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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Copper level test

CPT 82525the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $56 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,237 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $60. Most fall between $21 and $117 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,237
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 3,237 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$25$56$102$162

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $162).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $13: 145 hospitals$10$13 – $18: 211 hospitals$18 – $25: 280 hospitals$18$25 – $34: 254 hospitals$34 – $47: 351 hospitals$34$47 – $65: 403 hospitals$65 – $89: 461 hospitals$65$89 – $123: 373 hospitals$123 – $169: 305 hospitals$123$169 – $232: 132 hospitals$169median $56price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,915 of 3,237 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$13145
$13$18211
$18$25280
$25$34254
$34$47351
$47$65403
$65$89461
$89$123373
$123$169305
$169$232132

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $56.

Alaska: median $73 across 19 hospitalsAK$73Maine: median $42 across 28 hospitalsME$42Vermont: median $127 across 14 hospitalsVT$127New Hampshire: median $62 across 25 hospitalsNH$62Washington: median $73 across 75 hospitalsWA$73Idaho: median $57 across 23 hospitalsID$57Montana: median $94 across 29 hospitalsMT$94North Dakota: median $66 across 35 hospitalsND$66Minnesota: median $63 across 101 hospitalsMN$63Illinois: median $90 across 145 hospitalsIL$90Wisconsin: median $83 across 105 hospitalsWI$83Michigan: median $17 across 78 hospitalsMI$17New York: median $40 across 107 hospitalsNY$40Massachusetts: median $71 across 54 hospitalsMA$71Oregon: median $50 across 49 hospitalsOR$50Nevada: median $61 across 20 hospitalsNV$61Wyoming: median $65 across 16 hospitalsWY$65South Dakota: median $97 across 39 hospitalsSD$97Iowa: median $64 across 87 hospitalsIA$64Indiana: median $61 across 97 hospitalsIN$61Ohio: median $56 across 138 hospitalsOH$56Pennsylvania: median $65 across 121 hospitalsPA$65New Jersey: median $14 across 54 hospitalsNJ$14Connecticut: median $53 across 22 hospitalsCT$53Rhode Island: median $50 across 10 hospitalsRI$50California: median $15 across 117 hospitalsCA$15Utah: median $69 across 42 hospitalsUT$69Colorado: median $69 across 64 hospitalsCO$69Nebraska: median $119 across 79 hospitalsNE$119Missouri: median $66 across 75 hospitalsMO$66Kentucky: median $40 across 68 hospitalsKY$40West Virginia: median $37 across 42 hospitalsWV$37Virginia: median $72 across 73 hospitalsVA$72Maryland: median $68 across 41 hospitalsMD$68Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $67 across 42 hospitalsAZ$67New Mexico: median $69 across 28 hospitalsNM$69Kansas: median $53 across 81 hospitalsKS$53Arkansas: median $20 across 38 hospitalsAR$20Tennessee: median $43 across 81 hospitalsTN$43North Carolina: median $31 across 88 hospitalsNC$31South Carolina: median $103 across 53 hospitalsSC$103Oklahoma: median $49 across 70 hospitalsOK$49Louisiana: median $31 across 50 hospitalsLA$31Mississippi: median $37 across 55 hospitalsMS$37Alabama: median $70 across 44 hospitalsAL$70Georgia: median $68 across 108 hospitalsGA$68Hawaii: median $62 across 18 hospitalsHI$62Texas: median $59 across 234 hospitalsTX$59Florida: median $15 across 148 hospitalsFL$15
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $56. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT14$127+128%$58 – $193
Nebraska NE79$119+113%$42 – $172
South Carolina SC53$103+84%$56 – $117
South Dakota SD39$97+74%$46 – $133
Montana MT29$94+67%$38 – $124
Illinois IL145$90+62%$40 – $164
Wisconsin WI105$83+49%$42 – $93
Alaska AK19$73+31%$19 – $168
Washington WA75$73+31%$46 – $114
Virginia VA73$72+29%$22 – $148
Massachusetts MA54$71+26%$39 – $102
Alabama AL44$70+25%$21 – $221
Colorado CO64$69+24%$37 – $163
New Mexico NM28$69+24%$47 – $153
Utah UT42$69+23%$58 – $91
Georgia GA108$68+22%$27 – $126
Maryland MD41$68+22%$52 – $81
Arizona AZ42$67+19%$26 – $127
North Dakota ND35$66+18%$23 – $100
Missouri MO75$66+18%$35 – $110
Wyoming WY16$65+16%$39 – $118
Pennsylvania PA121$65+16%$20 – $159
Iowa IA87$64+14%$32 – $92
Minnesota MN101$63+12%$27 – $106
New Hampshire NH25$62+12%$22 – $137
Hawaii HI18$62+10%$31 – $115
Nevada NV20$61+9%$23 – $118
Indiana IN97$61+9%$22 – $125
Texas TX234$59+6%$20 – $166
Idaho ID23$57+2%$13 – $117
Ohio OH138$560%$33 – $105
Connecticut CT22$53−5%$33 – $103
Kansas KS81$53−6%$35 – $100
Rhode Island RI10$50−11%$29 – $99
Oregon OR49$50−11%$26 – $81
Oklahoma OK70$49−12%$28 – $91
Tennessee TN81$43−24%$22 – $126
Maine ME28$42−25%$30 – $98
Kentucky KY68$40−28%$30 – $117
New York NY107$40−28%$15 – $92
Mississippi MS55$37−34%$19 – $75
West Virginia WV42$37−34%$8 – $69
North Carolina NC88$31−45%$21 – $94
Louisiana LA50$31−45%$20 – $61
Arkansas AR38$20−65%$16 – $47
Michigan MI78$17−69%$8 – $38
Florida FL148$15−73%$7 – $39
California CA117$15−74%$6 – $22
New Jersey NJ54$14−74%$12 – $42
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 $56.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,219$51$18 – $112
Children’s63$65$23 – $109
Critical access945$69$35 – $123
Ownership
For-profit449$62$18 – $209
Government616$62$27 – $123
Non-profit2,162$54$21 – $105
System affiliation
Part of a system2,619$56$20 – $118
Independent618$59$27 – $109

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$91
Median cash price$56
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

2,186 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $56 and the average of the middle 60% is $59; most fall between $22 and $109.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,186 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$28$56$97$152

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $152).

Of the 2,419 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,186 gave a usable cash price; 122 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 111 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,237 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (82%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,535 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,237
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here166
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 — excluded131
Hospitals that filed this code3,535

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 Copper(Cu).

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, “Copper level test (CPT 82525) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82525-copper-level-test