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Salicylate (aspirin) blood level test

CPT 80179the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures the amount of salicylate, the active ingredient of aspirin, in the blood.

Hospitals typically charge $92 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,274 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $96. Most fall between $36 and $182 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,274
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 2,274 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$46$92$160$275

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($25 vs $275).

How the prices are spread

$19 – $25: 128 hospitals$19$25 – $35: 179 hospitals$35 – $47: 158 hospitals$35$47 – $64: 235 hospitals$64 – $87: 254 hospitals$64$87 – $118: 392 hospitals$118 – $161: 253 hospitals$118$161 – $219: 231 hospitals$219 – $297: 127 hospitals$219$297 – $404: 91 hospitals$297median $92price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,048 of 2,274 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$19$25128
$25$35179
$35$47158
$47$64235
$64$87254
$87$118392
$118$161253
$161$219231
$219$297127
$297$40491

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $92.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $63 across 19 hospitalsME$63Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $115 across 21 hospitalsNH$115Washington: median $99 across 51 hospitalsWA$99Idaho: median $104 across 13 hospitalsID$104Montana: median $127 across 20 hospitalsMT$127North Dakota: median $100 across 26 hospitalsND$100Minnesota: median $63 across 96 hospitalsMN$63Illinois: median $152 across 89 hospitalsIL$152Wisconsin: median $95 across 92 hospitalsWI$95Michigan: median $69 across 72 hospitalsMI$69New York: median $41 across 69 hospitalsNY$41Massachusetts: median $64 across 44 hospitalsMA$64Oregon: median $57 across 26 hospitalsOR$57Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $159 across 37 hospitalsSD$159Iowa: median $72 across 52 hospitalsIA$72Indiana: median $78 across 70 hospitalsIN$78Ohio: median $107 across 111 hospitalsOH$107Pennsylvania: median $56 across 59 hospitalsPA$56New Jersey: median $21 across 38 hospitalsNJ$21Connecticut: median $40 across 16 hospitalsCT$40Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $167 across 114 hospitalsCA$167Utah: median $80 across 33 hospitalsUT$80Colorado: median $131 across 50 hospitalsCO$131Nebraska: median $192 across 65 hospitalsNE$192Missouri: median $91 across 41 hospitalsMO$91Kentucky: median $59 across 33 hospitalsKY$59West Virginia: median $80 across 31 hospitalsWV$80Virginia: median $101 across 66 hospitalsVA$101Maryland: median $44 across 26 hospitalsMD$44Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $140 across 16 hospitalsAZ$140New Mexico: median $38 across 19 hospitalsNM$38Kansas: median $68 across 53 hospitalsKS$68Arkansas: median $34 across 28 hospitalsAR$34Tennessee: median $37 across 61 hospitalsTN$37North Carolina: median $110 across 70 hospitalsNC$110South Carolina: median $136 across 34 hospitalsSC$136Oklahoma: median $69 across 47 hospitalsOK$69Louisiana: median $48 across 38 hospitalsLA$48Mississippi: median $32 across 33 hospitalsMS$32Alabama: median $50 across 13 hospitalsAL$50Georgia: median $66 across 75 hospitalsGA$66Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $117 across 151 hospitalsTX$117Florida: median $188 across 107 hospitalsFL$188
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $92. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Nebraska NE65$192+109%$101 – $310
Florida FL107$188+105%$45 – $681
California CA114$167+82%$90 – $226
South Dakota SD37$159+73%$84 – $305
Illinois IL89$152+66%$71 – $262
Arizona AZ16$140+53%$18 – $300
South Carolina SC34$136+48%$72 – $233
Colorado CO50$131+43%$78 – $218
Montana MT20$127+39%$85 – $194
Texas TX151$117+28%$59 – $283
New Hampshire NH21$115+26%$42 – $288
North Carolina NC70$110+20%$34 – $201
Ohio OH111$107+17%$75 – $133
Idaho ID13$104+13%$51 – $144
Virginia VA66$101+10%$50 – $388
North Dakota ND26$100+9%$82 – $175
Washington WA51$99+8%$31 – $171
Wisconsin WI92$95+4%$51 – $168
Missouri MO41$91−1%$51 – $109
West Virginia WV31$80−13%$37 – $161
Utah UT33$80−13%$59 – $94
Indiana IN70$78−15%$36 – $130
Iowa IA52$72−21%$66 – $134
Michigan MI72$69−25%$40 – $112
Oklahoma OK47$69−25%$21 – $104
Kansas KS53$68−25%$34 – $116
Georgia GA75$66−28%$31 – $142
Massachusetts MA44$64−30%$38 – $187
Maine ME19$63−31%$30 – $277
Minnesota MN96$63−32%$30 – $134
Kentucky KY33$59−36%$48 – $147
Oregon OR26$57−38%$46 – $112
Pennsylvania PA59$56−39%$28 – $335
Alabama AL13$50−45%$19 – $60
Louisiana LA38$48−48%$20 – $102
Maryland MD26$44−52%$30 – $79
New York NY69$41−55%$19 – $92
Connecticut CT16$40−56%$33 – $59
New Mexico NM19$38−59%$26 – $164
Tennessee TN61$37−60%$24 – $153
Arkansas AR28$34−63%$26 – $107
Mississippi MS33$32−66%$18 – $49
New Jersey NJ38$21−78%$19 – $21
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $92.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,596$88$33 – $180
Children’s37$114$48 – $354
Critical access634$102$51 – $180
Ownership
For-profit279$106$36 – $459
Government369$96$46 – $180
Non-profit1,619$90$36 – $173
System affiliation
Part of a system1,948$92$36 – $180
Independent326$91$42 – $188

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$153
Median cash price$92
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

1,604 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $94 and the average of the middle 60% is $97; most fall between $38 and $174.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,604 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
$27$49$94$154$242

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($27 vs $242).

Of the 1,723 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,604 gave a usable cash price; 39 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 80 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,274 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (57%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,434 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,274
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here69
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded89
Hospitals that filed this code2,434

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 Salicylate.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Salicylate (aspirin) blood level test (CPT 80179) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-80179-salicylate-aspirin-blood-level-test