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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Ethylene glycol level (antifreeze)

CPT 82693the billing code this page is about

A lab test that measures the amount of ethylene glycol, the toxic alcohol found in antifreeze, in a blood or other body fluid sample.

Hospitals typically charge $74 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,325 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $82. Most fall between $30 and $163 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,325
States
50
Filings dated
Nov 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 2,325 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
$17$36$74$138$249

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $249).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $19: 156 hospitals$14$19 – $26: 139 hospitals$26 – $37: 200 hospitals$26$37 – $52: 250 hospitals$52 – $73: 294 hospitals$52$73 – $102: 256 hospitals$102 – $143: 385 hospitals$102$143 – $200: 219 hospitals$200 – $280: 121 hospitals$200$280 – $393: 79 hospitals$280median $74price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,099 of 2,325 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$19156
$19$26139
$26$37200
$37$52250
$52$73294
$73$102256
$102$143385
$143$200219
$200$280121
$280$39379

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $74.

Alaska: median $133 across 13 hospitalsAK$133Maine: median $131 across 18 hospitalsME$131Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $71 across 18 hospitalsNH$71Washington: median $69 across 51 hospitalsWA$69Idaho: median $75 across 15 hospitalsID$75Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $125 across 28 hospitalsMN$125Illinois: median $120 across 111 hospitalsIL$120Wisconsin: median $113 across 70 hospitalsWI$113Michigan: median $37 across 69 hospitalsMI$37New York: median $38 across 90 hospitalsNY$38Massachusetts: median $105 across 42 hospitalsMA$105Oregon: median $88 across 30 hospitalsOR$88Nevada: median $73 across 15 hospitalsNV$73Wyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $44 across 33 hospitalsIA$44Indiana: median $102 across 82 hospitalsIN$102Ohio: median $73 across 117 hospitalsOH$73Pennsylvania: median $86 across 113 hospitalsPA$86New Jersey: median $16 across 49 hospitalsNJ$16Connecticut: median $61 across 18 hospitalsCT$61Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $48 across 91 hospitalsCA$48Utah: median $133 across 37 hospitalsUT$133Colorado: median $148 across 47 hospitalsCO$148Nebraska: median $140 across 34 hospitalsNE$140Missouri: median $106 across 62 hospitalsMO$106Kentucky: median $113 across 50 hospitalsKY$113West Virginia: median $7 across 24 hospitalsWV$7Virginia: median $69 across 60 hospitalsVA$69Maryland: median $40 across 38 hospitalsMD$40Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $83 across 33 hospitalsAZ$83New Mexico: median $88 across 16 hospitalsNM$88Kansas: median $126 across 38 hospitalsKS$126Arkansas: median $81 across 17 hospitalsAR$81Tennessee: median $57 across 70 hospitalsTN$57North Carolina: median $86 across 78 hospitalsNC$86South Carolina: median $74 across 49 hospitalsSC$74Oklahoma: median $67 across 49 hospitalsOK$67Louisiana: median $33 across 30 hospitalsLA$33Mississippi: median $60 across 37 hospitalsMS$60Alabama: median $46 across 32 hospitalsAL$46Georgia: median $87 across 88 hospitalsGA$87Hawaii: median $75 across 14 hospitalsHI$75Texas: median $138 across 186 hospitalsTX$138Florida: median $23 across 115 hospitalsFL$23
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $74. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO47$148+100%$65 – $348
Nebraska NE34$140+89%$65 – $237
Texas TX186$138+86%$49 – $214
Alaska AK13$133+80%$23 – $277
Utah UT37$133+80%$113 – $321
Maine ME18$131+76%$31 – $305
Kansas KS38$126+71%$67 – $199
Minnesota MN28$125+69%$94 – $166
Illinois IL111$120+62%$38 – $220
Kentucky KY50$113+52%$32 – $189
Wisconsin WI70$113+52%$35 – $121
Missouri MO62$106+43%$65 – $137
Massachusetts MA42$105+41%$52 – $283
Indiana IN82$102+37%$35 – $241
New Mexico NM16$88+19%$68 – $179
Oregon OR30$88+18%$38 – $98
Georgia GA88$87+17%$42 – $141
Pennsylvania PA113$86+17%$18 – $265
North Carolina NC78$86+16%$28 – $140
Arizona AZ33$83+11%$38 – $108
Arkansas AR17$81+10%$41 – $99
Hawaii HI14$75+1%$49 – $207
Idaho ID15$75+1%$46 – $89
South Carolina SC49$740%$51 – $146
Nevada NV15$73−2%$16 – $128
Ohio OH117$73−2%$46 – $140
New Hampshire NH18$71−5%$27 – $285
Virginia VA60$69−7%$25 – $173
Washington WA51$69−7%$40 – $102
Oklahoma OK49$67−10%$34 – $134
Connecticut CT18$61−18%$46 – $95
Mississippi MS37$60−20%$40 – $97
Tennessee TN70$57−24%$25 – $185
California CA91$48−35%$14 – $72
Alabama AL32$46−37%$23 – $137
Iowa IA33$44−40%$32 – $167
Maryland MD38$40−46%$31 – $49
New York NY90$38−49%$15 – $115
Michigan MI69$37−50%$14 – $60
Louisiana LA30$33−56%$22 – $58
Florida FL115$23−69%$13 – $61
New Jersey NJ49$16−78%$15 – $293
West Virginia WV24$7−91%$7 – $90
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not 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 $74.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,852$72$27 – $163
Children’s37$93$34 – $194
Critical access429$88$39 – $167
Ownership
For-profit372$94$24 – $307
Government330$68$27 – $140
Non-profit1,616$73$31 – $153
System affiliation
Part of a system1,978$74$29 – $165
Independent347$71$31 – $156

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$134
Median cash price$74
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

1,621 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $83 and the average of the middle 60% is $86; most fall between $34 and $157.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,621 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$41$83$138$213

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $213).

Of the 1,784 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,621 gave a usable cash price; 85 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 78 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,325 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (59%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,535 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,325
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here119
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 — excluded90
Hospitals that filed this code2,535

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 Ethylene Glycol, Serum.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Ethylene glycol level (antifreeze) (CPT 82693) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82693-ethylene-glycol-level-antifreeze