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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Gastrin blood test

CPT 82941the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of the stomach hormone gastrin in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $76 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,976 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $81. Most fall between $30 and $156 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,976
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 2,976 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$35$76$135$225

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $225).

How the prices are spread

$13 – $18: 145 hospitals$13$18 – $24: 191 hospitals$24 – $33: 215 hospitals$24$33 – $46: 263 hospitals$46 – $63: 330 hospitals$46$63 – $86: 348 hospitals$86 – $119: 391 hospitals$86$119 – $163: 395 hospitals$163 – $224: 251 hospitals$163$224 – $307: 151 hospitals$224median $76price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,680 of 2,976 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$13$18145
$18$24191
$24$33215
$33$46263
$46$63330
$63$86348
$86$119391
$119$163395
$163$224251
$224$307151

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $76.

Alaska: median $103 across 17 hospitalsAK$103Maine: median $59 across 26 hospitalsME$59Vermont: median $185 across 12 hospitalsVT$185New Hampshire: median $99 across 23 hospitalsNH$99Washington: median $92 across 66 hospitalsWA$92Idaho: median $68 across 20 hospitalsID$68Montana: median $143 across 25 hospitalsMT$143North Dakota: median $86 across 26 hospitalsND$86Minnesota: median $54 across 89 hospitalsMN$54Illinois: median $112 across 133 hospitalsIL$112Wisconsin: median $96 across 100 hospitalsWI$96Michigan: median $34 across 72 hospitalsMI$34New York: median $56 across 104 hospitalsNY$56Massachusetts: median $98 across 49 hospitalsMA$98Oregon: median $63 across 44 hospitalsOR$63Nevada: median $86 across 19 hospitalsNV$86Wyoming: median $54 across 15 hospitalsWY$54South Dakota: median $104 across 22 hospitalsSD$104Iowa: median $81 across 67 hospitalsIA$81Indiana: median $102 across 92 hospitalsIN$102Ohio: median $78 across 135 hospitalsOH$78Pennsylvania: median $89 across 118 hospitalsPA$89New Jersey: median $20 across 53 hospitalsNJ$20Connecticut: median $79 across 21 hospitalsCT$79Rhode Island: median $82 across 10 hospitalsRI$82California: median $19 across 116 hospitalsCA$19Utah: median $65 across 41 hospitalsUT$65Colorado: median $107 across 59 hospitalsCO$107Nebraska: median $131 across 61 hospitalsNE$131Missouri: median $94 across 73 hospitalsMO$94Kentucky: median $91 across 65 hospitalsKY$91West Virginia: median $52 across 40 hospitalsWV$52Virginia: median $101 across 71 hospitalsVA$101Maryland: median $41 across 39 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $102 across 38 hospitalsAZ$102New Mexico: median $86 across 20 hospitalsNM$86Kansas: median $109 across 60 hospitalsKS$109Arkansas: median $40 across 32 hospitalsAR$40Tennessee: median $52 across 77 hospitalsTN$52North Carolina: median $41 across 84 hospitalsNC$41South Carolina: median $118 across 50 hospitalsSC$118Oklahoma: median $68 across 65 hospitalsOK$68Louisiana: median $54 across 49 hospitalsLA$54Mississippi: median $56 across 50 hospitalsMS$56Alabama: median $82 across 41 hospitalsAL$82Georgia: median $84 across 96 hospitalsGA$84Hawaii: median $89 across 14 hospitalsHI$89Texas: median $119 across 223 hospitalsTX$119Florida: median $19 across 147 hospitalsFL$19
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $76. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT12$185+142%$136 – $312
Montana MT25$143+87%$99 – $195
Nebraska NE61$131+71%$61 – $186
Texas TX223$119+55%$56 – $281
South Carolina SC50$118+55%$68 – $213
Illinois IL133$112+46%$56 – $223
Kansas KS60$109+43%$67 – $159
Colorado CO59$107+40%$36 – $239
South Dakota SD22$104+36%$49 – $217
Alaska AK17$103+35%$25 – $206
Arizona AZ38$102+34%$25 – $191
Indiana IN92$102+34%$36 – $223
Virginia VA71$101+32%$31 – $176
New Hampshire NH23$99+29%$27 – $269
Massachusetts MA49$98+28%$51 – $163
Wisconsin WI100$96+26%$53 – $169
Missouri MO73$94+22%$52 – $149
Washington WA66$92+20%$52 – $164
Kentucky KY65$91+18%$51 – $188
Pennsylvania PA118$89+17%$27 – $209
Hawaii HI14$89+16%$44 – $165
Nevada NV19$86+13%$53 – $180
North Dakota ND26$86+12%$32 – $155
New Mexico NM20$86+12%$42 – $172
Georgia GA96$84+10%$46 – $146
Alabama AL41$82+7%$28 – $196
Rhode Island RI10$82+7%$47 – $141
Iowa IA67$81+6%$53 – $114
Connecticut CT21$79+3%$51 – $147
Ohio OH135$78+3%$36 – $122
Oklahoma OK65$68−11%$29 – $130
Idaho ID20$68−11%$19 – $131
Utah UT41$65−15%$55 – $165
Oregon OR44$63−18%$30 – $97
Maine ME26$59−23%$31 – $169
Mississippi MS50$56−27%$30 – $108
New York NY104$56−27%$20 – $123
Minnesota MN89$54−29%$32 – $149
Louisiana LA49$54−29%$27 – $127
Wyoming WY15$54−29%$36 – $95
Tennessee TN77$52−31%$31 – $164
West Virginia WV40$52−32%$10 – $126
Maryland MD39$41−47%$31 – $49
North Carolina NC84$41−47%$32 – $155
Arkansas AR32$40−48%$27 – $112
Michigan MI72$34−56%$17 – $51
New Jersey NJ53$20−73%$18 – $60
Florida FL147$19−75%$7 – $56
California CA116$19−75%$8 – $31
Delaware DE7not 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 $76.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,157$68$25 – $149
Children’s44$50$19 – $184
Critical access765$96$48 – $166
Ownership
For-profit419$100$26 – $343
Government531$80$33 – $143
Non-profit2,016$72$30 – $146
System affiliation
Part of a system2,433$75$28 – $158
Independent543$81$37 – $143

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$129
Median cash price$76
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

2,028 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $77 and the average of the middle 60% is $81; most fall between $31 and $149.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,028 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$36$77$130$209

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $209).

Of the 2,247 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,028 gave a usable cash price; 118 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 101 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,976 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (75%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,253 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,976
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here158
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded118
Hospitals that filed this code3,253

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 Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Gastrin.

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 (CPT 82941) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82941-gastrin-blood-test