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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Blood sugar (glucose) test

CPT 82947the billing code this page is about

Measures the amount of glucose in a blood sample using standard laboratory methods rather than a reagent test strip.

Hospitals typically charge $30 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,377 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $31. Most fall between $12 and $57 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,377
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 3,377 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$14$30$50$90

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7 vs $90).

How the prices are spread

$5 – $6: 127 hospitals$5$6 – $9: 222 hospitals$9 – $13: 270 hospitals$9$13 – $19: 347 hospitals$19 – $26: 398 hospitals$19$26 – $38: 581 hospitals$38 – $54: 528 hospitals$38$54 – $77: 307 hospitals$77 – $109: 179 hospitals$77$109 – $155: 91 hospitals$109median $30price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,050 of 3,377 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$5$6127
$6$9222
$9$13270
$13$19347
$19$26398
$26$38581
$38$54528
$54$77307
$77$109179
$109$15591

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $30.

Alaska: median $45 across 19 hospitalsAK$45Maine: median $24 across 27 hospitalsME$24Vermont: median $31 across 14 hospitalsVT$31New Hampshire: median $19 across 25 hospitalsNH$19Washington: median $33 across 77 hospitalsWA$33Idaho: median $22 across 25 hospitalsID$22Montana: median $35 across 33 hospitalsMT$35North Dakota: median $29 across 35 hospitalsND$29Minnesota: median $33 across 107 hospitalsMN$33Illinois: median $46 across 142 hospitalsIL$46Wisconsin: median $29 across 109 hospitalsWI$29Michigan: median $23 across 97 hospitalsMI$23New York: median $15 across 119 hospitalsNY$15Massachusetts: median $32 across 53 hospitalsMA$32Oregon: median $23 across 51 hospitalsOR$23Nevada: median $52 across 21 hospitalsNV$52Wyoming: median $45 across 12 hospitalsWY$45South Dakota: median $72 across 41 hospitalsSD$72Iowa: median $34 across 89 hospitalsIA$34Indiana: median $26 across 95 hospitalsIN$26Ohio: median $19 across 144 hospitalsOH$19Pennsylvania: median $18 across 122 hospitalsPA$18New Jersey: median $5 across 57 hospitalsNJ$5Connecticut: median $16 across 23 hospitalsCT$16Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $38 across 165 hospitalsCA$38Utah: median $46 across 42 hospitalsUT$46Colorado: median $45 across 68 hospitalsCO$45Nebraska: median $46 across 80 hospitalsNE$46Missouri: median $30 across 78 hospitalsMO$30Kentucky: median $33 across 69 hospitalsKY$33West Virginia: median $22 across 44 hospitalsWV$22Virginia: median $42 across 73 hospitalsVA$42Maryland: median $11 across 41 hospitalsMD$11Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $42 across 39 hospitalsAZ$42New Mexico: median $35 across 30 hospitalsNM$35Kansas: median $24 across 92 hospitalsKS$24Arkansas: median $12 across 38 hospitalsAR$12Tennessee: median $19 across 83 hospitalsTN$19North Carolina: median $29 across 81 hospitalsNC$29South Carolina: median $34 across 53 hospitalsSC$34Oklahoma: median $25 across 69 hospitalsOK$25Louisiana: median $15 across 54 hospitalsLA$15Mississippi: median $16 across 54 hospitalsMS$16Alabama: median $21 across 45 hospitalsAL$21Georgia: median $35 across 112 hospitalsGA$35Hawaii: median $32 across 21 hospitalsHI$32Texas: median $42 across 244 hospitalsTX$42Florida: median $45 across 149 hospitalsFL$45
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $30. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD41$72+143%$48 – $90
Nevada NV21$52+76%$27 – $85
Illinois IL142$46+55%$23 – $76
Nebraska NE80$46+55%$16 – $66
Utah UT42$46+54%$39 – $88
Colorado CO68$45+52%$23 – $83
Alaska AK19$45+52%$15 – $70
Wyoming WY12$45+52%$23 – $63
Florida FL149$45+51%$9 – $352
Arizona AZ39$42+42%$4 – $195
Virginia VA73$42+42%$28 – $55
Texas TX244$42+41%$18 – $84
California CA165$38+27%$22 – $114
Montana MT33$35+19%$22 – $50
New Mexico NM30$35+18%$18 – $62
Georgia GA112$35+17%$12 – $53
South Carolina SC53$34+13%$16 – $48
Iowa IA89$34+13%$22 – $47
Kentucky KY69$33+11%$10 – $83
Washington WA77$33+11%$18 – $49
Minnesota MN107$33+10%$13 – $50
Hawaii HI21$32+7%$20 – $47
Massachusetts MA53$32+6%$14 – $53
Vermont VT14$31+3%$17 – $54
Missouri MO78$30+1%$14 – $46
Wisconsin WI109$29−2%$16 – $48
North Carolina NC81$29−2%$16 – $43
North Dakota ND35$29−4%$18 – $35
Indiana IN95$26−14%$10 – $49
Oklahoma OK69$25−14%$14 – $40
Kansas KS92$24−19%$11 – $44
Maine ME27$24−19%$11 – $47
Oregon OR51$23−22%$12 – $37
Michigan MI97$23−24%$7 – $35
West Virginia WV44$22−26%$12 – $37
Idaho ID25$22−27%$17 – $35
Alabama AL45$21−30%$9 – $49
Ohio OH144$19−35%$10 – $37
New Hampshire NH25$19−37%$14 – $49
Tennessee TN83$19−37%$8 – $51
Pennsylvania PA122$18−40%$7 – $39
Mississippi MS54$16−45%$9 – $38
Connecticut CT23$16−46%$10 – $31
New York NY119$15−48%$6 – $57
Louisiana LA54$15−49%$7 – $51
Arkansas AR38$12−61%$9 – $51
Maryland MD41$11−63%$9 – $13
New Jersey NJ57$5−85%$4 – $17
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
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 $30.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,316$27$10 – $60
Children’s67$32$18 – $55
Critical access985$34$16 – $55
Ownership
For-profit473$49$16 – $214
Government646$30$12 – $54
Non-profit2,249$27$11 – $51
System affiliation
Part of a system2,715$30$12 – $59
Independent662$26$11 – $53

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$48
Median cash price$30
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

2,272 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $30 and the average of the middle 60% is $31; most fall between $13 and $55.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,272 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$16$30$49$81

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7 vs $81).

Of the 2,512 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,272 gave a usable cash price; 129 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 111 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,377 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (85%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,690 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,377
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here174
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded137
Hospitals that filed this code3,690

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 PR POC Glucose; Quant;Blood.

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 sugar (glucose) test (CPT 82947) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82947-blood-sugar-glucose-test