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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Glucagon blood test

CPT 82943the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of the hormone glucagon in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $70 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,223 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $73. Most fall between $27 and $142 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,223
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 2,223 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$32$70$122$217

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $217).

How the prices are spread

$16 – $22: 138 hospitals$16$22 – $29: 264 hospitals$29 – $40: 175 hospitals$29$40 – $55: 224 hospitals$55 – $76: 288 hospitals$55$76 – $103: 320 hospitals$103 – $141: 257 hospitals$103$141 – $193: 152 hospitals$193 – $265: 113 hospitals$193$265 – $362: 70 hospitals$265median $70price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,001 of 2,223 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$16$22138
$22$29264
$29$40175
$40$55224
$55$76288
$76$103320
$103$141257
$141$193152
$193$265113
$265$36270

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $70.

Alaska: median $59 across 13 hospitalsAK$59Maine: median $93 across 14 hospitalsME$93Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $84 across 15 hospitalsNH$84Washington: median $70 across 45 hospitalsWA$70Idaho: median $46 across 17 hospitalsID$46Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $40 across 15 hospitalsND$40Minnesota: median $67 across 48 hospitalsMN$67Illinois: median $88 across 89 hospitalsIL$88Wisconsin: median $80 across 89 hospitalsWI$80Michigan: median $39 across 60 hospitalsMI$39New York: median $35 across 91 hospitalsNY$35Massachusetts: median $76 across 46 hospitalsMA$76Oregon: median $59 across 29 hospitalsOR$59Nevada: median $70 across 14 hospitalsNV$70Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $55 across 35 hospitalsIA$55Indiana: median $78 across 76 hospitalsIN$78Ohio: median $77 across 109 hospitalsOH$77Pennsylvania: median $76 across 106 hospitalsPA$76New Jersey: median $16 across 51 hospitalsNJ$16Connecticut: median $66 across 13 hospitalsCT$66Rhode Island: median $98 across 10 hospitalsRI$98California: median $26 across 97 hospitalsCA$26Utah: median $87 across 35 hospitalsUT$87Colorado: median $98 across 49 hospitalsCO$98Nebraska: median $102 across 27 hospitalsNE$102Missouri: median $88 across 58 hospitalsMO$88Kentucky: median $111 across 45 hospitalsKY$111West Virginia: median $71 across 17 hospitalsWV$71Virginia: median $74 across 57 hospitalsVA$74Maryland: median $72 across 31 hospitalsMD$72Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $104 across 31 hospitalsAZ$104New Mexico: median $94 across 12 hospitalsNM$94Kansas: median $110 across 35 hospitalsKS$110Arkansas: median $62 across 21 hospitalsAR$62Tennessee: median $44 across 56 hospitalsTN$44North Carolina: median $32 across 71 hospitalsNC$32South Carolina: median $110 across 47 hospitalsSC$110Oklahoma: median $89 across 47 hospitalsOK$89Louisiana: median $39 across 36 hospitalsLA$39Mississippi: median $64 across 33 hospitalsMS$64Alabama: median $50 across 24 hospitalsAL$50Georgia: median $87 across 74 hospitalsGA$87Hawaii: median $63 across 12 hospitalsHI$63Texas: median $93 across 167 hospitalsTX$93Florida: median $26 across 123 hospitalsFL$26
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $70. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY45$111+59%$46 – $288
Kansas KS35$110+58%$66 – $257
South Carolina SC47$110+58%$74 – $155
Arizona AZ31$104+50%$27 – $134
Nebraska NE27$102+46%$42 – $197
Colorado CO49$98+41%$47 – $215
Rhode Island RI10$98+41%$33 – $114
New Mexico NM12$94+35%$57 – $165
Texas TX167$93+34%$45 – $254
Maine ME14$93+33%$55 – $308
Oklahoma OK47$89+28%$33 – $198
Illinois IL89$88+27%$38 – $205
Missouri MO58$88+27%$47 – $128
Georgia GA74$87+25%$29 – $152
Utah UT35$87+25%$74 – $103
New Hampshire NH15$84+21%$48 – $578
Wisconsin WI89$80+15%$42 – $108
Indiana IN76$78+13%$25 – $183
Ohio OH109$77+10%$39 – $119
Massachusetts MA46$76+9%$36 – $133
Pennsylvania PA106$76+9%$21 – $202
Virginia VA57$74+6%$25 – $129
Maryland MD31$72+3%$50 – $80
West Virginia WV17$71+3%$31 – $185
Washington WA45$70+1%$42 – $121
Nevada NV14$70+1%$14 – $228
Minnesota MN48$67−4%$43 – $185
Connecticut CT13$66−5%$53 – $87
Mississippi MS33$64−8%$33 – $89
Hawaii HI12$63−9%$63 – $130
Arkansas AR21$62−11%$33 – $77
Oregon OR29$59−15%$24 – $111
Alaska AK13$59−16%$49 – $193
Iowa IA35$55−21%$49 – $101
Alabama AL24$50−29%$17 – $99
Idaho ID17$46−35%$29 – $107
Tennessee TN56$44−37%$25 – $96
North Dakota ND15$40−42%$24 – $75
Michigan MI60$39−43%$18 – $80
Louisiana LA36$39−43%$26 – $97
New York NY91$35−50%$17 – $97
North Carolina NC71$32−53%$22 – $134
Florida FL123$26−63%$19 – $64
California CA97$26−63%$19 – $108
New Jersey NJ51$16−76%$16 – $41
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not 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 $70.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,754$66$26 – $139
Children’s47$76$51 – $138
Critical access412$76$39 – $165
Ownership
For-profit315$84$27 – $315
Government293$67$27 – $134
Non-profit1,605$69$27 – $131
System affiliation
Part of a system1,888$69$26 – $140
Independent335$73$33 – $145

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$116
Median cash price$70
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

1,569 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $74 and the average of the middle 60% is $75; most fall between $29 and $138.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,569 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
$23$36$74$120$208

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $208).

Of the 1,740 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,569 gave a usable cash price; 94 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

2,223 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 2,431 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,223
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here115
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 — excluded92
Hospitals that filed this code2,431

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 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 Glucagon.

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, “Glucagon blood test (CPT 82943) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82943-glucagon-blood-test