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Stool test for hidden blood, diagnostic (1 to 3 samples)

CPT 82272the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test for hidden blood in stool done for reasons other than colon cancer screening, such as checking for bleeding; covers one to three samples tested at the same time.

Hospitals typically charge $26 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,863 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $27. Most fall between $11 and $51 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,863
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 2,863 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$26$44$85

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7 vs $85).

How the prices are spread

$5 – $7: 141 hospitals$5$7 – $9: 177 hospitals$9 – $13: 251 hospitals$9$13 – $18: 308 hospitals$18 – $25: 399 hospitals$18$25 – $35: 459 hospitals$35 – $49: 390 hospitals$35$49 – $68: 226 hospitals$68 – $95: 121 hospitals$68$95 – $133: 111 hospitals$95median $26price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,583 of 2,863 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$5$7141
$7$9177
$9$13251
$13$18308
$18$25399
$25$35459
$35$49390
$49$68226
$68$95121
$95$133111

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $26.

Alaska: median $47 across 17 hospitalsAK$47Maine: median $20 across 27 hospitalsME$20Vermont: median $42 across 12 hospitalsVT$42New Hampshire: median $18 across 22 hospitalsNH$18Washington: median $26 across 63 hospitalsWA$26Idaho: median $19 across 19 hospitalsID$19Montana: median $31 across 24 hospitalsMT$31North Dakota: median $25 across 25 hospitalsND$25Minnesota: median $32 across 81 hospitalsMN$32Illinois: median $37 across 124 hospitalsIL$37Wisconsin: median $26 across 100 hospitalsWI$26Michigan: median $16 across 88 hospitalsMI$16New York: median $12 across 111 hospitalsNY$12Massachusetts: median $23 across 46 hospitalsMA$23Oregon: median $18 across 43 hospitalsOR$18Nevada: median $30 across 15 hospitalsNV$30Wyoming: median $19 across 12 hospitalsWY$19South Dakota: median $46 across 34 hospitalsSD$46Iowa: median $30 across 82 hospitalsIA$30Indiana: median $27 across 89 hospitalsIN$27Ohio: median $25 across 120 hospitalsOH$25Pennsylvania: median $16 across 104 hospitalsPA$16New Jersey: median $5 across 50 hospitalsNJ$5Connecticut: median $18 across 23 hospitalsCT$18Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $66 across 127 hospitalsCA$66Utah: median $51 across 33 hospitalsUT$51Colorado: median $22 across 57 hospitalsCO$22Nebraska: median $32 across 58 hospitalsNE$32Missouri: median $24 across 69 hospitalsMO$24Kentucky: median $27 across 50 hospitalsKY$27West Virginia: median $14 across 34 hospitalsWV$14Virginia: median $22 across 62 hospitalsVA$22Maryland: median $11 across 32 hospitalsMD$11Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $32 across 35 hospitalsAZ$32New Mexico: median $17 across 24 hospitalsNM$17Kansas: median $26 across 71 hospitalsKS$26Arkansas: median $25 across 25 hospitalsAR$25Tennessee: median $15 across 72 hospitalsTN$15North Carolina: median $31 across 85 hospitalsNC$31South Carolina: median $42 across 47 hospitalsSC$42Oklahoma: median $22 across 66 hospitalsOK$22Louisiana: median $14 across 48 hospitalsLA$14Mississippi: median $17 across 49 hospitalsMS$17Alabama: median $21 across 34 hospitalsAL$21Georgia: median $21 across 99 hospitalsGA$21Hawaii: median $21 across 20 hospitalsHI$21Texas: median $43 across 198 hospitalsTX$43Florida: median $84 across 122 hospitalsFL$84
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $26. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL122$84+230%$13 – $226
California CA127$66+158%$26 – $98
Utah UT33$51+99%$42 – $60
Alaska AK17$47+83%$34 – $64
South Dakota SD34$46+79%$22 – $87
Texas TX198$43+69%$14 – $104
South Carolina SC47$42+65%$30 – $47
Vermont VT12$42+62%$25 – $50
Illinois IL124$37+45%$18 – $62
Nebraska NE58$32+26%$16 – $49
Minnesota MN81$32+25%$20 – $49
Arizona AZ35$32+24%$5 – $178
Montana MT24$31+21%$17 – $64
North Carolina NC85$31+21%$17 – $40
Iowa IA82$30+19%$18 – $37
Nevada NV15$30+18%$15 – $44
Indiana IN89$27+5%$9 – $49
Kentucky KY50$27+4%$15 – $46
Wisconsin WI100$26+3%$14 – $36
Kansas KS71$26+2%$13 – $47
Washington WA63$26+2%$15 – $39
North Dakota ND25$25−2%$20 – $30
Arkansas AR25$25−3%$9 – $45
Ohio OH120$25−4%$13 – $38
Missouri MO69$24−6%$15 – $37
Massachusetts MA46$23−10%$12 – $39
Oklahoma OK66$22−15%$10 – $36
Colorado CO57$22−16%$18 – $52
Virginia VA62$22−16%$9 – $38
Georgia GA99$21−17%$10 – $56
Hawaii HI20$21−18%$7 – $30
Alabama AL34$21−18%$11 – $83
Maine ME27$20−23%$12 – $43
Wyoming WY12$19−24%$8 – $45
Idaho ID19$19−26%$12 – $41
Connecticut CT23$18−30%$12 – $32
New Hampshire NH22$18−31%$13 – $30
Oregon OR43$18−32%$13 – $29
New Mexico NM24$17−33%$9 – $45
Mississippi MS49$17−34%$10 – $30
Pennsylvania PA104$16−37%$5 – $22
Michigan MI88$16−37%$6 – $23
Tennessee TN72$15−42%$9 – $44
Louisiana LA48$14−44%$6 – $28
West Virginia WV34$14−47%$8 – $27
New York NY111$12−53%$6 – $36
Maryland MD32$11−58%$9 – $13
New Jersey NJ50$5−81%$4 – $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 $26.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,999$24$10 – $52
Children’s51$30$22 – $63
Critical access806$27$14 – $47
Ownership
For-profit379$38$13 – $161
Government505$27$12 – $47
Non-profit1,972$24$10 – $46
System affiliation
Part of a system2,386$26$11 – $51
Independent477$26$11 – $50

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$44
Median cash price$26
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

1,951 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 $13 and $50.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,951 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$44$77

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($8 vs $77).

Of the 2,150 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,951 gave a usable cash price; 104 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 94 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,863 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 3,101 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,863
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here131
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded103
Hospitals that filed this code3,101

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 Blood Occult Peroxidase Actv Qual Feces 1-3 Spec.

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, “Stool test for hidden blood, diagnostic (1 to 3 samples) (CPT 82272) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82272-stool-test-for-hidden-blood-diagnostic-1-to-3-samples