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Definitive drug test for ketamine

CPT 80357the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $56 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 869 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $67. Most fall between $13 and $171 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
869
States
49
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 869 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
$6$15$56$137$331

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 52× what the cheapest tenth charges ($6 vs $331).

How the prices are spread

$5 – $8: 66 hospitals$5$8 – $12: 65 hospitals$12 – $20: 79 hospitals$12$20 – $31: 73 hospitals$31 – $49: 80 hospitals$31$49 – $78: 106 hospitals$78 – $123: 119 hospitals$78$123 – $194: 100 hospitals$194 – $306: 47 hospitals$194$306 – $484: 53 hospitals$306median $56price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (788 of 869 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$5$866
$8$1265
$12$2079
$20$3173
$31$4980
$49$78106
$78$123119
$123$194100
$194$30647
$306$48453

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $56.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $80 across 33 hospitalsWA$80Idaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $6 across 21 hospitalsMN$6Illinois: median $72 across 48 hospitalsIL$72Wisconsin: median $171 across 54 hospitalsWI$171Michigan: median $59 across 19 hospitalsMI$59New York: median $65 across 39 hospitalsNY$65Massachusetts: median $67 across 28 hospitalsMA$67Oregon: median $9 across 14 hospitalsOR$9Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $72 across 17 hospitalsIA$72Indiana: median $62 across 30 hospitalsIN$62Ohio: median $14 across 56 hospitalsOH$14Pennsylvania: median $302 across 22 hospitalsPA$302New Jersey: median $68 across 24 hospitalsNJ$68Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $80 across 49 hospitalsCA$80Utah: median $456 across 28 hospitalsUT$456Colorado: median $120 across 14 hospitalsCO$120Nebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $187 across 11 hospitalsMO$187Kentucky: median $11 across 17 hospitalsKY$11West Virginia: median $5 across 12 hospitalsWV$5Virginia: median $28 across 14 hospitalsVA$28Maryland: median $7 across 23 hospitalsMD$7Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $77 across 29 hospitalsTN$77North Carolina: median $14 across 38 hospitalsNC$14South Carolina: median $14 across 23 hospitalsSC$14Oklahoma: median $46 across 10 hospitalsOK$46Louisiana: median $36 across 17 hospitalsLA$36Mississippi: median $74 across 21 hospitalsMS$74Alabama: median $6 across 10 hospitalsAL$6Georgia: median $55 across 14 hospitalsGA$55Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $52 across 30 hospitalsTX$52Florida: median $31 across 30 hospitalsFL$31
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $56. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT28$456+717%$376 – $537
Pennsylvania PA22$302+442%$30 – $525
Missouri MO11$187+235%$15 – $187
Wisconsin WI54$171+206%$45 – $225
Colorado CO14$120+115%$48 – $139
California CA49$80+44%$6 – $95
Washington WA33$80+43%$34 – $151
Tennessee TN29$77+37%$20 – $119
Mississippi MS21$74+33%$42 – $152
Iowa IA17$72+29%$72 – $72
Illinois IL48$72+29%$21 – $318
New Jersey NJ24$68+22%$57 – $124
Massachusetts MA28$67+20%$46 – $255
New York NY39$65+17%$21 – $335
Indiana IN30$62+12%$19 – $174
Michigan MI19$59+6%$17 – $81
Georgia GA14$55−2%$28 – $103
Texas TX30$52−6%$5 – $83
Oklahoma OK10$46−18%$46 – $131
Louisiana LA17$36−35%$17 – $73
Florida FL30$31−45%$7 – $47
Virginia VA14$28−51%$20 – $219
Ohio OH56$14−76%$12 – $137
North Carolina NC38$14−76%$4 – $47
South Carolina SC23$14−76%$10 – $574
Kentucky KY17$11−81%$9 – $16
Oregon OR14$9−85%$8 – $38
Maryland MD23$7−88%$5 – $42
Minnesota MN21$6−89%$2 – $41
Alabama AL10$6−90%$5 – $55
West Virginia WV12$5−91%$5 – $5
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $56.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care667$60$14 – $174
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access187$43$12 – $165
Ownership
For-profit74$74$17 – $232
Government130$43$13 – $103
Non-profit662$59$12 – $171
System affiliation
Part of a system746$59$13 – $171
Independent123$40$12 – $120

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$106
Median cash price$56
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. 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

645 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $72 and the average of the middle 60% is $75; most fall between $14 and $187.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 645 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$16$72$157$358

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 50× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7 vs $358).

Of the 740 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 645 gave a usable cash price; 64 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 30 a list price only.

How complete is this

869 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (22%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 996 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted869
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here72
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded53
Hospitals that filed this code996

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 23, 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 KETAMINE AND NORKETAMINE.

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 ketamine (CPT 80357) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-80357-definitive-drug-test-for-ketamine