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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Folate level inside red blood cells

CPT 82747the billing code this page is about

A lab test that measures folate stored within red blood cells rather than in the blood serum.

Hospitals typically charge $72 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,679 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $78. Most fall between $30 and $152 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,679
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 2,679 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
$19$36$72$132$222

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $222).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $19: 111 hospitals$14$19 – $26: 192 hospitals$26 – $35: 208 hospitals$26$35 – $48: 269 hospitals$48 – $66: 341 hospitals$48$66 – $90: 330 hospitals$90 – $124: 353 hospitals$90$124 – $170: 291 hospitals$170 – $233: 206 hospitals$170$233 – $320: 117 hospitals$233median $72price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,418 of 2,679 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$19111
$19$26192
$26$35208
$35$48269
$48$66341
$66$90330
$90$124353
$124$170291
$170$233206
$233$320117

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $72.

Alaska: median $125 across 13 hospitalsAK$125Maine: median $79 across 26 hospitalsME$79Vermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $112 across 17 hospitalsNH$112Washington: median $115 across 68 hospitalsWA$115Idaho: median $58 across 20 hospitalsID$58Montana: median $98 across 10 hospitalsMT$98North Dakota: median $121 across 24 hospitalsND$121Minnesota: median $95 across 49 hospitalsMN$95Illinois: median $111 across 128 hospitalsIL$111Wisconsin: median $99 across 83 hospitalsWI$99Michigan: median $41 across 50 hospitalsMI$41New York: median $51 across 97 hospitalsNY$51Massachusetts: median $83 across 44 hospitalsMA$83Oregon: median $63 across 44 hospitalsOR$63Nevada: median $87 across 18 hospitalsNV$87Wyoming: median $70 across 12 hospitalsWY$70South Dakota: median $179 across 26 hospitalsSD$179Iowa: median $78 across 58 hospitalsIA$78Indiana: median $94 across 92 hospitalsIN$94Ohio: median $53 across 126 hospitalsOH$53Pennsylvania: median $74 across 116 hospitalsPA$74New Jersey: median $20 across 54 hospitalsNJ$20Connecticut: median $64 across 15 hospitalsCT$64Rhode Island: median $62 across 10 hospitalsRI$62California: median $29 across 90 hospitalsCA$29Utah: median $72 across 40 hospitalsUT$72Colorado: median $115 across 59 hospitalsCO$115Nebraska: median $136 across 54 hospitalsNE$136Missouri: median $89 across 66 hospitalsMO$89Kentucky: median $84 across 52 hospitalsKY$84West Virginia: median $34 across 30 hospitalsWV$34Virginia: median $54 across 57 hospitalsVA$54Maryland: median $37 across 38 hospitalsMD$37Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $145 across 38 hospitalsAZ$145New Mexico: median $71 across 17 hospitalsNM$71Kansas: median $98 across 64 hospitalsKS$98Arkansas: median $55 across 26 hospitalsAR$55Tennessee: median $45 across 70 hospitalsTN$45North Carolina: median $92 across 71 hospitalsNC$92South Carolina: median $87 across 51 hospitalsSC$87Oklahoma: median $73 across 61 hospitalsOK$73Louisiana: median $46 across 41 hospitalsLA$46Mississippi: median $55 across 38 hospitalsMS$55Alabama: median $67 across 35 hospitalsAL$67Georgia: median $111 across 102 hospitalsGA$111Hawaii: median $127 across 17 hospitalsHI$127Texas: median $68 across 224 hospitalsTX$68Florida: median $21 across 130 hospitalsFL$21
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $72. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD26$179+148%$105 – $279
Arizona AZ38$145+101%$31 – $215
Nebraska NE54$136+89%$44 – $226
Hawaii HI17$127+76%$43 – $221
Alaska AK13$125+73%$90 – $248
North Dakota ND24$121+67%$31 – $179
Washington WA68$115+59%$60 – $156
Colorado CO59$115+59%$59 – $311
New Hampshire NH17$112+55%$53 – $310
Georgia GA102$111+54%$45 – $190
Illinois IL128$111+54%$59 – $221
Wisconsin WI83$99+38%$57 – $120
Montana MT10$98+36%$56 – $115
Kansas KS64$98+35%$52 – $170
Minnesota MN49$95+31%$37 – $177
Indiana IN92$94+30%$40 – $198
North Carolina NC71$92+27%$51 – $133
Missouri MO66$89+23%$61 – $153
South Carolina SC51$87+21%$63 – $143
Nevada NV18$87+20%$29 – $122
Kentucky KY52$84+16%$36 – $218
Massachusetts MA44$83+15%$41 – $154
Maine ME26$79+9%$35 – $234
Iowa IA58$78+8%$54 – $142
Pennsylvania PA116$74+2%$26 – $205
Oklahoma OK61$730%$43 – $121
Utah UT40$720%$61 – $109
New Mexico NM17$71−1%$53 – $161
Wyoming WY12$70−4%$35 – $137
Texas TX224$68−7%$25 – $227
Alabama AL35$67−8%$26 – $277
Connecticut CT15$64−11%$35 – $93
Oregon OR44$63−13%$22 – $99
Rhode Island RI10$62−14%$57 – $126
Idaho ID20$58−20%$19 – $117
Mississippi MS38$55−24%$30 – $81
Arkansas AR26$55−24%$26 – $67
Virginia VA57$54−25%$30 – $137
Ohio OH126$53−27%$40 – $84
New York NY97$51−29%$21 – $142
Louisiana LA41$46−37%$27 – $72
Tennessee TN70$45−37%$29 – $104
Michigan MI50$41−43%$24 – $89
Maryland MD38$37−48%$31 – $49
West Virginia WV30$34−53%$5 – $111
California CA90$29−60%$7 – $56
Florida FL130$21−70%$9 – $61
New Jersey NJ54$20−72%$19 – $52
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not 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 $72.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,940$66$27 – $143
Children’s53$38$22 – $108
Critical access677$94$46 – $171
Ownership
For-profit380$86$28 – $281
Government465$80$33 – $151
Non-profit1,825$69$30 – $137
System affiliation
Part of a system2,181$70$29 – $152
Independent498$80$33 – $152

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$125
Median cash price$72
Cash as a share of list, median hospital63%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

1,864 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $73 and the average of the middle 60% is $78; most fall between $32 and $143.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,864 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
$20$39$73$128$212

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $212).

Of the 2,081 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,864 gave a usable cash price; 127 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 90 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,679 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (68%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,953 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,679
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here167
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 — excluded107
Hospitals that filed this code2,953

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, RBC.

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, “Folate level inside red blood cells (CPT 82747) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82747-folate-level-inside-red-blood-cells