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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Albumin blood test

CPT 82040the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures albumin, the main protein made by the liver and carried in blood.

Hospitals typically charge $28 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,372 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $30. Most fall between $11 and $59 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,372
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 3,372 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$13$28$50$93

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7 vs $93).

How the prices are spread

$5 – $7: 206 hospitals$5$7 – $10: 249 hospitals$10 – $13: 236 hospitals$10$13 – $19: 341 hospitals$19 – $27: 441 hospitals$19$27 – $38: 492 hospitals$38 – $53: 483 hospitals$38$53 – $75: 299 hospitals$75 – $106: 203 hospitals$75$106 – $149: 98 hospitals$106median $28price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,048 of 3,372 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$5$7206
$7$10249
$10$13236
$13$19341
$19$27441
$27$38492
$38$53483
$53$75299
$75$106203
$106$14998

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $28.

Alaska: median $45 across 19 hospitalsAK$45Maine: median $23 across 28 hospitalsME$23Vermont: median $37 across 13 hospitalsVT$37New Hampshire: median $39 across 25 hospitalsNH$39Washington: median $33 across 77 hospitalsWA$33Idaho: median $27 across 25 hospitalsID$27Montana: median $29 across 34 hospitalsMT$29North Dakota: median $35 across 33 hospitalsND$35Minnesota: median $31 across 106 hospitalsMN$31Illinois: median $46 across 139 hospitalsIL$46Wisconsin: median $34 across 108 hospitalsWI$34Michigan: median $15 across 100 hospitalsMI$15New York: median $20 across 106 hospitalsNY$20Massachusetts: median $32 across 54 hospitalsMA$32Oregon: median $25 across 51 hospitalsOR$25Nevada: median $41 across 22 hospitalsNV$41Wyoming: median $26 across 16 hospitalsWY$26South Dakota: median $83 across 40 hospitalsSD$83Iowa: median $36 across 89 hospitalsIA$36Indiana: median $20 across 94 hospitalsIN$20Ohio: median $22 across 140 hospitalsOH$22Pennsylvania: median $24 across 122 hospitalsPA$24New Jersey: median $6 across 57 hospitalsNJ$6Connecticut: median $21 across 23 hospitalsCT$21Rhode Island: median $24 across 10 hospitalsRI$24California: median $25 across 162 hospitalsCA$25Utah: median $44 across 41 hospitalsUT$44Colorado: median $32 across 72 hospitalsCO$32Nebraska: median $46 across 84 hospitalsNE$46Missouri: median $25 across 76 hospitalsMO$25Kentucky: median $50 across 69 hospitalsKY$50West Virginia: median $14 across 43 hospitalsWV$14Virginia: median $39 across 73 hospitalsVA$39Maryland: median $5 across 41 hospitalsMD$5Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $27 across 42 hospitalsAZ$27New Mexico: median $54 across 29 hospitalsNM$54Kansas: median $33 across 90 hospitalsKS$33Arkansas: median $19 across 39 hospitalsAR$19Tennessee: median $18 across 83 hospitalsTN$18North Carolina: median $36 across 85 hospitalsNC$36South Carolina: median $25 across 52 hospitalsSC$25Oklahoma: median $24 across 72 hospitalsOK$24Louisiana: median $17 across 53 hospitalsLA$17Mississippi: median $23 across 54 hospitalsMS$23Alabama: median $23 across 44 hospitalsAL$23Georgia: median $26 across 109 hospitalsGA$26Hawaii: median $33 across 21 hospitalsHI$33Texas: median $37 across 246 hospitalsTX$37Florida: median $17 across 154 hospitalsFL$17
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $28. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD40$83+196%$31 – $130
New Mexico NM29$54+93%$18 – $99
Kentucky KY69$50+79%$15 – $77
Illinois IL139$46+64%$20 – $84
Nebraska NE84$46+64%$19 – $66
Alaska AK19$45+61%$6 – $81
Utah UT41$44+57%$39 – $69
Nevada NV22$41+47%$19 – $100
Virginia VA73$39+40%$9 – $67
New Hampshire NH25$39+39%$17 – $64
Texas TX246$37+33%$12 – $129
Vermont VT13$37+31%$23 – $74
Iowa IA89$36+28%$28 – $57
North Carolina NC85$36+28%$15 – $63
North Dakota ND33$35+25%$9 – $45
Wisconsin WI108$34+22%$20 – $48
Hawaii HI21$33+18%$14 – $40
Washington WA77$33+18%$18 – $50
Kansas KS90$33+17%$18 – $45
Colorado CO72$32+15%$13 – $56
Massachusetts MA54$32+12%$16 – $52
Minnesota MN106$31+11%$14 – $55
Montana MT34$29+4%$23 – $45
Idaho ID25$27−3%$16 – $42
Arizona AZ42$27−4%$9 – $223
Georgia GA109$26−7%$15 – $62
Wyoming WY16$26−7%$13 – $61
Oregon OR51$25−11%$12 – $37
South Carolina SC52$25−11%$19 – $41
California CA162$25−11%$5 – $82
Missouri MO76$25−12%$17 – $51
Pennsylvania PA122$24−13%$8 – $66
Oklahoma OK72$24−16%$11 – $41
Rhode Island RI10$24−16%$11 – $32
Alabama AL44$23−18%$9 – $55
Maine ME28$23−18%$14 – $51
Mississippi MS54$23−19%$15 – $39
Ohio OH140$22−21%$12 – $44
Connecticut CT23$21−25%$15 – $30
New York NY106$20−28%$7 – $52
Indiana IN94$20−29%$11 – $38
Arkansas AR39$19−31%$7 – $42
Tennessee TN83$18−37%$9 – $62
Louisiana LA53$17−39%$9 – $39
Florida FL154$17−40%$5 – $142
Michigan MI100$15−47%$8 – $31
West Virginia WV43$14−50%$3 – $36
New Jersey NJ57$6−80%$5 – $17
Maryland MD41$5−81%$4 – $7
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 $28.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,311$24$9 – $59
Children’s67$32$12 – $62
Critical access984$36$18 – $59
Ownership
For-profit469$41$12 – $192
Government644$33$14 – $56
Non-profit2,249$25$10 – $51
System affiliation
Part of a system2,725$28$10 – $61
Independent647$29$13 – $56

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$46
Median cash price$28
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

2,282 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $27 and the average of the middle 60% is $28; most fall between $11 and $55.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,282 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$13$27$45$85

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7 vs $85).

Of the 2,520 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,282 gave a usable cash price; 125 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 112 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,372 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (85%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,683 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,372
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here172
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 — excluded137
Hospitals that filed this code3,683

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 July 20, 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.

Related procedures

Part of the Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Albumin, Serum.

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, “Albumin blood test (CPT 82040) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82040-albumin-blood-test