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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Apolipoprotein blood test, each protein measured

CPT 82172the billing code this page is about

Measures one apolipoprotein, a protein that carries cholesterol and fat in the blood; the charge applies to each apolipoprotein tested, so a ratio of two involves two units.

Hospitals typically charge $50 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,042 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $55. Most fall between $23 and $106 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,042
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 3,042 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
$14$27$50$93$155

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $155).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $13: 109 hospitals$10$13 – $18: 171 hospitals$18 – $25: 231 hospitals$18$25 – $34: 289 hospitals$34 – $46: 419 hospitals$34$46 – $63: 443 hospitals$63 – $86: 393 hospitals$63$86 – $117: 312 hospitals$117 – $160: 231 hospitals$117$160 – $219: 141 hospitals$160median $50price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,739 of 3,042 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$13109
$13$18171
$18$25231
$25$34289
$34$46419
$46$63443
$63$86393
$86$117312
$117$160231
$160$219141

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $50.

Alaska: median $80 across 16 hospitalsAK$80Maine: median $56 across 27 hospitalsME$56Vermont: median $97 across 13 hospitalsVT$97New Hampshire: median $64 across 25 hospitalsNH$64Washington: median $71 across 74 hospitalsWA$71Idaho: median $56 across 21 hospitalsID$56Montana: median $55 across 27 hospitalsMT$55North Dakota: median $68 across 27 hospitalsND$68Minnesota: median $53 across 89 hospitalsMN$53Illinois: median $75 across 134 hospitalsIL$75Wisconsin: median $70 across 98 hospitalsWI$70Michigan: median $29 across 78 hospitalsMI$29New York: median $37 across 104 hospitalsNY$37Massachusetts: median $91 across 52 hospitalsMA$91Oregon: median $58 across 47 hospitalsOR$58Nevada: median $64 across 19 hospitalsNV$64Wyoming: median $45 across 13 hospitalsWY$45South Dakota: median $57 across 18 hospitalsSD$57Iowa: median $64 across 75 hospitalsIA$64Indiana: median $44 across 92 hospitalsIN$44Ohio: median $60 across 133 hospitalsOH$60Pennsylvania: median $58 across 120 hospitalsPA$58New Jersey: median $23 across 56 hospitalsNJ$23Connecticut: median $83 across 15 hospitalsCT$83Rhode Island: median $57 across 10 hospitalsRI$57California: median $20 across 132 hospitalsCA$20Utah: median $62 across 40 hospitalsUT$62Colorado: median $67 across 63 hospitalsCO$67Nebraska: median $82 across 64 hospitalsNE$82Missouri: median $56 across 71 hospitalsMO$56Kentucky: median $63 across 64 hospitalsKY$63West Virginia: median $38 across 41 hospitalsWV$38Virginia: median $58 across 73 hospitalsVA$58Maryland: median $40 across 40 hospitalsMD$40Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $59 across 39 hospitalsAZ$59New Mexico: median $73 across 23 hospitalsNM$73Kansas: median $60 across 72 hospitalsKS$60Arkansas: median $40 across 27 hospitalsAR$40Tennessee: median $35 across 77 hospitalsTN$35North Carolina: median $46 across 84 hospitalsNC$46South Carolina: median $73 across 51 hospitalsSC$73Oklahoma: median $36 across 69 hospitalsOK$36Louisiana: median $39 across 49 hospitalsLA$39Mississippi: median $26 across 48 hospitalsMS$26Alabama: median $47 across 40 hospitalsAL$47Georgia: median $50 across 95 hospitalsGA$50Hawaii: median $106 across 14 hospitalsHI$106Texas: median $41 across 229 hospitalsTX$41Florida: median $17 across 147 hospitalsFL$17
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $50. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Hawaii HI14$106+111%$40 – $129
Vermont VT13$97+93%$50 – $123
Massachusetts MA52$91+80%$50 – $123
Connecticut CT15$83+64%$56 – $94
Nebraska NE64$82+62%$31 – $138
Alaska AK16$80+58%$54 – $141
Illinois IL134$75+49%$39 – $118
New Mexico NM23$73+45%$48 – $139
South Carolina SC51$73+45%$41 – $137
Washington WA74$71+41%$30 – $112
Wisconsin WI98$70+39%$48 – $109
North Dakota ND27$68+35%$38 – $169
Colorado CO63$67+33%$33 – $111
Iowa IA75$64+28%$42 – $120
New Hampshire NH25$64+28%$21 – $167
Nevada NV19$64+27%$19 – $105
Kentucky KY64$63+25%$31 – $166
Utah UT40$62+22%$45 – $72
Kansas KS72$60+20%$36 – $101
Ohio OH133$60+19%$45 – $95
Arizona AZ39$59+16%$23 – $119
Pennsylvania PA120$58+16%$24 – $205
Virginia VA73$58+15%$27 – $142
Oregon OR47$58+15%$30 – $87
Rhode Island RI10$57+14%$36 – $125
South Dakota SD18$57+13%$41 – $85
Maine ME27$56+11%$18 – $105
Missouri MO71$56+11%$38 – $107
Idaho ID21$56+11%$15 – $85
Montana MT27$55+9%$42 – $97
Minnesota MN89$53+5%$29 – $83
Georgia GA95$50−1%$32 – $85
Alabama AL40$47−7%$21 – $126
North Carolina NC84$46−9%$16 – $74
Wyoming WY13$45−11%$36 – $84
Indiana IN92$44−13%$27 – $71
Texas TX229$41−19%$13 – $133
Arkansas AR27$40−21%$24 – $93
Maryland MD40$40−21%$31 – $49
Louisiana LA49$39−23%$20 – $66
West Virginia WV41$38−25%$4 – $85
New York NY104$37−27%$21 – $95
Oklahoma OK69$36−29%$25 – $81
Tennessee TN77$35−30%$26 – $71
Michigan MI78$29−42%$14 – $45
Mississippi MS48$26−48%$19 – $47
New Jersey NJ56$23−54%$21 – $38
California CA132$20−61%$8 – $81
Florida FL147$17−66%$10 – $70
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 $50.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,168$46$21 – $101
Children’s55$65$24 – $122
Critical access809$62$35 – $116
Ownership
For-profit434$57$17 – $162
Government533$50$25 – $97
Non-profit2,065$50$24 – $102
System affiliation
Part of a system2,488$51$23 – $108
Independent554$50$25 – $97

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$87
Median cash price$50
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

2,062 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $50 and the average of the middle 60% is $54; most fall between $24 and $99.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,062 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
$14$29$50$87$142

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $142).

Of the 2,277 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,062 gave a usable cash price; 114 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 101 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,042 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (77%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,319 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,042
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here159
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded116
Hospitals that filed this code3,319

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 Apolipoproteins A1.

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, “Apolipoprotein blood test, each protein measured (CPT 82172) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82172-apolipoprotein-blood-test-each-protein-measured