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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Free estradiol blood test

CPT 82681the billing code this page is about

A lab test that measures the unbound (free) portion of the estrogen estradiol in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $85 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,026 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $88. Most fall between $38 and $166 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,026
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 1,026 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
$29$45$85$140$283

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($29 vs $283).

How the prices are spread

$21 – $28: 29 hospitals$21$28 – $37: 116 hospitals$37 – $49: 95 hospitals$37$49 – $65: 104 hospitals$65 – $86: 127 hospitals$65$86 – $115: 174 hospitals$115 – $152: 114 hospitals$115$152 – $203: 57 hospitals$203 – $270: 43 hospitals$203$270 – $359: 68 hospitals$270median $85price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (927 of 1,026 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$21$2829
$28$37116
$37$4995
$49$65104
$65$86127
$86$115174
$115$152114
$152$20357
$203$27043
$270$35968

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $85.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $221 across 12 hospitalsNH$221Washington: median $120 across 31 hospitalsWA$120Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $50 across 11 hospitalsND$50Minnesota: median $68 across 15 hospitalsMN$68Illinois: median $109 across 33 hospitalsIL$109Wisconsin: median $105 across 31 hospitalsWI$105Michigan: median $47 across 22 hospitalsMI$47New York: median $34 across 49 hospitalsNY$34Massachusetts: median $111 across 24 hospitalsMA$111Oregon: median $126 across 13 hospitalsOR$126Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $68 across 10 hospitalsSD$68Iowa: median $55 across 14 hospitalsIA$55Indiana: median $52 across 33 hospitalsIN$52Ohio: median $111 across 83 hospitalsOH$111Pennsylvania: median $88 across 65 hospitalsPA$88New Jersey: median $31 across 39 hospitalsNJ$31Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $67 across 53 hospitalsCA$67Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $168 across 25 hospitalsCO$168Nebraska: median $117 across 11 hospitalsNE$117Missouri: median $83 across 12 hospitalsMO$83Kentucky: median $90 across 25 hospitalsKY$90West Virginia: median $36 across 17 hospitalsWV$36Virginia: median $36 across 36 hospitalsVA$36Maryland: median $77 across 11 hospitalsMD$77Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $64 across 15 hospitalsAZ$64New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $107 across 10 hospitalsKS$107Arkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $36 across 24 hospitalsTN$36North Carolina: median $30 across 11 hospitalsNC$30South Carolina: median $262 across 12 hospitalsSC$262Oklahoma: median $84 across 24 hospitalsOK$84Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $43 across 17 hospitalsMS$43Alabama: median $83 across 11 hospitalsAL$83Georgia: median $59 across 51 hospitalsGA$59Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $102 across 56 hospitalsTX$102Florida: median $99 across 42 hospitalsFL$99
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $85. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC12$262+208%$262 – $262
New Hampshire NH12$221+160%$138 – $358
Colorado CO25$168+97%$104 – $176
Oregon OR13$126+48%$85 – $166
Washington WA31$120+41%$52 – $264
Nebraska NE11$117+38%$64 – $151
Massachusetts MA24$111+30%$49 – $175
Ohio OH83$111+30%$74 – $300
Illinois IL33$109+28%$88 – $223
Kansas KS10$107+26%$35 – $129
Wisconsin WI31$105+23%$66 – $105
Texas TX56$102+20%$102 – $252
Florida FL42$99+16%$56 – $103
Kentucky KY25$90+6%$81 – $784
Pennsylvania PA65$88+3%$42 – $140
Oklahoma OK24$84−1%$68 – $147
Alabama AL11$83−2%$42 – $537
Missouri MO12$83−3%$53 – $139
Maryland MD11$77−10%$50 – $132
Minnesota MN15$68−20%$29 – $118
South Dakota SD10$68−20%$67 – $287
California CA53$67−22%$46 – $146
Arizona AZ15$64−25%$32 – $206
Georgia GA51$59−31%$21 – $123
Iowa IA14$55−35%$55 – $55
Indiana IN33$52−39%$33 – $103
North Dakota ND11$50−41%$43 – $74
Michigan MI22$47−45%$39 – $47
Mississippi MS17$43−49%$24 – $82
West Virginia WV17$36−58%$36 – $36
Tennessee TN24$36−58%$35 – $116
Virginia VA36$36−58%$17 – $122
New York NY49$34−60%$28 – $83
New Jersey NJ39$31−64%$28 – $32
North Carolina NC11$30−65%$26 – $148
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $85.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care829$87$36 – $161
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access179$76$43 – $166
Ownership
For-profit115$103$49 – $252
Government116$74$38 – $141
Non-profit789$82$36 – $153
System affiliation
Part of a system905$84$39 – $166
Independent121$87$37 – $175

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$141
Median cash price$85
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

789 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $98 and the average of the middle 60% is $96; most fall between $47 and $176.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 789 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
$32$52$98$146$284

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($32 vs $284).

Of the 871 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 789 gave a usable cash price; 63 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 19 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,026 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (26%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,121 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,026
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here76
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded18
Hospitals that filed this code1,121

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 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 ASSAY DIR MEAS FR ESTRADIOL.

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, “Free estradiol blood test (CPT 82681) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82681-free-estradiol-blood-test