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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Creatine kinase MB fraction blood test

CPT 82553the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that measures the MB fraction of creatine kinase, the form associated with heart muscle.

Hospitals typically charge $83 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,026 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $89. Most fall between $34 and $175 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,026
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 3,026 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
$20$41$83$149$270

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $270).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $19: 126 hospitals$14$19 – $27: 172 hospitals$27 – $38: 245 hospitals$27$38 – $53: 323 hospitals$53 – $74: 335 hospitals$53$74 – $103: 450 hospitals$103 – $144: 429 hospitals$103$144 – $201: 320 hospitals$201 – $281: 184 hospitals$201$281 – $392: 140 hospitals$281median $83price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,724 of 3,026 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$19126
$19$27172
$27$38245
$38$53323
$53$74335
$74$103450
$103$144429
$144$201320
$201$281184
$281$392140

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $83.

Alaska: median $190 across 17 hospitalsAK$190Maine: median $81 across 23 hospitalsME$81Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $67 across 17 hospitalsNH$67Washington: median $125 across 75 hospitalsWA$125Idaho: median $82 across 24 hospitalsID$82Montana: median $108 across 25 hospitalsMT$108North Dakota: median $91 across 26 hospitalsND$91Minnesota: median $60 across 63 hospitalsMN$60Illinois: median $125 across 127 hospitalsIL$125Wisconsin: median $88 across 73 hospitalsWI$88Michigan: median $45 across 74 hospitalsMI$45New York: median $32 across 102 hospitalsNY$32Massachusetts: median $57 across 45 hospitalsMA$57Oregon: median $103 across 48 hospitalsOR$103Nevada: median $122 across 22 hospitalsNV$122Wyoming: median $103 across 16 hospitalsWY$103South Dakota: median $200 across 33 hospitalsSD$200Iowa: median $101 across 87 hospitalsIA$101Indiana: median $61 across 93 hospitalsIN$61Ohio: median $64 across 124 hospitalsOH$64Pennsylvania: median $58 across 117 hospitalsPA$58New Jersey: median $13 across 57 hospitalsNJ$13Connecticut: median $41 across 20 hospitalsCT$41Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $185 across 155 hospitalsCA$185Utah: median $62 across 40 hospitalsUT$62Colorado: median $93 across 63 hospitalsCO$93Nebraska: median $149 across 70 hospitalsNE$149Missouri: median $79 across 73 hospitalsMO$79Kentucky: median $83 across 67 hospitalsKY$83West Virginia: median $43 across 43 hospitalsWV$43Virginia: median $112 across 59 hospitalsVA$112Maryland: median $41 across 38 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $117 across 39 hospitalsAZ$117New Mexico: median $85 across 28 hospitalsNM$85Kansas: median $90 across 84 hospitalsKS$90Arkansas: median $77 across 25 hospitalsAR$77Tennessee: median $40 across 66 hospitalsTN$40North Carolina: median $86 across 87 hospitalsNC$86South Carolina: median $115 across 51 hospitalsSC$115Oklahoma: median $76 across 72 hospitalsOK$76Louisiana: median $43 across 53 hospitalsLA$43Mississippi: median $53 across 54 hospitalsMS$53Alabama: median $79 across 44 hospitalsAL$79Georgia: median $92 across 106 hospitalsGA$92Hawaii: median $90 across 18 hospitalsHI$90Texas: median $125 across 228 hospitalsTX$125Florida: median $181 across 133 hospitalsFL$181
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $83. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD33$200+140%$138 – $282
Alaska AK17$190+128%$131 – $374
California CA155$185+122%$52 – $377
Florida FL133$181+118%$49 – $945
Nebraska NE70$149+78%$74 – $206
Texas TX228$125+50%$33 – $263
Illinois IL127$125+50%$76 – $206
Washington WA75$125+50%$65 – $165
Nevada NV22$122+46%$57 – $302
Arizona AZ39$117+40%$14 – $332
South Carolina SC51$115+38%$42 – $190
Virginia VA59$112+34%$48 – $270
Montana MT25$108+30%$56 – $168
Oregon OR48$103+23%$52 – $119
Wyoming WY16$103+23%$23 – $155
Iowa IA87$101+22%$64 – $139
Colorado CO63$93+11%$67 – $185
Georgia GA106$92+10%$35 – $226
North Dakota ND26$91+9%$76 – $105
Kansas KS84$90+8%$61 – $122
Hawaii HI18$90+8%$58 – $157
Wisconsin WI73$88+6%$52 – $130
North Carolina NC87$86+3%$46 – $122
New Mexico NM28$85+2%$57 – $100
Kentucky KY67$830%$35 – $170
Idaho ID24$82−2%$50 – $111
Maine ME23$81−3%$30 – $157
Alabama AL44$79−5%$38 – $194
Missouri MO73$79−6%$52 – $130
Arkansas AR25$77−8%$25 – $109
Oklahoma OK72$76−9%$35 – $120
New Hampshire NH17$67−20%$43 – $142
Ohio OH124$64−23%$41 – $115
Utah UT40$62−26%$52 – $115
Indiana IN93$61−27%$21 – $107
Minnesota MN63$60−29%$30 – $179
Pennsylvania PA117$58−31%$15 – $146
Massachusetts MA45$57−32%$33 – $102
Mississippi MS54$53−36%$33 – $106
Michigan MI74$45−46%$22 – $83
West Virginia WV43$43−48%$17 – $111
Louisiana LA53$43−49%$22 – $97
Connecticut CT20$41−50%$29 – $128
Maryland MD38$41−51%$30 – $49
Tennessee TN66$40−52%$26 – $79
New York NY102$32−62%$16 – $63
New Jersey NJ57$13−84%$13 – $34
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $83.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,112$77$30 – $179
Children’s48$90$35 – $266
Critical access858$93$49 – $157
Ownership
For-profit427$125$43 – $448
Government589$92$43 – $159
Non-profit2,002$76$31 – $154
System affiliation
Part of a system2,423$84$33 – $179
Independent603$81$39 – $148

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$140
Median cash price$83
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

2,023 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $83 and the average of the middle 60% is $90; most fall between $36 and $175.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,023 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$44$83$151$261

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $261).

Of the 2,250 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,023 gave a usable cash price; 119 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 108 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,026 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (76%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,314 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,026
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here160
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 — excluded127
Hospitals that filed this code3,314

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 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 CREATINE MB FRACTION.

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, “Creatine kinase MB fraction blood test (CPT 82553) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82553-creatine-kinase-mb-fraction-blood-test