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Lidocaine blood level test

CPT 80176the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures the amount of lidocaine, used as a local anesthetic and heart rhythm drug, in the blood.

Hospitals typically charge $72 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,118 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $79. Most fall between $31 and $159 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,118
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 2,118 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
$18$37$72$130$229

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $229).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $19: 133 hospitals$14$19 – $27: 126 hospitals$27 – $38: 182 hospitals$27$38 – $52: 263 hospitals$52 – $73: 255 hospitals$52$73 – $101: 255 hospitals$101 – $140: 326 hospitals$101$140 – $195: 175 hospitals$195 – $271: 141 hospitals$195$271 – $377: 57 hospitals$271median $72price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,913 of 2,118 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$19133
$19$27126
$27$38182
$38$52263
$52$73255
$73$101255
$101$140326
$140$195175
$195$271141
$271$37757

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $72.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $49 across 11 hospitalsME$49Vermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $81 across 42 hospitalsWA$81Idaho: median $124 across 12 hospitalsID$124Montana: 6 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 $52 across 41 hospitalsMN$52Illinois: median $109 across 106 hospitalsIL$109Wisconsin: median $123 across 79 hospitalsWI$123Michigan: median $44 across 73 hospitalsMI$44New York: median $36 across 80 hospitalsNY$36Massachusetts: median $68 across 34 hospitalsMA$68Oregon: median $75 across 22 hospitalsOR$75Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $66 across 35 hospitalsIA$66Indiana: median $98 across 70 hospitalsIN$98Ohio: median $72 across 101 hospitalsOH$72Pennsylvania: median $61 across 94 hospitalsPA$61New Jersey: median $17 across 50 hospitalsNJ$17Connecticut: median $58 across 14 hospitalsCT$58Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $62 across 105 hospitalsCA$62Utah: median $106 across 32 hospitalsUT$106Colorado: median $97 across 41 hospitalsCO$97Nebraska: median $85 across 17 hospitalsNE$85Missouri: median $87 across 54 hospitalsMO$87Kentucky: median $78 across 41 hospitalsKY$78West Virginia: median $44 across 17 hospitalsWV$44Virginia: median $75 across 56 hospitalsVA$75Maryland: median $40 across 38 hospitalsMD$40Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $77 across 30 hospitalsAZ$77New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $101 across 28 hospitalsKS$101Arkansas: median $79 across 25 hospitalsAR$79Tennessee: median $41 across 63 hospitalsTN$41North Carolina: median $69 across 68 hospitalsNC$69South Carolina: median $62 across 44 hospitalsSC$62Oklahoma: median $71 across 45 hospitalsOK$71Louisiana: median $34 across 28 hospitalsLA$34Mississippi: median $35 across 36 hospitalsMS$35Alabama: median $60 across 33 hospitalsAL$60Georgia: median $84 across 75 hospitalsGA$84Hawaii: median $74 across 12 hospitalsHI$74Texas: median $139 across 177 hospitalsTX$139Florida: median $39 across 129 hospitalsFL$39
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $72. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX177$139+93%$75 – $379
Idaho ID12$124+72%$51 – $124
Wisconsin WI79$123+70%$53 – $213
Illinois IL106$109+51%$43 – $173
Utah UT32$106+47%$106 – $125
Kansas KS28$101+40%$49 – $430
Indiana IN70$98+36%$31 – $219
Colorado CO41$97+34%$81 – $227
Missouri MO54$87+21%$43 – $153
Nebraska NE17$85+18%$28 – $157
Georgia GA75$84+17%$30 – $120
Washington WA42$81+12%$31 – $112
Arkansas AR25$79+9%$43 – $106
Kentucky KY41$78+8%$44 – $185
Arizona AZ30$77+6%$21 – $116
Oregon OR22$75+4%$60 – $80
Virginia VA56$75+4%$26 – $237
Hawaii HI12$74+2%$47 – $195
Ohio OH101$720%$50 – $124
Oklahoma OK45$71−2%$38 – $113
North Carolina NC68$69−5%$33 – $126
Massachusetts MA34$68−6%$36 – $191
Iowa IA35$66−8%$53 – $91
South Carolina SC44$62−14%$43 – $234
California CA105$62−14%$17 – $132
Pennsylvania PA94$61−16%$17 – $177
Alabama AL33$60−17%$20 – $196
Connecticut CT14$58−20%$38 – $104
Minnesota MN41$52−28%$33 – $68
Maine ME11$49−32%$28 – $86
Michigan MI73$44−39%$20 – $75
West Virginia WV17$44−40%$12 – $94
Tennessee TN63$41−43%$26 – $103
Maryland MD38$40−45%$31 – $49
Florida FL129$39−46%$14 – $115
New York NY80$36−50%$18 – $74
Mississippi MS36$35−51%$20 – $55
Louisiana LA28$34−53%$20 – $68
New Jersey NJ50$17−77%$15 – $197
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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 $72.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,745$72$30 – $159
Children’s44$85$38 – $199
Critical access320$79$41 – $157
Ownership
For-profit323$106$29 – $364
Government255$56$28 – $119
Non-profit1,531$72$31 – $147
System affiliation
Part of a system1,846$72$30 – $162
Independent272$72$34 – $137

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$126
Median cash price$72
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

1,518 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $75 and the average of the middle 60% is $81; most fall between $37 and $146.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,518 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
$24$43$75$128$213

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $213).

Of the 1,676 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,518 gave a usable cash price; 90 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 67 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,118 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (54%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,317 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,118
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here121
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded77
Hospitals that filed this code2,317

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 Lidocaine.

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, “Lidocaine blood level test (CPT 80176) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-80176-lidocaine-blood-level-test