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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Cholinesterase blood test, serum

CPT 82480the billing code this page is about

Measures cholinesterase enzyme activity in the liquid portion of a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $39 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,173 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $42. Most fall between $16 and $87 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,173
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 2,173 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$39$75$124

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $124).

How the prices are spread

$8 – $10: 125 hospitals$8$10 – $14: 152 hospitals$14 – $20: 209 hospitals$14$20 – $28: 247 hospitals$28 – $38: 233 hospitals$28$38 – $53: 270 hospitals$53 – $73: 270 hospitals$53$73 – $101: 229 hospitals$101 – $140: 156 hospitals$101$140 – $193: 69 hospitals$140median $39price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,960 of 2,173 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$8$10125
$10$14152
$14$20209
$20$28247
$28$38233
$38$53270
$53$73270
$73$101229
$101$140156
$140$19369

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $39.

Alaska: median $59 across 11 hospitalsAK$59Maine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $35 across 48 hospitalsWA$35Idaho: median $32 across 17 hospitalsID$32Montana: median $53 across 11 hospitalsMT$53North Dakota: median $41 across 10 hospitalsND$41Minnesota: median $48 across 45 hospitalsMN$48Illinois: median $48 across 99 hospitalsIL$48Wisconsin: median $67 across 75 hospitalsWI$67Michigan: median $16 across 62 hospitalsMI$16New York: median $22 across 81 hospitalsNY$22Massachusetts: median $35 across 39 hospitalsMA$35Oregon: median $35 across 26 hospitalsOR$35Nevada: median $40 across 14 hospitalsNV$40Wyoming: median $45 across 10 hospitalsWY$45South Dakota: median $35 across 13 hospitalsSD$35Iowa: median $53 across 57 hospitalsIA$53Indiana: median $32 across 68 hospitalsIN$32Ohio: median $35 across 108 hospitalsOH$35Pennsylvania: median $41 across 97 hospitalsPA$41New Jersey: median $9 across 44 hospitalsNJ$9Connecticut: median $42 across 12 hospitalsCT$42Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $11 across 64 hospitalsCA$11Utah: median $79 across 35 hospitalsUT$79Colorado: median $58 across 47 hospitalsCO$58Nebraska: median $52 across 33 hospitalsNE$52Missouri: median $45 across 54 hospitalsMO$45Kentucky: median $51 across 41 hospitalsKY$51West Virginia: median $11 across 22 hospitalsWV$11Virginia: median $25 across 60 hospitalsVA$25Maryland: median $36 across 21 hospitalsMD$36Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $34 across 31 hospitalsAZ$34New Mexico: median $48 across 16 hospitalsNM$48Kansas: median $60 across 47 hospitalsKS$60Arkansas: median $26 across 25 hospitalsAR$26Tennessee: median $24 across 57 hospitalsTN$24North Carolina: median $57 across 71 hospitalsNC$57South Carolina: median $68 across 37 hospitalsSC$68Oklahoma: median $44 across 55 hospitalsOK$44Louisiana: median $27 across 38 hospitalsLA$27Mississippi: median $25 across 44 hospitalsMS$25Alabama: median $42 across 28 hospitalsAL$42Georgia: median $87 across 70 hospitalsGA$87Hawaii: median $40 across 11 hospitalsHI$40Texas: median $48 across 171 hospitalsTX$48Florida: median $14 across 112 hospitalsFL$14
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $39. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA70$87+125%$16 – $114
Utah UT35$79+104%$67 – $124
South Carolina SC37$68+76%$38 – $103
Wisconsin WI75$67+73%$32 – $124
Kansas KS47$60+55%$41 – $109
Alaska AK11$59+51%$30 – $120
Colorado CO47$58+51%$44 – $126
North Carolina NC71$57+47%$18 – $93
Montana MT11$53+36%$45 – $86
Iowa IA57$53+36%$34 – $73
Nebraska NE33$52+34%$27 – $111
Kentucky KY41$51+32%$24 – $99
Texas TX171$48+25%$23 – $120
New Mexico NM16$48+24%$26 – $89
Minnesota MN45$48+23%$23 – $85
Illinois IL99$48+23%$22 – $134
Wyoming WY10$45+16%$38 – $97
Missouri MO54$45+15%$29 – $69
Oklahoma OK55$44+13%$23 – $58
Alabama AL28$42+9%$12 – $85
Connecticut CT12$42+9%$33 – $53
North Dakota ND10$41+6%$32 – $46
Pennsylvania PA97$41+5%$9 – $103
Nevada NV14$40+4%$23 – $110
Hawaii HI11$40+2%$17 – $81
Maryland MD21$36−6%$30 – $48
South Dakota SD13$35−9%$16 – $155
Ohio OH108$35−9%$20 – $84
Oregon OR26$35−9%$14 – $53
Massachusetts MA39$35−10%$20 – $78
Washington WA48$35−10%$24 – $58
Arizona AZ31$34−13%$11 – $80
Indiana IN68$32−17%$17 – $74
Idaho ID17$32−18%$18 – $67
Louisiana LA38$27−31%$15 – $52
Arkansas AR25$26−32%$13 – $49
Mississippi MS44$25−35%$10 – $54
Virginia VA60$25−36%$12 – $117
Tennessee TN57$24−39%$14 – $62
New York NY81$22−42%$11 – $44
Michigan MI62$16−59%$11 – $70
Florida FL112$14−64%$8 – $44
California CA64$11−72%$7 – $21
West Virginia WV22$11−72%$6 – $71
New Jersey NJ44$9−78%$8 – $39
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not 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 $39.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,679$35$14 – $87
Children’s36$34$16 – $56
Critical access451$49$25 – $92
Ownership
For-profit320$50$12 – $160
Government332$43$18 – $88
Non-profit1,514$36$16 – $79
System affiliation
Part of a system1,835$37$16 – $89
Independent338$44$19 – $84

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$69
Median cash price$39
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

1,485 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $39 and the average of the middle 60% is $43; most fall between $18 and $83.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,485 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$21$39$71$117

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $117).

Of the 1,658 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,485 gave a usable cash price; 95 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 78 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,173 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (55%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,383 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,173
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here120
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded89
Hospitals that filed this code2,383

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 Pseudocholinesterase.

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, “Cholinesterase blood test, serum (CPT 82480) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82480-cholinesterase-blood-test-serum