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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Creatinine blood test

CPT 82565the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that measures creatinine in blood, a waste product used to gauge kidney function.

Hospitals typically charge $35 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,410 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $37. Most fall between $15 and $67 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,410
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 3,410 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
$9$18$35$60$110

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $110).

How the prices are spread

$6 – $8: 143 hospitals$6$8 – $11: 171 hospitals$11 – $16: 251 hospitals$11$16 – $23: 360 hospitals$23 – $32: 465 hospitals$23$32 – $46: 607 hospitals$46 – $66: 528 hospitals$46$66 – $94: 292 hospitals$94 – $134: 164 hospitals$94$134 – $191: 95 hospitals$134median $35price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,076 of 3,410 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$8143
$8$11171
$11$16251
$16$23360
$23$32465
$32$46607
$46$66528
$66$94292
$94$134164
$134$19195

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $35.

Alaska: median $72 across 19 hospitalsAK$72Maine: median $30 across 28 hospitalsME$30Vermont: median $42 across 14 hospitalsVT$42New Hampshire: median $29 across 25 hospitalsNH$29Washington: median $42 across 70 hospitalsWA$42Idaho: median $29 across 25 hospitalsID$29Montana: median $43 across 33 hospitalsMT$43North Dakota: median $40 across 33 hospitalsND$40Minnesota: median $35 across 107 hospitalsMN$35Illinois: median $46 across 143 hospitalsIL$46Wisconsin: median $39 across 108 hospitalsWI$39Michigan: median $22 across 101 hospitalsMI$22New York: median $19 across 118 hospitalsNY$19Massachusetts: median $33 across 54 hospitalsMA$33Oregon: median $23 across 51 hospitalsOR$23Nevada: median $57 across 22 hospitalsNV$57Wyoming: median $29 across 16 hospitalsWY$29South Dakota: median $72 across 41 hospitalsSD$72Iowa: median $36 across 90 hospitalsIA$36Indiana: median $24 across 94 hospitalsIN$24Ohio: median $23 across 144 hospitalsOH$23Pennsylvania: median $24 across 122 hospitalsPA$24New Jersey: median $6 across 57 hospitalsNJ$6Connecticut: median $23 across 23 hospitalsCT$23Rhode Island: median $33 across 10 hospitalsRI$33California: median $65 across 163 hospitalsCA$65Utah: median $47 across 43 hospitalsUT$47Colorado: median $35 across 72 hospitalsCO$35Nebraska: median $57 across 84 hospitalsNE$57Missouri: median $25 across 77 hospitalsMO$25Kentucky: median $43 across 69 hospitalsKY$43West Virginia: median $32 across 44 hospitalsWV$32Virginia: median $60 across 73 hospitalsVA$60Maryland: median $5 across 42 hospitalsMD$5Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $46 across 42 hospitalsAZ$46New Mexico: median $55 across 30 hospitalsNM$55Kansas: median $34 across 95 hospitalsKS$34Arkansas: median $14 across 40 hospitalsAR$14Tennessee: median $23 across 83 hospitalsTN$23North Carolina: median $40 across 88 hospitalsNC$40South Carolina: median $42 across 53 hospitalsSC$42Oklahoma: median $27 across 73 hospitalsOK$27Louisiana: median $19 across 54 hospitalsLA$19Mississippi: median $24 across 54 hospitalsMS$24Alabama: median $25 across 45 hospitalsAL$25Georgia: median $28 across 110 hospitalsGA$28Hawaii: median $35 across 21 hospitalsHI$35Texas: median $54 across 245 hospitalsTX$54Florida: median $64 across 155 hospitalsFL$64
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $35. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD41$72+106%$41 – $103
Alaska AK19$72+105%$37 – $97
California CA163$65+86%$16 – $117
Florida FL155$64+83%$14 – $402
Virginia VA73$60+71%$36 – $81
Nevada NV22$57+64%$27 – $115
Nebraska NE84$57+63%$25 – $75
New Mexico NM30$55+58%$27 – $88
Texas TX245$54+53%$24 – $189
Utah UT43$47+35%$40 – $61
Illinois IL143$46+32%$26 – $85
Arizona AZ42$46+31%$8 – $191
Montana MT33$43+23%$28 – $57
Kentucky KY69$43+22%$16 – $85
Vermont VT14$42+21%$17 – $70
South Carolina SC53$42+20%$28 – $54
Washington WA70$42+19%$23 – $61
North Dakota ND33$40+14%$32 – $52
North Carolina NC88$40+13%$22 – $56
Wisconsin WI108$39+12%$21 – $51
Iowa IA90$36+2%$29 – $51
Minnesota MN107$35+1%$15 – $62
Hawaii HI21$350%$25 – $47
Colorado CO72$35−1%$25 – $52
Kansas KS95$34−4%$18 – $46
Massachusetts MA54$33−6%$14 – $50
Rhode Island RI10$33−6%$11 – $38
West Virginia WV44$32−10%$19 – $55
Maine ME28$30−15%$13 – $61
New Hampshire NH25$29−17%$14 – $65
Idaho ID25$29−17%$23 – $44
Wyoming WY16$29−17%$12 – $58
Georgia GA110$28−20%$17 – $56
Oklahoma OK73$27−22%$17 – $42
Missouri MO77$25−28%$15 – $58
Alabama AL45$25−29%$12 – $48
Mississippi MS54$24−31%$11 – $51
Pennsylvania PA122$24−31%$8 – $60
Indiana IN94$24−31%$11 – $58
Oregon OR51$23−33%$14 – $46
Ohio OH144$23−33%$12 – $43
Connecticut CT23$23−36%$16 – $31
Tennessee TN83$23−36%$11 – $53
Michigan MI101$22−37%$9 – $43
Louisiana LA54$19−45%$11 – $53
New York NY118$19−47%$6 – $67
Arkansas AR40$14−59%$5 – $57
New Jersey NJ57$6−83%$6 – $21
Maryland MD42$5−84%$4 – $7
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 $35.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,330$32$13 – $68
Children’s69$38$21 – $95
Critical access1,001$41$23 – $64
Ownership
For-profit476$57$20 – $237
Government651$39$18 – $62
Non-profit2,273$33$14 – $61
System affiliation
Part of a system2,745$35$15 – $69
Independent665$34$16 – $61

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$59
Median cash price$35
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

2,290 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $35 and the average of the middle 60% is $37; most fall between $16 and $65.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,290 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
$9$19$35$58$104

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $104).

Of the 2,534 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,290 gave a usable cash price; 130 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 114 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,410 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (86%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,725 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,410
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here177
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 — excluded137
Hospitals that filed this code3,725

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 Creatinine, POC.

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, “Creatinine blood test (CPT 82565) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82565-creatinine-blood-test