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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Very long chain fatty acids blood test

CPT 82726the billing code this page is about

A lab test that measures very long chain fatty acids, used in evaluating certain inherited metabolic disorders.

Hospitals typically charge $135 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,754 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $145. Most fall between $45 and $294 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,754
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 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 1,754 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$63$135$254$465

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($27 vs $465).

How the prices are spread

$20 – $29: 95 hospitals$20$29 – $41: 123 hospitals$41 – $59: 116 hospitals$41$59 – $83: 130 hospitals$83 – $118: 242 hospitals$83$118 – $167: 259 hospitals$167 – $238: 225 hospitals$167$238 – $338: 190 hospitals$338 – $479: 119 hospitals$338$479 – $680: 83 hospitals$479median $135price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,582 of 1,754 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$20$2995
$29$41123
$41$59116
$59$83130
$83$118242
$118$167259
$167$238225
$238$338190
$338$479119
$479$68083

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $135.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $90 across 37 hospitalsWA$90Idaho: median $278 across 14 hospitalsID$278Montana: 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 $78 across 45 hospitalsMN$78Illinois: median $175 across 82 hospitalsIL$175Wisconsin: median $178 across 73 hospitalsWI$178Michigan: median $92 across 59 hospitalsMI$92New York: median $77 across 72 hospitalsNY$77Massachusetts: median $165 across 39 hospitalsMA$165Oregon: median $210 across 23 hospitalsOR$210Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $782 across 10 hospitalsSD$782Iowa: median $64 across 29 hospitalsIA$64Indiana: median $224 across 65 hospitalsIN$224Ohio: median $127 across 90 hospitalsOH$127Pennsylvania: median $77 across 91 hospitalsPA$77New Jersey: median $22 across 39 hospitalsNJ$22Connecticut: median $84 across 11 hospitalsCT$84Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $116 across 62 hospitalsCA$116Utah: median $553 across 30 hospitalsUT$553Colorado: median $261 across 36 hospitalsCO$261Nebraska: median $50 across 43 hospitalsNE$50Missouri: median $140 across 45 hospitalsMO$140Kentucky: median $270 across 25 hospitalsKY$270West Virginia: median $138 across 21 hospitalsWV$138Virginia: median $168 across 30 hospitalsVA$168Maryland: median $326 across 25 hospitalsMD$326Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $115 across 17 hospitalsAZ$115New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $242 across 23 hospitalsKS$242Arkansas: median $157 across 15 hospitalsAR$157Tennessee: median $122 across 31 hospitalsTN$122North Carolina: median $110 across 61 hospitalsNC$110South Carolina: median $246 across 31 hospitalsSC$246Oklahoma: median $111 across 42 hospitalsOK$111Louisiana: median $42 across 35 hospitalsLA$42Mississippi: median $55 across 30 hospitalsMS$55Alabama: median $103 across 22 hospitalsAL$103Georgia: median $143 across 66 hospitalsGA$143Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $222 across 136 hospitalsTX$222Florida: median $126 across 71 hospitalsFL$126
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $135. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD10$782+478%$52 – $1,171
Utah UT30$553+309%$277 – $651
Maryland MD25$326+141%$200 – $374
Idaho ID14$278+105%$61 – $499
Kentucky KY25$270+100%$126 – $302
Colorado CO36$261+93%$103 – $637
South Carolina SC31$246+82%$103 – $246
Kansas KS23$242+79%$187 – $677
Indiana IN65$224+65%$41 – $393
Texas TX136$222+64%$90 – $317
Oregon OR23$210+55%$80 – $382
Wisconsin WI73$178+31%$93 – $212
Illinois IL82$175+29%$64 – $386
Virginia VA30$168+24%$15 – $392
Massachusetts MA39$165+22%$56 – $324
Arkansas AR15$157+16%$71 – $191
Georgia GA66$143+5%$114 – $412
Missouri MO45$140+4%$62 – $211
West Virginia WV21$138+2%$50 – $138
Ohio OH90$127−6%$88 – $343
Florida FL71$126−7%$51 – $267
Tennessee TN31$122−10%$84 – $212
California CA62$116−14%$92 – $140
Arizona AZ17$115−15%$77 – $209
Oklahoma OK42$111−18%$59 – $220
North Carolina NC61$110−19%$44 – $259
Alabama AL22$103−24%$22 – $492
Michigan MI59$92−32%$31 – $236
Washington WA37$90−34%$52 – $146
Connecticut CT11$84−38%$44 – $97
Minnesota MN45$78−42%$26 – $107
Pennsylvania PA91$77−43%$23 – $262
New York NY72$77−43%$24 – $167
Iowa IA29$64−53%$48 – $175
Mississippi MS30$55−59%$19 – $171
Nebraska NE43$50−63%$27 – $126
Louisiana LA35$42−69%$29 – $158
New Jersey NJ39$22−84%$20 – $98
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $135.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,376$135$44 – $294
Children’s47$189$61 – $393
Critical access327$132$53 – $281
Ownership
For-profit209$201$75 – $626
Government236$136$45 – $260
Non-profit1,305$127$44 – $270
System affiliation
Part of a system1,547$135$44 – $296
Independent207$147$51 – $279

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$226
Median cash price$135
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

1,252 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $142 and the average of the middle 60% is $155; most fall between $64 and $296.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,252 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
$37$82$142$254$465

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($37 vs $465).

Of the 1,387 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,252 gave a usable cash price; 79 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 56 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,754 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (44%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,911 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,754
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here96
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded59
Hospitals that filed this code1,911

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 V L Chain Fatty Acid.

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, “Very long chain fatty acids blood test (CPT 82726) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82726-very-long-chain-fatty-acids-blood-test