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Stool pancreatic elastase test, exact amount

CPT 82653the billing code this page is about

Measures the amount of the pancreatic enzyme elastase in a stool sample, reported as a number.

Hospitals typically charge $97 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,398 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $106. Most fall between $42 and $219 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,398
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 2024 – 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 2,398 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
$27$50$97$188$324

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($27 vs $324).

How the prices are spread

$22 – $30: 148 hospitals$22$30 – $40: 174 hospitals$40 – $55: 228 hospitals$40$55 – $74: 300 hospitals$74 – $101: 288 hospitals$74$101 – $136: 306 hospitals$136 – $185: 215 hospitals$136$185 – $250: 258 hospitals$250 – $339: 150 hospitals$250$339 – $460: 96 hospitals$339median $97price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,163 of 2,398 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$22$30148
$30$40174
$40$55228
$55$74300
$74$101288
$101$136306
$136$185215
$185$250258
$250$339150
$339$46096

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $97.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $86 across 21 hospitalsME$86Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $55 across 20 hospitalsNH$55Washington: median $87 across 58 hospitalsWA$87Idaho: median $103 across 17 hospitalsID$103Montana: median $113 across 21 hospitalsMT$113North Dakota: median $79 across 24 hospitalsND$79Minnesota: median $91 across 90 hospitalsMN$91Illinois: median $112 across 94 hospitalsIL$112Wisconsin: median $115 across 91 hospitalsWI$115Michigan: median $57 across 84 hospitalsMI$57New York: median $49 across 72 hospitalsNY$49Massachusetts: median $138 across 41 hospitalsMA$138Oregon: median $108 across 34 hospitalsOR$108Nevada: median $91 across 11 hospitalsNV$91Wyoming: median $64 across 11 hospitalsWY$64South Dakota: median $314 across 27 hospitalsSD$314Iowa: median $156 across 67 hospitalsIA$156Indiana: median $79 across 71 hospitalsIN$79Ohio: median $103 across 119 hospitalsOH$103Pennsylvania: median $108 across 98 hospitalsPA$108New Jersey: median $25 across 44 hospitalsNJ$25Connecticut: median $73 across 17 hospitalsCT$73Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $60 across 82 hospitalsCA$60Utah: median $314 across 31 hospitalsUT$314Colorado: median $152 across 45 hospitalsCO$152Nebraska: median $174 across 65 hospitalsNE$174Missouri: median $97 across 55 hospitalsMO$97Kentucky: median $207 across 51 hospitalsKY$207West Virginia: median $68 across 34 hospitalsWV$68Virginia: median $85 across 68 hospitalsVA$85Maryland: median $79 across 34 hospitalsMD$79Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $47 across 22 hospitalsAZ$47New Mexico: median $71 across 21 hospitalsNM$71Kansas: median $159 across 51 hospitalsKS$159Arkansas: median $42 across 31 hospitalsAR$42Tennessee: median $60 across 51 hospitalsTN$60North Carolina: median $67 across 65 hospitalsNC$67South Carolina: median $110 across 38 hospitalsSC$110Oklahoma: median $124 across 54 hospitalsOK$124Louisiana: median $46 across 37 hospitalsLA$46Mississippi: median $41 across 47 hospitalsMS$41Alabama: median $51 across 22 hospitalsAL$51Georgia: median $91 across 72 hospitalsGA$91Hawaii: median $92 across 15 hospitalsHI$92Texas: median $99 across 144 hospitalsTX$99Florida: median $92 across 100 hospitalsFL$92
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $97. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD27$314+224%$78 – $761
Utah UT31$314+224%$249 – $369
Kentucky KY51$207+113%$74 – $337
Nebraska NE65$174+79%$103 – $243
Kansas KS51$159+64%$84 – $350
Iowa IA67$156+61%$64 – $237
Colorado CO45$152+57%$110 – $228
Massachusetts MA41$138+43%$50 – $368
Oklahoma OK54$124+27%$51 – $235
Wisconsin WI91$115+19%$65 – $152
Montana MT21$113+16%$84 – $131
Illinois IL94$112+15%$48 – $254
South Carolina SC38$110+13%$35 – $521
Pennsylvania PA98$108+12%$43 – $270
Oregon OR34$108+12%$56 – $152
Ohio OH119$103+6%$66 – $200
Idaho ID17$103+6%$74 – $210
Texas TX144$99+2%$59 – $350
Missouri MO55$970%$63 – $166
Hawaii HI15$92−5%$91 – $130
Florida FL100$92−5%$48 – $249
Minnesota MN90$91−6%$39 – $137
Nevada NV11$91−6%$22 – $139
Georgia GA72$91−7%$63 – $207
Washington WA58$87−10%$26 – $209
Maine ME21$86−11%$34 – $248
Virginia VA68$85−12%$23 – $365
North Dakota ND24$79−19%$40 – $158
Indiana IN71$79−19%$38 – $162
Maryland MD34$79−19%$57 – $317
Connecticut CT17$73−25%$50 – $97
New Mexico NM21$71−27%$34 – $169
West Virginia WV34$68−30%$35 – $189
North Carolina NC65$67−31%$44 – $214
Wyoming WY11$64−34%$58 – $308
California CA82$60−38%$33 – $120
Tennessee TN51$60−38%$15 – $138
Michigan MI84$57−41%$32 – $88
New Hampshire NH20$55−43%$45 – $160
Alabama AL22$51−47%$26 – $165
New York NY72$49−50%$28 – $139
Arizona AZ22$47−52%$21 – $372
Louisiana LA37$46−53%$16 – $192
Arkansas AR31$42−57%$40 – $66
Mississippi MS47$41−58%$21 – $124
New Jersey NJ44$25−74%$23 – $65
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
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 $97.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,696$90$40 – $203
Children’s52$117$55 – $183
Critical access643$127$53 – $252
Ownership
For-profit274$102$48 – $343
Government393$119$52 – $241
Non-profit1,724$93$40 – $200
System affiliation
Part of a system2,049$94$42 – $211
Independent349$119$51 – $251

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$159
Median cash price$97
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

1,693 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $98 and the average of the middle 60% is $105; most fall between $45 and $206.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,693 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
$31$55$98$182$293

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($31 vs $293).

Of the 1,851 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,693 gave a usable cash price; 93 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 65 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,398 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (61%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,582 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,398
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here122
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded60
Hospitals that filed this code2,582

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 Other Laboratory family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Pancreatic Elastace, Stool.

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, “Stool pancreatic elastase test, exact amount (CPT 82653) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82653-stool-pancreatic-elastase-test-exact-amount