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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Carotene blood test

CPT 82380the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of carotene, a vitamin A precursor from the diet, in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $50 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,238 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $52. Most fall between $20 and $105 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,238
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 2,238 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
$12$23$50$84$148

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $148).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $13: 145 hospitals$10$13 – $18: 142 hospitals$18 – $25: 222 hospitals$18$25 – $35: 190 hospitals$35 – $48: 271 hospitals$35$48 – $66: 351 hospitals$66 – $92: 300 hospitals$66$92 – $127: 190 hospitals$127 – $175: 153 hospitals$127$175 – $242: 58 hospitals$175median $50price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,022 of 2,238 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$13145
$13$18142
$18$25222
$25$35190
$35$48271
$48$66351
$66$92300
$92$127190
$127$175153
$175$24258

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $50.

Alaska: median $52 across 13 hospitalsAK$52Maine: median $64 across 22 hospitalsME$64Vermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $60 across 16 hospitalsNH$60Washington: median $58 across 43 hospitalsWA$58Idaho: median $55 across 19 hospitalsID$55Montana: median $87 across 11 hospitalsMT$87North Dakota: median $45 across 11 hospitalsND$45Minnesota: median $52 across 31 hospitalsMN$52Illinois: median $63 across 104 hospitalsIL$63Wisconsin: median $53 across 77 hospitalsWI$53Michigan: median $24 across 70 hospitalsMI$24New York: median $25 across 91 hospitalsNY$25Massachusetts: median $57 across 47 hospitalsMA$57Oregon: median $40 across 40 hospitalsOR$40Nevada: median $68 across 17 hospitalsNV$68Wyoming: median $43 across 10 hospitalsWY$43South Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $53 across 41 hospitalsIA$53Indiana: median $68 across 79 hospitalsIN$68Ohio: median $45 across 120 hospitalsOH$45Pennsylvania: median $47 across 114 hospitalsPA$47New Jersey: median $11 across 50 hospitalsNJ$11Connecticut: median $43 across 13 hospitalsCT$43Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $25 across 99 hospitalsCA$25Utah: median $56 across 34 hospitalsUT$56Colorado: median $65 across 49 hospitalsCO$65Nebraska: median $74 across 32 hospitalsNE$74Missouri: median $60 across 59 hospitalsMO$60Kentucky: median $65 across 46 hospitalsKY$65West Virginia: median $10 across 24 hospitalsWV$10Virginia: median $44 across 49 hospitalsVA$44Maryland: median $61 across 26 hospitalsMD$61Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $65 across 27 hospitalsAZ$65New Mexico: median $77 across 12 hospitalsNM$77Kansas: median $65 across 38 hospitalsKS$65Arkansas: median $38 across 20 hospitalsAR$38Tennessee: median $35 across 49 hospitalsTN$35North Carolina: median $60 across 60 hospitalsNC$60South Carolina: median $73 across 37 hospitalsSC$73Oklahoma: median $59 across 47 hospitalsOK$59Louisiana: median $31 across 33 hospitalsLA$31Mississippi: median $36 across 34 hospitalsMS$36Alabama: median $58 across 31 hospitalsAL$58Georgia: median $43 across 75 hospitalsGA$43Hawaii: median $58 across 12 hospitalsHI$58Texas: median $64 across 171 hospitalsTX$64Florida: median $17 across 114 hospitalsFL$17
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $50. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Montana MT11$87+73%$63 – $145
New Mexico NM12$77+53%$48 – $99
Nebraska NE32$74+46%$40 – $138
South Carolina SC37$73+46%$37 – $74
Indiana IN79$68+35%$20 – $109
Nevada NV17$68+34%$28 – $127
Kansas KS38$65+30%$41 – $125
Kentucky KY46$65+30%$28 – $186
Arizona AZ27$65+29%$26 – $83
Colorado CO49$65+29%$36 – $154
Maine ME22$64+27%$28 – $146
Texas TX171$64+26%$20 – $142
Illinois IL104$63+24%$29 – $130
Maryland MD26$61+22%$50 – $80
Missouri MO59$60+20%$35 – $242
New Hampshire NH16$60+20%$31 – $265
North Carolina NC60$60+19%$19 – $148
Oklahoma OK47$59+17%$49 – $105
Washington WA43$58+16%$29 – $95
Alabama AL31$58+15%$23 – $126
Hawaii HI12$58+15%$28 – $84
Massachusetts MA47$57+13%$32 – $83
Utah UT34$56+11%$55 – $74
Idaho ID19$55+10%$19 – $111
Wisconsin WI77$53+6%$38 – $127
Iowa IA41$53+4%$34 – $126
Minnesota MN31$52+4%$48 – $99
Alaska AK13$52+3%$42 – $141
Pennsylvania PA114$47−7%$14 – $136
North Dakota ND11$45−11%$42 – $78
Ohio OH120$45−11%$31 – $86
Virginia VA49$44−12%$11 – $103
Wyoming WY10$43−15%$41 – $54
Connecticut CT13$43−15%$34 – $56
Georgia GA75$43−15%$29 – $116
Oregon OR40$40−21%$28 – $75
Arkansas AR20$38−25%$18 – $107
Mississippi MS34$36−29%$23 – $51
Tennessee TN49$35−31%$16 – $85
Louisiana LA33$31−38%$18 – $75
New York NY91$25−51%$11 – $73
California CA99$25−51%$12 – $75
Michigan MI70$24−52%$13 – $53
Florida FL114$17−66%$9 – $42
New Jersey NJ50$11−79%$9 – $31
West Virginia WV24$10−81%$10 – $51
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $50.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,697$46$18 – $93
Children’s56$69$34 – $132
Critical access476$56$34 – $120
Ownership
For-profit308$51$17 – $188
Government325$54$21 – $111
Non-profit1,596$49$20 – $94
System affiliation
Part of a system1,871$49$19 – $104
Independent367$53$26 – $105

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$82
Median cash price$50
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

1,538 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $51 and the average of the middle 60% is $51; most fall between $22 and $95.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,538 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
$16$25$51$79$139

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($16 vs $139).

Of the 1,716 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,538 gave a usable cash price; 93 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 84 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,238 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (57%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,459 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,238
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here121
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded98
Hospitals that filed this code2,459

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 Carotene.

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, “Carotene blood test (CPT 82380) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82380-carotene-blood-test