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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Amylase blood test

CPT 82150the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of amylase, a digestive enzyme, in a sample.

Hospitals typically charge $47 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,393 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $50. Most fall between $16 and $104 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,393
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 3,393 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
$10$20$47$86$155

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $155).

How the prices are spread

$6 – $9: 168 hospitals$6$9 – $13: 263 hospitals$13 – $19: 231 hospitals$13$19 – $28: 300 hospitals$28 – $40: 383 hospitals$28$40 – $58: 475 hospitals$58 – $83: 528 hospitals$58$83 – $120: 336 hospitals$120 – $173: 250 hospitals$120$173 – $249: 126 hospitals$173median $47price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,060 of 3,393 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$9168
$9$13263
$13$19231
$19$28300
$28$40383
$40$58475
$58$83528
$83$120336
$120$173250
$173$249126

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $47.

Alaska: median $73 across 19 hospitalsAK$73Maine: median $43 across 28 hospitalsME$43Vermont: median $50 across 14 hospitalsVT$50New Hampshire: median $56 across 25 hospitalsNH$56Washington: median $55 across 77 hospitalsWA$55Idaho: median $40 across 25 hospitalsID$40Montana: median $47 across 34 hospitalsMT$47North Dakota: median $48 across 33 hospitalsND$48Minnesota: median $52 across 106 hospitalsMN$52Illinois: median $82 across 143 hospitalsIL$82Wisconsin: median $61 across 108 hospitalsWI$61Michigan: median $19 across 97 hospitalsMI$19New York: median $28 across 107 hospitalsNY$28Massachusetts: median $44 across 53 hospitalsMA$44Oregon: median $48 across 51 hospitalsOR$48Nevada: median $53 across 22 hospitalsNV$53Wyoming: median $50 across 16 hospitalsWY$50South Dakota: median $114 across 41 hospitalsSD$114Iowa: median $56 across 89 hospitalsIA$56Indiana: median $34 across 96 hospitalsIN$34Ohio: median $47 across 143 hospitalsOH$47Pennsylvania: median $32 across 122 hospitalsPA$32New Jersey: median $7 across 57 hospitalsNJ$7Connecticut: median $35 across 23 hospitalsCT$35Rhode Island: median $58 across 10 hospitalsRI$58California: median $42 across 162 hospitalsCA$42Utah: median $47 across 41 hospitalsUT$47Colorado: median $60 across 72 hospitalsCO$60Nebraska: median $85 across 83 hospitalsNE$85Missouri: median $44 across 78 hospitalsMO$44Kentucky: median $46 across 69 hospitalsKY$46West Virginia: median $44 across 43 hospitalsWV$44Virginia: median $56 across 73 hospitalsVA$56Maryland: median $16 across 41 hospitalsMD$16Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $66 across 42 hospitalsAZ$66New Mexico: median $96 across 29 hospitalsNM$96Kansas: median $52 across 92 hospitalsKS$52Arkansas: median $23 across 40 hospitalsAR$23Tennessee: median $32 across 83 hospitalsTN$32North Carolina: median $37 across 87 hospitalsNC$37South Carolina: median $94 across 53 hospitalsSC$94Oklahoma: median $45 across 72 hospitalsOK$45Louisiana: median $23 across 54 hospitalsLA$23Mississippi: median $29 across 55 hospitalsMS$29Alabama: median $44 across 44 hospitalsAL$44Georgia: median $59 across 110 hospitalsGA$59Hawaii: median $61 across 21 hospitalsHI$61Texas: median $85 across 249 hospitalsTX$85Florida: median $22 across 154 hospitalsFL$22
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $47. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD41$114+141%$64 – $203
New Mexico NM29$96+102%$33 – $133
South Carolina SC53$94+99%$31 – $125
Nebraska NE83$85+80%$22 – $113
Texas TX249$85+79%$14 – $216
Illinois IL143$82+73%$41 – $136
Alaska AK19$73+54%$24 – $132
Arizona AZ42$66+39%$9 – $278
Wisconsin WI108$61+29%$32 – $68
Hawaii HI21$61+28%$17 – $74
Colorado CO72$60+27%$24 – $126
Georgia GA110$59+24%$21 – $101
Rhode Island RI10$58+22%$19 – $75
Iowa IA89$56+18%$31 – $74
Virginia VA73$56+18%$11 – $165
New Hampshire NH25$56+18%$21 – $95
Washington WA77$55+16%$32 – $99
Nevada NV22$53+11%$16 – $124
Kansas KS92$52+10%$32 – $74
Minnesota MN106$52+10%$19 – $74
Wyoming WY16$50+6%$13 – $81
Vermont VT14$50+5%$43 – $77
Oregon OR51$48+2%$26 – $64
North Dakota ND33$48+1%$12 – $68
Utah UT41$470%$40 – $72
Montana MT34$47−1%$23 – $78
Ohio OH143$47−1%$22 – $77
Kentucky KY69$46−4%$10 – $92
Oklahoma OK72$45−6%$23 – $68
Massachusetts MA53$44−7%$24 – $77
Alabama AL44$44−7%$11 – $131
Missouri MO78$44−7%$23 – $94
West Virginia WV43$44−8%$23 – $68
Maine ME28$43−10%$30 – $96
California CA162$42−11%$6 – $185
Idaho ID25$40−15%$12 – $63
North Carolina NC87$37−22%$14 – $115
Connecticut CT23$35−26%$24 – $59
Indiana IN96$34−28%$14 – $64
Tennessee TN83$32−31%$11 – $81
Pennsylvania PA122$32−32%$11 – $93
Mississippi MS55$29−40%$14 – $52
New York NY107$28−41%$9 – $101
Arkansas AR40$23−51%$8 – $50
Louisiana LA54$23−51%$11 – $70
Florida FL154$22−53%$8 – $324
Michigan MI97$19−60%$8 – $45
Maryland MD41$16−66%$13 – $20
New Jersey NJ57$7−84%$7 – $22
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 $47.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,323$41$13 – $112
Children’s67$47$16 – $112
Critical access993$56$26 – $96
Ownership
For-profit475$67$14 – $256
Government652$50$17 – $96
Non-profit2,256$44$15 – $94
System affiliation
Part of a system2,732$47$15 – $108
Independent661$45$19 – $86

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$76
Median cash price$47
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

2,300 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $47 and the average of the middle 60% is $50; most fall between $16 and $109.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,300 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
$10$20$47$89$150

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $150).

Of the 2,534 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,300 gave a usable cash price; 123 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 111 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,393 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (86%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,699 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,393
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here169
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 — excluded136
Hospitals that filed this code3,699

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 Body Fluid Amylase.

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, “Amylase blood test (CPT 82150) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82150-amylase-blood-test