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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Aluminum level blood test

CPT 82108the billing code this page is about

Laboratory test that measures the amount of aluminum in a blood or other body fluid sample.

Hospitals typically charge $81 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,229 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $84. Most fall between $31 and $160 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,229
States
50
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 2,229 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
$21$39$81$138$243

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($21 vs $243).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $20: 96 hospitals$14$20 – $28: 144 hospitals$28 – $38: 194 hospitals$28$38 – $53: 241 hospitals$53 – $73: 241 hospitals$53$73 – $100: 319 hospitals$100 – $139: 333 hospitals$100$139 – $192: 213 hospitals$192 – $265: 142 hospitals$192$265 – $366: 84 hospitals$265median $81price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,007 of 2,229 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$2096
$20$28144
$28$38194
$38$53241
$53$73241
$73$100319
$100$139333
$139$192213
$192$265142
$265$36684

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $81.

Alaska: median $118 across 11 hospitalsAK$118Maine: median $82 across 22 hospitalsME$82Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $112 across 13 hospitalsNH$112Washington: median $104 across 49 hospitalsWA$104Idaho: median $71 across 10 hospitalsID$71Montana: median $80 across 10 hospitalsMT$80North Dakota: median $76 across 15 hospitalsND$76Minnesota: median $100 across 41 hospitalsMN$100Illinois: median $107 across 110 hospitalsIL$107Wisconsin: median $130 across 83 hospitalsWI$130Michigan: median $22 across 58 hospitalsMI$22New York: median $63 across 107 hospitalsNY$63Massachusetts: median $116 across 38 hospitalsMA$116Oregon: median $71 across 35 hospitalsOR$71Nevada: median $103 across 11 hospitalsNV$103Wyoming: median $99 across 12 hospitalsWY$99South Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $36 across 29 hospitalsIA$36Indiana: median $87 across 75 hospitalsIN$87Ohio: median $85 across 118 hospitalsOH$85Pennsylvania: median $124 across 114 hospitalsPA$124New Jersey: median $29 across 48 hospitalsNJ$29Connecticut: median $104 across 15 hospitalsCT$104Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $21 across 100 hospitalsCA$21Utah: median $50 across 34 hospitalsUT$50Colorado: median $138 across 46 hospitalsCO$138Nebraska: median $60 across 32 hospitalsNE$60Missouri: median $91 across 56 hospitalsMO$91Kentucky: median $98 across 45 hospitalsKY$98West Virginia: median $96 across 21 hospitalsWV$96Virginia: median $131 across 54 hospitalsVA$131Maryland: median $109 across 34 hospitalsMD$109Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $43 across 23 hospitalsAZ$43New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $102 across 34 hospitalsKS$102Arkansas: median $56 across 21 hospitalsAR$56Tennessee: median $50 across 59 hospitalsTN$50North Carolina: median $56 across 60 hospitalsNC$56South Carolina: median $93 across 47 hospitalsSC$93Oklahoma: median $81 across 45 hospitalsOK$81Louisiana: median $52 across 37 hospitalsLA$52Mississippi: median $63 across 39 hospitalsMS$63Alabama: median $60 across 22 hospitalsAL$60Georgia: median $92 across 76 hospitalsGA$92Hawaii: median $99 across 11 hospitalsHI$99Texas: median $124 across 154 hospitalsTX$124Florida: median $25 across 117 hospitalsFL$25
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $81. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO46$138+69%$46 – $383
Virginia VA54$131+61%$22 – $220
Wisconsin WI83$130+60%$98 – $280
Pennsylvania PA114$124+53%$32 – $299
Texas TX154$124+52%$32 – $468
Alaska AK11$118+45%$26 – $238
Massachusetts MA38$116+42%$48 – $210
New Hampshire NH13$112+37%$23 – $422
Maryland MD34$109+33%$71 – $130
Illinois IL110$107+31%$42 – $155
Washington WA49$104+28%$49 – $144
Connecticut CT15$104+27%$67 – $120
Nevada NV11$103+27%$25 – $172
Kansas KS34$102+25%$56 – $188
Minnesota MN41$100+23%$49 – $224
Hawaii HI11$99+22%$41 – $159
Wyoming WY12$99+22%$47 – $147
Kentucky KY45$98+21%$42 – $273
West Virginia WV21$96+18%$14 – $132
South Carolina SC47$93+14%$80 – $138
Georgia GA76$92+12%$48 – $195
Missouri MO56$91+12%$49 – $117
Indiana IN75$87+7%$40 – $131
Ohio OH118$85+4%$55 – $149
Maine ME22$82+1%$39 – $169
Oklahoma OK45$810%$38 – $120
Montana MT10$80−1%$30 – $137
North Dakota ND15$76−6%$43 – $82
Idaho ID10$71−13%$50 – $91
Oregon OR35$71−13%$31 – $96
New York NY107$63−23%$25 – $131
Mississippi MS39$63−23%$34 – $97
Nebraska NE32$60−26%$43 – $156
Alabama AL22$60−26%$31 – $97
North Carolina NC60$56−31%$34 – $154
Arkansas AR21$56−31%$22 – $92
Louisiana LA37$52−36%$20 – $84
Tennessee TN59$50−39%$27 – $105
Utah UT34$50−39%$47 – $58
Arizona AZ23$43−47%$27 – $178
Iowa IA29$36−56%$32 – $79
New Jersey NJ48$29−64%$25 – $140
Florida FL117$25−69%$18 – $79
Michigan MI58$22−73%$10 – $109
California CA100$21−74%$10 – $67
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $81.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,747$77$29 – $155
Children’s43$65$34 – $191
Critical access430$91$47 – $176
Ownership
For-profit315$92$28 – $324
Government306$75$31 – $144
Non-profit1,599$81$32 – $154
System affiliation
Part of a system1,883$83$30 – $168
Independent346$79$35 – $149

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$138
Median cash price$81
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

1,573 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $84 and the average of the middle 60% is $86; most fall between $34 and $159.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,573 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
$21$43$84$138$220

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($21 vs $220).

Of the 1,751 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,573 gave a usable cash price; 101 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 77 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,229 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (56%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,442 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,229
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here125
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 — excluded87
Hospitals that filed this code2,442

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 HC Aluminum.

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, “Aluminum level blood test (CPT 82108) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82108-aluminum-level-blood-test