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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

DHEA hormone blood test

CPT 82626the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of the hormone dehydroepiandrosterone in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $103 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,922 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $107. Most fall between $39 and $209 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,922
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 2,922 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$46$103$183$297

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $297).

How the prices are spread

$17 – $24: 154 hospitals$17$24 – $33: 190 hospitals$33 – $45: 229 hospitals$33$45 – $63: 294 hospitals$63 – $87: 287 hospitals$63$87 – $121: 395 hospitals$121 – $167: 409 hospitals$121$167 – $232: 337 hospitals$232 – $321: 217 hospitals$232$321 – $445: 118 hospitals$321median $103price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,630 of 2,922 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$17$24154
$24$33190
$33$45229
$45$63294
$63$87287
$87$121395
$121$167409
$167$232337
$232$321217
$321$445118

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $103.

Alaska: median $171 across 15 hospitalsAK$171Maine: median $105 across 25 hospitalsME$105Vermont: median $152 across 11 hospitalsVT$152New Hampshire: median $141 across 23 hospitalsNH$141Washington: median $113 across 70 hospitalsWA$113Idaho: median $90 across 21 hospitalsID$90Montana: median $167 across 28 hospitalsMT$167North Dakota: median $118 across 30 hospitalsND$118Minnesota: median $87 across 89 hospitalsMN$87Illinois: median $125 across 121 hospitalsIL$125Wisconsin: median $138 across 100 hospitalsWI$138Michigan: median $26 across 69 hospitalsMI$26New York: median $79 across 102 hospitalsNY$79Massachusetts: median $148 across 48 hospitalsMA$148Oregon: median $77 across 43 hospitalsOR$77Nevada: median $124 across 18 hospitalsNV$124Wyoming: median $132 across 15 hospitalsWY$132South Dakota: median $197 across 30 hospitalsSD$197Iowa: median $107 across 62 hospitalsIA$107Indiana: median $116 across 93 hospitalsIN$116Ohio: median $94 across 134 hospitalsOH$94Pennsylvania: median $118 across 120 hospitalsPA$118New Jersey: median $29 across 53 hospitalsNJ$29Connecticut: median $108 across 16 hospitalsCT$108Rhode Island: median $78 across 10 hospitalsRI$78California: median $25 across 109 hospitalsCA$25Utah: median $141 across 42 hospitalsUT$141Colorado: median $160 across 58 hospitalsCO$160Nebraska: median $171 across 68 hospitalsNE$171Missouri: median $109 across 71 hospitalsMO$109Kentucky: median $183 across 64 hospitalsKY$183West Virginia: median $75 across 43 hospitalsWV$75Virginia: median $94 across 67 hospitalsVA$94Maryland: median $41 across 41 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $154 across 35 hospitalsAZ$154New Mexico: median $149 across 18 hospitalsNM$149Kansas: median $128 across 72 hospitalsKS$128Arkansas: median $64 across 29 hospitalsAR$64Tennessee: median $82 across 68 hospitalsTN$82North Carolina: median $67 across 83 hospitalsNC$67South Carolina: median $158 across 47 hospitalsSC$158Oklahoma: median $82 across 69 hospitalsOK$82Louisiana: median $71 across 48 hospitalsLA$71Mississippi: median $70 across 52 hospitalsMS$70Alabama: median $76 across 40 hospitalsAL$76Georgia: median $81 across 92 hospitalsGA$81Hawaii: median $154 across 12 hospitalsHI$154Texas: median $138 across 206 hospitalsTX$138Florida: median $29 across 136 hospitalsFL$29
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $103. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD30$197+92%$64 – $395
Kentucky KY64$183+78%$67 – $291
Alaska AK15$171+67%$44 – $263
Nebraska NE68$171+66%$67 – $246
Montana MT28$167+63%$64 – $246
Colorado CO58$160+56%$51 – $229
South Carolina SC47$158+54%$93 – $251
Arizona AZ35$154+50%$30 – $186
Hawaii HI12$154+50%$49 – $347
Vermont VT11$152+48%$70 – $331
New Mexico NM18$149+45%$97 – $274
Massachusetts MA48$148+44%$62 – $232
Utah UT42$141+38%$127 – $178
New Hampshire NH23$141+38%$37 – $342
Texas TX206$138+35%$65 – $327
Wisconsin WI100$138+34%$83 – $259
Wyoming WY15$132+28%$47 – $224
Kansas KS72$128+25%$95 – $246
Illinois IL121$125+22%$63 – $264
Nevada NV18$124+21%$37 – $345
North Dakota ND30$118+15%$45 – $178
Pennsylvania PA120$118+14%$38 – $298
Indiana IN93$116+13%$41 – $218
Washington WA70$113+10%$64 – $195
Missouri MO71$109+6%$58 – $190
Connecticut CT16$108+5%$72 – $135
Iowa IA62$107+4%$64 – $155
Maine ME25$105+2%$41 – $228
Virginia VA67$94−8%$19 – $217
Ohio OH134$94−9%$42 – $180
Idaho ID21$90−13%$33 – $136
Minnesota MN89$87−15%$42 – $230
Tennessee TN68$82−20%$41 – $230
Oklahoma OK69$82−21%$33 – $120
Georgia GA92$81−21%$50 – $158
New York NY102$79−23%$26 – $239
Rhode Island RI10$78−24%$59 – $202
Oregon OR43$77−25%$36 – $161
Alabama AL40$76−26%$31 – $226
West Virginia WV43$75−27%$15 – $155
Louisiana LA48$71−31%$48 – $131
Mississippi MS52$70−32%$34 – $127
North Carolina NC83$67−35%$34 – $212
Arkansas AR29$64−38%$34 – $107
Maryland MD41$41−60%$32 – $49
Florida FL136$29−72%$11 – $98
New Jersey NJ53$29−72%$28 – $115
Michigan MI69$26−74%$17 – $53
California CA109$25−76%$11 – $88
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 $103.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,035$88$31 – $193
Children’s62$136$41 – $241
Critical access815$127$57 – $230
Ownership
For-profit393$118$35 – $379
Government514$111$45 – $213
Non-profit2,005$97$37 – $196
System affiliation
Part of a system2,377$97$37 – $210
Independent545$113$46 – $191

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$168
Median cash price$103
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

2,012 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $97 and the average of the middle 60% is $104; most fall between $40 and $197.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,012 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$47$97$176$274

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $274).

Of the 2,229 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,012 gave a usable cash price; 113 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 104 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,922 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (74%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,200 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,922
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here157
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded118
Hospitals that filed this code3,200

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 Dehydroepiandrostero.

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, “DHEA hormone blood test (CPT 82626) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82626-dhea-hormone-blood-test