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Urine or blood test for methylphenidate

CPT 80360the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that confirms and measures methylphenidate in a specimen; billed once for this single drug.

Hospitals typically charge $70 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,205 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $69. Most fall between $13 and $150 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,205
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 1,205 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$17$70$128$232

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 38× what the cheapest tenth charges ($6 vs $232).

How the prices are spread

$5 – $8: 118 hospitals$5$8 – $12: 51 hospitals$12 – $18: 97 hospitals$12$18 – $27: 75 hospitals$27 – $41: 51 hospitals$27$41 – $62: 123 hospitals$62 – $94: 210 hospitals$62$94 – $142: 178 hospitals$142 – $216: 115 hospitals$142$216 – $329: 83 hospitals$216median $70price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,101 of 1,205 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$5$8118
$8$1251
$12$1897
$18$2775
$27$4151
$41$62123
$62$94210
$94$142178
$142$216115
$216$32983

By state

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

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $96 across 19 hospitalsME$96Vermont: median $165 across 10 hospitalsVT$165New Hampshire: median $116 across 12 hospitalsNH$116Washington: median $99 across 36 hospitalsWA$99Idaho: median $26 across 12 hospitalsID$26Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $17 across 13 hospitalsND$17Minnesota: median $9 across 29 hospitalsMN$9Illinois: median $100 across 63 hospitalsIL$100Wisconsin: median $105 across 83 hospitalsWI$105Michigan: median $56 across 43 hospitalsMI$56New York: median $57 across 50 hospitalsNY$57Massachusetts: median $66 across 32 hospitalsMA$66Oregon: median $19 across 23 hospitalsOR$19Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $72 across 24 hospitalsIA$72Indiana: median $77 across 33 hospitalsIN$77Ohio: median $44 across 76 hospitalsOH$44Pennsylvania: median $371 across 37 hospitalsPA$371New Jersey: median $82 across 26 hospitalsNJ$82Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $78 across 50 hospitalsCA$78Utah: median $198 across 27 hospitalsUT$198Colorado: median $120 across 15 hospitalsCO$120Nebraska: median $22 across 13 hospitalsNE$22Missouri: median $13 across 15 hospitalsMO$13Kentucky: median $78 across 25 hospitalsKY$78West Virginia: median $6 across 22 hospitalsWV$6Virginia: median $69 across 22 hospitalsVA$69Maryland: median $6 across 20 hospitalsMD$6Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $60 across 10 hospitalsAZ$60New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $137 across 18 hospitalsKS$137Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $52 across 28 hospitalsTN$52North Carolina: median $14 across 40 hospitalsNC$14South Carolina: median $89 across 22 hospitalsSC$89Oklahoma: median $46 across 14 hospitalsOK$46Louisiana: median $27 across 22 hospitalsLA$27Mississippi: median $35 across 18 hospitalsMS$35Alabama: median $37 across 14 hospitalsAL$37Georgia: median $87 across 31 hospitalsGA$87Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5 across 67 hospitalsTX$5Florida: median $37 across 36 hospitalsFL$37
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
Pennsylvania PA37$371+433%$158 – $769
Utah UT27$198+184%$163 – $232
Vermont VT10$165+137%$71 – $266
Kansas KS18$137+97%$35 – $247
Colorado CO15$120+73%$15 – $139
New Hampshire NH12$116+66%$69 – $305
Wisconsin WI83$105+51%$53 – $127
Illinois IL63$100+44%$25 – $301
Washington WA36$99+43%$60 – $132
Maine ME19$96+38%$30 – $235
South Carolina SC22$89+28%$89 – $133
Georgia GA31$87+25%$59 – $87
New Jersey NJ26$82+18%$60 – $113
California CA50$78+12%$6 – $80
Kentucky KY25$78+12%$16 – $156
Indiana IN33$77+10%$35 – $205
Iowa IA24$72+4%$25 – $127
Virginia VA22$69−2%$12 – $147
Massachusetts MA32$66−5%$46 – $230
Arizona AZ10$60−14%$31 – $179
New York NY50$57−18%$20 – $115
Michigan MI43$56−19%$8 – $109
Tennessee TN28$52−25%$12 – $77
Oklahoma OK14$46−34%$15 – $115
Ohio OH76$44−37%$14 – $165
Florida FL36$37−46%$7 – $84
Alabama AL14$37−47%$5 – $128
Mississippi MS18$35−49%$14 – $58
Louisiana LA22$27−62%$7 – $42
Idaho ID12$26−63%$7 – $167
Nebraska NE13$22−69%$11 – $127
Oregon OR23$19−73%$8 – $111
North Dakota ND13$17−76%$15 – $131
North Carolina NC40$14−80%$6 – $52
Missouri MO15$13−81%$10 – $33
Minnesota MN29$9−87%$4 – $103
Maryland MD20$6−92%$5 – $20
West Virginia WV22$6−92%$5 – $47
Texas TX67$5−93%$5 – $76
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not 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 $70.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care886$72$14 – $146
Children’s19fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access296$57$13 – $167
Ownership
For-profit101$76$28 – $169
Government172$55$14 – $144
Non-profit928$70$12 – $148
System affiliation
Part of a system1,028$72$13 – $148
Independent177$59$14 – $163

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$101
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

906 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $74 and the average of the middle 60% is $72; most fall between $14 and $155.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 906 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$17$74$128$232

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 37× what the cheapest tenth charges ($6 vs $232).

Of the 1,009 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 906 gave a usable cash price; 64 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 39 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,205 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (30%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,347 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,205
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here78
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 — excluded63
Hospitals that filed this code1,347

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 METHYLPHENIDATE.

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, “Urine or blood test for methylphenidate (CPT 80360) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-80360-urine-or-blood-test-for-methylphenidate