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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Calcitonin blood test

CPT 82308the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that measures calcitonin, a hormone made by the thyroid gland, in a blood specimen.

Hospitals typically charge $102 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,865 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $109. Most fall between $43 and $210 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,865
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 2,865 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
$27$50$102$187$312

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($27 vs $312).

How the prices are spread

$18 – $25: 115 hospitals$18$25 – $35: 188 hospitals$35 – $48: 243 hospitals$35$48 – $67: 296 hospitals$67 – $93: 308 hospitals$67$93 – $128: 427 hospitals$128 – $177: 376 hospitals$128$177 – $245: 327 hospitals$245 – $340: 200 hospitals$245$340 – $470: 99 hospitals$340median $102price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,579 of 2,865 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$18$25115
$25$35188
$35$48243
$48$67296
$67$93308
$93$128427
$128$177376
$177$245327
$245$340200
$340$47099

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $102.

Alaska: median $215 across 14 hospitalsAK$215Maine: median $141 across 26 hospitalsME$141Vermont: median $301 across 13 hospitalsVT$301New Hampshire: median $147 across 22 hospitalsNH$147Washington: median $125 across 69 hospitalsWA$125Idaho: median $81 across 17 hospitalsID$81Montana: median $194 across 16 hospitalsMT$194North Dakota: median $93 across 25 hospitalsND$93Minnesota: median $77 across 73 hospitalsMN$77Illinois: median $136 across 132 hospitalsIL$136Wisconsin: median $126 across 93 hospitalsWI$126Michigan: median $40 across 68 hospitalsMI$40New York: median $73 across 103 hospitalsNY$73Massachusetts: median $134 across 50 hospitalsMA$134Oregon: median $90 across 40 hospitalsOR$90Nevada: median $122 across 17 hospitalsNV$122Wyoming: median $70 across 14 hospitalsWY$70South Dakota: median $123 across 25 hospitalsSD$123Iowa: median $100 across 62 hospitalsIA$100Indiana: median $116 across 88 hospitalsIN$116Ohio: median $92 across 134 hospitalsOH$92Pennsylvania: median $123 across 120 hospitalsPA$123New Jersey: median $31 across 57 hospitalsNJ$31Connecticut: median $99 across 17 hospitalsCT$99Rhode Island: median $103 across 10 hospitalsRI$103California: median $41 across 109 hospitalsCA$41Utah: median $125 across 39 hospitalsUT$125Colorado: median $112 across 55 hospitalsCO$112Nebraska: median $137 across 51 hospitalsNE$137Missouri: median $117 across 72 hospitalsMO$117Kentucky: median $151 across 64 hospitalsKY$151West Virginia: median $86 across 33 hospitalsWV$86Virginia: median $102 across 68 hospitalsVA$102Maryland: median $82 across 40 hospitalsMD$82Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $129 across 37 hospitalsAZ$129New Mexico: median $154 across 20 hospitalsNM$154Kansas: median $152 across 64 hospitalsKS$152Arkansas: median $68 across 28 hospitalsAR$68Tennessee: median $75 across 79 hospitalsTN$75North Carolina: median $60 across 81 hospitalsNC$60South Carolina: median $187 across 52 hospitalsSC$187Oklahoma: median $94 across 60 hospitalsOK$94Louisiana: median $79 across 50 hospitalsLA$79Mississippi: median $72 across 48 hospitalsMS$72Alabama: median $157 across 37 hospitalsAL$157Georgia: median $99 across 90 hospitalsGA$99Hawaii: median $123 across 17 hospitalsHI$123Texas: median $160 across 216 hospitalsTX$160Florida: median $27 across 144 hospitalsFL$27
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $102. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT13$301+195%$136 – $443
Alaska AK14$215+111%$78 – $404
Montana MT16$194+90%$67 – $263
South Carolina SC52$187+84%$120 – $215
Texas TX216$160+57%$54 – $320
Alabama AL37$157+54%$30 – $456
New Mexico NM20$154+51%$93 – $176
Kansas KS64$152+49%$72 – $242
Kentucky KY64$151+48%$69 – $365
New Hampshire NH22$147+45%$42 – $349
Maine ME26$141+38%$59 – $257
Nebraska NE51$137+35%$70 – $247
Illinois IL132$136+34%$78 – $278
Massachusetts MA50$134+32%$74 – $239
Arizona AZ37$129+27%$41 – $228
Wisconsin WI93$126+24%$65 – $295
Washington WA69$125+23%$87 – $232
Utah UT39$125+22%$106 – $170
Pennsylvania PA120$123+21%$40 – $315
South Dakota SD25$123+21%$62 – $244
Hawaii HI17$123+21%$67 – $262
Nevada NV17$122+20%$61 – $255
Missouri MO72$117+15%$86 – $196
Indiana IN88$116+14%$45 – $256
Colorado CO55$112+10%$67 – $176
Rhode Island RI10$103+1%$62 – $215
Virginia VA68$1020%$45 – $259
Iowa IA62$100−2%$55 – $154
Connecticut CT17$99−2%$67 – $144
Georgia GA90$99−3%$53 – $174
Oklahoma OK60$94−8%$56 – $138
North Dakota ND25$93−9%$47 – $200
Ohio OH134$92−10%$46 – $151
Oregon OR40$90−12%$40 – $143
West Virginia WV33$86−16%$15 – $199
Maryland MD40$82−20%$63 – $98
Idaho ID17$81−20%$29 – $119
Louisiana LA50$79−23%$49 – $134
Minnesota MN73$77−24%$40 – $224
Tennessee TN79$75−27%$44 – $214
New York NY103$73−29%$27 – $190
Mississippi MS48$72−29%$34 – $132
Wyoming WY14$70−31%$48 – $132
Arkansas AR28$68−33%$18 – $110
North Carolina NC81$60−41%$48 – $166
California CA109$41−59%$17 – $79
Michigan MI68$40−61%$17 – $77
New Jersey NJ57$31−70%$29 – $98
Florida FL144$27−74%$14 – $84
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 $102.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,103$96$38 – $200
Children’s57$146$42 – $227
Critical access695$123$60 – $228
Ownership
For-profit401$125$39 – $429
Government486$101$45 – $195
Non-profit1,968$99$42 – $198
System affiliation
Part of a system2,358$101$42 – $214
Independent507$110$50 – $194

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$174
Median cash price$102
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

1,968 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $102 and the average of the middle 60% is $109; most fall between $46 and $197.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,968 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$53$102$179$295

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($31 vs $295).

Of the 2,179 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,968 gave a usable cash price; 111 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 100 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,865 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 3,133 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,865
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 — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded116
Hospitals that filed this code3,133

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 HC Calcitonin.

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, “Calcitonin blood test (CPT 82308) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82308-calcitonin-blood-test