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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Glucose test on body fluid other than blood

CPT 82945the billing code this page is about

Measures the glucose (sugar) level in a body fluid such as spinal fluid or joint fluid rather than in blood.

Hospitals typically charge $37 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,241 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $39. Most fall between $13 and $77 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,241
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 3,241 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
$7$17$37$66$117

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7 vs $117).

How the prices are spread

$5 – $7: 115 hospitals$5$7 – $10: 163 hospitals$10 – $14: 233 hospitals$10$14 – $21: 326 hospitals$21 – $30: 420 hospitals$21$30 – $44: 448 hospitals$44 – $65: 546 hospitals$44$65 – $95: 380 hospitals$95 – $138: 185 hospitals$95$138 – $203: 107 hospitals$138median $37price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,923 of 3,241 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$5$7115
$7$10163
$10$14233
$14$21326
$21$30420
$30$44448
$44$65546
$65$95380
$95$138185
$138$203107

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $37.

Alaska: median $94 across 18 hospitalsAK$94Maine: median $30 across 28 hospitalsME$30Vermont: median $41 across 14 hospitalsVT$41New Hampshire: median $34 across 24 hospitalsNH$34Washington: median $35 across 76 hospitalsWA$35Idaho: median $30 across 24 hospitalsID$30Montana: median $43 across 25 hospitalsMT$43North Dakota: median $28 across 30 hospitalsND$28Minnesota: median $48 across 101 hospitalsMN$48Illinois: median $57 across 137 hospitalsIL$57Wisconsin: median $47 across 106 hospitalsWI$47Michigan: median $18 across 86 hospitalsMI$18New York: median $18 across 106 hospitalsNY$18Massachusetts: median $26 across 51 hospitalsMA$26Oregon: median $30 across 51 hospitalsOR$30Nevada: median $44 across 21 hospitalsNV$44Wyoming: median $36 across 16 hospitalsWY$36South Dakota: median $67 across 26 hospitalsSD$67Iowa: median $37 across 85 hospitalsIA$37Indiana: median $24 across 97 hospitalsIN$24Ohio: median $26 across 141 hospitalsOH$26Pennsylvania: median $21 across 120 hospitalsPA$21New Jersey: median $5 across 57 hospitalsNJ$5Connecticut: median $26 across 23 hospitalsCT$26Rhode Island: median $31 across 10 hospitalsRI$31California: median $43 across 161 hospitalsCA$43Utah: median $46 across 41 hospitalsUT$46Colorado: median $55 across 69 hospitalsCO$55Nebraska: median $53 across 74 hospitalsNE$53Missouri: median $34 across 75 hospitalsMO$34Kentucky: median $43 across 66 hospitalsKY$43West Virginia: median $25 across 39 hospitalsWV$25Virginia: median $36 across 73 hospitalsVA$36Maryland: median $11 across 41 hospitalsMD$11Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $54 across 42 hospitalsAZ$54New Mexico: median $53 across 29 hospitalsNM$53Kansas: median $29 across 78 hospitalsKS$29Arkansas: median $19 across 37 hospitalsAR$19Tennessee: median $21 across 82 hospitalsTN$21North Carolina: median $46 across 84 hospitalsNC$46South Carolina: median $55 across 52 hospitalsSC$55Oklahoma: median $30 across 68 hospitalsOK$30Louisiana: median $20 across 49 hospitalsLA$20Mississippi: median $26 across 54 hospitalsMS$26Alabama: median $28 across 43 hospitalsAL$28Georgia: median $51 across 104 hospitalsGA$51Hawaii: median $37 across 19 hospitalsHI$37Texas: median $73 across 235 hospitalsTX$73Florida: median $57 across 146 hospitalsFL$57
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $37. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK18$94+156%$57 – $145
Texas TX235$73+99%$29 – $167
South Dakota SD26$67+84%$57 – $99
Illinois IL137$57+57%$24 – $108
Florida FL146$57+55%$16 – $441
Colorado CO69$55+51%$32 – $82
South Carolina SC52$55+50%$21 – $84
Arizona AZ42$54+49%$6 – $239
Nebraska NE74$53+46%$32 – $83
New Mexico NM29$53+44%$19 – $91
Georgia GA104$51+41%$15 – $94
Minnesota MN101$48+32%$15 – $66
Wisconsin WI106$47+29%$21 – $77
Utah UT41$46+25%$39 – $59
North Carolina NC84$46+25%$18 – $63
Nevada NV21$44+20%$20 – $112
Kentucky KY66$43+19%$10 – $63
Montana MT25$43+18%$21 – $54
California CA161$43+17%$7 – $166
Vermont VT14$41+12%$25 – $65
Hawaii HI19$370%$26 – $45
Iowa IA85$370%$27 – $53
Wyoming WY16$36−2%$8 – $48
Virginia VA73$36−3%$16 – $97
Washington WA76$35−4%$20 – $61
New Hampshire NH24$34−7%$13 – $113
Missouri MO75$34−7%$17 – $58
Rhode Island RI10$31−15%$10 – $47
Oklahoma OK68$30−18%$14 – $64
Oregon OR51$30−18%$16 – $58
Idaho ID24$30−19%$17 – $42
Maine ME28$30−19%$20 – $84
Kansas KS78$29−20%$16 – $55
Alabama AL43$28−23%$13 – $94
North Dakota ND30$28−23%$7 – $58
Massachusetts MA51$26−28%$12 – $56
Connecticut CT23$26−28%$17 – $37
Mississippi MS54$26−29%$11 – $49
Ohio OH141$26−30%$12 – $47
West Virginia WV39$25−33%$12 – $42
Indiana IN97$24−34%$11 – $78
Pennsylvania PA120$21−43%$6 – $62
Tennessee TN82$21−43%$10 – $51
Louisiana LA49$20−46%$7 – $50
Arkansas AR37$19−48%$11 – $49
Michigan MI86$18−50%$7 – $32
New York NY106$18−51%$7 – $58
Maryland MD41$11−70%$9 – $13
New Jersey NJ57$5−88%$4 – $15
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 $37.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,279$35$12 – $79
Children’s64$34$15 – $76
Critical access888$40$18 – $71
Ownership
For-profit452$57$17 – $230
Government597$37$15 – $71
Non-profit2,182$34$13 – $67
System affiliation
Part of a system2,637$38$13 – $78
Independent604$34$15 – $68

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$61
Median cash price$37
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

2,200 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $36 and the average of the middle 60% is $38; most fall between $14 and $75.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,200 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
$8$17$36$64$101

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($8 vs $101).

Of the 2,432 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,200 gave a usable cash price; 125 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 106 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,241 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (82%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,542 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,241
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here173
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded126
Hospitals that filed this code3,542

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 Glucose-Urine.

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, “Glucose test on body fluid other than blood (CPT 82945) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82945-glucose-test-on-body-fluid-other-than-blood