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Procedure price report · Arterial blood gases

Blood gas test with directly measured oxygen saturation

CPT 82805the billing code this page is about

Blood gas measurement that also includes oxygen saturation measured directly in the sample rather than by a fingertip oximeter.

Hospitals typically charge $181 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,215 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $191. Most fall between $90 and $334 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,215
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 2,215 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
$67$99$181$299$478

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($67 vs $478).

How the prices are spread

$50 – $66: 111 hospitals$50$66 – $87: 184 hospitals$87 – $115: 302 hospitals$87$115 – $152: 238 hospitals$152 – $201: 286 hospitals$152$201 – $266: 282 hospitals$266 – $352: 300 hospitals$266$352 – $466: 151 hospitals$466 – $616: 116 hospitals$466$616 – $816: 37 hospitals$616median $181price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,007 of 2,215 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$50$66111
$66$87184
$87$115302
$115$152238
$152$201286
$201$266282
$266$352300
$352$466151
$466$616116
$616$81637

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $181.

Alaska: median $271 across 11 hospitalsAK$271Maine: median $163 across 14 hospitalsME$163Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $190 across 21 hospitalsNH$190Washington: median $202 across 55 hospitalsWA$202Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: median $251 across 19 hospitalsMT$251North Dakota: median $178 across 11 hospitalsND$178Minnesota: median $95 across 68 hospitalsMN$95Illinois: median $223 across 112 hospitalsIL$223Wisconsin: median $156 across 85 hospitalsWI$156Michigan: median $110 across 67 hospitalsMI$110New York: median $130 across 64 hospitalsNY$130Massachusetts: median $225 across 36 hospitalsMA$225Oregon: median $247 across 29 hospitalsOR$247Nevada: median $135 across 10 hospitalsNV$135Wyoming: median $158 across 10 hospitalsWY$158South Dakota: median $244 across 13 hospitalsSD$244Iowa: median $198 across 44 hospitalsIA$198Indiana: median $154 across 78 hospitalsIN$154Ohio: median $180 across 110 hospitalsOH$180Pennsylvania: median $168 across 97 hospitalsPA$168New Jersey: median $87 across 48 hospitalsNJ$87Connecticut: median $152 across 14 hospitalsCT$152Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $470 across 130 hospitalsCA$470Utah: median $324 across 37 hospitalsUT$324Colorado: median $209 across 50 hospitalsCO$209Nebraska: median $238 across 23 hospitalsNE$238Missouri: median $155 across 52 hospitalsMO$155Kentucky: median $155 across 43 hospitalsKY$155West Virginia: median $158 across 27 hospitalsWV$158Virginia: median $158 across 33 hospitalsVA$158Maryland: median $76 across 23 hospitalsMD$76Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $259 across 19 hospitalsAZ$259New Mexico: median $127 across 15 hospitalsNM$127Kansas: median $171 across 31 hospitalsKS$171Arkansas: median $97 across 30 hospitalsAR$97Tennessee: median $76 across 49 hospitalsTN$76North Carolina: median $149 across 68 hospitalsNC$149South Carolina: median $207 across 39 hospitalsSC$207Oklahoma: median $136 across 42 hospitalsOK$136Louisiana: median $60 across 36 hospitalsLA$60Mississippi: median $101 across 32 hospitalsMS$101Alabama: median $94 across 15 hospitalsAL$94Georgia: median $186 across 70 hospitalsGA$186Hawaii: median $258 across 14 hospitalsHI$258Texas: median $304 across 168 hospitalsTX$304Florida: median $342 across 127 hospitalsFL$342
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $181. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA130$470+159%$246 – $792
Florida FL127$342+88%$220 – $1,021
Utah UT37$324+78%$275 – $438
Texas TX168$304+67%$105 – $539
Alaska AK11$271+50%$169 – $309
Arizona AZ19$259+43%$111 – $836
Hawaii HI14$258+42%$168 – $397
Montana MT19$251+38%$146 – $330
Oregon OR29$247+36%$151 – $310
South Dakota SD13$244+35%$218 – $315
Nebraska NE23$238+31%$138 – $295
Massachusetts MA36$225+24%$122 – $380
Illinois IL112$223+23%$103 – $344
Colorado CO50$209+15%$161 – $403
South Carolina SC39$207+14%$128 – $252
Washington WA55$202+11%$106 – $282
Iowa IA44$198+9%$121 – $291
New Hampshire NH21$190+5%$117 – $357
Georgia GA70$186+2%$95 – $280
Ohio OH110$180−1%$72 – $254
North Dakota ND11$178−2%$167 – $406
Kansas KS31$171−6%$101 – $278
Pennsylvania PA97$168−7%$91 – $331
Maine ME14$163−10%$123 – $220
Virginia VA33$158−13%$50 – $297
Wyoming WY10$158−13%$100 – $295
West Virginia WV27$158−13%$98 – $200
Wisconsin WI85$156−14%$110 – $225
Kentucky KY43$155−14%$65 – $279
Missouri MO52$155−15%$103 – $238
Indiana IN78$154−15%$75 – $221
Connecticut CT14$152−16%$67 – $370
North Carolina NC68$149−18%$88 – $201
Oklahoma OK42$136−25%$103 – $184
Nevada NV10$135−25%$114 – $288
New York NY64$130−28%$79 – $288
New Mexico NM15$127−30%$108 – $155
Michigan MI67$110−39%$87 – $295
Mississippi MS32$101−44%$65 – $138
Arkansas AR30$97−47%$51 – $151
Minnesota MN68$95−48%$67 – $216
Alabama AL15$94−48%$51 – $134
New Jersey NJ48$87−52%$79 – $195
Tennessee TN49$76−58%$50 – $168
Maryland MD23$76−58%$50 – $97
Louisiana LA36$60−67%$22 – $145
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $181.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,670$178$88 – $354
Children’s55$243$145 – $389
Critical access483$179$102 – $293
Ownership
For-profit316$280$109 – $829
Government317$170$94 – $286
Non-profit1,575$174$88 – $312
System affiliation
Part of a system1,888$180$89 – $342
Independent327$188$97 – $305

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$315
Median cash price$181
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

1,575 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $190 and the average of the middle 60% is $199; most fall between $91 and $344.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,575 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
$67$101$190$309$470

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($67 vs $470).

Of the 1,731 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,575 gave a usable cash price; 85 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 71 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,215 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 2,421 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,215
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here120
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 — excluded85
Hospitals that filed this code2,421

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 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 GASES W/O2 SATURATION.

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 gas test with directly measured oxygen saturation (CPT 82805) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82805-blood-gas-test-with-directly-measured-oxygen-saturation