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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Stool immunochemical test for hidden blood

CPT 82274the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that uses antibodies to detect human blood protein in stool; covers one to three samples tested at the same time.

Hospitals typically charge $52 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,648 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $54. Most fall between $28 and $91 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,648
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 2,648 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
$18$32$52$82$121

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $121).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $18: 155 hospitals$14$18 – $24: 125 hospitals$24 – $30: 221 hospitals$24$30 – $39: 299 hospitals$39 – $50: 331 hospitals$39$50 – $65: 399 hospitals$65 – $83: 347 hospitals$65$83 – $107: 264 hospitals$107 – $138: 163 hospitals$107$138 – $177: 80 hospitals$138median $52price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,384 of 2,648 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$18155
$18$24125
$24$30221
$30$39299
$39$50331
$50$65399
$65$83347
$83$107264
$107$138163
$138$17780

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $52.

Alaska: median $56 across 18 hospitalsAK$56Maine: median $43 across 27 hospitalsME$43Vermont: median $92 across 11 hospitalsVT$92New Hampshire: median $58 across 21 hospitalsNH$58Washington: median $68 across 72 hospitalsWA$68Idaho: median $69 across 23 hospitalsID$69Montana: median $51 across 26 hospitalsMT$51North Dakota: median $90 across 29 hospitalsND$90Minnesota: median $58 across 102 hospitalsMN$58Illinois: median $72 across 123 hospitalsIL$72Wisconsin: median $78 across 98 hospitalsWI$78Michigan: median $37 across 92 hospitalsMI$37New York: median $39 across 92 hospitalsNY$39Massachusetts: median $68 across 46 hospitalsMA$68Oregon: median $53 across 48 hospitalsOR$53Nevada: median $78 across 14 hospitalsNV$78Wyoming: median $44 across 12 hospitalsWY$44South Dakota: median $78 across 35 hospitalsSD$78Iowa: median $56 across 63 hospitalsIA$56Indiana: median $43 across 84 hospitalsIN$43Ohio: median $50 across 113 hospitalsOH$50Pennsylvania: median $32 across 95 hospitalsPA$32New Jersey: median $18 across 51 hospitalsNJ$18Connecticut: median $64 across 14 hospitalsCT$64Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $64 across 138 hospitalsCA$64Utah: median $153 across 35 hospitalsUT$153Colorado: median $59 across 57 hospitalsCO$59Nebraska: median $47 across 43 hospitalsNE$47Missouri: median $46 across 55 hospitalsMO$46Kentucky: median $45 across 57 hospitalsKY$45West Virginia: median $36 across 35 hospitalsWV$36Virginia: median $54 across 63 hospitalsVA$54Maryland: median $69 across 28 hospitalsMD$69Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $39 across 31 hospitalsAZ$39New Mexico: median $65 across 22 hospitalsNM$65Kansas: median $42 across 62 hospitalsKS$42Arkansas: median $24 across 27 hospitalsAR$24Tennessee: median $32 across 55 hospitalsTN$32North Carolina: median $56 across 53 hospitalsNC$56South Carolina: median $45 across 39 hospitalsSC$45Oklahoma: median $48 across 53 hospitalsOK$48Louisiana: median $28 across 42 hospitalsLA$28Mississippi: median $19 across 32 hospitalsMS$19Alabama: median $51 across 28 hospitalsAL$51Georgia: median $36 across 83 hospitalsGA$36Hawaii: median $95 across 18 hospitalsHI$95Texas: median $67 across 154 hospitalsTX$67Florida: median $50 across 114 hospitalsFL$50
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $52. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT35$153+193%$49 – $180
Hawaii HI18$95+83%$80 – $112
Vermont VT11$92+76%$59 – $125
North Dakota ND29$90+72%$29 – $115
Wisconsin WI98$78+50%$48 – $98
Nevada NV14$78+49%$30 – $93
South Dakota SD35$78+49%$58 – $104
Illinois IL123$72+38%$37 – $95
Idaho ID23$69+32%$47 – $77
Maryland MD28$69+31%$45 – $81
Washington WA72$68+31%$45 – $89
Massachusetts MA46$68+31%$46 – $105
Texas TX154$67+29%$30 – $118
New Mexico NM22$65+24%$44 – $87
California CA138$64+22%$30 – $114
Connecticut CT14$64+22%$38 – $77
Colorado CO57$59+13%$27 – $94
New Hampshire NH21$58+11%$39 – $150
Minnesota MN102$58+10%$38 – $87
Iowa IA63$56+8%$34 – $66
Alaska AK18$56+7%$26 – $118
North Carolina NC53$56+7%$29 – $88
Virginia VA63$54+3%$28 – $115
Oregon OR48$53+2%$36 – $65
Alabama AL28$51−1%$21 – $125
Montana MT26$51−3%$32 – $86
Ohio OH113$50−4%$45 – $72
Florida FL114$50−4%$25 – $112
Oklahoma OK53$48−8%$22 – $63
Nebraska NE43$47−10%$34 – $67
Missouri MO55$46−12%$30 – $58
Kentucky KY57$45−14%$22 – $200
South Carolina SC39$45−14%$33 – $58
Wyoming WY12$44−15%$38 – $84
Maine ME27$43−18%$27 – $92
Indiana IN84$43−19%$20 – $93
Kansas KS62$42−20%$29 – $65
Arizona AZ31$39−25%$17 – $158
New York NY92$39−26%$16 – $75
Michigan MI92$37−29%$22 – $58
Georgia GA83$36−31%$29 – $75
West Virginia WV35$36−32%$24 – $54
Pennsylvania PA95$32−38%$18 – $48
Tennessee TN55$32−39%$21 – $47
Louisiana LA42$28−47%$19 – $49
Arkansas AR27$24−54%$14 – $53
Mississippi MS32$19−64%$12 – $33
New Jersey NJ51$18−65%$18 – $33
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 $52.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,855$50$25 – $91
Children’s20$64$34 – $100
Critical access766$55$33 – $91
Ownership
For-profit295$64$27 – $131
Government485$53$29 – $86
Non-profit1,861$51$27 – $88
System affiliation
Part of a system2,183$53$27 – $94
Independent465$51$29 – $80

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$85
Median cash price$52
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

1,849 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $55 and the average of the middle 60% is $57; most fall between $30 and $94.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,849 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
$22$34$55$86$121

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $121).

Of the 2,039 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,849 gave a usable cash price; 101 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 89 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,648 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (67%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,870 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,648
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here126
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 — excluded94
Hospitals that filed this code2,870

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.

Related procedures

Part of the Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Blood Occult Fecal Hgb Deter Ia Qual Feces 1-3.

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 immunochemical test for hidden blood (CPT 82274) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82274-stool-immunochemical-test-for-hidden-blood