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Test for hidden blood in a sample other than stool

CPT 82271the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that looks for hidden blood in a specimen from a source other than stool, such as gastric fluid, using a chemical color reaction.

Hospitals typically charge $29 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,949 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $31. Most fall between $13 and $59 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,949
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 2,949 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$16$29$49$96

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($8 vs $96).

How the prices are spread

$6 – $8: 154 hospitals$6$8 – $11: 216 hospitals$11 – $16: 221 hospitals$11$16 – $22: 346 hospitals$22 – $30: 453 hospitals$22$30 – $41: 429 hospitals$41 – $57: 356 hospitals$41$57 – $79: 249 hospitals$79 – $110: 135 hospitals$79$110 – $152: 98 hospitals$110median $29price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,657 of 2,949 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$8154
$8$11216
$11$16221
$16$22346
$22$30453
$30$41429
$41$57356
$57$79249
$79$110135
$110$15298

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $29.

Alaska: median $55 across 14 hospitalsAK$55Maine: median $17 across 24 hospitalsME$17Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $37 across 21 hospitalsNH$37Washington: median $32 across 62 hospitalsWA$32Idaho: median $29 across 20 hospitalsID$29Montana: median $20 across 22 hospitalsMT$20North Dakota: median $29 across 22 hospitalsND$29Minnesota: median $38 across 85 hospitalsMN$38Illinois: median $41 across 118 hospitalsIL$41Wisconsin: median $27 across 102 hospitalsWI$27Michigan: median $21 across 92 hospitalsMI$21New York: median $16 across 91 hospitalsNY$16Massachusetts: median $21 across 44 hospitalsMA$21Oregon: median $24 across 42 hospitalsOR$24Nevada: median $28 across 20 hospitalsNV$28Wyoming: median $26 across 15 hospitalsWY$26South Dakota: median $58 across 22 hospitalsSD$58Iowa: median $34 across 71 hospitalsIA$34Indiana: median $24 across 90 hospitalsIN$24Ohio: median $25 across 136 hospitalsOH$25Pennsylvania: median $22 across 114 hospitalsPA$22New Jersey: median $6 across 52 hospitalsNJ$6Connecticut: median $17 across 17 hospitalsCT$17Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $43 across 147 hospitalsCA$43Utah: median $64 across 38 hospitalsUT$64Colorado: median $38 across 62 hospitalsCO$38Nebraska: median $40 across 53 hospitalsNE$40Missouri: median $25 across 74 hospitalsMO$25Kentucky: median $29 across 61 hospitalsKY$29West Virginia: median $21 across 35 hospitalsWV$21Virginia: median $22 across 67 hospitalsVA$22Maryland: median $11 across 38 hospitalsMD$11Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $29 across 38 hospitalsAZ$29New Mexico: median $17 across 12 hospitalsNM$17Kansas: median $28 across 70 hospitalsKS$28Arkansas: median $20 across 35 hospitalsAR$20Tennessee: median $20 across 77 hospitalsTN$20North Carolina: median $26 across 83 hospitalsNC$26South Carolina: median $44 across 44 hospitalsSC$44Oklahoma: median $26 across 64 hospitalsOK$26Louisiana: median $18 across 46 hospitalsLA$18Mississippi: median $21 across 48 hospitalsMS$21Alabama: median $22 across 37 hospitalsAL$22Georgia: median $20 across 106 hospitalsGA$20Hawaii: median $27 across 17 hospitalsHI$27Texas: median $47 across 232 hospitalsTX$47Florida: median $83 across 150 hospitalsFL$83
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $29. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL150$83+189%$10 – $236
Utah UT38$64+122%$59 – $75
South Dakota SD22$58+103%$35 – $98
Alaska AK14$55+92%$38 – $96
Texas TX232$47+65%$12 – $119
South Carolina SC44$44+52%$26 – $66
California CA147$43+51%$29 – $113
Illinois IL118$41+44%$18 – $74
Nebraska NE53$40+40%$28 – $63
Colorado CO62$38+33%$19 – $58
Minnesota MN85$38+32%$24 – $46
New Hampshire NH21$37+28%$17 – $83
Iowa IA71$34+17%$24 – $49
Washington WA62$32+12%$22 – $48
Arizona AZ38$29+2%$15 – $141
North Dakota ND22$29+1%$22 – $40
Idaho ID20$29+1%$18 – $41
Kentucky KY61$290%$16 – $52
Kansas KS70$28−2%$15 – $42
Nevada NV20$28−2%$14 – $62
Wisconsin WI102$27−5%$18 – $33
Hawaii HI17$27−6%$19 – $32
Wyoming WY15$26−8%$10 – $44
North Carolina NC83$26−10%$9 – $49
Oklahoma OK64$26−10%$17 – $50
Ohio OH136$25−13%$14 – $41
Missouri MO74$25−14%$17 – $45
Indiana IN90$24−16%$11 – $44
Oregon OR42$24−17%$19 – $42
Virginia VA67$22−22%$15 – $79
Alabama AL37$22−23%$9 – $50
Pennsylvania PA114$22−25%$6 – $52
Mississippi MS48$21−26%$12 – $39
Massachusetts MA44$21−27%$12 – $39
Michigan MI92$21−27%$11 – $35
West Virginia WV35$21−27%$14 – $35
Montana MT22$20−30%$16 – $34
Georgia GA106$20−30%$12 – $44
Arkansas AR35$20−31%$10 – $33
Tennessee TN77$20−32%$10 – $71
Louisiana LA46$18−37%$8 – $31
New Mexico NM12$17−40%$8 – $49
Connecticut CT17$17−40%$11 – $25
Maine ME24$17−41%$7 – $43
New York NY91$16−45%$6 – $64
Maryland MD38$11−63%$8 – $13
New Jersey NJ52$6−79%$6 – $16
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not 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 $29.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,126$27$12 – $63
Children’s62$32$25 – $60
Critical access751$31$16 – $52
Ownership
For-profit423$48$17 – $207
Government515$30$14 – $51
Non-profit2,001$27$12 – $51
System affiliation
Part of a system2,440$29$12 – $61
Independent509$28$14 – $52

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$47
Median cash price$29
Cash as a share of list, median hospital63%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

2,025 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $29 and the average of the middle 60% is $31; most fall between $14 and $58.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,025 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
$9$17$29$49$83

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $83).

Of the 2,237 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,025 gave a usable cash price; 119 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 93 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,949 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (75%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,214 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,949
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here156
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded108
Hospitals that filed this code3,214

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 Other Laboratory family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC 82271 Occult Bld Other Sources.

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, “Test for hidden blood in a sample other than stool (CPT 82271) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82271-test-for-hidden-blood-in-a-sample-other-than-stool