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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Stool fat measurement, exact amount

CPT 82710the billing code this page is about

A lab test that measures the exact amount of fat in a stool sample, often collected over several days.

Hospitals typically charge $82 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,543 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $90. Most fall between $32 and $184 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,543
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 2,543 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$39$82$155$266

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $266).

How the prices are spread

$17 – $23: 113 hospitals$17$23 – $31: 222 hospitals$31 – $42: 228 hospitals$31$42 – $57: 215 hospitals$57 – $77: 318 hospitals$57$77 – $105: 249 hospitals$105 – $142: 348 hospitals$105$142 – $192: 240 hospitals$192 – $259: 221 hospitals$192$259 – $351: 136 hospitals$259median $82price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,290 of 2,543 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$17$23113
$23$31222
$31$42228
$42$57215
$57$77318
$77$105249
$105$142348
$142$192240
$192$259221
$259$351136

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $82.

Alaska: median $167 across 10 hospitalsAK$167Maine: median $74 across 22 hospitalsME$74Vermont: median $173 across 13 hospitalsVT$173New Hampshire: median $102 across 20 hospitalsNH$102Washington: median $113 across 61 hospitalsWA$113Idaho: median $52 across 19 hospitalsID$52Montana: median $149 across 21 hospitalsMT$149North Dakota: median $91 across 19 hospitalsND$91Minnesota: median $107 across 81 hospitalsMN$107Illinois: median $104 across 110 hospitalsIL$104Wisconsin: median $125 across 90 hospitalsWI$125Michigan: median $28 across 73 hospitalsMI$28New York: median $44 across 94 hospitalsNY$44Massachusetts: median $113 across 48 hospitalsMA$113Oregon: median $90 across 30 hospitalsOR$90Nevada: median $113 across 17 hospitalsNV$113Wyoming: median $116 across 16 hospitalsWY$116South Dakota: median $58 across 14 hospitalsSD$58Iowa: median $92 across 67 hospitalsIA$92Indiana: median $121 across 78 hospitalsIN$121Ohio: median $66 across 129 hospitalsOH$66Pennsylvania: median $86 across 116 hospitalsPA$86New Jersey: median $19 across 47 hospitalsNJ$19Connecticut: median $53 across 12 hospitalsCT$53Rhode Island: median $111 across 10 hospitalsRI$111California: median $44 across 99 hospitalsCA$44Utah: median $338 across 37 hospitalsUT$338Colorado: median $123 across 58 hospitalsCO$123Nebraska: median $205 across 51 hospitalsNE$205Missouri: median $108 across 68 hospitalsMO$108Kentucky: median $156 across 42 hospitalsKY$156West Virginia: median $39 across 31 hospitalsWV$39Virginia: median $77 across 60 hospitalsVA$77Maryland: median $109 across 27 hospitalsMD$109Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $121 across 35 hospitalsAZ$121New Mexico: median $122 across 14 hospitalsNM$122Kansas: median $108 across 59 hospitalsKS$108Arkansas: median $70 across 24 hospitalsAR$70Tennessee: median $50 across 57 hospitalsTN$50North Carolina: median $64 across 77 hospitalsNC$64South Carolina: median $85 across 46 hospitalsSC$85Oklahoma: median $70 across 49 hospitalsOK$70Louisiana: median $45 across 38 hospitalsLA$45Mississippi: median $49 across 44 hospitalsMS$49Alabama: median $72 across 36 hospitalsAL$72Georgia: median $140 across 80 hospitalsGA$140Hawaii: median $89 across 13 hospitalsHI$89Texas: median $83 across 172 hospitalsTX$83Florida: median $32 across 103 hospitalsFL$32
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $82. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT37$338+310%$273 – $397
Nebraska NE51$205+150%$77 – $286
Vermont VT13$173+110%$79 – $279
Alaska AK10$167+103%$79 – $305
Kentucky KY42$156+89%$50 – $277
Montana MT21$149+81%$76 – $221
Georgia GA80$140+70%$34 – $236
Wisconsin WI90$125+52%$71 – $208
Colorado CO58$123+50%$41 – $211
New Mexico NM14$122+48%$63 – $211
Arizona AZ35$121+47%$36 – $145
Indiana IN78$121+47%$27 – $226
Wyoming WY16$116+41%$34 – $163
Massachusetts MA48$113+37%$56 – $157
Nevada NV17$113+37%$50 – $223
Washington WA61$113+37%$57 – $158
Rhode Island RI10$111+35%$36 – $134
Maryland MD27$109+32%$65 – $125
Missouri MO68$108+31%$55 – $164
Kansas KS59$108+31%$59 – $170
Minnesota MN81$107+31%$57 – $191
Illinois IL110$104+26%$54 – $178
New Hampshire NH20$102+24%$43 – $214
Iowa IA67$92+12%$62 – $141
North Dakota ND19$91+11%$58 – $148
Oregon OR30$90+10%$49 – $121
Hawaii HI13$89+8%$79 – $234
Pennsylvania PA116$86+4%$25 – $197
South Carolina SC46$85+3%$42 – $192
Texas TX172$83+1%$35 – $258
Virginia VA60$77−6%$29 – $140
Maine ME22$74−10%$35 – $171
Alabama AL36$72−13%$29 – $274
Oklahoma OK49$70−15%$36 – $137
Arkansas AR24$70−15%$20 – $145
Ohio OH129$66−19%$50 – $122
North Carolina NC77$64−23%$28 – $181
South Dakota SD14$58−30%$45 – $212
Connecticut CT12$53−36%$52 – $79
Idaho ID19$52−37%$47 – $155
Tennessee TN57$50−39%$29 – $126
Mississippi MS44$49−40%$28 – $74
Louisiana LA38$45−45%$25 – $95
New York NY94$44−46%$19 – $133
California CA99$44−47%$25 – $110
West Virginia WV31$39−52%$25 – $88
Florida FL103$32−61%$20 – $81
Michigan MI73$28−66%$18 – $76
New Jersey NJ47$19−77%$17 – $116
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 $82.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,832$73$30 – $178
Children’s57$108$63 – $210
Critical access645$108$48 – $195
Ownership
For-profit317$108$32 – $330
Government414$90$35 – $181
Non-profit1,803$79$32 – $170
System affiliation
Part of a system2,100$79$31 – $185
Independent443$94$46 – $175

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$137
Median cash price$82
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

1,718 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $82 and the average of the middle 60% is $90; most fall between $34 and $180.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,718 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$42$82$151$244

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($27 vs $244).

Of the 1,907 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,718 gave a usable cash price; 97 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 92 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,543 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (64%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,758 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,543
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) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded96
Hospitals that filed this code2,758

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.

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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, “Stool fat measurement, exact amount (CPT 82710) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82710-stool-fat-measurement-exact-amount