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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Vitamin C blood test

CPT 82180the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of ascorbic acid, known as vitamin C, in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $53 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,833 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $57. Most fall between $22 and $107 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,833
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 2,833 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
$15$27$53$94$154

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $154).

How the prices are spread

$11 – $15: 159 hospitals$11$15 – $21: 234 hospitals$21 – $28: 213 hospitals$21$28 – $39: 322 hospitals$39 – $54: 366 hospitals$39$54 – $74: 364 hospitals$74 – $101: 418 hospitals$74$101 – $139: 265 hospitals$139 – $192: 151 hospitals$139$192 – $264: 65 hospitals$192median $53price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,557 of 2,833 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$11$15159
$15$21234
$21$28213
$28$39322
$39$54366
$54$74364
$74$101418
$101$139265
$139$192151
$192$26465

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $53.

Alaska: median $67 across 17 hospitalsAK$67Maine: median $57 across 25 hospitalsME$57Vermont: median $131 across 12 hospitalsVT$131New Hampshire: median $57 across 22 hospitalsNH$57Washington: median $45 across 59 hospitalsWA$45Idaho: median $41 across 19 hospitalsID$41Montana: median $72 across 16 hospitalsMT$72North Dakota: median $42 across 21 hospitalsND$42Minnesota: median $59 across 87 hospitalsMN$59Illinois: median $68 across 123 hospitalsIL$68Wisconsin: median $70 across 98 hospitalsWI$70Michigan: median $24 across 71 hospitalsMI$24New York: median $42 across 102 hospitalsNY$42Massachusetts: median $63 across 51 hospitalsMA$63Oregon: median $40 across 44 hospitalsOR$40Nevada: median $52 across 17 hospitalsNV$52Wyoming: median $46 across 12 hospitalsWY$46South Dakota: median $113 across 16 hospitalsSD$113Iowa: median $61 across 67 hospitalsIA$61Indiana: median $61 across 92 hospitalsIN$61Ohio: median $44 across 126 hospitalsOH$44Pennsylvania: median $50 across 118 hospitalsPA$50New Jersey: median $11 across 53 hospitalsNJ$11Connecticut: median $41 across 15 hospitalsCT$41Rhode Island: median $75 across 10 hospitalsRI$75California: median $18 across 107 hospitalsCA$18Utah: median $105 across 38 hospitalsUT$105Colorado: median $105 across 53 hospitalsCO$105Nebraska: median $91 across 55 hospitalsNE$91Missouri: median $68 across 67 hospitalsMO$68Kentucky: median $79 across 63 hospitalsKY$79West Virginia: median $33 across 39 hospitalsWV$33Virginia: median $39 across 61 hospitalsVA$39Maryland: median $68 across 41 hospitalsMD$68Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $43 across 36 hospitalsAZ$43New Mexico: median $93 across 18 hospitalsNM$93Kansas: median $68 across 60 hospitalsKS$68Arkansas: median $25 across 36 hospitalsAR$25Tennessee: median $39 across 76 hospitalsTN$39North Carolina: median $35 across 84 hospitalsNC$35South Carolina: median $85 across 50 hospitalsSC$85Oklahoma: median $55 across 63 hospitalsOK$55Louisiana: median $40 across 47 hospitalsLA$40Mississippi: median $34 across 48 hospitalsMS$34Alabama: median $42 across 36 hospitalsAL$42Georgia: median $46 across 92 hospitalsGA$46Hawaii: median $112 across 14 hospitalsHI$112Texas: median $82 across 213 hospitalsTX$82Florida: median $27 across 137 hospitalsFL$27
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $53. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT12$131+147%$69 – $284
South Dakota SD16$113+113%$92 – $184
Hawaii HI14$112+112%$49 – $138
Utah UT38$105+98%$74 – $123
Colorado CO53$105+98%$49 – $336
New Mexico NM18$93+75%$33 – $184
Nebraska NE55$91+72%$47 – $133
South Carolina SC50$85+61%$39 – $104
Texas TX213$82+55%$38 – $155
Kentucky KY63$79+49%$30 – $130
Rhode Island RI10$75+42%$37 – $80
Montana MT16$72+36%$34 – $187
Wisconsin WI98$70+32%$42 – $126
Kansas KS60$68+28%$34 – $107
Missouri MO67$68+28%$39 – $100
Maryland MD41$68+28%$50 – $81
Illinois IL123$68+28%$42 – $143
Alaska AK17$67+27%$54 – $133
Massachusetts MA51$63+19%$29 – $112
Iowa IA67$61+15%$34 – $83
Indiana IN92$61+15%$22 – $121
Minnesota MN87$59+12%$26 – $110
New Hampshire NH22$57+8%$39 – $179
Maine ME25$57+7%$24 – $77
Oklahoma OK63$55+3%$28 – $99
Nevada NV17$52−2%$11 – $117
Pennsylvania PA118$50−6%$15 – $123
Georgia GA92$46−13%$32 – $103
Wyoming WY12$46−13%$38 – $92
Washington WA59$45−15%$36 – $76
Ohio OH126$44−17%$32 – $72
Arizona AZ36$43−19%$15 – $66
New York NY102$42−20%$15 – $108
Alabama AL36$42−21%$16 – $236
North Dakota ND21$42−22%$17 – $89
Idaho ID19$41−22%$29 – $94
Connecticut CT15$41−23%$25 – $53
Oregon OR44$40−25%$28 – $77
Louisiana LA47$40−25%$17 – $86
Tennessee TN76$39−26%$30 – $89
Virginia VA61$39−27%$17 – $135
North Carolina NC84$35−35%$19 – $105
Mississippi MS48$34−36%$19 – $66
West Virginia WV39$33−38%$7 – $101
Florida FL137$27−48%$12 – $56
Arkansas AR36$25−52%$15 – $58
Michigan MI71$24−55%$12 – $72
California CA107$18−65%$12 – $42
New Jersey NJ53$11−79%$10 – $40
Delaware DE6not 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 $53.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,056$49$20 – $105
Children’s61$59$25 – $94
Critical access706$66$31 – $115
Ownership
For-profit398$65$17 – $199
Government485$58$29 – $105
Non-profit1,940$51$22 – $100
System affiliation
Part of a system2,343$53$21 – $110
Independent490$54$26 – $98

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$89
Median cash price$53
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

1,938 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $55 and the average of the middle 60% is $59; most fall between $25 and $105.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,938 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$30$55$93$146

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $146).

Of the 2,139 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,938 gave a usable cash price; 105 carried a plausibility flag, 1 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

2,833 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (72%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,094 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,833
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here145
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded113
Hospitals that filed this code3,094

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 Vitamin C.

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, “Vitamin C blood test (CPT 82180) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82180-vitamin-c-blood-test