$22$30236
$30$41262
$41$55283
$55$75275
$75$101295
$101$137286
$137$186213
$186$251141
$251$340123

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $68.

Alaska: median $155 across 12 hospitalsAK$155Maine: median $100 across 23 hospitalsME$100Vermont: median $177 across 12 hospitalsVT$177New Hampshire: median $87 across 19 hospitalsNH$87Washington: median $68 across 57 hospitalsWA$68Idaho: median $49 across 17 hospitalsID$49Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $69 across 21 hospitalsND$69Minnesota: median $60 across 89 hospitalsMN$60Illinois: median $106 across 116 hospitalsIL$106Wisconsin: median $103 across 94 hospitalsWI$103Michigan: median $40 across 86 hospitalsMI$40New York: median $60 across 93 hospitalsNY$60Massachusetts: median $85 across 40 hospitalsMA$85Oregon: median $56 across 36 hospitalsOR$56Nevada: median $57 across 13 hospitalsNV$57Wyoming: median $111 across 11 hospitalsWY$111South Dakota: median $96 across 14 hospitalsSD$96Iowa: median $66 across 54 hospitalsIA$66Indiana: median $115 across 84 hospitalsIN$115Ohio: median $81 across 128 hospitalsOH$81Pennsylvania: median $82 across 113 hospitalsPA$82New Jersey: median $25 across 55 hospitalsNJ$25Connecticut: median $80 across 13 hospitalsCT$80Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $36 across 84 hospitalsCA$36Utah: median $94 across 29 hospitalsUT$94Colorado: median $79 across 36 hospitalsCO$79Nebraska: median $113 across 43 hospitalsNE$113Missouri: median $75 across 64 hospitalsMO$75Kentucky: median $111 across 61 hospitalsKY$111West Virginia: median $45 across 34 hospitalsWV$45Virginia: median $46 across 65 hospitalsVA$46Maryland: median $41 across 39 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $108 across 28 hospitalsAZ$108New Mexico: median $39 across 14 hospitalsNM$39Kansas: median $100 across 39 hospitalsKS$100Arkansas: median $99 across 25 hospitalsAR$99Tennessee: median $69 across 69 hospitalsTN$69North Carolina: median $49 across 78 hospitalsNC$49South Carolina: median $168 across 48 hospitalsSC$168Oklahoma: median $73 across 50 hospitalsOK$73Louisiana: median $44 across 42 hospitalsLA$44Mississippi: median $33 across 42 hospitalsMS$33Alabama: median $90 across 29 hospitalsAL$90Georgia: median $86 across 73 hospitalsGA$86Hawaii: median $103 across 12 hospitalsHI$103Texas: median $99 across 169 hospitalsTX$99Florida: median $24 across 123 hospitalsFL$24
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $68. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT12$177+161%$106 – $295
South Carolina SC48$168+148%$79 – $266
Alaska AK12$155+128%$66 – $273
Indiana IN84$115+69%$40 – $224
Nebraska NE43$113+66%$47 – $240
Wyoming WY11$111+64%$47 – $136
Kentucky KY61$111+63%$42 – $323
Arizona AZ28$108+59%$25 – $157
Illinois IL116$106+56%$49 – $206
Wisconsin WI94$103+52%$56 – $147
Hawaii HI12$103+51%$41 – $120
Kansas KS39$100+48%$43 – $165
Maine ME23$100+47%$32 – $182
Arkansas AR25$99+47%$22 – $155
Texas TX169$99+46%$46 – $228
South Dakota SD14$96+42%$46 – $275
Utah UT29$94+39%$80 – $94
Alabama AL29$90+33%$32 – $158
New Hampshire NH19$87+29%$22 – $243
Georgia GA73$86+26%$35 – $108
Massachusetts MA40$85+25%$46 – $183
Pennsylvania PA113$82+20%$25 – $206
Ohio OH128$81+19%$38 – $153
Connecticut CT13$80+18%$39 – $123
Colorado CO36$79+16%$39 – $330
Missouri MO64$75+11%$46 – $153
Oklahoma OK50$73+8%$42 – $152
Tennessee TN69$69+2%$23 – $182
North Dakota ND21$69+2%$38 – $129
Washington WA57$680%$41 – $108
Iowa IA54$66−2%$44 – $97
Minnesota MN89$60−11%$39 – $127
New York NY93$60−12%$24 – $143
Nevada NV13$57−15%$19 – $160
Oregon OR36$56−18%$26 – $92
Idaho ID17$49−27%$24 – $101
North Carolina NC78$49−28%$35 – $160
Virginia VA65$46−32%$23 – $131
West Virginia WV34$45−33%$25 – $186
Louisiana LA42$44−35%$26 – $74
Maryland MD39$41−39%$31 – $49
Michigan MI86$40−41%$16 – $56
New Mexico NM14$39−43%$33 – $126
California CA84$36−47%$16 – $94
Mississippi MS42$33−51%$28 – $100
New Jersey NJ55$25−63%$22 – $36
Florida FL123$24−65%$12 – $96
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $68.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,901$64$26 – $157
Children’s36$66$22 – $134
Critical access575$83$40 – $161
Ownership
For-profit347$100$25 – $361
Government370$71$32 – $154
Non-profit1,795$65$30 – $144
System affiliation
Part of a system2,140$66$28 – $157
Independent380$75$36 – $155

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$117
Median cash price$68
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

1,742 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $70 and the average of the middle 60% is $76; most fall between $33 and $152.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,742 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
$23$38$70$127$227

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $227).

Of the 1,929 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,742 gave a usable cash price; 99 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 88 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,520 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (64%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,735 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,520
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here123
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 — excluded91
Hospitals that filed this code2,735

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 Gabapentin.

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, “Gabapentin blood level test (CPT 80171) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-80171-gabapentin-blood-level-test