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Definitive drug test for buprenorphine

CPT 80348the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test on blood or urine that confirms and measures buprenorphine and its breakdown products; billed once per date of service for this drug.

Hospitals typically charge $60 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,610 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $69. Most fall between $15 and $163 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,610
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 1,610 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
$7$21$60$135$245

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 34× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7 vs $245).

How the prices are spread

$5 – $8: 114 hospitals$5$8 – $12: 58 hospitals$12 – $18: 126 hospitals$12$18 – $27: 112 hospitals$27 – $41: 165 hospitals$27$41 – $63: 182 hospitals$63 – $95: 194 hospitals$63$95 – $145: 236 hospitals$145 – $221: 152 hospitals$145$221 – $337: 132 hospitals$221median $60price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,471 of 1,610 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$5$8114
$8$1258
$12$18126
$18$27112
$27$41165
$41$63182
$63$95194
$95$145236
$145$221152
$221$337132

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $60.

Alaska: median $67 across 12 hospitalsAK$67Maine: median $52 across 24 hospitalsME$52Vermont: median $63 across 11 hospitalsVT$63New Hampshire: median $86 across 15 hospitalsNH$86Washington: median $64 across 43 hospitalsWA$64Idaho: median $29 across 13 hospitalsID$29Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $73 across 15 hospitalsND$73Minnesota: median $60 across 48 hospitalsMN$60Illinois: median $118 across 86 hospitalsIL$118Wisconsin: median $58 across 79 hospitalsWI$58Michigan: median $18 across 45 hospitalsMI$18New York: median $106 across 64 hospitalsNY$106Massachusetts: median $101 across 42 hospitalsMA$101Oregon: median $38 across 35 hospitalsOR$38Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $72 across 24 hospitalsIA$72Indiana: median $100 across 52 hospitalsIN$100Ohio: median $28 across 87 hospitalsOH$28Pennsylvania: median $216 across 42 hospitalsPA$216New Jersey: median $71 across 34 hospitalsNJ$71Connecticut: median $91 across 11 hospitalsCT$91Rhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $16 across 72 hospitalsCA$16Utah: median $144 across 31 hospitalsUT$144Colorado: median $120 across 21 hospitalsCO$120Nebraska: median $25 across 17 hospitalsNE$25Missouri: median $30 across 35 hospitalsMO$30Kentucky: median $51 across 32 hospitalsKY$51West Virginia: median $10 across 32 hospitalsWV$10Virginia: median $119 across 18 hospitalsVA$119Maryland: median $41 across 33 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $180 across 15 hospitalsAZ$180New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $47 across 33 hospitalsKS$47Arkansas: median $52 across 12 hospitalsAR$52Tennessee: median $49 across 41 hospitalsTN$49North Carolina: median $38 across 61 hospitalsNC$38South Carolina: median $109 across 28 hospitalsSC$109Oklahoma: median $49 across 23 hospitalsOK$49Louisiana: median $26 across 35 hospitalsLA$26Mississippi: median $49 across 32 hospitalsMS$49Alabama: median $45 across 17 hospitalsAL$45Georgia: median $39 across 41 hospitalsGA$39Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $27 across 82 hospitalsTX$27Florida: median $43 across 66 hospitalsFL$43
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $60. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA42$216+259%$144 – $807
Arizona AZ15$180+200%$31 – $341
Utah UT31$144+140%$134 – $169
Colorado CO21$120+100%$35 – $196
Virginia VA18$119+99%$27 – $227
Illinois IL86$118+97%$26 – $228
South Carolina SC28$109+82%$109 – $254
New York NY64$106+77%$34 – $232
Massachusetts MA42$101+68%$47 – $342
Indiana IN52$100+67%$32 – $226
Connecticut CT11$91+51%$25 – $421
New Hampshire NH15$86+43%$20 – $305
North Dakota ND15$73+21%$15 – $138
Iowa IA24$72+20%$17 – $182
New Jersey NJ34$71+19%$32 – $186
Alaska AK12$67+12%$51 – $125
Washington WA43$64+7%$24 – $140
Vermont VT11$63+4%$49 – $99
Minnesota MN48$600%$4 – $175
Wisconsin WI79$58−4%$40 – $143
Maine ME24$52−13%$30 – $139
Arkansas AR12$52−13%$16 – $74
Kentucky KY32$51−16%$27 – $160
Tennessee TN41$49−18%$27 – $91
Mississippi MS32$49−18%$12 – $74
Oklahoma OK23$49−18%$30 – $129
Kansas KS33$47−22%$28 – $115
Alabama AL17$45−25%$6 – $99
Florida FL66$43−29%$7 – $109
Maryland MD33$41−31%$5 – $81
Georgia GA41$39−35%$35 – $103
North Carolina NC61$38−36%$12 – $93
Oregon OR35$38−37%$14 – $82
Missouri MO35$30−50%$10 – $109
Idaho ID13$29−51%$7 – $50
Ohio OH87$28−54%$14 – $107
Texas TX82$27−55%$5 – $148
Louisiana LA35$26−57%$15 – $68
Nebraska NE17$25−58%$4 – $91
Michigan MI45$18−70%$8 – $99
California CA72$16−73%$15 – $337
West Virginia WV32$10−83%$5 – $134
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not 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 $60.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,157$59$15 – $169
Children’s25$63$9 – $118
Critical access424$63$16 – $152
Ownership
For-profit153$69$25 – $226
Government261$54$20 – $139
Non-profit1,192$62$15 – $169
System affiliation
Part of a system1,324$59$15 – $169
Independent286$63$19 – $140

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$105
Median cash price$60
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

1,160 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $63 and the average of the middle 60% is $70; most fall between $15 and $165.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,160 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
$7$21$63$142$250

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 35× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7 vs $250).

Of the 1,302 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,160 gave a usable cash price; 85 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 57 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,610 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (41%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,807 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,610
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here99
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 — excluded97
Hospitals that filed this code1,807

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 Buprenorphine and Metabolites, Urine, Quantitative (Reflex).

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 buprenorphine (CPT 80348) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-80348-definitive-drug-test-for-buprenorphine