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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Ketone test, measured amount

CPT 82010the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that measures how much acetone or other ketone bodies are present in the sample.

Hospitals typically charge $51 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,101 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $56. Most fall between $25 and $107 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,101
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 3,101 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
$15$29$51$94$160

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $160).

How the prices are spread

$9 – $13: 95 hospitals$9$13 – $18: 118 hospitals$18 – $25: 218 hospitals$18$25 – $34: 397 hospitals$34 – $47: 460 hospitals$34$47 – $65: 418 hospitals$65 – $89: 409 hospitals$65$89 – $123: 321 hospitals$123 – $169: 226 hospitals$123$169 – $233: 129 hospitals$169median $51price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,791 of 3,101 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$9$1395
$13$18118
$18$25218
$25$34397
$34$47460
$47$65418
$65$89409
$89$123321
$123$169226
$169$233129

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $51.

Alaska: median $84 across 14 hospitalsAK$84Maine: median $36 across 27 hospitalsME$36Vermont: median $60 across 13 hospitalsVT$60New Hampshire: median $53 across 25 hospitalsNH$53Washington: median $49 across 68 hospitalsWA$49Idaho: median $45 across 23 hospitalsID$45Montana: median $69 across 23 hospitalsMT$69North Dakota: median $51 across 28 hospitalsND$51Minnesota: median $50 across 100 hospitalsMN$50Illinois: median $70 across 127 hospitalsIL$70Wisconsin: median $48 across 108 hospitalsWI$48Michigan: median $25 across 94 hospitalsMI$25New York: median $31 across 105 hospitalsNY$31Massachusetts: median $55 across 52 hospitalsMA$55Oregon: median $46 across 48 hospitalsOR$46Nevada: median $57 across 20 hospitalsNV$57Wyoming: median $54 across 14 hospitalsWY$54South Dakota: median $77 across 28 hospitalsSD$77Iowa: median $52 across 85 hospitalsIA$52Indiana: median $54 across 92 hospitalsIN$54Ohio: median $36 across 136 hospitalsOH$36Pennsylvania: median $38 across 118 hospitalsPA$38New Jersey: median $9 across 57 hospitalsNJ$9Connecticut: median $45 across 23 hospitalsCT$45Rhode Island: median $30 across 10 hospitalsRI$30California: median $82 across 153 hospitalsCA$82Utah: median $110 across 37 hospitalsUT$110Colorado: median $88 across 65 hospitalsCO$88Nebraska: median $93 across 66 hospitalsNE$93Missouri: median $51 across 70 hospitalsMO$51Kentucky: median $60 across 64 hospitalsKY$60West Virginia: median $48 across 38 hospitalsWV$48Virginia: median $53 across 72 hospitalsVA$53Maryland: median $35 across 40 hospitalsMD$35Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $58 across 41 hospitalsAZ$58New Mexico: median $67 across 23 hospitalsNM$67Kansas: median $53 across 64 hospitalsKS$53Arkansas: median $29 across 36 hospitalsAR$29Tennessee: median $27 across 74 hospitalsTN$27North Carolina: median $68 across 85 hospitalsNC$68South Carolina: median $82 across 51 hospitalsSC$82Oklahoma: median $54 across 65 hospitalsOK$54Louisiana: median $27 across 48 hospitalsLA$27Mississippi: median $26 across 50 hospitalsMS$26Alabama: median $40 across 37 hospitalsAL$40Georgia: median $58 across 96 hospitalsGA$58Hawaii: median $46 across 19 hospitalsHI$46Texas: median $70 across 222 hospitalsTX$70Florida: median $45 across 140 hospitalsFL$45
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $51. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT37$110+118%$94 – $117
Nebraska NE66$93+83%$46 – $154
Colorado CO65$88+74%$45 – $158
Alaska AK14$84+65%$40 – $126
South Carolina SC51$82+62%$47 – $146
California CA153$82+61%$18 – $153
South Dakota SD28$77+51%$47 – $174
Illinois IL127$70+39%$34 – $125
Texas TX222$70+38%$33 – $167
Montana MT23$69+36%$39 – $86
North Carolina NC85$68+34%$19 – $113
New Mexico NM23$67+32%$33 – $87
Vermont VT13$60+19%$28 – $111
Kentucky KY64$60+18%$30 – $223
Arizona AZ41$58+14%$12 – $219
Georgia GA96$58+14%$32 – $126
Nevada NV20$57+13%$12 – $125
Massachusetts MA52$55+8%$30 – $104
Oklahoma OK65$54+7%$29 – $72
Wyoming WY14$54+7%$39 – $91
Indiana IN92$54+6%$19 – $127
Virginia VA72$53+5%$46 – $98
Kansas KS64$53+5%$36 – $160
New Hampshire NH25$53+4%$32 – $103
Iowa IA85$52+3%$34 – $82
North Dakota ND28$51+1%$15 – $81
Missouri MO70$510%$36 – $88
Minnesota MN100$50−2%$34 – $81
Washington WA68$49−3%$33 – $91
West Virginia WV38$48−5%$39 – $139
Wisconsin WI108$48−6%$35 – $83
Hawaii HI19$46−9%$41 – $78
Oregon OR48$46−10%$33 – $63
Connecticut CT23$45−10%$34 – $68
Idaho ID23$45−12%$36 – $94
Florida FL140$45−12%$26 – $91
Alabama AL37$40−21%$12 – $116
Pennsylvania PA118$38−25%$11 – $106
Ohio OH136$36−28%$23 – $86
Maine ME27$36−29%$28 – $86
Maryland MD40$35−30%$27 – $42
New York NY105$31−38%$14 – $96
Rhode Island RI10$30−40%$19 – $66
Arkansas AR36$29−43%$19 – $38
Tennessee TN74$27−47%$14 – $80
Louisiana LA48$27−47%$14 – $59
Mississippi MS50$26−48%$13 – $54
Michigan MI94$25−51%$11 – $43
New Jersey NJ57$9−81%$9 – $56
Delaware DE7not 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 $51.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,213$47$23 – $107
Children’s63$53$35 – $151
Critical access815$59$32 – $103
Ownership
For-profit440$65$27 – $219
Government523$57$28 – $107
Non-profit2,128$48$25 – $98
System affiliation
Part of a system2,570$51$25 – $107
Independent531$50$25 – $100

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$89
Median cash price$51
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

2,113 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $52 and the average of the middle 60% is $56; most fall between $26 and $99.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,113 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
$18$31$52$92$146

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $146).

Of the 2,325 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,113 gave a usable cash price; 111 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 101 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,101 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (78%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,368 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,101
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here149
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded116
Hospitals that filed this code3,368

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 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.

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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, “Ketone test, measured amount (CPT 82010) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82010-ketone-test-measured-amount