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Definitive drug test for 1 to 12 benzodiazepines

CPT 80346the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test on blood or urine that confirms and measures benzodiazepine drugs; this code is billed once when one to twelve benzodiazepines are tested.

Hospitals typically charge $72 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,143 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $76. Most fall between $26 and $158 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,143
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 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 2,143 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
$14$30$72$135$235

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $235).

How the prices are spread

$9 – $13: 70 hospitals$9$13 – $19: 120 hospitals$19 – $27: 152 hospitals$19$27 – $38: 189 hospitals$38 – $55: 207 hospitals$38$55 – $79: 324 hospitals$79 – $113: 329 hospitals$79$113 – $163: 240 hospitals$163 – $233: 187 hospitals$163$233 – $335: 112 hospitals$233median $72price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,930 of 2,143 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$9$1370
$13$19120
$19$27152
$27$38189
$38$55207
$55$79324
$79$113329
$113$163240
$163$233187
$233$335112

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $72.

Alaska: median $77 across 16 hospitalsAK$77Maine: median $63 across 25 hospitalsME$63Vermont: median $59 across 12 hospitalsVT$59New Hampshire: median $122 across 15 hospitalsNH$122Washington: median $92 across 47 hospitalsWA$92Idaho: median $59 across 17 hospitalsID$59Montana: median $96 across 15 hospitalsMT$96North Dakota: median $71 across 20 hospitalsND$71Minnesota: median $58 across 59 hospitalsMN$58Illinois: median $85 across 122 hospitalsIL$85Wisconsin: median $70 across 89 hospitalsWI$70Michigan: median $52 across 65 hospitalsMI$52New York: median $82 across 76 hospitalsNY$82Massachusetts: median $155 across 42 hospitalsMA$155Oregon: median $72 across 41 hospitalsOR$72Nevada: median $126 across 13 hospitalsNV$126Wyoming: median $82 across 13 hospitalsWY$82South Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $72 across 52 hospitalsIA$72Indiana: median $118 across 52 hospitalsIN$118Ohio: median $28 across 89 hospitalsOH$28Pennsylvania: median $195 across 58 hospitalsPA$195New Jersey: median $31 across 33 hospitalsNJ$31Connecticut: median $81 across 12 hospitalsCT$81Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $26 across 101 hospitalsCA$26Utah: median $321 across 34 hospitalsUT$321Colorado: median $51 across 41 hospitalsCO$51Nebraska: median $97 across 45 hospitalsNE$97Missouri: median $54 across 47 hospitalsMO$54Kentucky: median $74 across 32 hospitalsKY$74West Virginia: median $20 across 31 hospitalsWV$20Virginia: median $80 across 38 hospitalsVA$80Maryland: median $64 across 37 hospitalsMD$64Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $77 across 18 hospitalsAZ$77New Mexico: median $148 across 15 hospitalsNM$148Kansas: median $85 across 59 hospitalsKS$85Arkansas: median $58 across 23 hospitalsAR$58Tennessee: median $41 across 48 hospitalsTN$41North Carolina: median $68 across 60 hospitalsNC$68South Carolina: median $98 across 35 hospitalsSC$98Oklahoma: median $66 across 35 hospitalsOK$66Louisiana: median $31 across 39 hospitalsLA$31Mississippi: median $31 across 42 hospitalsMS$31Alabama: median $43 across 27 hospitalsAL$43Georgia: median $74 across 72 hospitalsGA$74Hawaii: median $97 across 13 hospitalsHI$97Texas: median $102 across 138 hospitalsTX$102Florida: median $35 across 112 hospitalsFL$35
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $72. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT34$321+348%$135 – $378
Pennsylvania PA58$195+171%$59 – $335
Massachusetts MA42$155+116%$50 – $239
New Mexico NM15$148+106%$83 – $165
Nevada NV13$126+76%$27 – $205
New Hampshire NH15$122+70%$49 – $307
Indiana IN52$118+64%$49 – $226
Texas TX138$102+43%$60 – $285
South Carolina SC35$98+36%$82 – $143
Hawaii HI13$97+35%$47 – $235
Nebraska NE45$97+35%$56 – $160
Montana MT15$96+34%$82 – $114
Washington WA47$92+28%$33 – $136
Illinois IL122$85+19%$29 – $157
Kansas KS59$85+19%$55 – $180
New York NY76$82+14%$32 – $241
Wyoming WY13$82+14%$36 – $106
Connecticut CT12$81+13%$38 – $149
Virginia VA38$80+12%$44 – $103
Alaska AK16$77+8%$66 – $156
Arizona AZ18$77+7%$51 – $174
Kentucky KY32$74+4%$25 – $143
Georgia GA72$74+3%$32 – $158
Oregon OR41$72+1%$34 – $128
Iowa IA52$72+1%$52 – $152
North Dakota ND20$71−1%$15 – $146
Wisconsin WI89$70−2%$39 – $105
North Carolina NC60$68−5%$26 – $175
Oklahoma OK35$66−8%$30 – $102
Maryland MD37$64−11%$23 – $94
Maine ME25$63−12%$26 – $156
Idaho ID17$59−17%$38 – $300
Vermont VT12$59−18%$41 – $189
Minnesota MN59$58−19%$23 – $108
Arkansas AR23$58−20%$26 – $86
Missouri MO47$54−25%$19 – $130
Michigan MI65$52−28%$6 – $109
Colorado CO41$51−29%$19 – $185
Alabama AL27$43−40%$24 – $131
Tennessee TN48$41−43%$14 – $129
Florida FL112$35−51%$11 – $68
New Jersey NJ33$31−56%$27 – $136
Louisiana LA39$31−57%$17 – $83
Mississippi MS42$31−57%$22 – $66
Ohio OH89$28−61%$14 – $108
California CA101$26−64%$13 – $72
West Virginia WV31$20−72%$5 – $150
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not 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 $72.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,493$70$24 – $160
Children’s39$51$21 – $170
Critical access605$82$30 – $151
Ownership
For-profit297$84$27 – $263
Government392$73$30 – $149
Non-profit1,448$70$24 – $146
System affiliation
Part of a system1,736$71$25 – $160
Independent407$76$29 – $149

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$114
Median cash price$72
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

1,422 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $72 and the average of the middle 60% is $76; most fall between $26 and $155.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,422 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
$14$30$72$134$215

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $215).

Of the 1,584 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,422 gave a usable cash price; 91 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 70 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,143 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (54%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,378 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,143
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 — excluded128
Hospitals that filed this code2,378

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 BENZODIAZEPINES1-12.

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 1 to 12 benzodiazepines (CPT 80346) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-80346-definitive-drug-test-for-1-to-12-benzodiazepines