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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Gastrin blood test after secretin stimulation

CPT 82938the billing code this page is about

Measures the hormone gastrin in blood after secretin is given, to see how gastrin levels respond to the stimulus.

Hospitals typically charge $60 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 294 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $74. Most fall between $23 and $150 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
294
States
39
Filings dated
Jan 2025 – 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 294 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
$18$28$60$138$216

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $216).

How the prices are spread

$16 – $22: 43 hospitals$16$22 – $30: 18 hospitals$30 – $40: 35 hospitals$30$40 – $54: 29 hospitals$54 – $73: 27 hospitals$54$73 – $98: 9 hospitals$98 – $133: 41 hospitals$98$133 – $179: 35 hospitals$179 – $242: 25 hospitals$179$242 – $327: 4 hospitals$242median $60price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (266 of 294 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$16$2243
$22$3018
$30$4035
$40$5429
$54$7327
$73$989
$98$13341
$133$17935
$179$24225
$242$3274

By state

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

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: median $24 across 11 hospitalsMI$24New York: median $18 across 13 hospitalsNY$18Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital 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 $45 across 11 hospitalsIA$45Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $107 across 25 hospitalsOH$107Pennsylvania: median $20 across 19 hospitalsPA$20New Jersey: median $19 across 22 hospitalsNJ$19Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $216 across 34 hospitalsCA$216Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: median $124 across 17 hospitalsKY$124West Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $32 across 13 hospitalsOK$32Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $119 across 33 hospitalsTX$119Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
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
California CA34$216+259%$150 – $216
Kentucky KY17$124+106%$84 – $846
Texas TX33$119+98%$62 – $119
Ohio OH25$107+77%$38 – $138
Iowa IA11$45−25%$45 – $45
Oklahoma OK13$32−48%$32 – $38
Michigan MI11$24−59%$18 – $112
Pennsylvania PA19$20−66%$12 – $42
New Jersey NJ22$19−68%$18 – $19
New York NY13$18−71%$18 – $18
Illinois IL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $60.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care266$59$20 – $150
Children’s2fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access26$60$32 – $128
Ownership
For-profit36$62$46 – $296
Government26$31$18 – $108
Non-profit232$62$21 – $150
System affiliation
Part of a system262$62$24 – $150
Independent32$46$22 – $118

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$146
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

196 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $101 and the average of the middle 60% is $89; most fall between $32 and $160.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 196 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
$30$38$101$150$216

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($30 vs $216).

Of the 204 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 196 gave a usable cash price; 5 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

294 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 305 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted294
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here8
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 — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code305

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 GASTRIN TEST.

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, “Gastrin blood test after secretin stimulation (CPT 82938) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82938-gastrin-blood-test-after-secretin-stimulation