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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Stool test for hidden blood, colon cancer screening

CPT 82270the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test for hidden blood in stool using three cards the patient collects at home on consecutive days, done to screen for colorectal growths; the single fee covers all three specimens.

Hospitals typically charge $25 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,837 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $27. Most fall between $11 and $52 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,837
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 2,837 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
$7$13$25$44$81

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7 vs $81).

How the prices are spread

$5 – $7: 127 hospitals$5$7 – $9: 189 hospitals$9 – $13: 222 hospitals$9$13 – $18: 337 hospitals$18 – $25: 375 hospitals$18$25 – $34: 455 hospitals$34 – $48: 367 hospitals$34$48 – $67: 241 hospitals$67 – $93: 159 hospitals$67$93 – $130: 83 hospitals$93median $25price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,555 of 2,837 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$5$7127
$7$9189
$9$13222
$13$18337
$18$25375
$25$34455
$34$48367
$48$67241
$67$93159
$93$13083

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $25.

Alaska: median $52 across 15 hospitalsAK$52Maine: median $21 across 25 hospitalsME$21Vermont: median $20 across 10 hospitalsVT$20New Hampshire: median $23 across 18 hospitalsNH$23Washington: median $22 across 73 hospitalsWA$22Idaho: median $26 across 21 hospitalsID$26Montana: median $29 across 29 hospitalsMT$29North Dakota: median $27 across 30 hospitalsND$27Minnesota: median $35 across 55 hospitalsMN$35Illinois: median $37 across 126 hospitalsIL$37Wisconsin: median $23 across 77 hospitalsWI$23Michigan: median $17 across 93 hospitalsMI$17New York: median $14 across 99 hospitalsNY$14Massachusetts: median $23 across 44 hospitalsMA$23Oregon: median $30 across 45 hospitalsOR$30Nevada: median $28 across 20 hospitalsNV$28Wyoming: median $17 across 15 hospitalsWY$17South Dakota: median $54 across 25 hospitalsSD$54Iowa: median $32 across 80 hospitalsIA$32Indiana: median $21 across 85 hospitalsIN$21Ohio: median $26 across 128 hospitalsOH$26Pennsylvania: median $16 across 113 hospitalsPA$16New Jersey: median $5 across 53 hospitalsNJ$5Connecticut: median $18 across 19 hospitalsCT$18Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $52 across 148 hospitalsCA$52Utah: median $59 across 36 hospitalsUT$59Colorado: median $25 across 64 hospitalsCO$25Nebraska: median $28 across 71 hospitalsNE$28Missouri: median $18 across 71 hospitalsMO$18Kentucky: median $25 across 46 hospitalsKY$25West Virginia: median $17 across 38 hospitalsWV$17Virginia: median $25 across 54 hospitalsVA$25Maryland: median $13 across 40 hospitalsMD$13Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $21 across 27 hospitalsAZ$21New Mexico: median $25 across 20 hospitalsNM$25Kansas: median $26 across 71 hospitalsKS$26Arkansas: median $14 across 30 hospitalsAR$14Tennessee: median $17 across 70 hospitalsTN$17North Carolina: median $18 across 76 hospitalsNC$18South Carolina: median $30 across 49 hospitalsSC$30Oklahoma: median $18 across 55 hospitalsOK$18Louisiana: median $16 across 48 hospitalsLA$16Mississippi: median $16 across 50 hospitalsMS$16Alabama: median $12 across 24 hospitalsAL$12Georgia: median $42 across 91 hospitalsGA$42Hawaii: median $24 across 20 hospitalsHI$24Texas: median $37 across 186 hospitalsTX$37Florida: median $72 across 139 hospitalsFL$72
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $25. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL139$72+188%$8 – $235
Utah UT36$59+135%$57 – $67
South Dakota SD25$54+116%$36 – $75
Alaska AK15$52+109%$33 – $88
California CA148$52+108%$22 – $96
Georgia GA91$42+68%$14 – $76
Texas TX186$37+48%$11 – $116
Illinois IL126$37+46%$17 – $58
Minnesota MN55$35+41%$26 – $53
Iowa IA80$32+29%$15 – $38
Oregon OR45$30+20%$13 – $37
South Carolina SC49$30+20%$23 – $57
Montana MT29$29+16%$14 – $50
Nebraska NE71$28+12%$14 – $46
Nevada NV20$28+10%$14 – $58
North Dakota ND30$27+8%$20 – $30
Ohio OH128$26+6%$17 – $41
Idaho ID21$26+4%$18 – $29
Kansas KS71$26+3%$16 – $43
Kentucky KY46$25+1%$11 – $41
Colorado CO64$250%$12 – $54
New Mexico NM20$25−2%$9 – $31
Virginia VA54$25−2%$17 – $42
Hawaii HI20$24−4%$18 – $38
New Hampshire NH18$23−8%$14 – $74
Wisconsin WI77$23−8%$13 – $29
Massachusetts MA44$23−8%$11 – $42
Washington WA73$22−10%$10 – $40
Indiana IN85$21−15%$7 – $51
Maine ME25$21−16%$12 – $41
Arizona AZ27$21−17%$7 – $71
Vermont VT10$20−20%$14 – $22
Missouri MO71$18−28%$14 – $34
North Carolina NC76$18−28%$10 – $46
Oklahoma OK55$18−28%$10 – $33
Connecticut CT19$18−28%$13 – $33
Wyoming WY15$17−31%$9 – $30
Michigan MI93$17−32%$6 – $27
Tennessee TN70$17−32%$9 – $46
West Virginia WV38$17−34%$12 – $25
Pennsylvania PA113$16−35%$5 – $24
Mississippi MS50$16−38%$6 – $29
Louisiana LA48$16−38%$8 – $29
New York NY99$14−42%$6 – $48
Arkansas AR30$14−44%$7 – $31
Maryland MD40$13−47%$10 – $16
Alabama AL24$12−50%$6 – $39
New Jersey NJ53$5−80%$5 – $11
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
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 $25.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,984$24$10 – $55
Children’s41$25$15 – $58
Critical access804$27$13 – $46
Ownership
For-profit390$37$13 – $163
Government517$25$11 – $45
Non-profit1,922$24$10 – $47
System affiliation
Part of a system2,311$26$11 – $53
Independent526$23$10 – $45

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$43
Median cash price$25
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

1,922 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $26 and the average of the middle 60% is $28; most fall between $12 and $52.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,922 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
$8$14$26$46$74

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($8 vs $74).

Of the 2,128 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,922 gave a usable cash price; 107 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 99 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,837 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 3,104 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,837
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here151
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded116
Hospitals that filed this code3,104

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.

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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, “Stool test for hidden blood, colon cancer screening (CPT 82270) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82270-stool-test-for-hidden-blood-colon-cancer-screening