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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Corticosterone hormone blood test

CPT 82528the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that measures the level of corticosterone, a steroid hormone made by the adrenal glands.

Hospitals typically charge $65 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 793 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $86. Most fall between $32 and $177 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
793
States
47
Filings dated
Sep 2024 – 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 793 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$39$65$155$256

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $256).

How the prices are spread

$22 – $29: 87 hospitals$22$29 – $39: 74 hospitals$39 – $52: 94 hospitals$39$52 – $69: 111 hospitals$69 – $92: 75 hospitals$69$92 – $123: 54 hospitals$123 – $163: 80 hospitals$123$163 – $217: 78 hospitals$217 – $289: 33 hospitals$217$289 – $385: 30 hospitals$289median $65price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (716 of 793 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$22$2987
$29$3974
$39$5294
$52$69111
$69$9275
$92$12354
$123$16380
$163$21778
$217$28933
$289$38530

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $65.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $48 across 23 hospitalsWA$48Idaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $163 across 18 hospitalsMN$163Illinois: median $106 across 29 hospitalsIL$106Wisconsin: median $92 across 16 hospitalsWI$92Michigan: median $30 across 16 hospitalsMI$30New York: median $53 across 38 hospitalsNY$53Massachusetts: median $111 across 15 hospitalsMA$111Oregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $57 across 14 hospitalsIA$57Indiana: median $49 across 19 hospitalsIN$49Ohio: median $58 across 50 hospitalsOH$58Pennsylvania: median $49 across 46 hospitalsPA$49New Jersey: median $25 across 36 hospitalsNJ$25Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $58 across 45 hospitalsCA$58Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $129 across 17 hospitalsCO$129Nebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $113 across 19 hospitalsMO$113Kentucky: median $83 across 14 hospitalsKY$83West Virginia: median $177 across 18 hospitalsWV$177Virginia: median $224 across 11 hospitalsVA$224Maryland: median $52 across 13 hospitalsMD$52Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $40 across 20 hospitalsAZ$40New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $298 across 10 hospitalsKS$298Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $46 across 17 hospitalsTN$46North Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $73 across 23 hospitalsSC$73Oklahoma: median $48 across 21 hospitalsOK$48Louisiana: median $36 across 10 hospitalsLA$36Mississippi: median $73 across 18 hospitalsMS$73Alabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $90 across 27 hospitalsGA$90Hawaii: median $188 across 10 hospitalsHI$188Texas: median $155 across 72 hospitalsTX$155Florida: median $36 across 35 hospitalsFL$36
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $65. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kansas KS10$298+356%$39 – $302
Virginia VA11$224+243%$187 – $338
Hawaii HI10$188+188%$134 – $188
West Virginia WV18$177+170%$177 – $177
Minnesota MN18$163+149%$20 – $214
Texas TX72$155+138%$30 – $270
Colorado CO17$129+97%$51 – $327
Missouri MO19$113+73%$61 – $278
Massachusetts MA15$111+70%$43 – $195
Illinois IL29$106+62%$40 – $330
Wisconsin WI16$92+41%$92 – $235
Georgia GA27$90+38%$90 – $102
Kentucky KY14$83+28%$22 – $136
Mississippi MS18$73+12%$43 – $132
South Carolina SC23$73+12%$73 – $109
California CA45$58−11%$52 – $175
Ohio OH50$58−12%$46 – $72
Iowa IA14$57−13%$48 – $57
New York NY38$53−19%$23 – $82
Maryland MD13$52−20%$40 – $78
Pennsylvania PA46$49−25%$22 – $392
Indiana IN19$49−26%$32 – $164
Oklahoma OK21$48−26%$40 – $112
Washington WA23$48−27%$29 – $99
Tennessee TN17$46−30%$23 – $130
Arizona AZ20$40−39%$26 – $134
Florida FL35$36−44%$23 – $107
Louisiana LA10$36−45%$24 – $52
Michigan MI16$30−54%$27 – $31
New Jersey NJ36$25−62%$23 – $77
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $65.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care653$64$30 – $175
Children’s35$98$48 – $160
Critical access102$92$48 – $182
Ownership
For-profit105$90$30 – $337
Government81$83$32 – $177
Non-profit604$64$36 – $166
System affiliation
Part of a system691$65$32 – $177
Independent102$81$40 – $160

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$129
Median cash price$65
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

524 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $69 and the average of the middle 60% is $83; most fall between $40 and $173.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 524 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
$30$48$69$155$220

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($30 vs $220).

Of the 583 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 524 gave a usable cash price; 39 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 20 a list price only.

How complete is this

793 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (20%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 877 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted793
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here55
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 — excluded28
Hospitals that filed this code877

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 ASSAY OF CORTICOSTERONE.

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, “Corticosterone hormone blood test (CPT 82528) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82528-corticosterone-hormone-blood-test