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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Bile acid test for cholylglycine

CPT 82240the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of cholylglycine, one specific bile acid, in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $65 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 350 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $88. Most fall between $29 and $206 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
350
States
36
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 350 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
$26$31$65$204$291

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($26 vs $291).

How the prices are spread

$19 – $27: 41 hospitals$19$27 – $38: 59 hospitals$38 – $53: 28 hospitals$38$53 – $75: 39 hospitals$75 – $105: 19 hospitals$75$105 – $148: 51 hospitals$148 – $208: 30 hospitals$148$208 – $292: 31 hospitals$292 – $411: 10 hospitals$292$411 – $578: 11 hospitals$411median $65price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (319 of 350 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$19$2741
$27$3859
$38$5328
$53$7539
$75$10519
$105$14851
$148$20830
$208$29231
$292$41110
$411$57811

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $65.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $94 across 18 hospitalsIL$94Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $32 across 30 hospitalsNY$32Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $54 across 11 hospitalsIA$54Indiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $31 across 27 hospitalsPA$31New Jersey: median $29 across 25 hospitalsNJ$29Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $249 across 39 hospitalsCA$249Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: median $33 across 13 hospitalsTN$33North Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $47 across 12 hospitalsOK$47Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $56 across 13 hospitalsMS$56Alabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $204 across 10 hospitalsGA$204Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $147 across 53 hospitalsTX$147Florida: median $31 across 24 hospitalsFL$31
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $65. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA39$249+283%$206 – $270
Georgia GA10$204+214%$204 – $204
Texas TX53$147+126%$57 – $431
Illinois IL18$94+45%$20 – $321
Mississippi MS13$56−14%$32 – $84
Iowa IA11$54−18%$54 – $54
Oklahoma OK12$47−28%$47 – $47
Tennessee TN13$33−49%$31 – $35
New York NY30$32−51%$27 – $65
Florida FL24$31−52%$11 – $123
Pennsylvania PA27$31−53%$18 – $578
New Jersey NJ25$29−55%$27 – $29
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $65.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care312$64$29 – $206
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access33$79$33 – $192
Ownership
For-profit56$123$26 – $525
Government44$33$27 – $88
Non-profit249$65$31 – $206
System affiliation
Part of a system303$62$29 – $206
Independent47$69$31 – $145

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$192
Median cash price$65
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

231 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $112 and the average of the middle 60% is $117; most fall between $45 and $239.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 231 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
$31$47$112$206$270

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($31 vs $270).

Of the 247 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 231 gave a usable cash price; 6 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

350 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 368 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted350
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here8
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 — excluded9
Hospitals that filed this code368

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 Hc Bile Acids Cholylglycine.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Bile acid test for cholylglycine (CPT 82240) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82240-bile-acid-test-for-cholylglycine