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Confirmatory test for 1 or 2 alcohol biomarkers

CPT 80321the billing code this page is about

A definitive laboratory test measuring one or two markers of alcohol use, such as ethyl glucuronide or ethyl sulfate; a separate code applies when three or more markers are tested.

Hospitals typically charge $98 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,838 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $100. Most fall between $41 and $180 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,838
States
50
Filings dated
Nov 2023 – 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 1,838 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
$19$52$98$157$258

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $258).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $19: 93 hospitals$14$19 – $27: 86 hospitals$27 – $38: 74 hospitals$27$38 – $54: 138 hospitals$54 – $76: 221 hospitals$54$76 – $107: 334 hospitals$107 – $151: 310 hospitals$107$151 – $213: 216 hospitals$213 – $300: 123 hospitals$213$300 – $423: 63 hospitals$300median $98price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,658 of 1,838 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$1993
$19$2786
$27$3874
$38$54138
$54$76221
$76$107334
$107$151310
$151$213216
$213$300123
$300$42363

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $98.

Alaska: median $102 across 15 hospitalsAK$102Maine: median $125 across 23 hospitalsME$125Vermont: median $151 across 11 hospitalsVT$151New Hampshire: median $115 across 17 hospitalsNH$115Washington: median $78 across 45 hospitalsWA$78Idaho: median $99 across 18 hospitalsID$99Montana: median $89 across 18 hospitalsMT$89North Dakota: median $90 across 23 hospitalsND$90Minnesota: median $96 across 64 hospitalsMN$96Illinois: median $124 across 92 hospitalsIL$124Wisconsin: median $83 across 86 hospitalsWI$83Michigan: median $75 across 46 hospitalsMI$75New York: median $78 across 79 hospitalsNY$78Massachusetts: median $137 across 38 hospitalsMA$137Oregon: median $83 across 39 hospitalsOR$83Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: median $80 across 10 hospitalsWY$80South Dakota: median $100 across 12 hospitalsSD$100Iowa: median $98 across 57 hospitalsIA$98Indiana: median $66 across 37 hospitalsIN$66Ohio: median $94 across 78 hospitalsOH$94Pennsylvania: median $365 across 53 hospitalsPA$365New Jersey: median $136 across 33 hospitalsNJ$136Connecticut: median $84 across 14 hospitalsCT$84Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $35 across 86 hospitalsCA$35Utah: median $116 across 32 hospitalsUT$116Colorado: median $129 across 37 hospitalsCO$129Nebraska: median $190 across 44 hospitalsNE$190Missouri: median $110 across 35 hospitalsMO$110Kentucky: median $42 across 26 hospitalsKY$42West Virginia: median $20 across 24 hospitalsWV$20Virginia: median $106 across 24 hospitalsVA$106Maryland: median $79 across 33 hospitalsMD$79Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $99 across 14 hospitalsAZ$99New Mexico: median $175 across 17 hospitalsNM$175Kansas: median $140 across 39 hospitalsKS$140Arkansas: median $72 across 13 hospitalsAR$72Tennessee: median $71 across 50 hospitalsTN$71North Carolina: median $68 across 45 hospitalsNC$68South Carolina: median $98 across 34 hospitalsSC$98Oklahoma: median $122 across 20 hospitalsOK$122Louisiana: median $60 across 39 hospitalsLA$60Mississippi: median $49 across 33 hospitalsMS$49Alabama: median $104 across 21 hospitalsAL$104Georgia: median $114 across 59 hospitalsGA$114Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $137 across 130 hospitalsTX$137Florida: median $100 across 50 hospitalsFL$100
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $98. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA53$365+274%$94 – $639
Nebraska NE44$190+95%$74 – $239
New Mexico NM17$175+79%$68 – $393
Vermont VT11$151+55%$107 – $229
Kansas KS39$140+44%$59 – $270
Texas TX130$137+41%$62 – $211
Massachusetts MA38$137+41%$57 – $321
New Jersey NJ33$136+39%$22 – $608
Colorado CO37$129+33%$66 – $239
Maine ME23$125+29%$37 – $202
Illinois IL92$124+27%$52 – $199
Oklahoma OK20$122+25%$34 – $157
Utah UT32$116+19%$99 – $116
New Hampshire NH17$115+18%$85 – $305
Georgia GA59$114+17%$73 – $118
Missouri MO35$110+13%$55 – $136
Virginia VA24$106+8%$8 – $427
Alabama AL21$104+7%$22 – $459
Alaska AK15$102+5%$41 – $159
Florida FL50$100+3%$36 – $165
South Dakota SD12$100+3%$80 – $132
Arizona AZ14$99+2%$52 – $211
Idaho ID18$99+2%$51 – $132
South Carolina SC34$98+1%$84 – $168
Iowa IA57$980%$72 – $180
Minnesota MN64$96−1%$20 – $118
Ohio OH78$94−4%$34 – $164
North Dakota ND23$90−8%$57 – $157
Montana MT18$89−9%$83 – $122
Connecticut CT14$84−14%$38 – $140
Oregon OR39$83−15%$42 – $136
Wisconsin WI86$83−15%$53 – $194
Wyoming WY10$80−18%$68 – $118
Maryland MD33$79−19%$23 – $118
Washington WA45$78−20%$26 – $129
New York NY79$78−21%$19 – $140
Michigan MI46$75−23%$50 – $97
Arkansas AR13$72−26%$33 – $120
Tennessee TN50$71−28%$8 – $156
North Carolina NC45$68−30%$25 – $121
Indiana IN37$66−32%$38 – $168
Louisiana LA39$60−39%$11 – $134
Mississippi MS33$49−50%$28 – $89
Kentucky KY26$42−57%$19 – $163
California CA86$35−64%$14 – $82
West Virginia WV24$20−79%$5 – $140
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not 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 $98.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,290$93$36 – $165
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access527$110$55 – $199
Ownership
For-profit203$111$55 – $231
Government336$100$54 – $192
Non-profit1,295$97$38 – $171
System affiliation
Part of a system1,519$97$38 – $180
Independent319$102$55 – $176

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$148
Median cash price$98
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

1,271 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $97 and the average of the middle 60% is $97; most fall between $40 and $167.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,271 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
$19$51$97$149$242

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $242).

Of the 1,407 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,271 gave a usable cash price; 83 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 53 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,838 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (46%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,046 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,838
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here100
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 — excluded108
Hospitals that filed this code2,046

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 September 4, 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 ALCOHOLS LEVELS; 1 OR 2.

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 1 or 2 alcohol biomarkers (CPT 80321) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-80321-confirmatory-test-for-1-or-2-alcohol-biomarkers