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Confirmatory test for alcohol in blood or urine

CPT 80320the billing code this page is about

A definitive laboratory test that identifies and measures alcohols such as ethanol in a blood or urine sample.

Hospitals typically charge $78 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,204 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $86. Most fall between $31 and $175 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,204
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 2,204 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
$17$39$78$144$275

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $275).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $15: 80 hospitals$10$15 – $21: 82 hospitals$21 – $31: 160 hospitals$21$31 – $45: 234 hospitals$45 – $65: 255 hospitals$45$65 – $94: 342 hospitals$94 – $137: 346 hospitals$94$137 – $198: 230 hospitals$198 – $287: 148 hospitals$198$287 – $416: 108 hospitals$287median $78price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,985 of 2,204 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$1580
$15$2182
$21$31160
$31$45234
$45$65255
$65$94342
$94$137346
$137$198230
$198$287148
$287$416108

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $78.

Alaska: median $77 across 16 hospitalsAK$77Maine: median $160 across 21 hospitalsME$160Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $119 across 19 hospitalsNH$119Washington: median $109 across 57 hospitalsWA$109Idaho: median $50 across 20 hospitalsID$50Montana: median $124 across 17 hospitalsMT$124North Dakota: median $77 across 26 hospitalsND$77Minnesota: median $56 across 63 hospitalsMN$56Illinois: median $131 across 106 hospitalsIL$131Wisconsin: median $113 across 91 hospitalsWI$113Michigan: median $33 across 60 hospitalsMI$33New York: median $78 across 74 hospitalsNY$78Massachusetts: median $87 across 45 hospitalsMA$87Oregon: median $91 across 42 hospitalsOR$91Nevada: median $154 across 11 hospitalsNV$154Wyoming: median $49 across 12 hospitalsWY$49South Dakota: median $136 across 20 hospitalsSD$136Iowa: median $99 across 53 hospitalsIA$99Indiana: median $86 across 41 hospitalsIN$86Ohio: median $97 across 71 hospitalsOH$97Pennsylvania: median $235 across 64 hospitalsPA$235New Jersey: median $44 across 29 hospitalsNJ$44Connecticut: median $120 across 16 hospitalsCT$120Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $72 across 105 hospitalsCA$72Utah: median $49 across 36 hospitalsUT$49Colorado: median $78 across 49 hospitalsCO$78Nebraska: median $121 across 62 hospitalsNE$121Missouri: median $59 across 52 hospitalsMO$59Kentucky: median $115 across 34 hospitalsKY$115West Virginia: median $41 across 32 hospitalsWV$41Virginia: median $91 across 36 hospitalsVA$91Maryland: median $31 across 35 hospitalsMD$31Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $77 across 21 hospitalsAZ$77New Mexico: median $152 across 19 hospitalsNM$152Kansas: median $97 across 63 hospitalsKS$97Arkansas: median $73 across 25 hospitalsAR$73Tennessee: median $67 across 54 hospitalsTN$67North Carolina: median $70 across 67 hospitalsNC$70South Carolina: median $91 across 40 hospitalsSC$91Oklahoma: median $90 across 34 hospitalsOK$90Louisiana: median $40 across 38 hospitalsLA$40Mississippi: median $38 across 42 hospitalsMS$38Alabama: median $51 across 36 hospitalsAL$51Georgia: median $109 across 73 hospitalsGA$109Hawaii: median $123 across 17 hospitalsHI$123Texas: median $74 across 151 hospitalsTX$74Florida: median $28 across 92 hospitalsFL$28
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $78. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA64$235+202%$52 – $601
Maine ME21$160+106%$30 – $207
Nevada NV11$154+98%$86 – $226
New Mexico NM19$152+95%$35 – $351
South Dakota SD20$136+75%$41 – $215
Illinois IL106$131+68%$74 – $290
Montana MT17$124+60%$73 – $171
Hawaii HI17$123+58%$68 – $576
Nebraska NE62$121+56%$41 – $207
Connecticut CT16$120+54%$77 – $142
New Hampshire NH19$119+53%$27 – $270
Kentucky KY34$115+48%$50 – $296
Wisconsin WI91$113+45%$40 – $149
Washington WA57$109+40%$43 – $138
Georgia GA73$109+40%$38 – $140
Iowa IA53$99+27%$46 – $126
Ohio OH71$97+25%$22 – $251
Kansas KS63$97+24%$61 – $144
Virginia VA36$91+17%$39 – $306
Oregon OR42$91+17%$42 – $147
South Carolina SC40$91+16%$66 – $137
Oklahoma OK34$90+16%$38 – $150
Massachusetts MA45$87+12%$45 – $244
Indiana IN41$86+11%$62 – $181
Colorado CO49$78+1%$47 – $218
New York NY74$78+1%$27 – $216
Alaska AK16$770%$45 – $185
North Dakota ND26$77−1%$61 – $96
Arizona AZ21$77−2%$40 – $144
Texas TX151$74−5%$34 – $273
Arkansas AR25$73−6%$33 – $83
California CA105$72−8%$11 – $126
North Carolina NC67$70−10%$55 – $173
Tennessee TN54$67−13%$8 – $184
Missouri MO52$59−24%$29 – $137
Minnesota MN63$56−28%$39 – $103
Alabama AL36$51−34%$18 – $183
Idaho ID20$50−36%$29 – $177
Utah UT36$49−37%$42 – $108
Wyoming WY12$49−37%$38 – $113
New Jersey NJ29$44−44%$26 – $145
West Virginia WV32$41−47%$5 – $141
Louisiana LA38$40−49%$11 – $98
Mississippi MS42$38−51%$24 – $78
Michigan MI60$33−58%$13 – $102
Maryland MD35$31−60%$22 – $47
Florida FL92$28−64%$11 – $131
Vermont VT9not 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 $78.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,499$78$29 – $183
Children’s39$80$39 – $146
Critical access661$77$38 – $167
Ownership
For-profit305$97$32 – $320
Government427$80$32 – $150
Non-profit1,467$75$31 – $166
System affiliation
Part of a system1,773$75$30 – $181
Independent431$84$36 – $150

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$125
Median cash price$78
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

1,461 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $77 and the average of the middle 60% is $85; most fall between $32 and $171.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,461 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
$17$38$77$143$255

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $255).

Of the 1,627 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,461 gave a usable cash price; 93 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 73 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,204 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (56%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,462 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,204
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here112
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded146
Hospitals that filed this code2,462

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 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 DRUG SCREEN QUANTALCOHOLS.

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, “Confirmatory test for alcohol in blood or urine (CPT 80320) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-80320-confirmatory-test-for-alcohol-in-blood-or-urine