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Definitive drug test for cocaine

CPT 80353the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $62 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,827 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $69. Most fall between $20 and $147 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,827
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 1,827 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$26$62$128$236

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $236).

How the prices are spread

$6 – $9: 58 hospitals$6$9 – $14: 93 hospitals$14 – $21: 128 hospitals$14$21 – $31: 172 hospitals$31 – $46: 145 hospitals$31$46 – $68: 275 hospitals$68 – $101: 290 hospitals$68$101 – $151: 221 hospitals$151 – $225: 161 hospitals$151$225 – $335: 104 hospitals$225median $62price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,647 of 1,827 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$958
$9$1493
$14$21128
$21$31172
$31$46145
$46$68275
$68$101290
$101$151221
$151$225161
$225$335104

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $62.

Alaska: median $83 across 15 hospitalsAK$83Maine: median $71 across 21 hospitalsME$71Vermont: median $59 across 12 hospitalsVT$59New Hampshire: median $119 across 14 hospitalsNH$119Washington: median $100 across 46 hospitalsWA$100Idaho: median $66 across 14 hospitalsID$66Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $38 across 16 hospitalsND$38Minnesota: median $34 across 42 hospitalsMN$34Illinois: median $112 across 98 hospitalsIL$112Wisconsin: median $69 across 79 hospitalsWI$69Michigan: median $29 across 58 hospitalsMI$29New York: median $105 across 72 hospitalsNY$105Massachusetts: median $85 across 39 hospitalsMA$85Oregon: median $53 across 34 hospitalsOR$53Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: median $51 across 10 hospitalsWY$51South Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $72 across 34 hospitalsIA$72Indiana: median $35 across 51 hospitalsIN$35Ohio: median $28 across 88 hospitalsOH$28Pennsylvania: median $243 across 53 hospitalsPA$243New Jersey: median $71 across 33 hospitalsNJ$71Connecticut: median $91 across 11 hospitalsCT$91Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $39 across 92 hospitalsCA$39Utah: median $144 across 32 hospitalsUT$144Colorado: median $129 across 34 hospitalsCO$129Nebraska: median $91 across 27 hospitalsNE$91Missouri: median $36 across 47 hospitalsMO$36Kentucky: median $76 across 27 hospitalsKY$76West Virginia: median $20 across 29 hospitalsWV$20Virginia: median $56 across 24 hospitalsVA$56Maryland: median $24 across 35 hospitalsMD$24Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $81 across 17 hospitalsAZ$81New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $55 across 42 hospitalsKS$55Arkansas: median $65 across 20 hospitalsAR$65Tennessee: median $34 across 32 hospitalsTN$34North Carolina: median $54 across 61 hospitalsNC$54South Carolina: median $82 across 37 hospitalsSC$82Oklahoma: median $48 across 29 hospitalsOK$48Louisiana: median $33 across 39 hospitalsLA$33Mississippi: median $32 across 38 hospitalsMS$32Alabama: median $45 across 28 hospitalsAL$45Georgia: median $62 across 63 hospitalsGA$62Hawaii: median $77 across 14 hospitalsHI$77Texas: median $56 across 106 hospitalsTX$56Florida: median $24 across 74 hospitalsFL$24
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $62. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA53$243+290%$80 – $754
Utah UT32$144+130%$135 – $169
Colorado CO34$129+107%$58 – $245
New Hampshire NH14$119+91%$26 – $280
Illinois IL98$112+79%$30 – $245
New York NY72$105+68%$26 – $270
Washington WA46$100+60%$25 – $140
Nebraska NE27$91+46%$12 – $162
Connecticut CT11$91+45%$30 – $101
Massachusetts MA39$85+37%$40 – $257
Alaska AK15$83+33%$64 – $114
South Carolina SC37$82+31%$37 – $167
Arizona AZ17$81+30%$42 – $191
Hawaii HI14$77+24%$65 – $337
Kentucky KY27$76+22%$18 – $136
Iowa IA34$72+16%$33 – $81
New Jersey NJ33$71+15%$42 – $127
Maine ME21$71+14%$39 – $120
Wisconsin WI79$69+11%$40 – $128
Idaho ID14$66+5%$40 – $87
Arkansas AR20$65+5%$21 – $82
Georgia GA63$620%$51 – $215
Vermont VT12$59−6%$29 – $153
Texas TX106$56−10%$47 – $148
Virginia VA24$56−11%$21 – $75
Kansas KS42$55−12%$39 – $102
North Carolina NC61$54−13%$25 – $93
Oregon OR34$53−16%$12 – $102
Wyoming WY10$51−18%$34 – $94
Oklahoma OK29$48−24%$20 – $83
Alabama AL28$45−28%$15 – $238
California CA92$39−37%$15 – $179
North Dakota ND16$38−39%$15 – $107
Missouri MO47$36−42%$15 – $123
Indiana IN51$35−44%$18 – $94
Minnesota MN42$34−45%$4 – $89
Tennessee TN32$34−46%$21 – $106
Louisiana LA39$33−47%$14 – $97
Mississippi MS38$32−48%$17 – $77
Michigan MI58$29−54%$6 – $103
Ohio OH88$28−56%$14 – $120
Florida FL74$24−62%$14 – $92
Maryland MD35$24−62%$6 – $68
West Virginia WV29$20−68%$5 – $223
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not 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 $62.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,320$63$21 – $160
Children’s35$79$17 – $118
Critical access466$58$20 – $134
Ownership
For-profit218$76$28 – $210
Government323$60$22 – $133
Non-profit1,280$60$18 – $148
System affiliation
Part of a system1,494$62$20 – $150
Independent333$64$20 – $133

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$100
Median cash price$62
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

1,262 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $63 and the average of the middle 60% is $72; most fall between $22 and $158.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,262 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
$12$28$63$130$243

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $243).

Of the 1,406 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,262 gave a usable cash price; 88 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 56 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,827 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 2,047 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,827
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here108
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 — excluded112
Hospitals that filed this code2,047

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 COCAINE.

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 cocaine (CPT 80353) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-80353-definitive-drug-test-for-cocaine