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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Fluoride level test

CPT 82735the billing code this page is about

A lab test that measures the amount of fluoride in a blood, urine, or other body fluid sample.

Hospitals typically charge $89 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 797 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $87. Most fall between $33 and $161 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
797
States
48
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 797 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$43$89$143$226

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $226).

How the prices are spread

$19 – $24: 52 hospitals$19$24 – $32: 55 hospitals$32 – $41: 62 hospitals$32$41 – $54: 74 hospitals$54 – $71: 55 hospitals$54$71 – $93: 92 hospitals$93 – $121: 127 hospitals$93$121 – $159: 90 hospitals$159 – $207: 49 hospitals$159$207 – $271: 73 hospitals$207median $89price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (729 of 797 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$19$2452
$24$3255
$32$4162
$41$5474
$54$7155
$71$9392
$93$121127
$121$15990
$159$20749
$207$27173

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $89.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $59 across 29 hospitalsWA$59Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $117 across 30 hospitalsMN$117Illinois: median $39 across 36 hospitalsIL$39Wisconsin: median $186 across 20 hospitalsWI$186Michigan: median $52 across 30 hospitalsMI$52New York: median $51 across 47 hospitalsNY$51Massachusetts: median $111 across 19 hospitalsMA$111Oregon: median $96 across 11 hospitalsOR$96Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $32 across 19 hospitalsIA$32Indiana: median $40 across 37 hospitalsIN$40Ohio: median $111 across 79 hospitalsOH$111Pennsylvania: median $88 across 50 hospitalsPA$88New Jersey: median $20 across 25 hospitalsNJ$20Connecticut: 4 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 $143 across 48 hospitalsCA$143Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $106 across 13 hospitalsCO$106Nebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $75 across 11 hospitalsMO$75Kentucky: median $122 across 19 hospitalsKY$122West Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $209 across 15 hospitalsVA$209Maryland: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $46 across 15 hospitalsTN$46North Carolina: median $49 across 11 hospitalsNC$49South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $33 across 22 hospitalsOK$33Louisiana: median $27 across 14 hospitalsLA$27Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $58 across 10 hospitalsAL$58Georgia: median $48 across 14 hospitalsGA$48Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $116 across 50 hospitalsTX$116Florida: median $148 across 21 hospitalsFL$148
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $89. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA15$209+134%$56 – $279
Wisconsin WI20$186+109%$110 – $188
Florida FL21$148+66%$43 – $211
California CA48$143+61%$71 – $226
Kentucky KY19$122+37%$64 – $217
Minnesota MN30$117+31%$100 – $168
Texas TX50$116+30%$96 – $116
Massachusetts MA19$111+25%$85 – $206
Ohio OH79$111+25%$44 – $182
Colorado CO13$106+19%$106 – $140
Oregon OR11$96+8%$49 – $96
Pennsylvania PA50$88−1%$18 – $220
Missouri MO11$75−16%$74 – $107
Washington WA29$59−34%$38 – $85
Alabama AL10$58−35%$18 – $124
Michigan MI30$52−42%$27 – $65
New York NY47$51−43%$19 – $122
North Carolina NC11$49−45%$48 – $64
Georgia GA14$48−47%$27 – $185
Tennessee TN15$46−48%$25 – $56
Indiana IN37$40−55%$29 – $162
Illinois IL36$39−56%$32 – $116
Oklahoma OK22$33−63%$33 – $104
Iowa IA19$32−64%$32 – $132
Louisiana LA14$27−70%$14 – $34
New Jersey NJ25$20−77%$19 – $20
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $89.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care642$85$32 – $161
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access133$102$44 – $157
Ownership
For-profit75$91$27 – $149
Government103$81$38 – $148
Non-profit615$90$33 – $168
System affiliation
Part of a system693$89$33 – $164
Independent104$84$42 – $140

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$149
Median cash price$89
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

560 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $102 and the average of the middle 60% is $99; most fall between $46 and $168.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 560 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$102$143$226

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($32 vs $226).

Of the 627 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 560 gave a usable cash price; 46 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 21 a list price only.

How complete is this

797 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (20%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 885 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted797
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here62
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 — excluded25
Hospitals that filed this code885

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 OF FLUORIDE.

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, “Fluoride level test (CPT 82735) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82735-fluoride-level-test