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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Chromium level blood test

CPT 82495the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that measures the amount of the trace metal chromium in a blood or other body fluid sample.

Hospitals typically charge $69 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,676 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $74. Most fall between $32 and $139 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,676
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 2,676 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
$22$36$69$123$210

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $210).

How the prices are spread

$17 – $22: 138 hospitals$17$22 – $30: 219 hospitals$30 – $39: 271 hospitals$30$39 – $52: 269 hospitals$52 – $69: 298 hospitals$52$69 – $91: 347 hospitals$91 – $121: 323 hospitals$91$121 – $160: 249 hospitals$160 – $213: 169 hospitals$160$213 – $282: 130 hospitals$213median $69price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,413 of 2,676 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$17$22138
$22$30219
$30$39271
$39$52269
$52$69298
$69$91347
$91$121323
$121$160249
$160$213169
$213$282130

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $69.

Alaska: median $85 across 14 hospitalsAK$85Maine: median $55 across 27 hospitalsME$55Vermont: median $145 across 12 hospitalsVT$145New Hampshire: median $81 across 20 hospitalsNH$81Washington: median $75 across 65 hospitalsWA$75Idaho: median $62 across 21 hospitalsID$62Montana: median $88 across 19 hospitalsMT$88North Dakota: median $100 across 18 hospitalsND$100Minnesota: median $74 across 83 hospitalsMN$74Illinois: median $106 across 125 hospitalsIL$106Wisconsin: median $80 across 92 hospitalsWI$80Michigan: median $17 across 72 hospitalsMI$17New York: median $55 across 94 hospitalsNY$55Massachusetts: median $111 across 47 hospitalsMA$111Oregon: median $61 across 43 hospitalsOR$61Nevada: median $84 across 16 hospitalsNV$84Wyoming: median $90 across 15 hospitalsWY$90South Dakota: median $108 across 12 hospitalsSD$108Iowa: median $85 across 60 hospitalsIA$85Indiana: median $88 across 85 hospitalsIN$88Ohio: median $86 across 134 hospitalsOH$86Pennsylvania: median $67 across 112 hospitalsPA$67New Jersey: median $23 across 51 hospitalsNJ$23Connecticut: median $81 across 18 hospitalsCT$81Rhode Island: median $75 across 10 hospitalsRI$75California: median $37 across 92 hospitalsCA$37Utah: median $72 across 40 hospitalsUT$72Colorado: median $83 across 54 hospitalsCO$83Nebraska: median $94 across 47 hospitalsNE$94Missouri: median $63 across 63 hospitalsMO$63Kentucky: median $89 across 57 hospitalsKY$89West Virginia: median $54 across 36 hospitalsWV$54Virginia: median $66 across 60 hospitalsVA$66Maryland: median $109 across 37 hospitalsMD$109Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $98 across 38 hospitalsAZ$98New Mexico: median $97 across 21 hospitalsNM$97Kansas: median $85 across 48 hospitalsKS$85Arkansas: median $60 across 33 hospitalsAR$60Tennessee: median $44 across 70 hospitalsTN$44North Carolina: median $49 across 79 hospitalsNC$49South Carolina: median $98 across 49 hospitalsSC$98Oklahoma: median $54 across 57 hospitalsOK$54Louisiana: median $39 across 43 hospitalsLA$39Mississippi: median $48 across 48 hospitalsMS$48Alabama: median $43 across 36 hospitalsAL$43Georgia: median $93 across 96 hospitalsGA$93Hawaii: median $52 across 11 hospitalsHI$52Texas: median $91 across 177 hospitalsTX$91Florida: median $39 across 112 hospitalsFL$39
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $69. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT12$145+110%$83 – $338
Massachusetts MA47$111+61%$50 – $177
Maryland MD37$109+57%$71 – $128
South Dakota SD12$108+56%$59 – $156
Illinois IL125$106+53%$53 – $151
North Dakota ND18$100+45%$62 – $185
Arizona AZ38$98+42%$31 – $206
South Carolina SC49$98+42%$63 – $169
New Mexico NM21$97+41%$46 – $212
Nebraska NE47$94+36%$50 – $162
Georgia GA96$93+34%$41 – $170
Texas TX177$91+32%$35 – $199
Wyoming WY15$90+30%$38 – $102
Kentucky KY57$89+29%$53 – $254
Montana MT19$88+27%$40 – $137
Indiana IN85$88+27%$33 – $147
Ohio OH134$86+25%$47 – $133
Iowa IA60$85+24%$32 – $150
Kansas KS48$85+23%$45 – $275
Alaska AK14$85+22%$66 – $284
Nevada NV16$84+22%$50 – $151
Colorado CO54$83+21%$38 – $175
New Hampshire NH20$81+17%$20 – $156
Connecticut CT18$81+17%$49 – $123
Wisconsin WI92$80+16%$44 – $116
Rhode Island RI10$75+9%$47 – $162
Washington WA65$75+9%$38 – $99
Minnesota MN83$74+7%$39 – $123
Utah UT40$72+5%$51 – $105
Pennsylvania PA112$67−3%$23 – $200
Virginia VA60$66−5%$34 – $126
Missouri MO63$63−9%$44 – $80
Idaho ID21$62−11%$19 – $176
Oregon OR43$61−11%$35 – $98
Arkansas AR33$60−13%$23 – $96
Maine ME27$55−21%$38 – $135
New York NY94$55−21%$20 – $120
Oklahoma OK57$54−22%$31 – $77
West Virginia WV36$54−22%$28 – $87
Hawaii HI11$52−25%$52 – $186
North Carolina NC79$49−28%$24 – $121
Mississippi MS48$48−30%$25 – $92
Tennessee TN70$44−37%$34 – $101
Alabama AL36$43−37%$24 – $164
Florida FL112$39−43%$19 – $81
Louisiana LA43$39−44%$21 – $68
California CA92$37−46%$13 – $38
New Jersey NJ51$23−66%$22 – $142
Michigan MI72$17−75%$12 – $51
Delaware DE7not 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 $69.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,960$64$28 – $131
Children’s43$58$36 – $165
Critical access665$85$43 – $152
Ownership
For-profit359$86$35 – $225
Government443$72$35 – $133
Non-profit1,866$67$31 – $131
System affiliation
Part of a system2,197$68$31 – $139
Independent479$77$37 – $140

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$116
Median cash price$69
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

1,838 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $70 and the average of the middle 60% is $75; most fall between $34 and $134.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,838 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
$23$37$70$122$197

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $197).

Of the 2,028 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,838 gave a usable cash price; 97 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 93 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,676 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (68%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,915 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,676
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here130
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded105
Hospitals that filed this code2,915

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 PR Occ Hlth Lab - Chromium, Serum.

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, “Chromium level blood test (CPT 82495) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82495-chromium-level-blood-test