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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Acylcarnitines test, yes-or-no result, per specimen

CPT 82016the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that screens a sample for acylcarnitine compounds without measuring amounts; the price is for one specimen tested.

Hospitals typically charge $40 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 387 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $47. Most fall between $19 and $136 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
387
States
40
Filings dated
Dec 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 387 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
$16$22$40$108$224

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($16 vs $224).

How the prices are spread

$16 – $22: 78 hospitals$16$22 – $30: 57 hospitals$30 – $40: 43 hospitals$30$40 – $53: 43 hospitals$53 – $71: 27 hospitals$53$71 – $96: 16 hospitals$96 – $128: 24 hospitals$96$128 – $172: 32 hospitals$172 – $231: 14 hospitals$172$231 – $309: 15 hospitals$231median $40price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (349 of 387 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$16$2278
$22$3057
$30$4043
$40$5343
$53$7127
$71$9616
$96$12824
$128$17232
$172$23114
$231$30915

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $40.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $30 across 33 hospitalsIL$30Wisconsin: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $16 across 18 hospitalsNY$16Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $64 across 13 hospitalsIA$64Indiana: median $30 across 55 hospitalsIN$30Ohio: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $19 across 22 hospitalsPA$19New Jersey: median $18 across 26 hospitalsNJ$18Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $141 across 33 hospitalsCA$141Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $227 across 21 hospitalsCO$227Nebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $40 across 12 hospitalsKY$40West Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $99 across 10 hospitalsVA$99Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $29 across 12 hospitalsOK$29Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $46 across 37 hospitalsTX$46Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $40. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO21$227+473%$136 – $408
California CA33$141+256%$108 – $141
Virginia VA10$99+149%$46 – $245
Iowa IA13$64+62%$64 – $64
Texas TX37$46+15%$46 – $1,396
Kentucky KY12$400%$18 – $40
Illinois IL33$30−23%$25 – $77
Indiana IN55$30−23%$21 – $53
Oklahoma OK12$29−26%$29 – $29
Pennsylvania PA22$19−52%$12 – $19
New Jersey NJ26$18−54%$16 – $18
New York NY18$16−58%$16 – $23
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $40.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care333$37$19 – $119
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access38$46$30 – $136
Ownership
For-profit50$49$25 – $824
Government45$39$16 – $80
Non-profit291$40$19 – $116
System affiliation
Part of a system329$40$19 – $141
Independent58$43$22 – $134

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$86
Median cash price$40
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

248 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $47 and the average of the middle 60% is $66; most fall between $25 and $141.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 248 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
$19$26$47$108$225

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $225).

Of the 270 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 248 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

387 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 411 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted387
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here10
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code411

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 ACYLCARNITINES QUAL.

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, “Acylcarnitines test, yes-or-no result, per specimen (CPT 82016) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82016-acylcarnitines-test-yes-or-no-result-per-specimen