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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Folic acid (folate) blood test

CPT 82746the billing code this page is about

A lab test that measures the level of folate, a B vitamin, in the liquid portion of a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $83 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,390 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $85. Most fall between $37 and $148 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,390
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 3,390 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
$21$45$83$133$227

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($21 vs $227).

How the prices are spread

$16 – $22: 181 hospitals$16$22 – $29: 142 hospitals$29 – $39: 242 hospitals$29$39 – $53: 322 hospitals$53 – $71: 420 hospitals$53$71 – $96: 464 hospitals$96 – $129: 573 hospitals$96$129 – $173: 334 hospitals$173 – $233: 246 hospitals$173$233 – $313: 133 hospitals$233median $83price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,057 of 3,390 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$16$22181
$22$29142
$29$39242
$39$53322
$53$71420
$71$96464
$96$129573
$129$173334
$173$233246
$233$313133

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $83.

Alaska: median $137 across 19 hospitalsAK$137Maine: median $69 across 28 hospitalsME$69Vermont: median $92 across 14 hospitalsVT$92New Hampshire: median $71 across 25 hospitalsNH$71Washington: median $100 across 76 hospitalsWA$100Idaho: median $71 across 25 hospitalsID$71Montana: median $82 across 30 hospitalsMT$82North Dakota: median $102 across 33 hospitalsND$102Minnesota: median $80 across 106 hospitalsMN$80Illinois: median $126 across 143 hospitalsIL$126Wisconsin: median $102 across 107 hospitalsWI$102Michigan: median $59 across 96 hospitalsMI$59New York: median $48 across 120 hospitalsNY$48Massachusetts: median $93 across 54 hospitalsMA$93Oregon: median $86 across 51 hospitalsOR$86Nevada: median $88 across 22 hospitalsNV$88Wyoming: median $55 across 16 hospitalsWY$55South Dakota: median $138 across 41 hospitalsSD$138Iowa: median $87 across 89 hospitalsIA$87Indiana: median $66 across 97 hospitalsIN$66Ohio: median $67 across 142 hospitalsOH$67Pennsylvania: median $62 across 122 hospitalsPA$62New Jersey: median $17 across 57 hospitalsNJ$17Connecticut: median $63 across 23 hospitalsCT$63Rhode Island: median $82 across 10 hospitalsRI$82California: median $109 across 153 hospitalsCA$109Utah: median $78 across 43 hospitalsUT$78Colorado: median $88 across 71 hospitalsCO$88Nebraska: median $118 across 82 hospitalsNE$118Missouri: median $69 across 78 hospitalsMO$69Kentucky: median $110 across 69 hospitalsKY$110West Virginia: median $71 across 44 hospitalsWV$71Virginia: median $91 across 72 hospitalsVA$91Maryland: median $40 across 42 hospitalsMD$40Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $77 across 42 hospitalsAZ$77New Mexico: median $102 across 27 hospitalsNM$102Kansas: median $95 across 92 hospitalsKS$95Arkansas: median $48 across 39 hospitalsAR$48Tennessee: median $49 across 83 hospitalsTN$49North Carolina: median $80 across 91 hospitalsNC$80South Carolina: median $102 across 53 hospitalsSC$102Oklahoma: median $58 across 73 hospitalsOK$58Louisiana: median $42 across 54 hospitalsLA$42Mississippi: median $45 across 54 hospitalsMS$45Alabama: median $66 across 44 hospitalsAL$66Georgia: median $87 across 111 hospitalsGA$87Hawaii: median $104 across 21 hospitalsHI$104Texas: median $77 across 249 hospitalsTX$77Florida: median $138 across 150 hospitalsFL$138
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $83. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD41$138+67%$99 – $216
Florida FL150$138+67%$29 – $304
Alaska AK19$137+65%$100 – $182
Illinois IL143$126+53%$73 – $201
Nebraska NE82$118+42%$60 – $166
Kentucky KY69$110+33%$48 – $242
California CA153$109+32%$35 – $231
Hawaii HI21$104+26%$73 – $137
South Carolina SC53$102+24%$74 – $137
Wisconsin WI107$102+24%$65 – $141
North Dakota ND33$102+23%$28 – $123
New Mexico NM27$102+23%$72 – $153
Washington WA76$100+21%$64 – $129
Kansas KS92$95+15%$53 – $128
Massachusetts MA54$93+13%$48 – $143
Vermont VT14$92+11%$41 – $240
Virginia VA72$91+10%$47 – $180
Nevada NV22$88+7%$33 – $223
Colorado CO71$88+7%$50 – $140
Iowa IA89$87+6%$49 – $125
Georgia GA111$87+5%$35 – $179
Oregon OR51$86+4%$60 – $108
Montana MT30$820%$67 – $148
Rhode Island RI10$82−1%$34 – $105
North Carolina NC91$80−3%$50 – $109
Minnesota MN106$80−3%$24 – $134
Utah UT43$78−6%$66 – $124
Texas TX249$77−6%$19 – $299
Arizona AZ42$77−7%$26 – $401
West Virginia WV44$71−14%$44 – $134
New Hampshire NH25$71−15%$48 – $171
Idaho ID25$71−15%$54 – $96
Maine ME28$69−16%$30 – $181
Missouri MO78$69−17%$47 – $137
Ohio OH142$67−19%$47 – $110
Indiana IN97$66−20%$26 – $103
Alabama AL44$66−20%$27 – $167
Connecticut CT23$63−24%$48 – $123
Pennsylvania PA122$62−24%$23 – $131
Michigan MI96$59−29%$39 – $113
Oklahoma OK73$58−29%$38 – $86
Wyoming WY16$55−33%$28 – $113
Tennessee TN83$49−40%$29 – $81
Arkansas AR39$48−41%$34 – $80
New York NY120$48−42%$18 – $169
Mississippi MS54$45−46%$21 – $80
Louisiana LA54$42−49%$29 – $102
Maryland MD42$40−52%$31 – $49
New Jersey NJ57$17−80%$16 – $50
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 $83.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,318$77$34 – $163
Children’s65$86$35 – $143
Critical access997$94$47 – $140
Ownership
For-profit466$109$37 – $345
Government651$89$40 – $137
Non-profit2,263$77$36 – $139
System affiliation
Part of a system2,734$83$36 – $157
Independent656$82$41 – $134

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$137
Median cash price$83
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

2,276 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $84 and the average of the middle 60% is $85; most fall between $38 and $146.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,276 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$46$84$131$214

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $214).

Of the 2,520 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,276 gave a usable cash price; 133 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

3,390 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 3,705 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,390
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here181
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 — excluded133
Hospitals that filed this code3,705

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 Folate, 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, “Folic acid (folate) blood test (CPT 82746) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82746-folic-acid-folate-blood-test