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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Aldolase enzyme blood test

CPT 82085the billing code this page is about

Blood test that measures the level of aldolase, an enzyme found in muscle and other tissues.

Hospitals typically charge $52 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,093 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $54. Most fall between $19 and $99 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,093
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 3,093 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
$11$25$52$88$139

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $139).

How the prices are spread

$8 – $11: 161 hospitals$8$11 – $16: 130 hospitals$16 – $22: 243 hospitals$16$22 – $30: 246 hospitals$30 – $41: 321 hospitals$30$41 – $57: 436 hospitals$57 – $79: 477 hospitals$57$79 – $109: 400 hospitals$109 – $151: 259 hospitals$109$151 – $208: 114 hospitals$151median $52price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,787 of 3,093 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$8$11161
$11$16130
$16$22243
$22$30246
$30$41321
$41$57436
$57$79477
$79$109400
$109$151259
$151$208114

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $52.

Alaska: median $105 across 19 hospitalsAK$105Maine: median $44 across 28 hospitalsME$44Vermont: median $109 across 13 hospitalsVT$109New Hampshire: median $53 across 24 hospitalsNH$53Washington: median $71 across 70 hospitalsWA$71Idaho: median $46 across 21 hospitalsID$46Montana: median $76 across 25 hospitalsMT$76North Dakota: median $64 across 30 hospitalsND$64Minnesota: median $61 across 94 hospitalsMN$61Illinois: median $83 across 141 hospitalsIL$83Wisconsin: median $65 across 101 hospitalsWI$65Michigan: median $29 across 59 hospitalsMI$29New York: median $39 across 104 hospitalsNY$39Massachusetts: median $59 across 53 hospitalsMA$59Oregon: median $43 across 48 hospitalsOR$43Nevada: median $63 across 19 hospitalsNV$63Wyoming: median $43 across 15 hospitalsWY$43South Dakota: median $100 across 30 hospitalsSD$100Iowa: median $58 across 86 hospitalsIA$58Indiana: median $52 across 98 hospitalsIN$52Ohio: median $44 across 131 hospitalsOH$44Pennsylvania: median $49 across 121 hospitalsPA$49New Jersey: median $11 across 53 hospitalsNJ$11Connecticut: median $45 across 22 hospitalsCT$45Rhode Island: median $49 across 10 hospitalsRI$49California: median $12 across 109 hospitalsCA$12Utah: median $34 across 41 hospitalsUT$34Colorado: median $69 across 64 hospitalsCO$69Nebraska: median $80 across 69 hospitalsNE$80Missouri: median $53 across 76 hospitalsMO$53Kentucky: median $80 across 66 hospitalsKY$80West Virginia: median $44 across 42 hospitalsWV$44Virginia: median $57 across 73 hospitalsVA$57Maryland: median $41 across 41 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $96 across 42 hospitalsAZ$96New Mexico: median $79 across 22 hospitalsNM$79Kansas: median $57 across 78 hospitalsKS$57Arkansas: median $26 across 35 hospitalsAR$26Tennessee: median $37 across 79 hospitalsTN$37North Carolina: median $38 across 86 hospitalsNC$38South Carolina: median $78 across 52 hospitalsSC$78Oklahoma: median $37 across 70 hospitalsOK$37Louisiana: median $33 across 49 hospitalsLA$33Mississippi: median $31 across 54 hospitalsMS$31Alabama: median $45 across 40 hospitalsAL$45Georgia: median $53 across 103 hospitalsGA$53Hawaii: median $49 across 16 hospitalsHI$49Texas: median $76 across 237 hospitalsTX$76Florida: median $16 across 127 hospitalsFL$16
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $52. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT13$109+110%$71 – $209
Alaska AK19$105+101%$45 – $154
South Dakota SD30$100+92%$48 – $147
Arizona AZ42$96+85%$28 – $120
Illinois IL141$83+60%$40 – $140
Nebraska NE69$80+54%$41 – $117
Kentucky KY66$80+54%$39 – $125
New Mexico NM22$79+52%$43 – $127
South Carolina SC52$78+50%$49 – $131
Montana MT25$76+46%$48 – $91
Texas TX237$76+46%$31 – $176
Washington WA70$71+36%$41 – $103
Colorado CO64$69+32%$42 – $147
Wisconsin WI101$65+25%$40 – $81
North Dakota ND30$64+23%$17 – $85
Nevada NV19$63+22%$30 – $96
Minnesota MN94$61+18%$21 – $88
Massachusetts MA53$59+14%$30 – $111
Iowa IA86$58+12%$34 – $86
Kansas KS78$57+9%$36 – $97
Virginia VA73$57+9%$17 – $148
Georgia GA103$53+3%$25 – $129
Missouri MO76$53+2%$38 – $111
New Hampshire NH24$53+2%$22 – $136
Indiana IN98$520%$19 – $137
Pennsylvania PA121$49−5%$15 – $126
Hawaii HI16$49−7%$25 – $91
Rhode Island RI10$49−7%$25 – $77
Idaho ID21$46−11%$8 – $67
Alabama AL40$45−13%$14 – $88
Connecticut CT22$45−13%$36 – $81
Maine ME28$44−15%$29 – $94
West Virginia WV42$44−15%$6 – $93
Ohio OH131$44−16%$18 – $73
Wyoming WY15$43−18%$22 – $84
Oregon OR48$43−18%$23 – $71
Maryland MD41$41−22%$31 – $49
New York NY104$39−25%$12 – $93
North Carolina NC86$38−27%$18 – $87
Oklahoma OK70$37−28%$19 – $72
Tennessee TN79$37−29%$17 – $82
Utah UT41$34−34%$29 – $119
Louisiana LA49$33−36%$19 – $69
Mississippi MS54$31−41%$19 – $72
Michigan MI59$29−44%$8 – $45
Arkansas AR35$26−50%$12 – $53
Florida FL127$16−69%$7 – $49
California CA109$12−78%$5 – $36
New Jersey NJ53$11−79%$11 – $55
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 $52.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,142$48$17 – $98
Children’s64$63$14 – $107
Critical access878$62$31 – $100
Ownership
For-profit411$71$22 – $215
Government583$53$23 – $95
Non-profit2,090$49$19 – $93
System affiliation
Part of a system2,508$52$19 – $100
Independent585$52$25 – $95

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$83
Median cash price$52
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

2,095 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $52 and the average of the middle 60% is $54; most fall between $21 and $96.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,095 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
$12$26$52$87$133

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $133).

Of the 2,326 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,095 gave a usable cash price; 125 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 106 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,093 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 3,417 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,093
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here199
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded124
Hospitals that filed this code3,417

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 Aldolase.

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, “Aldolase enzyme blood test (CPT 82085) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82085-aldolase-enzyme-blood-test