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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Cystatin C blood test

CPT 82610the billing code this page is about

Measures cystatin C, a protein in the blood used as a marker of kidney filtering function.

Hospitals typically charge $71 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,840 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $75. Most fall between $32 and $140 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,840
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 2,840 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
$21$36$71$123$193

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($21 vs $193).

How the prices are spread

$18 – $23: 197 hospitals$18$23 – $31: 189 hospitals$31 – $41: 287 hospitals$31$41 – $54: 251 hospitals$54 – $71: 350 hospitals$54$71 – $94: 379 hospitals$94 – $124: 354 hospitals$94$124 – $164: 309 hospitals$164 – $217: 157 hospitals$164$217 – $287: 84 hospitals$217median $71price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,557 of 2,840 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$18$23197
$23$31189
$31$41287
$41$54251
$54$71350
$71$94379
$94$124354
$124$164309
$164$217157
$217$28784

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $71.

Alaska: median $95 across 16 hospitalsAK$95Maine: median $72 across 26 hospitalsME$72Vermont: median $87 across 11 hospitalsVT$87New Hampshire: median $65 across 21 hospitalsNH$65Washington: median $76 across 65 hospitalsWA$76Idaho: median $82 across 21 hospitalsID$82Montana: median $54 across 21 hospitalsMT$54North Dakota: median $53 across 28 hospitalsND$53Minnesota: median $82 across 93 hospitalsMN$82Illinois: median $87 across 114 hospitalsIL$87Wisconsin: median $90 across 99 hospitalsWI$90Michigan: median $54 across 81 hospitalsMI$54New York: median $49 across 97 hospitalsNY$49Massachusetts: median $68 across 52 hospitalsMA$68Oregon: median $56 across 40 hospitalsOR$56Nevada: median $91 across 15 hospitalsNV$91Wyoming: median $74 across 15 hospitalsWY$74South Dakota: median $160 across 29 hospitalsSD$160Iowa: median $88 across 79 hospitalsIA$88Indiana: median $55 across 91 hospitalsIN$55Ohio: median $62 across 129 hospitalsOH$62Pennsylvania: median $79 across 115 hospitalsPA$79New Jersey: median $20 across 53 hospitalsNJ$20Connecticut: median $87 across 19 hospitalsCT$87Rhode Island: median $50 across 10 hospitalsRI$50California: median $58 across 104 hospitalsCA$58Utah: median $93 across 41 hospitalsUT$93Colorado: median $90 across 60 hospitalsCO$90Nebraska: median $72 across 64 hospitalsNE$72Missouri: median $73 across 68 hospitalsMO$73Kentucky: median $95 across 62 hospitalsKY$95West Virginia: median $68 across 35 hospitalsWV$68Virginia: median $85 across 69 hospitalsVA$85Maryland: median $132 across 41 hospitalsMD$132Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $74 across 34 hospitalsAZ$74New Mexico: median $92 across 24 hospitalsNM$92Kansas: median $71 across 65 hospitalsKS$71Arkansas: median $41 across 30 hospitalsAR$41Tennessee: median $42 across 68 hospitalsTN$42North Carolina: median $39 across 72 hospitalsNC$39South Carolina: median $124 across 46 hospitalsSC$124Oklahoma: median $71 across 64 hospitalsOK$71Louisiana: median $47 across 42 hospitalsLA$47Mississippi: median $26 across 44 hospitalsMS$26Alabama: median $64 across 28 hospitalsAL$64Georgia: median $82 across 93 hospitalsGA$82Hawaii: median $44 across 13 hospitalsHI$44Texas: median $54 across 197 hospitalsTX$54Florida: median $56 across 129 hospitalsFL$56
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $71. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD29$160+125%$99 – $455
Maryland MD41$132+86%$100 – $163
South Carolina SC46$124+74%$52 – $141
Kentucky KY62$95+34%$53 – $160
Alaska AK16$95+34%$49 – $152
Utah UT41$93+31%$79 – $124
New Mexico NM24$92+29%$59 – $165
Nevada NV15$91+28%$18 – $122
Colorado CO60$90+27%$32 – $145
Wisconsin WI99$90+26%$61 – $141
Iowa IA79$88+24%$64 – $139
Vermont VT11$87+23%$71 – $122
Connecticut CT19$87+22%$67 – $162
Illinois IL114$87+22%$46 – $208
Virginia VA69$85+20%$21 – $157
Minnesota MN93$82+16%$45 – $112
Georgia GA93$82+15%$51 – $146
Idaho ID21$82+15%$62 – $137
Pennsylvania PA115$79+10%$21 – $218
Washington WA65$76+7%$48 – $112
Wyoming WY15$74+4%$36 – $145
Arizona AZ34$74+3%$18 – $118
Missouri MO68$73+2%$35 – $116
Nebraska NE64$72+1%$38 – $124
Maine ME26$72+1%$29 – $104
Oklahoma OK64$710%$47 – $136
Kansas KS65$710%$38 – $179
Massachusetts MA52$68−4%$41 – $123
West Virginia WV35$68−5%$19 – $160
New Hampshire NH21$65−9%$27 – $127
Alabama AL28$64−10%$21 – $169
Ohio OH129$62−13%$37 – $100
California CA104$58−19%$29 – $108
Florida FL129$56−22%$21 – $164
Oregon OR40$56−22%$26 – $71
Indiana IN91$55−23%$27 – $137
Michigan MI81$54−24%$29 – $98
Montana MT21$54−24%$34 – $117
Texas TX197$54−25%$30 – $172
North Dakota ND28$53−26%$33 – $122
Rhode Island RI10$50−29%$34 – $103
New York NY97$49−31%$21 – $91
Louisiana LA42$47−34%$9 – $95
Hawaii HI13$44−39%$38 – $132
Tennessee TN68$42−42%$21 – $95
Arkansas AR30$41−42%$31 – $97
North Carolina NC72$39−45%$28 – $129
Mississippi MS44$26−63%$16 – $70
New Jersey NJ53$20−71%$19 – $59
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 $71.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,006$64$29 – $132
Children’s63$106$40 – $136
Critical access762$90$41 – $157
Ownership
For-profit362$76$33 – $205
Government485$82$36 – $147
Non-profit1,984$69$32 – $128
System affiliation
Part of a system2,358$71$31 – $137
Independent482$75$39 – $152

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$115
Median cash price$71
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

1,953 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $72 and the average of the middle 60% is $75; most fall between $33 and $133.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,953 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
$24$38$72$119$176

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $176).

Of the 2,143 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,953 gave a usable cash price; 99 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 91 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,840 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (72%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,075 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,840
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) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded104
Hospitals that filed this code3,075

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 HC Cystatin C, S.

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, “Cystatin C blood test (CPT 82610) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82610-cystatin-c-blood-test