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Vancomycin blood level

CPT 80202the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $107 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,384 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $111. Most fall between $48 and $201 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,384
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 3,384 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$58$107$173$312

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($28 vs $312).

How the prices are spread

$19 – $26: 146 hospitals$19$26 – $36: 157 hospitals$36 – $49: 219 hospitals$36$49 – $68: 390 hospitals$68 – $93: 398 hospitals$68$93 – $128: 536 hospitals$128 – $176: 560 hospitals$128$176 – $242: 297 hospitals$242 – $333: 198 hospitals$242$333 – $457: 145 hospitals$333median $107price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,046 of 3,384 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$19$26146
$26$36157
$36$49219
$49$68390
$68$93398
$93$128536
$128$176560
$176$242297
$242$333198
$333$457145

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $107.

Alaska: median $254 across 19 hospitalsAK$254Maine: median $92 across 28 hospitalsME$92Vermont: median $122 across 14 hospitalsVT$122New Hampshire: median $76 across 25 hospitalsNH$76Washington: median $118 across 77 hospitalsWA$118Idaho: median $80 across 25 hospitalsID$80Montana: median $112 across 33 hospitalsMT$112North Dakota: median $105 across 31 hospitalsND$105Minnesota: median $106 across 104 hospitalsMN$106Illinois: median $158 across 143 hospitalsIL$158Wisconsin: median $96 across 105 hospitalsWI$96Michigan: median $85 across 101 hospitalsMI$85New York: median $59 across 107 hospitalsNY$59Massachusetts: median $100 across 53 hospitalsMA$100Oregon: median $122 across 51 hospitalsOR$122Nevada: median $133 across 22 hospitalsNV$133Wyoming: median $111 across 16 hospitalsWY$111South Dakota: median $194 across 41 hospitalsSD$194Iowa: median $109 across 90 hospitalsIA$109Indiana: median $89 across 92 hospitalsIN$89Ohio: median $73 across 138 hospitalsOH$73Pennsylvania: median $74 across 122 hospitalsPA$74New Jersey: median $16 across 57 hospitalsNJ$16Connecticut: median $54 across 23 hospitalsCT$54Rhode Island: median $117 across 10 hospitalsRI$117California: median $185 across 162 hospitalsCA$185Utah: median $72 across 42 hospitalsUT$72Colorado: median $137 across 71 hospitalsCO$137Nebraska: median $161 across 84 hospitalsNE$161Missouri: median $92 across 77 hospitalsMO$92Kentucky: median $132 across 68 hospitalsKY$132West Virginia: median $83 across 44 hospitalsWV$83Virginia: median $151 across 72 hospitalsVA$151Maryland: median $41 across 40 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $117 across 42 hospitalsAZ$117New Mexico: median $105 across 30 hospitalsNM$105Kansas: median $94 across 94 hospitalsKS$94Arkansas: median $47 across 40 hospitalsAR$47Tennessee: median $49 across 83 hospitalsTN$49North Carolina: median $99 across 90 hospitalsNC$99South Carolina: median $142 across 53 hospitalsSC$142Oklahoma: median $79 across 72 hospitalsOK$79Louisiana: median $51 across 54 hospitalsLA$51Mississippi: median $65 across 55 hospitalsMS$65Alabama: median $81 across 44 hospitalsAL$81Georgia: median $105 across 108 hospitalsGA$105Hawaii: median $101 across 21 hospitalsHI$101Texas: median $176 across 249 hospitalsTX$176Florida: median $268 across 155 hospitalsFL$268
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $107. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL155$268+151%$53 – $816
Alaska AK19$254+138%$116 – $398
South Dakota SD41$194+82%$127 – $265
California CA162$185+73%$88 – $413
Texas TX249$176+64%$61 – $363
Nebraska NE84$161+51%$109 – $222
Illinois IL143$158+48%$100 – $258
Virginia VA72$151+41%$80 – $217
South Carolina SC53$142+33%$109 – $161
Colorado CO71$137+28%$89 – $243
Nevada NV22$133+25%$67 – $277
Kentucky KY68$132+24%$67 – $181
Vermont VT14$122+15%$55 – $234
Oregon OR51$122+14%$74 – $152
Washington WA77$118+10%$69 – $183
Rhode Island RI10$117+10%$29 – $130
Arizona AZ42$117+9%$19 – $358
Montana MT33$112+5%$66 – $189
Wyoming WY16$111+4%$26 – $197
Iowa IA90$109+2%$66 – $158
Minnesota MN104$106−1%$32 – $157
New Mexico NM30$105−1%$70 – $139
North Dakota ND31$105−2%$92 – $144
Georgia GA108$105−2%$36 – $238
Hawaii HI21$101−6%$68 – $156
Massachusetts MA53$100−6%$48 – $135
North Carolina NC90$99−7%$58 – $127
Wisconsin WI105$96−10%$62 – $158
Kansas KS94$94−12%$67 – $138
Maine ME28$92−14%$43 – $140
Missouri MO77$92−14%$53 – $157
Indiana IN92$89−16%$34 – $234
Michigan MI101$85−20%$53 – $114
West Virginia WV44$83−22%$52 – $161
Alabama AL44$81−25%$37 – $228
Idaho ID25$80−25%$60 – $126
Oklahoma OK72$79−26%$41 – $136
New Hampshire NH25$76−29%$53 – $171
Pennsylvania PA122$74−31%$21 – $201
Ohio OH138$73−31%$57 – $143
Utah UT42$72−33%$61 – $177
Mississippi MS55$65−39%$40 – $129
New York NY107$59−45%$23 – $170
Connecticut CT23$54−49%$41 – $113
Louisiana LA54$51−52%$31 – $99
Tennessee TN83$49−54%$29 – $104
Arkansas AR40$47−56%$33 – $89
Maryland MD40$41−61%$32 – $49
New Jersey NJ57$16−85%$15 – $66
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 $107.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,316$105$42 – $221
Children’s67$124$61 – $239
Critical access991$111$61 – $178
Ownership
For-profit478$147$61 – $558
Government648$109$52 – $180
Non-profit2,248$101$46 – $181
System affiliation
Part of a system2,730$109$47 – $207
Independent654$98$54 – $186

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$178
Median cash price$107
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

2,274 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $109 and the average of the middle 60% is $112; most fall between $53 and $202.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, 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
$31$61$109$174$288

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($31 vs $288).

Of the 2,513 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,274 gave a usable cash price; 128 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 111 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,384 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (86%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,690 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,384
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here170
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 — excluded135
Hospitals that filed this code3,690

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 Vancomycin-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, “Vancomycin blood level (CPT 80202) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-80202-vancomycin-blood-level