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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Blood sugar test after a glucose drink

CPT 82950the billing code this page is about

One glucose measurement taken after a measured dose of glucose is given; the price covers the glucose dose and the single timed sample.

Hospitals typically charge $40 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,017 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $43. Most fall between $17 and $86 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,017
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 3,017 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
$10$21$40$72$136

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $136).

How the prices are spread

$7 – $10: 122 hospitals$7$10 – $13: 161 hospitals$13 – $19: 242 hospitals$13$19 – $27: 330 hospitals$27 – $37: 405 hospitals$27$37 – $53: 507 hospitals$53 – $74: 371 hospitals$53$74 – $104: 279 hospitals$104 – $146: 177 hospitals$104$146 – $205: 125 hospitals$146median $40price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,719 of 3,017 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$7$10122
$10$13161
$13$19242
$19$27330
$27$37405
$37$53507
$53$74371
$74$104279
$104$146177
$146$205125

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $40.

Alaska: median $76 across 19 hospitalsAK$76Maine: median $37 across 26 hospitalsME$37Vermont: median $47 across 14 hospitalsVT$47New Hampshire: median $32 across 23 hospitalsNH$32Washington: median $39 across 68 hospitalsWA$39Idaho: median $28 across 23 hospitalsID$28Montana: median $51 across 30 hospitalsMT$51North Dakota: median $35 across 30 hospitalsND$35Minnesota: median $42 across 99 hospitalsMN$42Illinois: median $75 across 135 hospitalsIL$75Wisconsin: median $49 across 97 hospitalsWI$49Michigan: median $26 across 91 hospitalsMI$26New York: median $17 across 114 hospitalsNY$17Massachusetts: median $29 across 50 hospitalsMA$29Oregon: median $34 across 47 hospitalsOR$34Nevada: median $43 across 17 hospitalsNV$43Wyoming: median $52 across 16 hospitalsWY$52South Dakota: median $113 across 32 hospitalsSD$113Iowa: median $40 across 82 hospitalsIA$40Indiana: median $34 across 92 hospitalsIN$34Ohio: median $29 across 133 hospitalsOH$29Pennsylvania: median $26 across 115 hospitalsPA$26New Jersey: median $5 across 53 hospitalsNJ$5Connecticut: median $21 across 18 hospitalsCT$21Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $52 across 150 hospitalsCA$52Utah: median $46 across 41 hospitalsUT$46Colorado: median $47 across 65 hospitalsCO$47Nebraska: median $55 across 62 hospitalsNE$55Missouri: median $43 across 73 hospitalsMO$43Kentucky: median $36 across 57 hospitalsKY$36West Virginia: median $34 across 34 hospitalsWV$34Virginia: median $41 across 62 hospitalsVA$41Maryland: median $11 across 38 hospitalsMD$11Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $89 across 35 hospitalsAZ$89New Mexico: median $52 across 21 hospitalsNM$52Kansas: median $38 across 79 hospitalsKS$38Arkansas: median $17 across 32 hospitalsAR$17Tennessee: median $28 across 70 hospitalsTN$28North Carolina: median $35 across 78 hospitalsNC$35South Carolina: median $48 across 50 hospitalsSC$48Oklahoma: median $29 across 63 hospitalsOK$29Louisiana: median $18 across 46 hospitalsLA$18Mississippi: median $28 across 44 hospitalsMS$28Alabama: median $36 across 32 hospitalsAL$36Georgia: median $38 across 96 hospitalsGA$38Hawaii: median $31 across 16 hospitalsHI$31Texas: median $70 across 207 hospitalsTX$70Florida: median $65 across 129 hospitalsFL$65
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $40. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD32$113+184%$50 – $146
Arizona AZ35$89+125%$8 – $394
Alaska AK19$76+91%$15 – $149
Illinois IL135$75+89%$32 – $108
Texas TX207$70+78%$32 – $197
Florida FL129$65+63%$9 – $284
Nebraska NE62$55+40%$25 – $77
California CA150$52+31%$22 – $112
New Mexico NM21$52+31%$19 – $86
Wyoming WY16$52+30%$10 – $63
Montana MT30$51+30%$27 – $68
Wisconsin WI97$49+25%$24 – $71
South Carolina SC50$48+21%$35 – $78
Colorado CO65$47+19%$35 – $115
Vermont VT14$47+19%$30 – $84
Utah UT41$46+15%$39 – $109
Nevada NV17$43+10%$15 – $84
Missouri MO73$43+7%$24 – $82
Minnesota MN99$42+5%$18 – $59
Virginia VA62$41+3%$23 – $57
Iowa IA82$40+1%$32 – $68
Washington WA68$39−2%$24 – $64
Kansas KS79$38−3%$25 – $59
Georgia GA96$38−5%$25 – $92
Maine ME26$37−8%$24 – $57
Alabama AL32$36−9%$16 – $92
Kentucky KY57$36−10%$14 – $63
North Dakota ND30$35−11%$33 – $55
North Carolina NC78$35−12%$24 – $57
Indiana IN92$34−13%$13 – $65
Oregon OR47$34−15%$17 – $49
West Virginia WV34$34−15%$25 – $62
New Hampshire NH23$32−19%$26 – $90
Hawaii HI16$31−21%$27 – $61
Oklahoma OK63$29−26%$15 – $46
Massachusetts MA50$29−26%$19 – $59
Ohio OH133$29−26%$15 – $71
Mississippi MS44$28−29%$14 – $67
Idaho ID23$28−29%$21 – $51
Tennessee TN70$28−30%$14 – $57
Pennsylvania PA115$26−33%$7 – $67
Michigan MI91$26−34%$14 – $38
Connecticut CT18$21−47%$18 – $40
Louisiana LA46$18−56%$9 – $57
New York NY114$17−57%$11 – $69
Arkansas AR32$17−57%$9 – $39
Maryland MD38$11−73%$8 – $13
New Jersey NJ53$5−86%$5 – $16
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $40.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,124$37$15 – $92
Children’s35$64$27 – $142
Critical access849$45$25 – $79
Ownership
For-profit371$72$23 – $271
Government552$40$22 – $81
Non-profit2,085$38$16 – $73
System affiliation
Part of a system2,467$39$16 – $86
Independent550$41$21 – $84

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$69
Median cash price$40
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

2,048 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $39 and the average of the middle 60% is $42; most fall between $18 and $82.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,048 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
$12$22$39$69$119

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $119).

Of the 2,257 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,048 gave a usable cash price; 117 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 92 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,017 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (76%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,285 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,017
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here159
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded109
Hospitals that filed this code3,285

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-2hr Pp.

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 test after a glucose drink (CPT 82950) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82950-blood-sugar-test-after-a-glucose-drink