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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Chloride blood test

CPT 82435the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of chloride, an electrolyte, in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $33 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,141 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $35. Most fall between $15 and $64 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,141
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 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 3,141 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$18$33$56$102

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($8 vs $102).

How the prices are spread

$5 – $8: 113 hospitals$5$8 – $11: 145 hospitals$11 – $15: 251 hospitals$11$15 – $22: 354 hospitals$22 – $31: 466 hospitals$22$31 – $44: 506 hospitals$44 – $63: 494 hospitals$44$63 – $89: 281 hospitals$89 – $126: 142 hospitals$89$126 – $179: 76 hospitals$126median $33price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,828 of 3,141 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$5$8113
$8$11145
$11$15251
$15$22354
$22$31466
$31$44506
$44$63494
$63$89281
$89$126142
$126$17976

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $33.

Alaska: median $51 across 13 hospitalsAK$51Maine: median $26 across 27 hospitalsME$26Vermont: median $50 across 13 hospitalsVT$50New Hampshire: median $27 across 21 hospitalsNH$27Washington: median $37 across 64 hospitalsWA$37Idaho: median $32 across 24 hospitalsID$32Montana: median $32 across 29 hospitalsMT$32North Dakota: median $34 across 26 hospitalsND$34Minnesota: median $33 across 99 hospitalsMN$33Illinois: median $48 across 126 hospitalsIL$48Wisconsin: median $34 across 98 hospitalsWI$34Michigan: median $18 across 95 hospitalsMI$18New York: median $17 across 104 hospitalsNY$17Massachusetts: median $32 across 49 hospitalsMA$32Oregon: median $26 across 44 hospitalsOR$26Nevada: median $45 across 22 hospitalsNV$45Wyoming: median $25 across 15 hospitalsWY$25South Dakota: median $58 across 25 hospitalsSD$58Iowa: median $35 across 82 hospitalsIA$35Indiana: median $25 across 95 hospitalsIN$25Ohio: median $27 across 142 hospitalsOH$27Pennsylvania: median $20 across 120 hospitalsPA$20New Jersey: median $5 across 52 hospitalsNJ$5Connecticut: median $17 across 20 hospitalsCT$17Rhode Island: median $28 across 10 hospitalsRI$28California: median $59 across 160 hospitalsCA$59Utah: median $46 across 39 hospitalsUT$46Colorado: median $43 across 69 hospitalsCO$43Nebraska: median $44 across 71 hospitalsNE$44Missouri: median $35 across 71 hospitalsMO$35Kentucky: median $48 across 61 hospitalsKY$48West Virginia: median $26 across 38 hospitalsWV$26Virginia: median $49 across 69 hospitalsVA$49Maryland: median $5 across 41 hospitalsMD$5Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $38 across 42 hospitalsAZ$38New Mexico: median $32 across 19 hospitalsNM$32Kansas: median $32 across 75 hospitalsKS$32Arkansas: median $15 across 39 hospitalsAR$15Tennessee: median $17 across 78 hospitalsTN$17North Carolina: median $29 across 87 hospitalsNC$29South Carolina: median $46 across 51 hospitalsSC$46Oklahoma: median $22 across 67 hospitalsOK$22Louisiana: median $20 across 46 hospitalsLA$20Mississippi: median $21 across 53 hospitalsMS$21Alabama: median $28 across 39 hospitalsAL$28Georgia: median $30 across 103 hospitalsGA$30Hawaii: median $39 across 19 hospitalsHI$39Texas: median $56 across 235 hospitalsTX$56Florida: median $79 across 148 hospitalsFL$79
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $33. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL148$79+137%$18 – $334
California CA160$59+78%$30 – $113
South Dakota SD25$58+76%$35 – $82
Texas TX235$56+69%$25 – $120
Alaska AK13$51+54%$44 – $70
Vermont VT13$50+51%$24 – $54
Virginia VA69$49+46%$23 – $74
Illinois IL126$48+45%$24 – $72
Kentucky KY61$48+45%$20 – $80
Utah UT39$46+38%$39 – $57
South Carolina SC51$46+37%$20 – $56
Nevada NV22$45+37%$25 – $82
Nebraska NE71$44+32%$23 – $74
Colorado CO69$43+30%$23 – $78
Hawaii HI19$39+17%$27 – $52
Arizona AZ42$38+16%$20 – $162
Washington WA64$37+11%$24 – $60
Iowa IA82$35+6%$29 – $49
Missouri MO71$35+5%$19 – $52
Wisconsin WI98$34+3%$23 – $53
North Dakota ND26$34+3%$27 – $41
Minnesota MN99$33−1%$15 – $63
Montana MT29$32−2%$24 – $48
New Mexico NM19$32−3%$19 – $75
Kansas KS75$32−3%$14 – $47
Massachusetts MA49$32−3%$16 – $59
Idaho ID24$32−5%$20 – $46
Georgia GA103$30−11%$12 – $57
North Carolina NC87$29−11%$17 – $41
Alabama AL39$28−16%$9 – $45
Rhode Island RI10$28−16%$10 – $35
Ohio OH142$27−18%$13 – $43
New Hampshire NH21$27−19%$17 – $60
Maine ME27$26−22%$13 – $56
Oregon OR44$26−23%$19 – $45
West Virginia WV38$26−23%$15 – $50
Indiana IN95$25−24%$10 – $46
Wyoming WY15$25−26%$15 – $69
Oklahoma OK67$22−34%$13 – $37
Mississippi MS53$21−37%$13 – $39
Louisiana LA46$20−39%$9 – $43
Pennsylvania PA120$20−40%$7 – $54
Michigan MI95$18−46%$12 – $30
Tennessee TN78$17−48%$11 – $54
Connecticut CT20$17−49%$14 – $21
New York NY104$17−50%$6 – $59
Arkansas AR39$15−54%$7 – $40
Maryland MD41$5−84%$4 – $7
New Jersey NJ52$5−84%$5 – $16
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 $33.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,198$31$13 – $67
Children’s68$39$18 – $85
Critical access865$36$20 – $58
Ownership
For-profit434$54$18 – $238
Government577$34$17 – $57
Non-profit2,120$30$14 – $57
System affiliation
Part of a system2,558$34$14 – $65
Independent583$32$17 – $60

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$57
Median cash price$33
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

2,093 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $33 and the average of the middle 60% is $35; most fall between $16 and $60.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,093 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
$10$18$33$54$87

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $87).

Of the 2,312 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,093 gave a usable cash price; 115 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 104 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,141 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (79%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,419 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,141
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here157
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 — excluded120
Hospitals that filed this code3,419

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 Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Chloride,Blood.

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, “Chloride blood test (CPT 82435) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82435-chloride-blood-test