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Definitive drug test for marijuana (natural)

CPT 80349the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test on blood or urine that confirms and measures natural cannabinoids, including the THC breakdown product; billed once per date of service for this drug class.

Hospitals typically charge $70 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,951 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $80. Most fall between $30 and $163 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,951
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 1,951 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$37$70$144$227

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $227).

How the prices are spread

$9 – $12: 30 hospitals$9$12 – $18: 89 hospitals$18 – $25: 95 hospitals$18$25 – $36: 168 hospitals$36 – $52: 230 hospitals$36$52 – $75: 329 hospitals$75 – $108: 274 hospitals$75$108 – $155: 218 hospitals$155 – $223: 215 hospitals$155$223 – $320: 110 hospitals$223median $70price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,758 of 1,951 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$9$1230
$12$1889
$18$2595
$25$36168
$36$52230
$52$75329
$75$108274
$108$155218
$155$223215
$223$320110

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $70.

Alaska: median $83 across 16 hospitalsAK$83Maine: median $57 across 25 hospitalsME$57Vermont: median $155 across 10 hospitalsVT$155New Hampshire: median $90 across 15 hospitalsNH$90Washington: median $81 across 48 hospitalsWA$81Idaho: median $38 across 16 hospitalsID$38Montana: median $77 across 14 hospitalsMT$77North Dakota: median $104 across 19 hospitalsND$104Minnesota: median $60 across 65 hospitalsMN$60Illinois: median $103 across 98 hospitalsIL$103Wisconsin: median $85 across 79 hospitalsWI$85Michigan: median $35 across 56 hospitalsMI$35New York: median $105 across 68 hospitalsNY$105Massachusetts: median $86 across 44 hospitalsMA$86Oregon: median $58 across 37 hospitalsOR$58Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: median $57 across 12 hospitalsWY$57South Dakota: median $66 across 11 hospitalsSD$66Iowa: median $72 across 54 hospitalsIA$72Indiana: median $100 across 54 hospitalsIN$100Ohio: median $34 across 88 hospitalsOH$34Pennsylvania: median $213 across 53 hospitalsPA$213New Jersey: median $111 across 29 hospitalsNJ$111Connecticut: median $97 across 12 hospitalsCT$97Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $38 across 93 hospitalsCA$38Utah: median $144 across 34 hospitalsUT$144Colorado: median $70 across 39 hospitalsCO$70Nebraska: median $125 across 51 hospitalsNE$125Missouri: median $55 across 50 hospitalsMO$55Kentucky: median $90 across 35 hospitalsKY$90West Virginia: median $67 across 31 hospitalsWV$67Virginia: median $56 across 18 hospitalsVA$56Maryland: median $30 across 36 hospitalsMD$30Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $187 across 15 hospitalsAZ$187New Mexico: median $148 across 11 hospitalsNM$148Kansas: median $70 across 48 hospitalsKS$70Arkansas: median $49 across 22 hospitalsAR$49Tennessee: median $62 across 42 hospitalsTN$62North Carolina: median $54 across 61 hospitalsNC$54South Carolina: median $82 across 34 hospitalsSC$82Oklahoma: median $69 across 26 hospitalsOK$69Louisiana: median $40 across 41 hospitalsLA$40Mississippi: median $53 across 45 hospitalsMS$53Alabama: median $71 across 27 hospitalsAL$71Georgia: median $67 across 54 hospitalsGA$67Hawaii: median $337 across 14 hospitalsHI$337Texas: median $93 across 121 hospitalsTX$93Florida: median $38 across 68 hospitalsFL$38
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $70. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Hawaii HI14$337+380%$47 – $576
Pennsylvania PA53$213+204%$85 – $264
Arizona AZ15$187+166%$31 – $288
Vermont VT10$155+121%$93 – $216
New Mexico NM11$148+111%$137 – $165
Utah UT34$144+105%$144 – $188
Nebraska NE51$125+78%$57 – $174
New Jersey NJ29$111+58%$47 – $226
New York NY68$105+50%$25 – $175
North Dakota ND19$104+48%$57 – $174
Illinois IL98$103+47%$50 – $221
Indiana IN54$100+43%$60 – $226
Connecticut CT12$97+39%$45 – $156
Texas TX121$93+33%$59 – $186
Kentucky KY35$90+29%$43 – $126
New Hampshire NH15$90+28%$28 – $207
Massachusetts MA44$86+22%$48 – $255
Wisconsin WI79$85+21%$53 – $108
Alaska AK16$83+19%$51 – $130
South Carolina SC34$82+17%$44 – $165
Washington WA48$81+15%$25 – $154
Montana MT14$77+9%$65 – $153
Iowa IA54$72+3%$52 – $125
Alabama AL27$71+1%$19 – $308
Colorado CO39$700%$13 – $185
Kansas KS48$700%$30 – $128
Oklahoma OK26$69−2%$49 – $98
Georgia GA54$67−4%$62 – $123
West Virginia WV31$67−4%$5 – $223
South Dakota SD11$66−6%$28 – $99
Tennessee TN42$62−12%$7 – $150
Minnesota MN65$60−14%$33 – $98
Oregon OR37$58−17%$20 – $137
Wyoming WY12$57−18%$36 – $154
Maine ME25$57−19%$21 – $133
Virginia VA18$56−21%$7 – $127
Missouri MO50$55−22%$38 – $122
North Carolina NC61$54−23%$38 – $68
Mississippi MS45$53−25%$19 – $89
Arkansas AR22$49−30%$38 – $99
Louisiana LA41$40−43%$19 – $81
Florida FL68$38−45%$13 – $78
California CA93$38−46%$15 – $211
Idaho ID16$38−46%$27 – $76
Michigan MI56$35−51%$7 – $52
Ohio OH88$34−51%$17 – $124
Maryland MD36$30−57%$12 – $60
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not 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 $70.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,365$67$28 – $163
Children’s36$79$35 – $177
Critical access544$83$38 – $165
Ownership
For-profit216$78$33 – $226
Government344$72$31 – $146
Non-profit1,385$68$29 – $161
System affiliation
Part of a system1,600$68$29 – $165
Independent351$76$31 – $154

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$112
Median cash price$70
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

1,341 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $72 and the average of the middle 60% is $82; most fall between $29 and $163.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,341 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$37$72$146$224

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $224).

Of the 1,485 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,341 gave a usable cash price; 90 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 54 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,951 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (49%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,159 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,951
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here107
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded100
Hospitals that filed this code2,159

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 CANNABINOIDS NATURAL.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Definitive drug test for marijuana (natural) (CPT 80349) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-80349-definitive-drug-test-for-marijuana-natural