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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Galactose level test

CPT 82760the billing code this page is about

A lab test that measures the amount of galactose, a milk sugar, in a blood or urine sample.

Hospitals typically charge $42 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,059 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $52. Most fall between $19 and $146 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,059
States
48
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 1,059 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
$12$20$42$115$296

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 24× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $296).

How the prices are spread

$11 – $16: 114 hospitals$11$16 – $23: 163 hospitals$23 – $33: 112 hospitals$23$33 – $49: 157 hospitals$49 – $72: 117 hospitals$49$72 – $106: 71 hospitals$106 – $156: 69 hospitals$106$156 – $229: 60 hospitals$229 – $336: 61 hospitals$229$336 – $494: 37 hospitals$336median $42price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (961 of 1,059 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$11$16114
$16$23163
$23$33112
$33$49157
$49$72117
$72$10671
$106$15669
$156$22960
$229$33661
$336$49437

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $42.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $22 across 11 hospitalsWA$22Idaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $56 across 11 hospitalsND$56Minnesota: median $30 across 60 hospitalsMN$30Illinois: median $40 across 49 hospitalsIL$40Wisconsin: median $58 across 39 hospitalsWI$58Michigan: median $100 across 31 hospitalsMI$100New York: median $11 across 21 hospitalsNY$11Massachusetts: median $51 across 15 hospitalsMA$51Oregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 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 $64 across 16 hospitalsIA$64Indiana: median $24 across 64 hospitalsIN$24Ohio: median $287 across 65 hospitalsOH$287Pennsylvania: median $17 across 45 hospitalsPA$17New Jersey: median $12 across 30 hospitalsNJ$12Connecticut: 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 $115 across 40 hospitalsCA$115Utah: median $38 across 10 hospitalsUT$38Colorado: median $64 across 16 hospitalsCO$64Nebraska: median $38 across 42 hospitalsNE$38Missouri: median $104 across 18 hospitalsMO$104Kentucky: median $40 across 19 hospitalsKY$40West Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $45 across 14 hospitalsVA$45Maryland: median $59 across 14 hospitalsMD$59Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $26 across 11 hospitalsAR$26Tennessee: median $19 across 45 hospitalsTN$19North Carolina: median $21 across 16 hospitalsNC$21South Carolina: median $131 across 27 hospitalsSC$131Oklahoma: median $24 across 51 hospitalsOK$24Louisiana: median $24 across 19 hospitalsLA$24Mississippi: median $20 across 38 hospitalsMS$20Alabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $156 across 39 hospitalsGA$156Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $48 across 83 hospitalsTX$48Florida: median $172 across 42 hospitalsFL$172
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $42. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH65$287+582%$50 – $723
Florida FL42$172+309%$20 – $297
Georgia GA39$156+270%$123 – $577
South Carolina SC27$131+212%$69 – $131
California CA40$115+174%$86 – $115
Missouri MO18$104+146%$33 – $175
Michigan MI31$100+137%$16 – $296
Iowa IA16$64+53%$48 – $64
Colorado CO16$64+52%$64 – $178
Maryland MD14$59+40%$43 – $80
Wisconsin WI39$58+37%$20 – $67
North Dakota ND11$56+34%$25 – $96
Massachusetts MA15$51+21%$27 – $292
Texas TX83$48+14%$30 – $149
Virginia VA14$45+7%$20 – $97
Illinois IL49$40−5%$25 – $384
Kentucky KY19$40−6%$27 – $108
Nebraska NE42$38−9%$18 – $46
Utah UT10$38−10%$23 – $259
Minnesota MN60$30−28%$20 – $88
Arkansas AR11$26−38%$17 – $28
Indiana IN64$24−43%$17 – $40
Oklahoma OK51$24−43%$13 – $49
Louisiana LA19$24−44%$12 – $43
Washington WA11$22−48%$22 – $49
North Carolina NC16$21−49%$19 – $146
Mississippi MS38$20−52%$7 – $36
Tennessee TN45$19−56%$9 – $21
Pennsylvania PA45$17−60%$9 – $41
New Jersey NJ30$12−71%$11 – $13
New York NY21$11−73%$11 – $48
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not 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 $42.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care825$41$17 – $140
Children’s33$123$39 – $275
Critical access197$44$21 – $100
Ownership
For-profit128$47$20 – $286
Government121$39$14 – $123
Non-profit806$41$19 – $131
System affiliation
Part of a system942$43$19 – $146
Independent117$42$20 – $125

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$80
Median cash price$42
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

767 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $48 and the average of the middle 60% is $60; most fall between $20 and $156.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 767 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
$15$23$48$115$297

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $297).

Of the 803 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 767 gave a usable cash price; 26 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,059 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (27%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,095 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,059
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here27
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 — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code1,095

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 GALACTOSE.

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, “Galactose level test (CPT 82760) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82760-galactose-level-test