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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Cholinesterase test in red blood cells

CPT 82482the billing code this page is about

Measures cholinesterase enzyme activity inside red blood cells, reported per single test regardless of whether it is drawn before or after exposure.

Hospitals typically charge $42 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,561 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $45. Most fall between $17 and $90 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,561
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 1,561 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$20$42$79$134

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $134).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $13: 107 hospitals$10$13 – $18: 147 hospitals$18 – $24: 144 hospitals$18$24 – $32: 147 hospitals$32 – $43: 167 hospitals$32$43 – $58: 198 hospitals$58 – $77: 179 hospitals$58$77 – $104: 145 hospitals$104 – $140: 102 hospitals$104$140 – $188: 70 hospitals$140median $42price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,406 of 1,561 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$13107
$13$18147
$18$24144
$24$32147
$32$43167
$43$58198
$58$77179
$77$104145
$104$140102
$140$18870

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $42.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $26 across 10 hospitalsME$26Vermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $32 across 12 hospitalsNH$32Washington: median $43 across 37 hospitalsWA$43Idaho: median $46 across 11 hospitalsID$46Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $35 across 10 hospitalsMN$35Illinois: median $65 across 84 hospitalsIL$65Wisconsin: median $79 across 47 hospitalsWI$79Michigan: median $14 across 47 hospitalsMI$14New York: median $22 across 66 hospitalsNY$22Massachusetts: median $41 across 26 hospitalsMA$41Oregon: median $35 across 23 hospitalsOR$35Nevada: median $30 across 11 hospitalsNV$30Wyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $35 across 10 hospitalsSD$35Iowa: median $34 across 30 hospitalsIA$34Indiana: median $25 across 62 hospitalsIN$25Ohio: median $49 across 97 hospitalsOH$49Pennsylvania: median $35 across 59 hospitalsPA$35New Jersey: median $11 across 36 hospitalsNJ$11Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $21 across 62 hospitalsCA$21Utah: median $77 across 33 hospitalsUT$77Colorado: median $84 across 44 hospitalsCO$84Nebraska: median $46 across 22 hospitalsNE$46Missouri: median $57 across 43 hospitalsMO$57Kentucky: median $49 across 30 hospitalsKY$49West Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $14 across 31 hospitalsVA$14Maryland: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $34 across 25 hospitalsAZ$34New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $116 across 25 hospitalsKS$116Arkansas: median $53 across 15 hospitalsAR$53Tennessee: median $24 across 35 hospitalsTN$24North Carolina: median $60 across 38 hospitalsNC$60South Carolina: median $92 across 34 hospitalsSC$92Oklahoma: median $51 across 40 hospitalsOK$51Louisiana: median $24 across 24 hospitalsLA$24Mississippi: median $30 across 30 hospitalsMS$30Alabama: median $49 across 26 hospitalsAL$49Georgia: median $61 across 49 hospitalsGA$61Hawaii: median $17 across 10 hospitalsHI$17Texas: median $45 across 118 hospitalsTX$45Florida: median $24 across 83 hospitalsFL$24
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $42. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kansas KS25$116+174%$54 – $163
South Carolina SC34$92+118%$37 – $125
Colorado CO44$84+99%$36 – $163
Wisconsin WI47$79+87%$58 – $80
Utah UT33$77+82%$65 – $107
Illinois IL84$65+53%$20 – $121
Georgia GA49$61+44%$15 – $82
North Carolina NC38$60+41%$22 – $63
Missouri MO43$57+34%$40 – $67
Arkansas AR15$53+26%$19 – $57
Oklahoma OK40$51+20%$27 – $91
Kentucky KY30$49+16%$24 – $91
Ohio OH97$49+15%$34 – $113
Alabama AL26$49+15%$14 – $106
Idaho ID11$46+9%$20 – $60
Nebraska NE22$46+9%$33 – $95
Texas TX118$45+6%$23 – $297
Washington WA37$43+1%$22 – $65
Massachusetts MA26$41−2%$22 – $87
Minnesota MN10$35−17%$18 – $98
South Dakota SD10$35−17%$30 – $86
Oregon OR23$35−17%$16 – $52
Pennsylvania PA59$35−18%$9 – $108
Arizona AZ25$34−20%$11 – $54
Iowa IA30$34−21%$29 – $62
New Hampshire NH12$32−25%$18 – $56
Nevada NV11$30−29%$9 – $52
Mississippi MS30$30−30%$18 – $54
Maine ME10$26−38%$11 – $38
Indiana IN62$25−41%$16 – $61
Florida FL83$24−44%$11 – $72
Tennessee TN35$24−44%$13 – $38
Louisiana LA24$24−44%$13 – $79
New York NY66$22−48%$12 – $72
California CA62$21−50%$9 – $26
Hawaii HI10$17−59%$17 – $69
Virginia VA31$14−67%$13 – $87
Michigan MI47$14−68%$9 – $54
New Jersey NJ36$11−74%$10 – $16
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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 $42.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,249$41$15 – $88
Children’s25$48$19 – $191
Critical access280$52$25 – $95
Ownership
For-profit238$42$14 – $177
Government220$47$18 – $82
Non-profit1,096$42$17 – $82
System affiliation
Part of a system1,345$42$16 – $90
Independent216$47$21 – $89

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$78
Median cash price$42
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

1,100 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $44 and the average of the middle 60% is $46; most fall between $20 and $82.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,100 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
$14$23$44$77$122

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $122).

Of the 1,238 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,100 gave a usable cash price; 82 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 56 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,561 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (39%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,727 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,561
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here99
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 — excluded66
Hospitals that filed this code1,727

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 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 Assay, Rbc Cholinesterase.

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 test in red blood cells (CPT 82482) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82482-cholinesterase-test-in-red-blood-cells