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Procedure price report · Microscopic examination (bacterial smear, culture, toxicology)

Arsenic level test

CPT 82175the billing code this page is about

Measures the amount of arsenic in a blood, urine, or other specimen.

Hospitals typically charge $66 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,064 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $70. Most fall between $26 and $137 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,064
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 3,064 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
$17$31$66$118$204

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $204).

How the prices are spread

$11 – $15: 111 hospitals$11$15 – $20: 196 hospitals$20 – $28: 233 hospitals$20$28 – $39: 321 hospitals$39 – $54: 289 hospitals$39$54 – $74: 405 hospitals$74 – $103: 412 hospitals$74$103 – $142: 411 hospitals$142 – $196: 208 hospitals$142$196 – $271: 172 hospitals$196median $66price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,758 of 3,064 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$11$15111
$15$20196
$20$28233
$28$39321
$39$54289
$54$74405
$74$103412
$103$142411
$142$196208
$196$271172

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $66.

Alaska: median $73 across 18 hospitalsAK$73Maine: median $60 across 28 hospitalsME$60Vermont: median $105 across 14 hospitalsVT$105New Hampshire: median $97 across 24 hospitalsNH$97Washington: median $71 across 71 hospitalsWA$71Idaho: median $60 across 21 hospitalsID$60Montana: median $78 across 29 hospitalsMT$78North Dakota: median $74 across 28 hospitalsND$74Minnesota: median $50 across 93 hospitalsMN$50Illinois: median $84 across 131 hospitalsIL$84Wisconsin: median $77 across 99 hospitalsWI$77Michigan: median $10 across 78 hospitalsMI$10New York: median $46 across 102 hospitalsNY$46Massachusetts: median $93 across 51 hospitalsMA$93Oregon: median $53 across 43 hospitalsOR$53Nevada: median $100 across 19 hospitalsNV$100Wyoming: median $75 across 16 hospitalsWY$75South Dakota: median $67 across 29 hospitalsSD$67Iowa: median $69 across 73 hospitalsIA$69Indiana: median $66 across 96 hospitalsIN$66Ohio: median $60 across 136 hospitalsOH$60Pennsylvania: median $88 across 118 hospitalsPA$88New Jersey: median $22 across 55 hospitalsNJ$22Connecticut: median $80 across 18 hospitalsCT$80Rhode Island: median $80 across 10 hospitalsRI$80California: median $23 across 114 hospitalsCA$23Utah: median $71 across 41 hospitalsUT$71Colorado: median $103 across 57 hospitalsCO$103Nebraska: median $113 across 67 hospitalsNE$113Missouri: median $80 across 71 hospitalsMO$80Kentucky: median $78 across 65 hospitalsKY$78West Virginia: median $48 across 37 hospitalsWV$48Virginia: median $106 across 73 hospitalsVA$106Maryland: median $110 across 40 hospitalsMD$110Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $96 across 39 hospitalsAZ$96New Mexico: median $87 across 26 hospitalsNM$87Kansas: median $90 across 73 hospitalsKS$90Arkansas: median $34 across 38 hospitalsAR$34Tennessee: median $44 across 79 hospitalsTN$44North Carolina: median $46 across 88 hospitalsNC$46South Carolina: median $109 across 51 hospitalsSC$109Oklahoma: median $83 across 67 hospitalsOK$83Louisiana: median $43 across 49 hospitalsLA$43Mississippi: median $40 across 55 hospitalsMS$40Alabama: median $70 across 42 hospitalsAL$70Georgia: median $94 across 99 hospitalsGA$94Hawaii: median $95 across 16 hospitalsHI$95Texas: median $69 across 221 hospitalsTX$69Florida: median $22 across 149 hospitalsFL$22
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $66. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Nebraska NE67$113+73%$39 – $159
Maryland MD40$110+67%$80 – $130
South Carolina SC51$109+65%$38 – $124
Virginia VA73$106+61%$33 – $178
Vermont VT14$105+60%$44 – $153
Colorado CO57$103+56%$39 – $210
Nevada NV19$100+52%$30 – $207
New Hampshire NH24$97+48%$17 – $348
Arizona AZ39$96+46%$30 – $169
Hawaii HI16$95+45%$27 – $188
Georgia GA99$94+42%$43 – $181
Massachusetts MA51$93+42%$52 – $172
Kansas KS73$90+37%$50 – $134
Pennsylvania PA118$88+34%$22 – $216
New Mexico NM26$87+32%$53 – $150
Illinois IL131$84+28%$48 – $178
Oklahoma OK67$83+27%$47 – $103
Connecticut CT18$80+22%$48 – $115
Rhode Island RI10$80+22%$44 – $152
Missouri MO71$80+22%$37 – $114
Montana MT29$78+19%$41 – $131
Kentucky KY65$78+19%$37 – $238
Wisconsin WI99$77+18%$62 – $159
Wyoming WY16$75+14%$34 – $101
North Dakota ND28$74+13%$20 – $134
Alaska AK18$73+11%$21 – $142
Utah UT41$71+9%$61 – $122
Washington WA71$71+8%$34 – $114
Alabama AL42$70+6%$25 – $134
Iowa IA73$69+5%$32 – $110
Texas TX221$69+5%$26 – $239
South Dakota SD29$67+2%$34 – $216
Indiana IN96$66+1%$34 – $104
Idaho ID21$60−8%$15 – $83
Ohio OH136$60−9%$31 – $85
Maine ME28$60−9%$30 – $126
Oregon OR43$53−19%$23 – $106
Minnesota MN93$50−23%$25 – $133
West Virginia WV37$48−27%$10 – $90
New York NY102$46−30%$19 – $112
North Carolina NC88$46−30%$28 – $112
Tennessee TN79$44−32%$33 – $156
Louisiana LA49$43−35%$22 – $65
Mississippi MS55$40−40%$19 – $72
Arkansas AR38$34−48%$28 – $89
California CA114$23−65%$11 – $46
Florida FL149$22−67%$8 – $65
New Jersey NJ55$22−67%$21 – $39
Michigan MI78$10−84%$6 – $50
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 $66.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,167$61$22 – $134
Children’s50$52$23 – $141
Critical access837$79$35 – $139
Ownership
For-profit426$82$27 – $237
Government553$70$28 – $131
Non-profit2,075$64$25 – $125
System affiliation
Part of a system2,500$65$24 – $137
Independent564$70$30 – $124

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$110
Median cash price$66
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

2,075 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $66 and the average of the middle 60% is $69; most fall between $27 and $131.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,075 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
$17$33$66$113$187

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $187).

Of the 2,291 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,075 gave a usable cash price; 112 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 103 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,064 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 3,341 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,064
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here157
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 — excluded119
Hospitals that filed this code3,341

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 Microscopic examination (bacterial smear, culture, toxicology) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Arsenic Fractionation Random Urine.

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, “Arsenic level test (CPT 82175) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82175-arsenic-level-test