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Procedure price report · Other Laboratory

Blood level of a drug not listed elsewhere

CPT 80299the billing code this page is about

A test that measures the amount of a therapeutic drug in the blood when no specific code exists for that drug; billed once per drug measured.

Hospitals typically charge $68 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,182 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $74. Most fall between $28 and $148 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,182
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 3,182 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$34$68$130$218

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $218).

How the prices are spread

$13 – $17: 135 hospitals$13$17 – $24: 229 hospitals$24 – $32: 248 hospitals$24$32 – $44: 351 hospitals$44 – $61: 337 hospitals$44$61 – $84: 371 hospitals$84 – $115: 403 hospitals$84$115 – $157: 387 hospitals$157 – $216: 249 hospitals$157$216 – $297: 165 hospitals$216median $68price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,875 of 3,182 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$13$17135
$17$24229
$24$32248
$32$44351
$44$61337
$61$84371
$84$115403
$115$157387
$157$216249
$216$297165

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $68.

Alaska: median $89 across 17 hospitalsAK$89Maine: median $77 across 28 hospitalsME$77Vermont: median $151 across 13 hospitalsVT$151New Hampshire: median $89 across 24 hospitalsNH$89Washington: median $78 across 72 hospitalsWA$78Idaho: median $77 across 21 hospitalsID$77Montana: median $97 across 26 hospitalsMT$97North Dakota: median $99 across 32 hospitalsND$99Minnesota: median $77 across 102 hospitalsMN$77Illinois: median $84 across 140 hospitalsIL$84Wisconsin: median $79 across 105 hospitalsWI$79Michigan: median $24 across 80 hospitalsMI$24New York: median $40 across 101 hospitalsNY$40Massachusetts: median $73 across 53 hospitalsMA$73Oregon: median $62 across 48 hospitalsOR$62Nevada: median $91 across 19 hospitalsNV$91Wyoming: median $102 across 15 hospitalsWY$102South Dakota: median $158 across 38 hospitalsSD$158Iowa: median $108 across 83 hospitalsIA$108Indiana: median $85 across 94 hospitalsIN$85Ohio: median $78 across 134 hospitalsOH$78Pennsylvania: median $78 across 119 hospitalsPA$78New Jersey: median $21 across 56 hospitalsNJ$21Connecticut: median $84 across 21 hospitalsCT$84Rhode Island: median $40 across 10 hospitalsRI$40California: median $30 across 134 hospitalsCA$30Utah: median $126 across 40 hospitalsUT$126Colorado: median $85 across 65 hospitalsCO$85Nebraska: median $139 across 73 hospitalsNE$139Missouri: median $97 across 75 hospitalsMO$97Kentucky: median $42 across 67 hospitalsKY$42West Virginia: median $42 across 42 hospitalsWV$42Virginia: median $90 across 72 hospitalsVA$90Maryland: median $65 across 39 hospitalsMD$65Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $94 across 41 hospitalsAZ$94New Mexico: median $118 across 24 hospitalsNM$118Kansas: median $101 across 82 hospitalsKS$101Arkansas: median $36 across 38 hospitalsAR$36Tennessee: median $37 across 80 hospitalsTN$37North Carolina: median $43 across 84 hospitalsNC$43South Carolina: median $145 across 49 hospitalsSC$145Oklahoma: median $83 across 69 hospitalsOK$83Louisiana: median $33 across 48 hospitalsLA$33Mississippi: median $26 across 54 hospitalsMS$26Alabama: median $49 across 43 hospitalsAL$49Georgia: median $66 across 105 hospitalsGA$66Hawaii: median $101 across 19 hospitalsHI$101Texas: median $91 across 233 hospitalsTX$91Florida: median $23 across 148 hospitalsFL$23
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $68. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD38$158+132%$69 – $309
Vermont VT13$151+122%$68 – $197
South Carolina SC49$145+113%$41 – $175
Nebraska NE73$139+105%$48 – $261
Utah UT40$126+85%$116 – $141
New Mexico NM24$118+74%$60 – $174
Iowa IA83$108+59%$66 – $268
Wyoming WY15$102+49%$39 – $160
Hawaii HI19$101+48%$45 – $121
Kansas KS82$101+48%$62 – $140
North Dakota ND32$99+45%$35 – $128
Montana MT26$97+43%$26 – $153
Missouri MO75$97+42%$30 – $138
Arizona AZ41$94+38%$35 – $187
Texas TX233$91+34%$45 – $178
Nevada NV19$91+34%$29 – $133
Virginia VA72$90+33%$24 – $165
New Hampshire NH24$89+30%$31 – $186
Alaska AK17$89+30%$33 – $204
Indiana IN94$85+25%$37 – $178
Colorado CO65$85+25%$45 – $176
Connecticut CT21$84+24%$40 – $140
Illinois IL140$84+24%$39 – $201
Oklahoma OK69$83+22%$32 – $134
Wisconsin WI105$79+16%$48 – $130
Ohio OH134$78+15%$35 – $126
Washington WA72$78+14%$50 – $132
Pennsylvania PA119$78+14%$21 – $189
Idaho ID21$77+14%$76 – $119
Minnesota MN102$77+13%$34 – $132
Maine ME28$77+13%$21 – $291
Massachusetts MA53$73+7%$42 – $133
Georgia GA105$66−3%$40 – $104
Maryland MD39$65−4%$37 – $88
Oregon OR48$62−8%$42 – $81
Alabama AL43$49−28%$28 – $348
North Carolina NC84$43−37%$24 – $79
West Virginia WV42$42−38%$21 – $108
Kentucky KY67$42−38%$27 – $123
New York NY101$40−41%$22 – $151
Rhode Island RI10$40−41%$35 – $86
Tennessee TN80$37−46%$16 – $102
Arkansas AR38$36−47%$20 – $109
Louisiana LA48$33−52%$12 – $63
California CA134$30−55%$10 – $66
Mississippi MS54$26−61%$16 – $175
Michigan MI80$24−65%$16 – $51
Florida FL148$23−66%$12 – $76
New Jersey NJ56$21−68%$20 – $63
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 $68.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,206$59$23 – $136
Children’s66$108$39 – $172
Critical access901$95$40 – $165
Ownership
For-profit440$75$27 – $188
Government584$72$29 – $143
Non-profit2,149$67$27 – $141
System affiliation
Part of a system2,600$67$27 – $149
Independent582$75$32 – $141

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$112
Median cash price$68
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

2,156 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $67 and the average of the middle 60% is $74; most fall between $29 and $141.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,156 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$35$67$127$210

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $210).

Of the 2,366 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,156 gave a usable cash price; 110 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

3,182 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (80%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,460 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,182
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here153
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 — excluded124
Hospitals that filed this code3,460

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 Isavuconazole (Cresemba) Lc-Ms/Ms (Serum).

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, “Blood level of a drug not listed elsewhere (CPT 80299) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-80299-blood-level-of-a-drug-not-listed-elsewhere