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Procedure price report · Other Laboratory

Topiramate blood level

CPT 80201the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures the amount of the anti-seizure drug topiramate in the body.

Hospitals typically charge $76 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,000 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $81. Most fall between $29 and $154 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,000
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 3,000 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
$20$36$76$135$223

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $223).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $19: 124 hospitals$14$19 – $26: 224 hospitals$26 – $35: 231 hospitals$26$35 – $47: 256 hospitals$47 – $65: 293 hospitals$47$65 – $88: 412 hospitals$88 – $120: 416 hospitals$88$120 – $164: 360 hospitals$164 – $224: 243 hospitals$164$224 – $305: 149 hospitals$224median $76price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,708 of 3,000 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$19124
$19$26224
$26$35231
$35$47256
$47$65293
$65$88412
$88$120416
$120$164360
$164$224243
$224$305149

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $76.

Alaska: median $169 across 16 hospitalsAK$169Maine: median $71 across 25 hospitalsME$71Vermont: median $202 across 12 hospitalsVT$202New Hampshire: median $100 across 23 hospitalsNH$100Washington: median $81 across 68 hospitalsWA$81Idaho: median $85 across 21 hospitalsID$85Montana: median $106 across 23 hospitalsMT$106North Dakota: median $82 across 29 hospitalsND$82Minnesota: median $76 across 95 hospitalsMN$76Illinois: median $111 across 136 hospitalsIL$111Wisconsin: median $94 across 100 hospitalsWI$94Michigan: median $26 across 67 hospitalsMI$26New York: median $43 across 102 hospitalsNY$43Massachusetts: median $97 across 49 hospitalsMA$97Oregon: median $68 across 44 hospitalsOR$68Nevada: median $81 across 19 hospitalsNV$81Wyoming: median $75 across 14 hospitalsWY$75South Dakota: median $113 across 28 hospitalsSD$113Iowa: median $91 across 75 hospitalsIA$91Indiana: median $87 across 95 hospitalsIN$87Ohio: median $60 across 133 hospitalsOH$60Pennsylvania: median $73 across 116 hospitalsPA$73New Jersey: median $14 across 56 hospitalsNJ$14Connecticut: median $41 across 20 hospitalsCT$41Rhode Island: median $76 across 10 hospitalsRI$76California: median $24 across 109 hospitalsCA$24Utah: median $181 across 40 hospitalsUT$181Colorado: median $103 across 56 hospitalsCO$103Nebraska: median $172 across 64 hospitalsNE$172Missouri: median $70 across 72 hospitalsMO$70Kentucky: median $113 across 63 hospitalsKY$113West Virginia: median $67 across 43 hospitalsWV$67Virginia: median $72 across 72 hospitalsVA$72Maryland: median $41 across 41 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $131 across 41 hospitalsAZ$131New Mexico: median $76 across 22 hospitalsNM$76Kansas: median $100 across 70 hospitalsKS$100Arkansas: median $45 across 39 hospitalsAR$45Tennessee: median $57 across 74 hospitalsTN$57North Carolina: median $44 across 88 hospitalsNC$44South Carolina: median $109 across 52 hospitalsSC$109Oklahoma: median $82 across 65 hospitalsOK$82Louisiana: median $48 across 47 hospitalsLA$48Mississippi: median $72 across 55 hospitalsMS$72Alabama: median $80 across 43 hospitalsAL$80Georgia: median $71 across 94 hospitalsGA$71Hawaii: median $75 across 16 hospitalsHI$75Texas: median $104 across 213 hospitalsTX$104Florida: median $24 across 138 hospitalsFL$24
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $76. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT12$202+165%$117 – $231
Utah UT40$181+138%$154 – $249
Nebraska NE64$172+126%$64 – $264
Alaska AK16$169+122%$113 – $304
Arizona AZ41$131+72%$20 – $195
Kentucky KY63$113+48%$50 – $163
South Dakota SD28$113+48%$71 – $200
Illinois IL136$111+45%$51 – $183
South Carolina SC52$109+43%$71 – $192
Montana MT23$106+39%$71 – $133
Texas TX213$104+37%$50 – $235
Colorado CO56$103+35%$70 – $209
New Hampshire NH23$100+32%$56 – $172
Kansas KS70$100+32%$70 – $150
Massachusetts MA49$97+28%$35 – $173
Wisconsin WI100$94+23%$64 – $135
Iowa IA75$91+20%$66 – $131
Indiana IN95$87+14%$26 – $185
Idaho ID21$85+11%$39 – $110
Oklahoma OK65$82+8%$39 – $131
North Dakota ND29$82+8%$21 – $135
Nevada NV19$81+7%$17 – $157
Washington WA68$81+6%$52 – $133
Alabama AL43$80+5%$36 – $193
New Mexico NM22$760%$45 – $180
Minnesota MN95$760%$42 – $137
Rhode Island RI10$760%$28 – $95
Wyoming WY14$75−1%$23 – $155
Hawaii HI16$75−1%$38 – $113
Pennsylvania PA116$73−3%$18 – $140
Mississippi MS55$72−5%$27 – $104
Virginia VA72$72−6%$21 – $267
Georgia GA94$71−7%$35 – $150
Maine ME25$71−7%$32 – $117
Missouri MO72$70−8%$52 – $131
Oregon OR44$68−10%$41 – $120
West Virginia WV43$67−12%$20 – $149
Ohio OH133$60−21%$42 – $146
Tennessee TN74$57−24%$26 – $163
Louisiana LA47$48−38%$28 – $96
Arkansas AR39$45−41%$21 – $83
North Carolina NC88$44−42%$21 – $107
New York NY102$43−43%$16 – $119
Connecticut CT20$41−46%$30 – $68
Maryland MD41$41−46%$31 – $49
Michigan MI67$26−66%$16 – $66
California CA109$24−68%$17 – $50
Florida FL138$24−69%$12 – $72
New Jersey NJ56$14−82%$12 – $58
Delaware DE7not 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 $76.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,124$68$25 – $152
Children’s50$72$35 – $156
Critical access818$94$50 – $161
Ownership
For-profit417$99$29 – $290
Government543$86$34 – $154
Non-profit2,032$71$28 – $142
System affiliation
Part of a system2,458$73$27 – $157
Independent542$88$40 – $150

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$128
Median cash price$76
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

2,033 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $76 and the average of the middle 60% is $82; most fall between $32 and $154.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,033 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$39$76$134$202

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $202).

Of the 2,236 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,033 gave a usable cash price; 101 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 102 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,000 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (76%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,265 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,000
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here146
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 — excluded118
Hospitals that filed this code3,265

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 Topiramate.

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, “Topiramate blood level (CPT 80201) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-80201-topiramate-blood-level