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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Ferritin blood test (iron stores)

CPT 82728the billing code this page is about

A lab test that measures ferritin, the protein that stores iron, in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $79 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,397 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $83. Most fall between $39 and $148 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,397
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 3,397 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$44$79$130$218

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $218).

How the prices are spread

$15 – $21: 114 hospitals$15$21 – $28: 172 hospitals$28 – $38: 225 hospitals$28$38 – $52: 363 hospitals$52 – $71: 466 hospitals$52$71 – $98: 562 hospitals$98 – $133: 501 hospitals$98$133 – $182: 374 hospitals$182 – $248: 172 hospitals$182$248 – $338: 113 hospitals$248median $79price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,062 of 3,397 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$15$21114
$21$28172
$28$38225
$38$52363
$52$71466
$71$98562
$98$133501
$133$182374
$182$248172
$248$338113

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $79.

Alaska: median $105 across 19 hospitalsAK$105Maine: median $73 across 28 hospitalsME$73Vermont: median $109 across 14 hospitalsVT$109New Hampshire: median $88 across 25 hospitalsNH$88Washington: median $93 across 76 hospitalsWA$93Idaho: median $66 across 25 hospitalsID$66Montana: median $87 across 33 hospitalsMT$87North Dakota: median $97 across 33 hospitalsND$97Minnesota: median $83 across 107 hospitalsMN$83Illinois: median $144 across 141 hospitalsIL$144Wisconsin: median $90 across 108 hospitalsWI$90Michigan: median $60 across 98 hospitalsMI$60New York: median $56 across 120 hospitalsNY$56Massachusetts: median $96 across 54 hospitalsMA$96Oregon: median $61 across 51 hospitalsOR$61Nevada: median $80 across 22 hospitalsNV$80Wyoming: median $103 across 16 hospitalsWY$103South Dakota: median $160 across 41 hospitalsSD$160Iowa: median $92 across 89 hospitalsIA$92Indiana: median $60 across 96 hospitalsIN$60Ohio: median $76 across 143 hospitalsOH$76Pennsylvania: median $61 across 122 hospitalsPA$61New Jersey: median $16 across 57 hospitalsNJ$16Connecticut: median $73 across 23 hospitalsCT$73Rhode Island: median $92 across 10 hospitalsRI$92California: median $128 across 158 hospitalsCA$128Utah: median $72 across 43 hospitalsUT$72Colorado: median $79 across 72 hospitalsCO$79Nebraska: median $115 across 81 hospitalsNE$115Missouri: median $72 across 78 hospitalsMO$72Kentucky: median $106 across 69 hospitalsKY$106West Virginia: median $73 across 44 hospitalsWV$73Virginia: median $118 across 73 hospitalsVA$118Maryland: median $41 across 41 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $89 across 42 hospitalsAZ$89New Mexico: median $92 across 28 hospitalsNM$92Kansas: median $83 across 93 hospitalsKS$83Arkansas: median $31 across 39 hospitalsAR$31Tennessee: median $44 across 83 hospitalsTN$44North Carolina: median $76 across 85 hospitalsNC$76South Carolina: median $112 across 53 hospitalsSC$112Oklahoma: median $54 across 73 hospitalsOK$54Louisiana: median $54 across 53 hospitalsLA$54Mississippi: median $48 across 54 hospitalsMS$48Alabama: median $56 across 44 hospitalsAL$56Georgia: median $67 across 111 hospitalsGA$67Hawaii: median $80 across 21 hospitalsHI$80Texas: median $77 across 251 hospitalsTX$77Florida: median $122 across 150 hospitalsFL$122
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $79. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD41$160+104%$106 – $213
Illinois IL141$144+84%$68 – $211
California CA158$128+62%$24 – $256
Florida FL150$122+55%$28 – $365
Virginia VA73$118+51%$61 – $179
Nebraska NE81$115+46%$60 – $160
South Carolina SC53$112+43%$54 – $114
Vermont VT14$109+39%$61 – $172
Kentucky KY69$106+35%$50 – $215
Alaska AK19$105+34%$39 – $179
Wyoming WY16$103+31%$39 – $145
North Dakota ND33$97+23%$25 – $113
Massachusetts MA54$96+22%$47 – $133
Washington WA76$93+19%$55 – $132
New Mexico NM28$92+18%$60 – $139
Iowa IA89$92+17%$64 – $125
Rhode Island RI10$92+17%$32 – $126
Wisconsin WI108$90+15%$58 – $128
Arizona AZ42$89+14%$34 – $501
New Hampshire NH25$88+12%$68 – $171
Montana MT33$87+11%$70 – $125
Kansas KS93$83+6%$57 – $119
Minnesota MN107$83+6%$41 – $119
Hawaii HI21$80+2%$58 – $121
Nevada NV22$80+2%$50 – $194
Colorado CO72$79+1%$39 – $169
Texas TX251$77−2%$38 – $194
Ohio OH143$76−3%$44 – $122
North Carolina NC85$76−4%$34 – $128
Connecticut CT23$73−7%$54 – $114
Maine ME28$73−8%$46 – $172
West Virginia WV44$73−8%$40 – $119
Utah UT43$72−8%$61 – $121
Missouri MO78$72−9%$42 – $136
Georgia GA111$67−14%$31 – $162
Idaho ID25$66−16%$44 – $100
Oregon OR51$61−22%$43 – $90
Pennsylvania PA122$61−23%$21 – $165
Indiana IN96$60−24%$29 – $111
Michigan MI98$60−24%$33 – $96
Alabama AL44$56−29%$30 – $175
New York NY120$56−29%$21 – $156
Oklahoma OK73$54−32%$38 – $92
Louisiana LA53$54−32%$25 – $90
Mississippi MS54$48−39%$30 – $77
Tennessee TN83$44−44%$27 – $94
Maryland MD41$41−48%$32 – $49
Arkansas AR39$31−61%$18 – $101
New Jersey NJ57$16−80%$15 – $46
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 $79.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,319$75$34 – $157
Children’s66$117$58 – $171
Critical access1,002$88$46 – $138
Ownership
For-profit469$111$44 – $366
Government651$84$40 – $136
Non-profit2,267$76$38 – $137
System affiliation
Part of a system2,738$78$38 – $152
Independent659$80$41 – $137

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$136
Median cash price$79
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

2,284 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $79 and the average of the middle 60% is $83; most fall between $40 and $147.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,284 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
$25$44$79$128$209

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($25 vs $209).

Of the 2,524 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,284 gave a usable cash price; 129 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 111 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,397 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (86%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,713 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,397
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here183
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded132
Hospitals that filed this code3,713

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 July 20, 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 Ferritin.

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, “Ferritin blood test (iron stores) (CPT 82728) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82728-ferritin-blood-test-iron-stores