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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Alpha-1-antitrypsin blood test, total level

CPT 82103the billing code this page is about

Blood test that measures the total amount of the protein alpha-1-antitrypsin in the sample.

Hospitals typically charge $67 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,244 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $71. Most fall between $25 and $132 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,244
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 3,244 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$31$67$116$189

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $189).

How the prices are spread

$11 – $15: 150 hospitals$11$15 – $20: 189 hospitals$20 – $28: 241 hospitals$20$28 – $39: 257 hospitals$39 – $53: 321 hospitals$39$53 – $74: 416 hospitals$74 – $101: 446 hospitals$74$101 – $139: 469 hospitals$139 – $192: 277 hospitals$139$192 – $264: 154 hospitals$192median $67price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,920 of 3,244 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$11$15150
$15$20189
$20$28241
$28$39257
$39$53321
$53$74416
$74$101446
$101$139469
$139$192277
$192$264154

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $67.

Alaska: median $120 across 18 hospitalsAK$120Maine: median $52 across 28 hospitalsME$52Vermont: median $76 across 14 hospitalsVT$76New Hampshire: median $75 across 25 hospitalsNH$75Washington: median $80 across 76 hospitalsWA$80Idaho: median $60 across 22 hospitalsID$60Montana: median $75 across 28 hospitalsMT$75North Dakota: median $81 across 32 hospitalsND$81Minnesota: median $68 across 101 hospitalsMN$68Illinois: median $86 across 142 hospitalsIL$86Wisconsin: median $100 across 103 hospitalsWI$100Michigan: median $30 across 99 hospitalsMI$30New York: median $36 across 106 hospitalsNY$36Massachusetts: median $71 across 52 hospitalsMA$71Oregon: median $65 across 48 hospitalsOR$65Nevada: median $78 across 20 hospitalsNV$78Wyoming: median $53 across 16 hospitalsWY$53South Dakota: median $95 across 32 hospitalsSD$95Iowa: median $75 across 86 hospitalsIA$75Indiana: median $74 across 96 hospitalsIN$74Ohio: median $60 across 140 hospitalsOH$60Pennsylvania: median $71 across 121 hospitalsPA$71New Jersey: median $15 across 57 hospitalsNJ$15Connecticut: median $58 across 20 hospitalsCT$58Rhode Island: median $67 across 10 hospitalsRI$67California: median $20 across 137 hospitalsCA$20Utah: median $36 across 40 hospitalsUT$36Colorado: median $82 across 66 hospitalsCO$82Nebraska: median $114 across 75 hospitalsNE$114Missouri: median $78 across 74 hospitalsMO$78Kentucky: median $97 across 68 hospitalsKY$97West Virginia: median $55 across 43 hospitalsWV$55Virginia: median $97 across 73 hospitalsVA$97Maryland: median $41 across 41 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $106 across 39 hospitalsAZ$106New Mexico: median $92 across 28 hospitalsNM$92Kansas: median $82 across 84 hospitalsKS$82Arkansas: median $22 across 38 hospitalsAR$22Tennessee: median $43 across 80 hospitalsTN$43North Carolina: median $62 across 87 hospitalsNC$62South Carolina: median $137 across 51 hospitalsSC$137Oklahoma: median $59 across 72 hospitalsOK$59Louisiana: median $38 across 50 hospitalsLA$38Mississippi: median $39 across 55 hospitalsMS$39Alabama: median $44 across 44 hospitalsAL$44Georgia: median $74 across 108 hospitalsGA$74Hawaii: median $107 across 19 hospitalsHI$107Texas: median $116 across 233 hospitalsTX$116Florida: median $20 across 140 hospitalsFL$20
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $67. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC51$137+105%$58 – $166
Alaska AK18$120+79%$34 – $186
Texas TX233$116+73%$44 – $203
Nebraska NE75$114+71%$52 – $172
Hawaii HI19$107+60%$36 – $181
Arizona AZ39$106+58%$19 – $138
Wisconsin WI103$100+49%$52 – $120
Kentucky KY68$97+45%$40 – $323
Virginia VA73$97+44%$23 – $159
South Dakota SD32$95+42%$62 – $147
New Mexico NM28$92+37%$46 – $128
Illinois IL142$86+29%$41 – $192
Kansas KS84$82+22%$53 – $122
Colorado CO66$82+22%$41 – $121
North Dakota ND32$81+20%$25 – $110
Washington WA76$80+19%$46 – $141
Nevada NV20$78+17%$21 – $113
Missouri MO74$78+16%$44 – $139
Vermont VT14$76+14%$50 – $157
New Hampshire NH25$75+13%$44 – $174
Iowa IA86$75+13%$57 – $121
Montana MT28$75+12%$62 – $100
Indiana IN96$74+11%$30 – $108
Georgia GA108$74+11%$44 – $145
Massachusetts MA52$71+6%$46 – $132
Pennsylvania PA121$71+6%$21 – $184
Minnesota MN101$68+1%$31 – $109
Rhode Island RI10$67−1%$31 – $108
Oregon OR48$65−3%$46 – $83
North Carolina NC87$62−7%$22 – $120
Ohio OH140$60−10%$38 – $118
Idaho ID22$60−10%$13 – $115
Oklahoma OK72$59−12%$35 – $99
Connecticut CT20$58−14%$41 – $112
West Virginia WV43$55−18%$13 – $106
Wyoming WY16$53−21%$27 – $99
Maine ME28$52−22%$30 – $110
Alabama AL44$44−34%$18 – $243
Tennessee TN80$43−36%$23 – $99
Maryland MD41$41−39%$32 – $49
Mississippi MS55$39−42%$20 – $75
Louisiana LA50$38−44%$20 – $78
Utah UT40$36−46%$31 – $123
New York NY106$36−46%$18 – $143
Michigan MI99$30−56%$13 – $51
Arkansas AR38$22−67%$14 – $100
California CA137$20−71%$8 – $93
Florida FL140$20−71%$8 – $102
New Jersey NJ57$15−77%$15 – $46
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 $67.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,238$60$21 – $134
Children’s64$76$27 – $130
Critical access932$78$39 – $127
Ownership
For-profit444$94$25 – $259
Government615$71$28 – $130
Non-profit2,175$64$25 – $121
System affiliation
Part of a system2,635$66$25 – $134
Independent609$69$30 – $124

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$109
Median cash price$67
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

2,195 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $67 and the average of the middle 60% is $70; most fall between $26 and $126.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,195 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$32$67$112$171

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($16 vs $171).

Of the 2,420 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,195 gave a usable cash price; 116 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 108 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,244 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (82%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,537 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,244
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here163
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 — excluded128
Hospitals that filed this code3,537

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 Alpha-1-Antitrypsin, Total.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Alpha-1-antitrypsin blood test, total level (CPT 82103) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82103-alpha-1-antitrypsin-blood-test-total-level