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Beta-2 microglobulin test

CPT 82232the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of beta-2 microglobulin, a protein shed by cells, in a blood or other body fluid sample.

Hospitals typically charge $69 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,156 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $74. Most fall between $28 and $147 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,156
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 3,156 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
$18$34$69$124$207

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $207).

How the prices are spread

$11 – $15: 96 hospitals$11$15 – $21: 192 hospitals$21 – $30: 254 hospitals$21$30 – $41: 295 hospitals$41 – $57: 339 hospitals$41$57 – $80: 482 hospitals$80 – $111: 445 hospitals$80$111 – $154: 338 hospitals$154 – $214: 273 hospitals$154$214 – $298: 145 hospitals$214median $69price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,859 of 3,156 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$11$1596
$15$21192
$21$30254
$30$41295
$41$57339
$57$80482
$80$111445
$111$154338
$154$214273
$214$298145

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $69.

Alaska: median $118 across 15 hospitalsAK$118Maine: median $77 across 26 hospitalsME$77Vermont: median $163 across 14 hospitalsVT$163New Hampshire: median $88 across 23 hospitalsNH$88Washington: median $91 across 71 hospitalsWA$91Idaho: median $70 across 21 hospitalsID$70Montana: median $82 across 28 hospitalsMT$82North Dakota: median $111 across 33 hospitalsND$111Minnesota: median $71 across 93 hospitalsMN$71Illinois: median $93 across 140 hospitalsIL$93Wisconsin: median $93 across 98 hospitalsWI$93Michigan: median $26 across 97 hospitalsMI$26New York: median $44 across 116 hospitalsNY$44Massachusetts: median $98 across 50 hospitalsMA$98Oregon: median $60 across 47 hospitalsOR$60Nevada: median $88 across 19 hospitalsNV$88Wyoming: median $64 across 16 hospitalsWY$64South Dakota: median $136 across 35 hospitalsSD$136Iowa: median $77 across 83 hospitalsIA$77Indiana: median $75 across 94 hospitalsIN$75Ohio: median $59 across 139 hospitalsOH$59Pennsylvania: median $67 across 120 hospitalsPA$67New Jersey: median $19 across 57 hospitalsNJ$19Connecticut: median $69 across 21 hospitalsCT$69Rhode Island: median $95 across 10 hospitalsRI$95California: median $24 across 144 hospitalsCA$24Utah: median $58 across 40 hospitalsUT$58Colorado: median $73 across 60 hospitalsCO$73Nebraska: median $122 across 73 hospitalsNE$122Missouri: median $86 across 73 hospitalsMO$86Kentucky: median $85 across 63 hospitalsKY$85West Virginia: median $73 across 39 hospitalsWV$73Virginia: median $69 across 71 hospitalsVA$69Maryland: median $40 across 40 hospitalsMD$40Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $94 across 38 hospitalsAZ$94New Mexico: median $98 across 27 hospitalsNM$98Kansas: median $80 across 80 hospitalsKS$80Arkansas: median $44 across 32 hospitalsAR$44Tennessee: median $64 across 78 hospitalsTN$64North Carolina: median $49 across 85 hospitalsNC$49South Carolina: median $112 across 53 hospitalsSC$112Oklahoma: median $61 across 61 hospitalsOK$61Louisiana: median $43 across 48 hospitalsLA$43Mississippi: median $44 across 49 hospitalsMS$44Alabama: median $67 across 42 hospitalsAL$67Georgia: median $69 across 96 hospitalsGA$69Hawaii: median $79 across 15 hospitalsHI$79Texas: median $80 across 228 hospitalsTX$80Florida: median $23 across 148 hospitalsFL$23
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $69. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT14$163+137%$46 – $278
South Dakota SD35$136+97%$66 – $196
Nebraska NE73$122+77%$51 – $168
Alaska AK15$118+71%$48 – $190
South Carolina SC53$112+62%$70 – $130
North Dakota ND33$111+60%$31 – $130
Massachusetts MA50$98+42%$47 – $149
New Mexico NM27$98+42%$59 – $137
Rhode Island RI10$95+38%$37 – $129
Arizona AZ38$94+37%$24 – $233
Wisconsin WI98$93+35%$67 – $155
Illinois IL140$93+34%$53 – $191
Washington WA71$91+32%$58 – $139
New Hampshire NH23$88+28%$50 – $256
Nevada NV19$88+27%$28 – $148
Missouri MO73$86+24%$46 – $145
Kentucky KY63$85+24%$49 – $181
Montana MT28$82+19%$66 – $152
Kansas KS80$80+16%$46 – $126
Texas TX228$80+16%$24 – $288
Hawaii HI15$79+15%$41 – $155
Maine ME26$77+12%$32 – $172
Iowa IA83$77+11%$53 – $110
Indiana IN94$75+9%$36 – $203
Colorado CO60$73+5%$25 – $140
West Virginia WV39$73+5%$11 – $89
Minnesota MN93$71+3%$36 – $166
Idaho ID21$70+1%$14 – $109
Georgia GA96$690%$38 – $155
Connecticut CT21$690%$57 – $135
Virginia VA71$690%$28 – $150
Pennsylvania PA120$67−3%$19 – $190
Alabama AL42$67−3%$28 – $177
Tennessee TN78$64−8%$28 – $142
Wyoming WY16$64−8%$37 – $165
Oklahoma OK61$61−12%$32 – $91
Oregon OR47$60−13%$32 – $96
Ohio OH139$59−14%$28 – $102
Utah UT40$58−16%$49 – $100
North Carolina NC85$49−30%$30 – $109
Arkansas AR32$44−36%$27 – $78
New York NY116$44−36%$19 – $103
Mississippi MS49$44−37%$20 – $74
Louisiana LA48$43−37%$29 – $79
Maryland MD40$40−42%$31 – $49
Michigan MI97$26−62%$9 – $51
California CA144$24−65%$9 – $102
Florida FL148$23−67%$11 – $132
New Jersey NJ57$19−73%$18 – $55
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 $69.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,222$63$24 – $143
Children’s58$60$26 – $152
Critical access866$86$44 – $152
Ownership
For-profit430$88$26 – $284
Government567$73$31 – $135
Non-profit2,149$65$28 – $139
System affiliation
Part of a system2,581$69$28 – $150
Independent575$70$32 – $140

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$120
Median cash price$69
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

2,134 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $69 and the average of the middle 60% is $73; most fall between $29 and $141.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,134 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
$19$35$69$119$194

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $194).

Of the 2,354 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,134 gave a usable cash price; 112 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 108 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,156 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (80%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,434 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,156
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here153
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 — excluded123
Hospitals that filed this code3,434

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 Other Laboratory family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Beta 2 Microglobulin-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, “Beta-2 microglobulin test (CPT 82232) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82232-beta-2-microglobulin-test