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Procedure price report · Arterial blood gases

Blood acidity (pH) test only

CPT 82800the billing code this page is about

Measures only the pH, or acid-base level, of a blood sample without the other blood gas values.

Hospitals typically charge $60 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,220 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $62. Most fall between $28 and $115 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,220
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 2,220 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
$17$33$60$98$179

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $179).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $17: 107 hospitals$12$17 – $23: 134 hospitals$23 – $31: 148 hospitals$23$31 – $42: 274 hospitals$42 – $57: 290 hospitals$42$57 – $78: 429 hospitals$78 – $107: 227 hospitals$78$107 – $146: 209 hospitals$146 – $199: 127 hospitals$146$199 – $272: 57 hospitals$199median $60price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,002 of 2,220 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$17107
$17$23134
$23$31148
$31$42274
$42$57290
$57$78429
$78$107227
$107$146209
$146$199127
$199$27257

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $60.

Alaska: median $144 across 11 hospitalsAK$144Maine: median $47 across 23 hospitalsME$47Vermont: median $104 across 10 hospitalsVT$104New Hampshire: median $60 across 13 hospitalsNH$60Washington: median $48 across 49 hospitalsWA$48Idaho: median $82 across 16 hospitalsID$82Montana: median $77 across 21 hospitalsMT$77North Dakota: median $58 across 19 hospitalsND$58Minnesota: median $74 across 68 hospitalsMN$74Illinois: median $68 across 87 hospitalsIL$68Wisconsin: median $60 across 93 hospitalsWI$60Michigan: median $43 across 80 hospitalsMI$43New York: median $24 across 68 hospitalsNY$24Massachusetts: median $48 across 32 hospitalsMA$48Oregon: median $42 across 37 hospitalsOR$42Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: median $35 across 10 hospitalsWY$35South Dakota: median $109 across 15 hospitalsSD$109Iowa: median $64 across 61 hospitalsIA$64Indiana: median $53 across 88 hospitalsIN$53Ohio: median $55 across 97 hospitalsOH$55Pennsylvania: median $39 across 91 hospitalsPA$39New Jersey: median $12 across 42 hospitalsNJ$12Connecticut: median $46 across 19 hospitalsCT$46Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $75 across 93 hospitalsCA$75Utah: median $115 across 35 hospitalsUT$115Colorado: median $66 across 57 hospitalsCO$66Nebraska: median $90 across 60 hospitalsNE$90Missouri: median $66 across 45 hospitalsMO$66Kentucky: median $72 across 51 hospitalsKY$72West Virginia: median $57 across 21 hospitalsWV$57Virginia: median $42 across 46 hospitalsVA$42Maryland: median $36 across 21 hospitalsMD$36Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $165 across 20 hospitalsAZ$165New Mexico: median $53 across 10 hospitalsNM$53Kansas: median $77 across 39 hospitalsKS$77Arkansas: median $28 across 22 hospitalsAR$28Tennessee: median $27 across 62 hospitalsTN$27North Carolina: median $54 across 65 hospitalsNC$54South Carolina: median $61 across 31 hospitalsSC$61Oklahoma: median $38 across 58 hospitalsOK$38Louisiana: median $20 across 38 hospitalsLA$20Mississippi: median $31 across 34 hospitalsMS$31Alabama: median $30 across 19 hospitalsAL$30Georgia: median $77 across 75 hospitalsGA$77Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $70 across 145 hospitalsTX$70Florida: median $145 across 90 hospitalsFL$145
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $60. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ20$165+173%$19 – $374
Florida FL90$145+140%$34 – $269
Alaska AK11$144+138%$66 – $186
Utah UT35$115+90%$98 – $134
South Dakota SD15$109+80%$69 – $189
Vermont VT10$104+72%$13 – $180
Nebraska NE60$90+49%$61 – $122
Idaho ID16$82+36%$36 – $89
Georgia GA75$77+28%$21 – $172
Montana MT21$77+27%$64 – $92
Kansas KS39$77+27%$51 – $120
California CA93$75+25%$74 – $291
Minnesota MN68$74+23%$36 – $91
Kentucky KY51$72+20%$31 – $110
Texas TX145$70+15%$49 – $147
Illinois IL87$68+12%$36 – $126
Colorado CO57$66+9%$48 – $181
Missouri MO45$66+9%$40 – $115
Iowa IA61$64+6%$39 – $72
South Carolina SC31$61+1%$61 – $134
New Hampshire NH13$600%$21 – $179
Wisconsin WI93$600%$38 – $83
North Dakota ND19$58−4%$49 – $76
West Virginia WV21$57−6%$38 – $119
Ohio OH97$55−9%$31 – $88
North Carolina NC65$54−11%$28 – $90
Indiana IN88$53−12%$19 – $116
New Mexico NM10$53−12%$20 – $60
Washington WA49$48−20%$20 – $73
Massachusetts MA32$48−21%$37 – $131
Maine ME23$47−22%$24 – $102
Connecticut CT19$46−24%$33 – $83
Michigan MI80$43−29%$26 – $61
Oregon OR37$42−31%$39 – $73
Virginia VA46$42−31%$20 – $95
Pennsylvania PA91$39−36%$13 – $95
Oklahoma OK58$38−37%$28 – $66
Maryland MD21$36−41%$24 – $44
Wyoming WY10$35−42%$21 – $110
Mississippi MS34$31−49%$20 – $49
Alabama AL19$30−50%$13 – $187
Arkansas AR22$28−53%$26 – $58
Tennessee TN62$27−56%$10 – $89
New York NY68$24−60%$11 – $40
Louisiana LA38$20−67%$14 – $80
New Jersey NJ42$12−80%$11 – $74
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $60.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,612$56$24 – $121
Children’s27$72$37 – $103
Critical access574$66$36 – $109
Ownership
For-profit285$83$34 – $297
Government344$60$30 – $106
Non-profit1,584$57$26 – $104
System affiliation
Part of a system1,883$60$28 – $115
Independent337$61$30 – $113

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$102
Median cash price$60
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

1,555 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $62 and the average of the middle 60% is $64; most fall between $31 and $115.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,555 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$35$62$98$165

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $165).

Of the 1,709 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,555 gave a usable cash price; 77 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 77 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,220 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (56%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,393 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,220
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here95
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 — excluded78
Hospitals that filed this code2,393

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 Arterial blood gases family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Blood pH level.

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, “Blood acidity (pH) test only (CPT 82800) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82800-blood-acidity-ph-test-only