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Procedure price report · Arterial blood gases

Blood oxygen saturation measured in a blood sample

CPT 82810the billing code this page is about

Measures only the oxygen saturation of a blood sample by direct laboratory measurement, not by a clip-on pulse oximeter.

Hospitals typically charge $53 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,756 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $59. Most fall between $23 and $119 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,756
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 1,756 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$29$53$98$191

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $191).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $14: 98 hospitals$10$14 – $19: 85 hospitals$19 – $27: 164 hospitals$19$27 – $38: 213 hospitals$38 – $54: 250 hospitals$38$54 – $75: 269 hospitals$75 – $106: 201 hospitals$75$106 – $149: 161 hospitals$149 – $209: 97 hospitals$149$209 – $294: 60 hospitals$209median $53price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,598 of 1,756 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$1498
$14$1985
$19$27164
$27$38213
$38$54250
$54$75269
$75$106201
$106$149161
$149$20997
$209$29460

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $53.

Alaska: median $83 across 10 hospitalsAK$83Maine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $53 across 35 hospitalsWA$53Idaho: median $75 across 14 hospitalsID$75Montana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $32 across 33 hospitalsMN$32Illinois: median $50 across 79 hospitalsIL$50Wisconsin: median $65 across 74 hospitalsWI$65Michigan: median $39 across 60 hospitalsMI$39New York: median $25 across 55 hospitalsNY$25Massachusetts: median $46 across 25 hospitalsMA$46Oregon: median $39 across 25 hospitalsOR$39Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $36 across 26 hospitalsIA$36Indiana: median $32 across 71 hospitalsIN$32Ohio: median $49 across 104 hospitalsOH$49Pennsylvania: median $38 across 85 hospitalsPA$38New Jersey: median $11 across 46 hospitalsNJ$11Connecticut: median $47 across 12 hospitalsCT$47Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $125 across 111 hospitalsCA$125Utah: median $126 across 28 hospitalsUT$126Colorado: median $73 across 41 hospitalsCO$73Nebraska: median $58 across 23 hospitalsNE$58Missouri: median $41 across 49 hospitalsMO$41Kentucky: median $41 across 35 hospitalsKY$41West Virginia: median $49 across 11 hospitalsWV$49Virginia: median $50 across 41 hospitalsVA$50Maryland: median $65 across 20 hospitalsMD$65Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $188 across 26 hospitalsAZ$188New Mexico: median $36 across 10 hospitalsNM$36Kansas: median $70 across 27 hospitalsKS$70Arkansas: median $20 across 12 hospitalsAR$20Tennessee: median $24 across 49 hospitalsTN$24North Carolina: median $48 across 51 hospitalsNC$48South Carolina: median $64 across 26 hospitalsSC$64Oklahoma: median $32 across 23 hospitalsOK$32Louisiana: median $24 across 31 hospitalsLA$24Mississippi: median $27 across 30 hospitalsMS$27Alabama: median $46 across 23 hospitalsAL$46Georgia: median $68 across 59 hospitalsGA$68Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $98 across 139 hospitalsTX$98Florida: median $111 across 78 hospitalsFL$111
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $53. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ26$188+252%$14 – $284
Utah UT28$126+136%$104 – $148
California CA111$125+134%$66 – $278
Florida FL78$111+108%$35 – $371
Texas TX139$98+84%$24 – $200
Alaska AK10$83+56%$36 – $161
Idaho ID14$75+40%$39 – $126
Colorado CO41$73+38%$59 – $204
Kansas KS27$70+31%$39 – $159
Georgia GA59$68+28%$22 – $164
Wisconsin WI74$65+22%$38 – $89
Maryland MD20$65+22%$52 – $101
South Carolina SC26$64+20%$37 – $155
Nebraska NE23$58+8%$32 – $82
Washington WA35$530%$45 – $111
Illinois IL79$50−6%$29 – $103
Virginia VA41$50−7%$25 – $65
West Virginia WV11$49−8%$29 – $63
Ohio OH104$49−9%$36 – $107
North Carolina NC51$48−11%$31 – $142
Connecticut CT12$47−12%$32 – $53
Massachusetts MA25$46−14%$22 – $86
Alabama AL23$46−14%$13 – $116
Kentucky KY35$41−22%$29 – $79
Missouri MO49$41−24%$23 – $92
Oregon OR25$39−27%$30 – $56
Michigan MI60$39−27%$17 – $72
Pennsylvania PA85$38−29%$11 – $106
Iowa IA26$36−33%$34 – $56
New Mexico NM10$36−33%$27 – $82
Minnesota MN33$32−39%$30 – $81
Indiana IN71$32−40%$21 – $74
Oklahoma OK23$32−40%$20 – $60
Mississippi MS30$27−50%$10 – $32
New York NY55$25−53%$10 – $54
Louisiana LA31$24−55%$9 – $49
Tennessee TN49$24−55%$15 – $74
Arkansas AR12$20−62%$16 – $64
New Jersey NJ46$11−79%$10 – $60
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $53.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,466$53$23 – $125
Children’s52$94$47 – $441
Critical access231$52$27 – $95
Ownership
For-profit233$87$30 – $260
Government194$45$18 – $94
Non-profit1,322$52$24 – $107
System affiliation
Part of a system1,555$55$23 – $121
Independent201$49$24 – $97

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$102
Median cash price$53
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

1,322 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $59 and the average of the middle 60% is $62; most fall between $28 and $118.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,322 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$32$59$101$164

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $164).

Of the 1,440 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,322 gave a usable cash price; 69 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 49 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,756 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (44%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,906 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,756
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here86
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 — excluded64
Hospitals that filed this code1,906

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 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 Arterial blood gases family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC O2hgb Sat-Venous POC.

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 oxygen saturation measured in a blood sample (CPT 82810) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82810-blood-oxygen-saturation-measured-in-a-blood-sample