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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Acetylcholinesterase enzyme test

CPT 82013the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that measures the level of the enzyme acetylcholinesterase in a sample.

Hospitals typically charge $75 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 860 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $86. Most fall between $26 and $176 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
860
States
49
Filings dated
Jun 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 860 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$32$75$158$250

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $250).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $17: 73 hospitals$12$17 – $25: 60 hospitals$25 – $35: 75 hospitals$25$35 – $49: 57 hospitals$49 – $70: 116 hospitals$49$70 – $99: 97 hospitals$99 – $140: 106 hospitals$99$140 – $199: 107 hospitals$199 – $281: 61 hospitals$199$281 – $398: 34 hospitals$281median $75price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (786 of 860 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$1773
$17$2560
$25$3575
$35$4957
$49$70116
$70$9997
$99$140106
$140$199107
$199$28161
$281$39834

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $75.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $69 across 25 hospitalsWA$69Idaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $65 across 25 hospitalsMN$65Illinois: median $114 across 59 hospitalsIL$114Wisconsin: median $158 across 42 hospitalsWI$158Michigan: median $61 across 42 hospitalsMI$61New York: median $17 across 29 hospitalsNY$17Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $104 across 14 hospitalsOR$104Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $64 across 15 hospitalsIA$64Indiana: median $27 across 23 hospitalsIN$27Ohio: median $152 across 46 hospitalsOH$152Pennsylvania: median $27 across 41 hospitalsPA$27New Jersey: median $14 across 35 hospitalsNJ$14Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $34 across 47 hospitalsCA$34Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $163 across 24 hospitalsCO$163Nebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $94 across 34 hospitalsMO$94Kentucky: median $170 across 17 hospitalsKY$170West Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $74 across 14 hospitalsVA$74Maryland: median $63 across 10 hospitalsMD$63Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $185 across 10 hospitalsAR$185Tennessee: median $20 across 16 hospitalsTN$20North Carolina: median $45 across 44 hospitalsNC$45South Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $62 across 25 hospitalsOK$62Louisiana: median $29 across 17 hospitalsLA$29Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $131 across 74 hospitalsTX$131Florida: median $44 across 19 hospitalsFL$44
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $75. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arkansas AR10$185+147%$83 – $194
Kentucky KY17$170+127%$92 – $170
Colorado CO24$163+118%$64 – $208
Wisconsin WI42$158+110%$62 – $204
Ohio OH46$152+103%$49 – $235
Texas TX74$131+75%$83 – $322
Illinois IL59$114+53%$66 – $262
Oregon OR14$104+39%$63 – $124
Missouri MO34$94+25%$66 – $338
Virginia VA14$74−2%$62 – $168
Washington WA25$69−8%$22 – $123
Minnesota MN25$65−14%$52 – $138
Iowa IA15$64−14%$64 – $80
Maryland MD10$63−16%$27 – $88
Oklahoma OK25$62−17%$22 – $168
Michigan MI42$61−19%$23 – $75
North Carolina NC44$45−40%$28 – $183
Florida FL19$44−41%$26 – $190
California CA47$34−55%$33 – $136
Louisiana LA17$29−61%$18 – $69
Indiana IN23$27−64%$18 – $175
Pennsylvania PA41$27−65%$10 – $509
Tennessee TN16$20−74%$16 – $65
New York NY29$17−78%$12 – $113
New Jersey NJ35$14−82%$12 – $14
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $75.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care717$73$23 – $174
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access122$91$48 – $185
Ownership
For-profit97$108$23 – $322
Government78$67$23 – $163
Non-profit679$75$26 – $170
System affiliation
Part of a system784$75$26 – $178
Independent76$67$26 – $174

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$148
Median cash price$75
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

586 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $85 and the average of the middle 60% is $94; most fall between $39 and $174.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 586 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
$23$49$85$155$243

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $243).

Of the 628 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 586 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 25 a list price only.

How complete is this

860 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 914 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted860
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here24
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 — excluded29
Hospitals that filed this code914

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 Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE ASSAY.

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, “Acetylcholinesterase enzyme test (CPT 82013) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82013-acetylcholinesterase-enzyme-test