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Tobramycin blood level

CPT 80200the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures the amount of the antibiotic tobramycin in the body; one unit is a single measurement, such as a peak or trough draw.

Hospitals typically charge $95 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,843 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $102. Most fall between $44 and $193 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,843
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 2,843 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
$28$50$95$169$310

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($28 vs $310).

How the prices are spread

$19 – $26: 120 hospitals$19$26 – $35: 174 hospitals$35 – $49: 265 hospitals$35$49 – $67: 291 hospitals$67 – $92: 408 hospitals$67$92 – $127: 426 hospitals$127 – $176: 378 hospitals$127$176 – $242: 250 hospitals$242 – $334: 161 hospitals$242$334 – $460: 104 hospitals$334median $95price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,577 of 2,843 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$19$26120
$26$35174
$35$49265
$49$67291
$67$92408
$92$127426
$127$176378
$176$242250
$242$334161
$334$460104

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $95.

Alaska: median $273 across 11 hospitalsAK$273Maine: median $88 across 24 hospitalsME$88Vermont: median $122 across 10 hospitalsVT$122New Hampshire: median $97 across 17 hospitalsNH$97Washington: median $89 across 55 hospitalsWA$89Idaho: median $83 across 21 hospitalsID$83Montana: median $92 across 21 hospitalsMT$92North Dakota: median $95 across 27 hospitalsND$95Minnesota: median $74 across 63 hospitalsMN$74Illinois: median $129 across 127 hospitalsIL$129Wisconsin: median $102 across 92 hospitalsWI$102Michigan: median $76 across 85 hospitalsMI$76New York: median $58 across 93 hospitalsNY$58Massachusetts: median $79 across 42 hospitalsMA$79Oregon: median $80 across 38 hospitalsOR$80Nevada: median $96 across 19 hospitalsNV$96Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $131 across 13 hospitalsSD$131Iowa: median $90 across 63 hospitalsIA$90Indiana: median $107 across 90 hospitalsIN$107Ohio: median $86 across 130 hospitalsOH$86Pennsylvania: median $83 across 115 hospitalsPA$83New Jersey: median $19 across 55 hospitalsNJ$19Connecticut: median $54 across 17 hospitalsCT$54Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $190 across 151 hospitalsCA$190Utah: median $85 across 37 hospitalsUT$85Colorado: median $113 across 57 hospitalsCO$113Nebraska: median $114 across 52 hospitalsNE$114Missouri: median $116 across 66 hospitalsMO$116Kentucky: median $139 across 61 hospitalsKY$139West Virginia: median $111 across 33 hospitalsWV$111Virginia: median $136 across 69 hospitalsVA$136Maryland: median $41 across 39 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $105 across 36 hospitalsAZ$105New Mexico: median $159 across 14 hospitalsNM$159Kansas: median $89 across 57 hospitalsKS$89Arkansas: median $67 across 28 hospitalsAR$67Tennessee: median $60 across 77 hospitalsTN$60North Carolina: median $79 across 85 hospitalsNC$79South Carolina: median $153 across 51 hospitalsSC$153Oklahoma: median $66 across 67 hospitalsOK$66Louisiana: median $48 across 47 hospitalsLA$48Mississippi: median $58 across 53 hospitalsMS$58Alabama: median $75 across 40 hospitalsAL$75Georgia: median $122 across 95 hospitalsGA$122Hawaii: median $101 across 15 hospitalsHI$101Texas: median $158 across 220 hospitalsTX$158Florida: median $218 across 145 hospitalsFL$218
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $95. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK11$273+187%$158 – $352
Florida FL145$218+129%$48 – $726
California CA151$190+99%$46 – $305
New Mexico NM14$159+67%$42 – $206
Texas TX220$158+66%$47 – $310
South Carolina SC51$153+61%$85 – $199
Kentucky KY61$139+46%$65 – $200
Virginia VA69$136+43%$64 – $217
South Dakota SD13$131+38%$87 – $181
Illinois IL127$129+35%$78 – $214
Vermont VT10$122+28%$45 – $209
Georgia GA95$122+28%$35 – $349
Missouri MO66$116+22%$46 – $153
Nebraska NE52$114+20%$71 – $173
Colorado CO57$113+19%$62 – $211
West Virginia WV33$111+17%$45 – $174
Indiana IN90$107+13%$39 – $213
Arizona AZ36$105+10%$27 – $450
Wisconsin WI92$102+8%$70 – $135
Hawaii HI15$101+6%$81 – $155
New Hampshire NH17$97+2%$63 – $264
Nevada NV19$96+1%$49 – $177
North Dakota ND27$950%$29 – $141
Montana MT21$92−3%$46 – $117
Iowa IA63$90−5%$66 – $123
Kansas KS57$89−7%$39 – $147
Washington WA55$89−7%$43 – $148
Maine ME24$88−7%$48 – $177
Ohio OH130$86−9%$54 – $122
Utah UT37$85−11%$72 – $251
Idaho ID21$83−13%$72 – $124
Pennsylvania PA115$83−13%$21 – $190
Oregon OR38$80−15%$49 – $124
North Carolina NC85$79−17%$36 – $140
Massachusetts MA42$79−17%$40 – $160
Michigan MI85$76−20%$36 – $100
Alabama AL40$75−21%$37 – $153
Minnesota MN63$74−22%$33 – $143
Arkansas AR28$67−29%$42 – $102
Oklahoma OK67$66−31%$36 – $124
Tennessee TN77$60−37%$37 – $150
New York NY93$58−39%$18 – $156
Mississippi MS53$58−39%$39 – $84
Connecticut CT17$54−43%$38 – $102
Louisiana LA47$48−49%$25 – $89
Maryland MD39$41−57%$31 – $49
New Jersey NJ55$19−81%$16 – $55
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $95.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,125$93$40 – $211
Children’s63$129$55 – $215
Critical access645$97$48 – $164
Ownership
For-profit416$158$54 – $546
Government457$88$41 – $158
Non-profit1,960$91$42 – $175
System affiliation
Part of a system2,355$99$44 – $201
Independent488$84$41 – $167

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$168
Median cash price$95
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

1,956 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $97 and the average of the middle 60% is $104; most fall between $46 and $188.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,956 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
$31$54$97$164$286

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($31 vs $286).

Of the 2,170 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,956 gave a usable cash price; 114 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 100 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,843 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (72%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,116 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,843
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here158
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 — excluded114
Hospitals that filed this code3,116

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 July 20, 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 Tobramycin-Peak.

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, “Tobramycin blood level (CPT 80200) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-80200-tobramycin-blood-level