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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Glucose tolerance test with three blood samples

CPT 82951the billing code this page is about

Timed blood sugar testing after a glucose drink, covering the glucose dose and three specimens; extra samples are billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $86 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,201 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $92. Most fall between $40 and $172 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,201
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 3,201 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
$25$47$86$150$255

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($25 vs $255).

How the prices are spread

$15 – $21: 123 hospitals$15$21 – $29: 163 hospitals$29 – $41: 243 hospitals$29$41 – $57: 376 hospitals$57 – $81: 476 hospitals$57$81 – $113: 457 hospitals$113 – $159: 502 hospitals$113$159 – $223: 311 hospitals$223 – $313: 173 hospitals$223$313 – $440: 79 hospitals$313median $86price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,903 of 3,201 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$15$21123
$21$29163
$29$41243
$41$57376
$57$81476
$81$113457
$113$159502
$159$223311
$223$313173
$313$44079

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $86.

Alaska: median $124 across 19 hospitalsAK$124Maine: median $70 across 27 hospitalsME$70Vermont: median $149 across 13 hospitalsVT$149New Hampshire: median $72 across 25 hospitalsNH$72Washington: median $64 across 70 hospitalsWA$64Idaho: median $71 across 23 hospitalsID$71Montana: median $93 across 27 hospitalsMT$93North Dakota: median $91 across 29 hospitalsND$91Minnesota: median $86 across 100 hospitalsMN$86Illinois: median $147 across 139 hospitalsIL$147Wisconsin: median $91 across 99 hospitalsWI$91Michigan: median $57 across 94 hospitalsMI$57New York: median $52 across 104 hospitalsNY$52Massachusetts: median $68 across 51 hospitalsMA$68Oregon: median $78 across 47 hospitalsOR$78Nevada: median $124 across 21 hospitalsNV$124Wyoming: median $91 across 15 hospitalsWY$91South Dakota: median $199 across 34 hospitalsSD$199Iowa: median $86 across 87 hospitalsIA$86Indiana: median $57 across 95 hospitalsIN$57Ohio: median $67 across 133 hospitalsOH$67Pennsylvania: median $65 across 119 hospitalsPA$65New Jersey: median $15 across 56 hospitalsNJ$15Connecticut: median $52 across 14 hospitalsCT$52Rhode Island: median $120 across 10 hospitalsRI$120California: median $137 across 151 hospitalsCA$137Utah: median $75 across 43 hospitalsUT$75Colorado: median $81 across 68 hospitalsCO$81Nebraska: median $146 across 80 hospitalsNE$146Missouri: median $91 across 74 hospitalsMO$91Kentucky: median $114 across 65 hospitalsKY$114West Virginia: median $69 across 43 hospitalsWV$69Virginia: median $82 across 67 hospitalsVA$82Maryland: median $41 across 39 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $76 across 38 hospitalsAZ$76New Mexico: median $123 across 28 hospitalsNM$123Kansas: median $77 across 85 hospitalsKS$77Arkansas: median $42 across 35 hospitalsAR$42Tennessee: median $42 across 77 hospitalsTN$42North Carolina: median $102 across 83 hospitalsNC$102South Carolina: median $120 across 51 hospitalsSC$120Oklahoma: median $65 across 69 hospitalsOK$65Louisiana: median $43 across 50 hospitalsLA$43Mississippi: median $56 across 54 hospitalsMS$56Alabama: median $61 across 41 hospitalsAL$61Georgia: median $74 across 102 hospitalsGA$74Hawaii: median $76 across 17 hospitalsHI$76Texas: median $144 across 234 hospitalsTX$144Florida: median $145 across 149 hospitalsFL$145
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $86. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD34$199+132%$134 – $298
Vermont VT13$149+74%$105 – $179
Illinois IL139$147+71%$68 – $251
Nebraska NE80$146+70%$62 – $207
Florida FL149$145+69%$51 – $811
Texas TX234$144+68%$67 – $281
California CA151$137+60%$63 – $249
Alaska AK19$124+45%$19 – $233
Nevada NV21$124+44%$63 – $182
New Mexico NM28$123+43%$54 – $194
South Carolina SC51$120+40%$68 – $180
Rhode Island RI10$120+40%$30 – $125
Kentucky KY65$114+33%$39 – $182
North Carolina NC83$102+18%$48 – $139
Montana MT27$93+8%$70 – $140
Wyoming WY15$91+6%$25 – $159
Missouri MO74$91+6%$47 – $147
North Dakota ND29$91+6%$78 – $123
Wisconsin WI99$91+6%$54 – $142
Minnesota MN100$86+1%$32 – $139
Iowa IA87$86+1%$64 – $123
Virginia VA67$82−4%$46 – $191
Colorado CO68$81−6%$49 – $137
Oregon OR47$78−9%$39 – $139
Kansas KS85$77−10%$50 – $110
Hawaii HI17$76−11%$62 – $126
Arizona AZ38$76−12%$37 – $717
Utah UT43$75−12%$64 – $174
Georgia GA102$74−13%$45 – $246
New Hampshire NH25$72−16%$42 – $178
Idaho ID23$71−17%$57 – $128
Maine ME27$70−19%$49 – $166
West Virginia WV43$69−20%$45 – $115
Massachusetts MA51$68−21%$44 – $113
Ohio OH133$67−22%$35 – $144
Pennsylvania PA119$65−24%$19 – $151
Oklahoma OK69$65−24%$39 – $109
Washington WA70$64−25%$37 – $114
Alabama AL41$61−29%$30 – $143
Indiana IN95$57−34%$23 – $118
Michigan MI94$57−34%$37 – $91
Mississippi MS54$56−35%$31 – $106
Connecticut CT14$52−39%$43 – $69
New York NY104$52−39%$21 – $157
Louisiana LA50$43−49%$20 – $91
Arkansas AR35$42−51%$11 – $98
Tennessee TN77$42−51%$25 – $120
Maryland MD39$41−53%$30 – $49
New Jersey NJ56$15−83%$14 – $71
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 $86.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,204$80$36 – $180
Children’s58$114$72 – $227
Critical access929$90$47 – $154
Ownership
For-profit424$152$49 – $711
Government616$86$41 – $155
Non-profit2,151$80$39 – $152
System affiliation
Part of a system2,595$86$39 – $178
Independent606$83$43 – $156

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$144
Median cash price$86
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

2,167 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $87 and the average of the middle 60% is $93; most fall between $42 and $166.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,167 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
$27$49$87$146$234

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($27 vs $234).

Of the 2,390 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,167 gave a usable cash price; 116 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 107 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,201 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (81%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,499 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,201
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here167
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 — excluded130
Hospitals that filed this code3,499

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 Tolerance Test,3 Spec.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Glucose tolerance test with three blood samples (CPT 82951) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82951-glucose-tolerance-test-with-three-blood-samples