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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Measurement of six or more amino acids, per specimen

CPT 82139the billing code this page is about

Laboratory test that measures the amounts of six or more amino acids in one sample; billed once for each specimen tested.

Hospitals typically charge $148 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,609 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $164. Most fall between $57 and $356 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,609
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 2,609 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
$29$68$148$297$563

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($29 vs $563).

How the prices are spread

$19 – $28: 119 hospitals$19$28 – $41: 144 hospitals$41 – $60: 164 hospitals$41$60 – $88: 286 hospitals$88 – $128: 333 hospitals$88$128 – $187: 349 hospitals$187 – $273: 377 hospitals$187$273 – $398: 255 hospitals$398 – $581: 205 hospitals$398$581 – $848: 120 hospitals$581median $148price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,352 of 2,609 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$19$28119
$28$41144
$41$60164
$60$88286
$88$128333
$128$187349
$187$273377
$273$398255
$398$581205
$581$848120

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $148.

Alaska: median $327 across 14 hospitalsAK$327Maine: median $112 across 24 hospitalsME$112Vermont: median $326 across 10 hospitalsVT$326New Hampshire: median $115 across 19 hospitalsNH$115Washington: median $121 across 57 hospitalsWA$121Idaho: median $179 across 20 hospitalsID$179Montana: median $216 across 21 hospitalsMT$216North Dakota: median $97 across 24 hospitalsND$97Minnesota: median $155 across 74 hospitalsMN$155Illinois: median $246 across 117 hospitalsIL$246Wisconsin: median $220 across 94 hospitalsWI$220Michigan: median $89 across 71 hospitalsMI$89New York: median $61 across 96 hospitalsNY$61Massachusetts: median $145 across 45 hospitalsMA$145Oregon: median $108 across 40 hospitalsOR$108Nevada: median $83 across 14 hospitalsNV$83Wyoming: median $149 across 14 hospitalsWY$149South Dakota: median $260 across 10 hospitalsSD$260Iowa: median $152 across 50 hospitalsIA$152Indiana: median $127 across 84 hospitalsIN$127Ohio: median $163 across 125 hospitalsOH$163Pennsylvania: median $122 across 113 hospitalsPA$122New Jersey: median $19 across 50 hospitalsNJ$19Connecticut: median $79 across 16 hospitalsCT$79Rhode Island: median $107 across 10 hospitalsRI$107California: median $109 across 110 hospitalsCA$109Utah: median $504 across 39 hospitalsUT$504Colorado: median $250 across 56 hospitalsCO$250Nebraska: median $261 across 42 hospitalsNE$261Missouri: median $155 across 63 hospitalsMO$155Kentucky: median $231 across 53 hospitalsKY$231West Virginia: median $50 across 34 hospitalsWV$50Virginia: median $170 across 62 hospitalsVA$170Maryland: median $397 across 40 hospitalsMD$397Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $118 across 34 hospitalsAZ$118New Mexico: median $142 across 18 hospitalsNM$142Kansas: median $370 across 48 hospitalsKS$370Arkansas: median $38 across 31 hospitalsAR$38Tennessee: median $111 across 55 hospitalsTN$111North Carolina: median $127 across 77 hospitalsNC$127South Carolina: median $234 across 45 hospitalsSC$234Oklahoma: median $52 across 59 hospitalsOK$52Louisiana: median $128 across 44 hospitalsLA$128Mississippi: median $145 across 37 hospitalsMS$145Alabama: median $147 across 36 hospitalsAL$147Georgia: median $136 across 94 hospitalsGA$136Hawaii: median $137 across 10 hospitalsHI$137Texas: median $188 across 186 hospitalsTX$188Florida: median $104 across 119 hospitalsFL$104
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $148. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT39$504+241%$286 – $592
Maryland MD40$397+169%$313 – $480
Kansas KS48$370+151%$135 – $794
Alaska AK14$327+122%$51 – $842
Vermont VT10$326+121%$190 – $848
Nebraska NE42$261+77%$132 – $375
South Dakota SD10$260+76%$203 – $428
Colorado CO56$250+69%$130 – $454
Illinois IL117$246+67%$112 – $460
South Carolina SC45$234+59%$107 – $523
Kentucky KY53$231+56%$51 – $487
Wisconsin WI94$220+49%$90 – $320
Montana MT21$216+46%$118 – $269
Texas TX186$188+27%$70 – $527
Idaho ID20$179+21%$123 – $504
Virginia VA62$170+15%$57 – $623
Ohio OH125$163+10%$75 – $283
Missouri MO63$155+5%$74 – $333
Minnesota MN74$155+5%$97 – $248
Iowa IA50$152+3%$64 – $267
Wyoming WY14$149+1%$87 – $265
Alabama AL36$147−1%$28 – $480
Mississippi MS37$145−2%$68 – $341
Massachusetts MA45$145−2%$49 – $374
New Mexico NM18$142−4%$82 – $565
Hawaii HI10$137−7%$105 – $235
Georgia GA94$136−8%$83 – $330
Louisiana LA44$128−13%$38 – $286
Indiana IN84$127−14%$38 – $302
North Carolina NC77$127−14%$81 – $433
Pennsylvania PA113$122−17%$19 – $361
Washington WA57$121−18%$39 – $237
Arizona AZ34$118−20%$29 – $294
New Hampshire NH19$115−22%$91 – $293
Maine ME24$112−24%$70 – $503
Tennessee TN55$111−25%$29 – $273
California CA110$109−26%$65 – $236
Oregon OR40$108−27%$83 – $322
Rhode Island RI10$107−27%$43 – $189
Florida FL119$104−30%$59 – $181
North Dakota ND24$97−34%$29 – $150
Michigan MI71$89−39%$64 – $139
Nevada NV14$83−44%$16 – $1,040
Connecticut CT16$79−46%$63 – $134
New York NY96$61−59%$25 – $265
Oklahoma OK59$52−65%$22 – $146
West Virginia WV34$50−66%$22 – $229
Arkansas AR31$38−74%$18 – $43
New Jersey NJ50$19−87%$17 – $53
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 $148.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,958$136$51 – $342
Children’s53$161$64 – $510
Critical access588$181$83 – $375
Ownership
For-profit347$180$72 – $726
Government413$147$66 – $341
Non-profit1,839$144$51 – $333
System affiliation
Part of a system2,171$144$57 – $354
Independent438$163$56 – $360

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$246
Median cash price$148
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

1,821 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $147 and the average of the middle 60% is $162; most fall between $64 and $332.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,821 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
$37$75$147$282$507

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($37 vs $507).

Of the 2,015 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,821 gave a usable cash price; 106 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 88 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,609 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (66%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,848 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,609
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here136
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 — excluded102
Hospitals that filed this code2,848

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 Amino Acid, >=6; Quant.

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, “Measurement of six or more amino acids, per specimen (CPT 82139) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82139-measurement-of-six-or-more-amino-acids-per-specimen