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Definitive drug test for barbiturates

CPT 80345the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test on blood or urine that confirms and measures barbiturate drugs; billed once per date of service for this drug class regardless of how many barbiturates are reported.

Hospitals typically charge $68 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,814 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $73. Most fall between $24 and $145 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,814
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 1,814 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
$11$29$68$130$243

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $243).

How the prices are spread

$7 – $10: 78 hospitals$7$10 – $15: 76 hospitals$15 – $22: 95 hospitals$15$22 – $33: 157 hospitals$33 – $48: 162 hospitals$33$48 – $71: 274 hospitals$71 – $105: 306 hospitals$71$105 – $154: 238 hospitals$154 – $228: 142 hospitals$154$228 – $337: 107 hospitals$228median $68price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,635 of 1,814 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$7$1078
$10$1576
$15$2295
$22$33157
$33$48162
$48$71274
$71$105306
$105$154238
$154$228142
$228$337107

By state

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

Alaska: median $85 across 13 hospitalsAK$85Maine: median $47 across 24 hospitalsME$47Vermont: median $202 across 11 hospitalsVT$202New Hampshire: median $92 across 11 hospitalsNH$92Washington: median $59 across 43 hospitalsWA$59Idaho: median $28 across 14 hospitalsID$28Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $53 across 17 hospitalsND$53Minnesota: median $61 across 46 hospitalsMN$61Illinois: median $65 across 89 hospitalsIL$65Wisconsin: median $72 across 82 hospitalsWI$72Michigan: median $52 across 65 hospitalsMI$52New York: median $82 across 68 hospitalsNY$82Massachusetts: median $127 across 34 hospitalsMA$127Oregon: median $40 across 34 hospitalsOR$40Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $78 across 13 hospitalsSD$78Iowa: median $72 across 42 hospitalsIA$72Indiana: median $91 across 38 hospitalsIN$91Ohio: median $60 across 72 hospitalsOH$60Pennsylvania: median $243 across 53 hospitalsPA$243New Jersey: median $92 across 30 hospitalsNJ$92Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $30 across 99 hospitalsCA$30Utah: median $143 across 31 hospitalsUT$143Colorado: median $79 across 31 hospitalsCO$79Nebraska: median $108 across 35 hospitalsNE$108Missouri: median $59 across 45 hospitalsMO$59Kentucky: median $64 across 28 hospitalsKY$64West Virginia: median $28 across 31 hospitalsWV$28Virginia: median $54 across 27 hospitalsVA$54Maryland: median $40 across 32 hospitalsMD$40Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $128 across 19 hospitalsAZ$128New Mexico: median $137 across 10 hospitalsNM$137Kansas: median $87 across 43 hospitalsKS$87Arkansas: median $56 across 16 hospitalsAR$56Tennessee: median $52 across 37 hospitalsTN$52North Carolina: median $68 across 61 hospitalsNC$68South Carolina: median $126 across 30 hospitalsSC$126Oklahoma: median $52 across 28 hospitalsOK$52Louisiana: median $39 across 37 hospitalsLA$39Mississippi: median $35 across 39 hospitalsMS$35Alabama: median $29 across 24 hospitalsAL$29Georgia: median $53 across 59 hospitalsGA$53Hawaii: median $65 across 10 hospitalsHI$65Texas: median $53 across 105 hospitalsTX$53Florida: median $31 across 93 hospitalsFL$31
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
Pennsylvania PA53$243+256%$47 – $350
Vermont VT11$202+195%$142 – $326
Utah UT31$143+110%$114 – $169
New Mexico NM10$137+100%$121 – $165
Arizona AZ19$128+87%$30 – $294
Massachusetts MA34$127+86%$52 – $254
South Carolina SC30$126+84%$126 – $215
Nebraska NE35$108+58%$56 – $204
New Hampshire NH11$92+35%$32 – $188
New Jersey NJ30$92+35%$8 – $302
Indiana IN38$91+33%$54 – $170
Kansas KS43$87+27%$58 – $159
Alaska AK13$85+24%$44 – $98
New York NY68$82+19%$27 – $225
Colorado CO31$79+15%$66 – $141
South Dakota SD13$78+13%$7 – $133
Iowa IA42$72+5%$56 – $137
Wisconsin WI82$72+5%$34 – $103
North Carolina NC61$680%$25 – $116
Illinois IL89$65−5%$25 – $198
Hawaii HI10$65−5%$65 – $113
Kentucky KY28$64−6%$25 – $134
Minnesota MN46$61−10%$38 – $90
Ohio OH72$60−13%$14 – $130
Washington WA43$59−13%$32 – $114
Missouri MO45$59−14%$15 – $122
Arkansas AR16$56−18%$42 – $82
Virginia VA27$54−21%$9 – $80
Georgia GA59$53−23%$50 – $215
North Dakota ND17$53−23%$40 – $81
Texas TX105$53−23%$5 – $228
Tennessee TN37$52−23%$9 – $98
Michigan MI65$52−23%$29 – $103
Oklahoma OK28$52−25%$20 – $74
Maine ME24$47−31%$29 – $152
Maryland MD32$40−42%$17 – $69
Oregon OR34$40−42%$18 – $92
Louisiana LA37$39−43%$13 – $88
Mississippi MS39$35−49%$17 – $77
Florida FL93$31−55%$12 – $100
California CA99$30−56%$10 – $135
Alabama AL24$29−58%$12 – $145
West Virginia WV31$28−59%$5 – $263
Idaho ID14$28−59%$7 – $60
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 care1,299$68$22 – $152
Children’s39$73$22 – $134
Critical access471$72$32 – $137
Ownership
For-profit227$87$23 – $241
Government306$68$26 – $134
Non-profit1,276$65$23 – $141
System affiliation
Part of a system1,504$67$23 – $144
Independent310$75$30 – $149

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$109
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

1,268 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $72 and the average of the middle 60% is $74; most fall between $25 and $142.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,268 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
$10$32$72$126$215

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $215).

Of the 1,420 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,268 gave a usable cash price; 86 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 65 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,814 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 2,039 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,814
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here106
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded118
Hospitals that filed this code2,039

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 DRUG SCREENING BARBITURATES.

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, “Definitive drug test for barbiturates (CPT 80345) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-80345-definitive-drug-test-for-barbiturates