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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Breath alcohol test

CPT 82075the billing code this page is about

Measurement of alcohol level from a sample of exhaled breath.

Hospitals typically charge $46 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,223 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $49. Most fall between $27 and $90 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,223
States
48
Filings dated
Dec 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 1,223 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
$20$30$46$78$140

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $140).

How the prices are spread

$16 – $20: 63 hospitals$16$20 – $25: 89 hospitals$25 – $32: 149 hospitals$25$32 – $41: 182 hospitals$41 – $53: 185 hospitals$41$53 – $68: 116 hospitals$68 – $87: 118 hospitals$68$87 – $111: 74 hospitals$111 – $141: 71 hospitals$111$141 – $180: 54 hospitals$141median $46price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,101 of 1,223 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$16$2063
$20$2589
$25$32149
$32$41182
$41$53185
$53$68116
$68$87118
$87$11174
$111$14171
$141$18054

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $46.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $94 across 46 hospitalsWA$94Idaho: median $127 across 11 hospitalsID$127Montana: median $60 across 20 hospitalsMT$60North Dakota: median $48 across 11 hospitalsND$48Minnesota: median $45 across 52 hospitalsMN$45Illinois: median $45 across 54 hospitalsIL$45Wisconsin: median $30 across 50 hospitalsWI$30Michigan: median $34 across 50 hospitalsMI$34New York: median $37 across 40 hospitalsNY$37Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $49 across 15 hospitalsOR$49Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 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 $50 across 41 hospitalsIA$50Indiana: median $35 across 46 hospitalsIN$35Ohio: median $65 across 43 hospitalsOH$65Pennsylvania: median $35 across 52 hospitalsPA$35New Jersey: median $33 across 38 hospitalsNJ$33Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $113 across 55 hospitalsCA$113Utah: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $59 across 53 hospitalsCO$59Nebraska: median $55 across 22 hospitalsNE$55Missouri: median $35 across 27 hospitalsMO$35Kentucky: median $28 across 26 hospitalsKY$28West Virginia: median $22 across 10 hospitalsWV$22Virginia: median $63 across 12 hospitalsVA$63Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $42 across 11 hospitalsAZ$42New Mexico: median $42 across 11 hospitalsNM$42Kansas: median $46 across 35 hospitalsKS$46Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $40 across 19 hospitalsTN$40North Carolina: median $47 across 25 hospitalsNC$47South Carolina: median $64 across 14 hospitalsSC$64Oklahoma: median $53 across 26 hospitalsOK$53Louisiana: median $19 across 14 hospitalsLA$19Mississippi: median $22 across 23 hospitalsMS$22Alabama: median $33 across 20 hospitalsAL$33Georgia: median $38 across 55 hospitalsGA$38Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $53 across 88 hospitalsTX$53Florida: median $55 across 23 hospitalsFL$55
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $46. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID11$127+177%$34 – $231
California CA55$113+147%$43 – $148
Washington WA46$94+104%$55 – $152
Ohio OH43$65+41%$28 – $95
South Carolina SC14$64+40%$31 – $122
Virginia VA12$63+39%$23 – $127
Montana MT20$60+31%$39 – $87
Colorado CO53$59+28%$32 – $89
Nebraska NE22$55+21%$38 – $81
Florida FL23$55+20%$30 – $118
Texas TX88$53+15%$46 – $76
Oklahoma OK26$53+15%$49 – $75
Iowa IA41$50+10%$27 – $72
Oregon OR15$49+7%$38 – $66
North Dakota ND11$48+5%$41 – $83
North Carolina NC25$47+2%$25 – $48
Kansas KS35$46+1%$22 – $60
Illinois IL54$45−2%$26 – $79
Minnesota MN52$45−2%$37 – $66
Arizona AZ11$42−8%$22 – $360
New Mexico NM11$42−8%$34 – $82
Tennessee TN19$40−13%$20 – $84
Georgia GA55$38−16%$17 – $83
New York NY40$37−19%$30 – $88
Indiana IN46$35−23%$26 – $88
Missouri MO27$35−24%$22 – $51
Pennsylvania PA52$35−24%$24 – $203
Michigan MI50$34−26%$24 – $57
Alabama AL20$33−28%$20 – $54
New Jersey NJ38$33−28%$30 – $35
Wisconsin WI50$30−34%$27 – $40
Kentucky KY26$28−38%$21 – $112
Mississippi MS23$22−52%$14 – $38
West Virginia WV10$22−52%$15 – $31
Louisiana LA14$19−58%$15 – $31
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not 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 $46.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care874$47$27 – $105
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access342$44$27 – $75
Ownership
For-profit136$53$29 – $110
Government230$42$25 – $75
Non-profit856$46$27 – $90
System affiliation
Part of a system1,009$47$27 – $101
Independent214$42$26 – $66

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$80
Median cash price$46
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

819 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $47 and the average of the middle 60% is $54; most fall between $29 and $106.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 819 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
$22$33$47$84$148

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $148).

Of the 906 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 819 gave a usable cash price; 40 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 47 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,223 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (31%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,328 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,223
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here47
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 — excluded57
Hospitals that filed this code1,328

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.

Related procedures

Part of the Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Occ Hlth Alcohol (Ethanol) Breath.

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, “Breath alcohol test (CPT 82075) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82075-breath-alcohol-test