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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Total bile acids blood test

CPT 82239the billing code this page is about

Measures the combined level of bile acids in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $61 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,519 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $65. Most fall between $28 and $124 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,519
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 2,519 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$61$108$184

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $184).

How the prices are spread

$13 – $18: 135 hospitals$13$18 – $24: 174 hospitals$24 – $32: 220 hospitals$24$32 – $44: 242 hospitals$44 – $60: 346 hospitals$44$60 – $81: 370 hospitals$81 – $110: 303 hospitals$81$110 – $149: 256 hospitals$149 – $201: 140 hospitals$149$201 – $273: 85 hospitals$201median $61price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,271 of 2,519 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$13$18135
$18$24174
$24$32220
$32$44242
$44$60346
$60$81370
$81$110303
$110$149256
$149$201140
$201$27385

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $61.

Alaska: median $106 across 15 hospitalsAK$106Maine: median $169 across 11 hospitalsME$169Vermont: median $92 across 10 hospitalsVT$92New Hampshire: median $62 across 17 hospitalsNH$62Washington: median $72 across 64 hospitalsWA$72Idaho: median $61 across 12 hospitalsID$61Montana: median $79 across 17 hospitalsMT$79North Dakota: median $51 across 25 hospitalsND$51Minnesota: median $58 across 92 hospitalsMN$58Illinois: median $79 across 107 hospitalsIL$79Wisconsin: median $95 across 93 hospitalsWI$95Michigan: median $24 across 66 hospitalsMI$24New York: median $35 across 92 hospitalsNY$35Massachusetts: median $75 across 44 hospitalsMA$75Oregon: median $55 across 42 hospitalsOR$55Nevada: median $84 across 16 hospitalsNV$84Wyoming: median $58 across 12 hospitalsWY$58South Dakota: median $71 across 23 hospitalsSD$71Iowa: median $64 across 74 hospitalsIA$64Indiana: median $48 across 77 hospitalsIN$48Ohio: median $59 across 127 hospitalsOH$59Pennsylvania: median $48 across 72 hospitalsPA$48New Jersey: median $19 across 44 hospitalsNJ$19Connecticut: median $73 across 13 hospitalsCT$73Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $28 across 95 hospitalsCA$28Utah: median $65 across 40 hospitalsUT$65Colorado: median $68 across 54 hospitalsCO$68Nebraska: median $73 across 58 hospitalsNE$73Missouri: median $52 across 60 hospitalsMO$52Kentucky: median $104 across 58 hospitalsKY$104West Virginia: median $51 across 32 hospitalsWV$51Virginia: median $79 across 66 hospitalsVA$79Maryland: median $61 across 34 hospitalsMD$61Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $49 across 26 hospitalsAZ$49New Mexico: median $53 across 21 hospitalsNM$53Kansas: median $108 across 44 hospitalsKS$108Arkansas: median $51 across 19 hospitalsAR$51Tennessee: median $31 across 59 hospitalsTN$31North Carolina: median $55 across 76 hospitalsNC$55South Carolina: median $88 across 48 hospitalsSC$88Oklahoma: median $52 across 55 hospitalsOK$52Louisiana: median $42 across 37 hospitalsLA$42Mississippi: median $33 across 36 hospitalsMS$33Alabama: median $47 across 31 hospitalsAL$47Georgia: median $81 across 78 hospitalsGA$81Hawaii: median $86 across 12 hospitalsHI$86Texas: median $102 across 196 hospitalsTX$102Florida: median $20 across 105 hospitalsFL$20
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $61. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maine ME11$169+179%$75 – $326
Kansas KS44$108+79%$66 – $180
Alaska AK15$106+75%$49 – $165
Kentucky KY58$104+71%$38 – $187
Texas TX196$102+68%$32 – $184
Wisconsin WI93$95+57%$54 – $156
Vermont VT10$92+52%$69 – $133
South Carolina SC48$88+45%$52 – $120
Hawaii HI12$86+43%$51 – $182
Nevada NV16$84+39%$30 – $170
Georgia GA78$81+33%$33 – $175
Illinois IL107$79+31%$33 – $129
Montana MT17$79+31%$51 – $120
Virginia VA66$79+30%$29 – $151
Massachusetts MA44$75+24%$55 – $154
Nebraska NE58$73+21%$33 – $143
Connecticut CT13$73+21%$43 – $92
Washington WA64$72+19%$46 – $124
South Dakota SD23$71+18%$51 – $172
Colorado CO54$68+12%$30 – $131
Utah UT40$65+8%$55 – $124
Iowa IA74$64+6%$48 – $99
New Hampshire NH17$62+3%$48 – $223
Maryland MD34$61+1%$50 – $80
Idaho ID12$610%$55 – $95
Ohio OH127$59−3%$38 – $94
Minnesota MN92$58−5%$22 – $120
Wyoming WY12$58−5%$40 – $83
North Carolina NC76$55−9%$38 – $122
Oregon OR42$55−10%$29 – $96
New Mexico NM21$53−13%$43 – $81
Missouri MO60$52−14%$30 – $77
Oklahoma OK55$52−14%$30 – $82
North Dakota ND25$51−15%$30 – $105
Arkansas AR19$51−16%$21 – $64
West Virginia WV32$51−16%$16 – $110
Arizona AZ26$49−19%$20 – $83
Indiana IN77$48−21%$27 – $104
Pennsylvania PA72$48−21%$20 – $201
Alabama AL31$47−22%$28 – $91
Louisiana LA37$42−31%$26 – $67
New York NY92$35−42%$18 – $74
Mississippi MS36$33−46%$15 – $51
Tennessee TN59$31−48%$28 – $79
California CA95$28−54%$9 – $59
Michigan MI66$24−61%$12 – $59
Florida FL105$20−67%$10 – $85
New Jersey NJ44$19−69%$17 – $65
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $61.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,821$56$23 – $122
Children’s41$43$24 – $179
Critical access649$68$39 – $127
Ownership
For-profit348$66$23 – $217
Government436$60$30 – $112
Non-profit1,727$60$28 – $119
System affiliation
Part of a system2,121$60$27 – $125
Independent398$62$30 – $117

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$98
Median cash price$61
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

1,725 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $62 and the average of the middle 60% is $66; most fall between $29 and $123.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,725 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
$20$33$62$107$160

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $160).

Of the 1,906 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,725 gave a usable cash price; 98 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 83 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,519 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (64%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,739 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,519
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here128
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded90
Hospitals that filed this code2,739

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 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 BILE ACIDS TOTAL.

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, “Total bile acids blood test (CPT 82239) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82239-total-bile-acids-blood-test