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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Androstenedione blood test

CPT 82157the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of androstenedione, a hormone that the body converts into testosterone and estrogen, in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $105 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,872 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $111. Most fall between $41 and $219 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,872
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 2,872 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
$26$50$105$189$305

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($26 vs $305).

How the prices are spread

$18 – $25: 129 hospitals$18$25 – $34: 193 hospitals$34 – $47: 205 hospitals$34$47 – $65: 263 hospitals$65 – $89: 328 hospitals$65$89 – $123: 389 hospitals$123 – $169: 397 hospitals$123$169 – $233: 314 hospitals$233 – $321: 249 hospitals$233$321 – $442: 134 hospitals$321median $105price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,601 of 2,872 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$18$25129
$25$34193
$34$47205
$47$65263
$65$89328
$89$123389
$123$169397
$169$233314
$233$321249
$321$442134

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $105.

Alaska: median $142 across 18 hospitalsAK$142Maine: median $130 across 27 hospitalsME$130Vermont: median $262 across 14 hospitalsVT$262New Hampshire: median $177 across 21 hospitalsNH$177Washington: median $129 across 65 hospitalsWA$129Idaho: median $73 across 20 hospitalsID$73Montana: median $146 across 21 hospitalsMT$146North Dakota: median $128 across 27 hospitalsND$128Minnesota: median $70 across 80 hospitalsMN$70Illinois: median $125 across 131 hospitalsIL$125Wisconsin: median $167 across 96 hospitalsWI$167Michigan: median $25 across 76 hospitalsMI$25New York: median $93 across 105 hospitalsNY$93Massachusetts: median $155 across 51 hospitalsMA$155Oregon: median $89 across 43 hospitalsOR$89Nevada: median $167 across 17 hospitalsNV$167Wyoming: median $105 across 15 hospitalsWY$105South Dakota: median $126 across 25 hospitalsSD$126Iowa: median $114 across 76 hospitalsIA$114Indiana: median $122 across 92 hospitalsIN$122Ohio: median $94 across 132 hospitalsOH$94Pennsylvania: median $122 across 120 hospitalsPA$122New Jersey: median $34 across 56 hospitalsNJ$34Connecticut: median $109 across 17 hospitalsCT$109Rhode Island: median $116 across 10 hospitalsRI$116California: median $41 across 108 hospitalsCA$41Utah: median $152 across 40 hospitalsUT$152Colorado: median $158 across 54 hospitalsCO$158Nebraska: median $166 across 61 hospitalsNE$166Missouri: median $111 across 67 hospitalsMO$111Kentucky: median $115 across 61 hospitalsKY$115West Virginia: median $95 across 38 hospitalsWV$95Virginia: median $122 across 59 hospitalsVA$122Maryland: median $60 across 36 hospitalsMD$60Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $97 across 37 hospitalsAZ$97New Mexico: median $132 across 22 hospitalsNM$132Kansas: median $162 across 62 hospitalsKS$162Arkansas: median $56 across 31 hospitalsAR$56Tennessee: median $86 across 69 hospitalsTN$86North Carolina: median $66 across 79 hospitalsNC$66South Carolina: median $211 across 52 hospitalsSC$211Oklahoma: median $77 across 57 hospitalsOK$77Louisiana: median $73 across 49 hospitalsLA$73Mississippi: median $67 across 49 hospitalsMS$67Alabama: median $70 across 42 hospitalsAL$70Georgia: median $72 across 87 hospitalsGA$72Hawaii: median $132 across 11 hospitalsHI$132Texas: median $140 across 204 hospitalsTX$140Florida: median $31 across 135 hospitalsFL$31
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $105. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT14$262+149%$83 – $425
South Carolina SC52$211+100%$118 – $271
New Hampshire NH21$177+68%$38 – $396
Nevada NV17$167+59%$42 – $324
Wisconsin WI96$167+59%$103 – $277
Nebraska NE61$166+57%$76 – $256
Kansas KS62$162+53%$103 – $229
Colorado CO54$158+50%$73 – $208
Massachusetts MA51$155+47%$91 – $257
Utah UT40$152+44%$115 – $201
Montana MT21$146+38%$75 – $213
Alaska AK18$142+35%$51 – $267
Texas TX204$140+33%$71 – $278
Hawaii HI11$132+25%$34 – $314
New Mexico NM22$132+25%$95 – $202
Maine ME27$130+23%$60 – $224
Washington WA65$129+22%$69 – $208
North Dakota ND27$128+21%$53 – $203
South Dakota SD25$126+20%$69 – $299
Illinois IL131$125+19%$92 – $288
Virginia VA59$122+16%$42 – $292
Indiana IN92$122+16%$47 – $216
Pennsylvania PA120$122+15%$44 – $344
Rhode Island RI10$116+10%$68 – $233
Kentucky KY61$115+9%$54 – $336
Iowa IA76$114+9%$55 – $157
Missouri MO67$111+5%$65 – $205
Connecticut CT17$109+4%$71 – $157
Wyoming WY15$1050%$54 – $178
Arizona AZ37$97−8%$41 – $210
West Virginia WV38$95−10%$18 – $189
Ohio OH132$94−11%$56 – $196
New York NY105$93−12%$32 – $186
Oregon OR43$89−15%$32 – $173
Tennessee TN69$86−19%$41 – $241
Oklahoma OK57$77−27%$51 – $124
Louisiana LA49$73−30%$51 – $105
Idaho ID20$73−31%$36 – $139
Georgia GA87$72−31%$54 – $201
Alabama AL42$70−33%$39 – $205
Minnesota MN80$70−34%$40 – $256
Mississippi MS49$67−36%$31 – $133
North Carolina NC79$66−37%$45 – $237
Maryland MD36$60−43%$26 – $78
Arkansas AR31$56−47%$19 – $115
California CA108$41−61%$16 – $92
New Jersey NJ56$34−68%$29 – $138
Florida FL135$31−71%$15 – $101
Michigan MI76$25−76%$18 – $68
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 $105.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,055$99$34 – $207
Children’s63$148$36 – $266
Critical access744$125$57 – $230
Ownership
For-profit387$131$41 – $352
Government495$102$39 – $192
Non-profit1,980$103$42 – $209
System affiliation
Part of a system2,356$104$40 – $228
Independent516$108$49 – $193

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$179
Median cash price$105
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

1,961 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $106 and the average of the middle 60% is $113; most fall between $45 and $211.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,961 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$53$106$186$284

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($29 vs $284).

Of the 2,160 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,961 gave a usable cash price; 104 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 95 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,872 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (73%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,124 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,872
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here141
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 — excluded110
Hospitals that filed this code3,124

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 Androstenedione.

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, “Androstenedione blood test (CPT 82157) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82157-androstenedione-blood-test