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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Glucose tolerance test, each extra blood sample

CPT 82952the billing code this page is about

Billed for each additional timed blood glucose measurement beyond the three included in the standard glucose tolerance test.

Hospitals typically charge $30 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,013 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $32. Most fall between $14 and $62 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,013
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 3,013 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$16$30$53$101

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($8 vs $101).

How the prices are spread

$5 – $7: 90 hospitals$5$7 – $10: 162 hospitals$10 – $14: 228 hospitals$10$14 – $20: 362 hospitals$20 – $28: 430 hospitals$20$28 – $40: 474 hospitals$40 – $56: 421 hospitals$40$56 – $79: 285 hospitals$79 – $111: 166 hospitals$79$111 – $156: 96 hospitals$111median $30price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,714 of 3,013 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$5$790
$7$10162
$10$14228
$14$20362
$20$28430
$28$40474
$40$56421
$56$79285
$79$111166
$111$15696

By state

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

Alaska: median $53 across 19 hospitalsAK$53Maine: median $21 across 26 hospitalsME$21Vermont: median $38 across 13 hospitalsVT$38New Hampshire: median $20 across 24 hospitalsNH$20Washington: median $31 across 65 hospitalsWA$31Idaho: median $26 across 20 hospitalsID$26Montana: median $26 across 25 hospitalsMT$26North Dakota: median $28 across 28 hospitalsND$28Minnesota: median $37 across 93 hospitalsMN$37Illinois: median $50 across 129 hospitalsIL$50Wisconsin: median $35 across 98 hospitalsWI$35Michigan: median $19 across 86 hospitalsMI$19New York: median $17 across 98 hospitalsNY$17Massachusetts: median $26 across 40 hospitalsMA$26Oregon: median $26 across 44 hospitalsOR$26Nevada: median $43 across 20 hospitalsNV$43Wyoming: median $26 across 14 hospitalsWY$26South Dakota: median $64 across 31 hospitalsSD$64Iowa: median $35 across 79 hospitalsIA$35Indiana: median $16 across 91 hospitalsIN$16Ohio: median $29 across 128 hospitalsOH$29Pennsylvania: median $20 across 117 hospitalsPA$20New Jersey: median $5 across 56 hospitalsNJ$5Connecticut: median $17 across 15 hospitalsCT$17Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $53 across 144 hospitalsCA$53Utah: median $23 across 40 hospitalsUT$23Colorado: median $44 across 64 hospitalsCO$44Nebraska: median $59 across 74 hospitalsNE$59Missouri: median $34 across 74 hospitalsMO$34Kentucky: median $30 across 64 hospitalsKY$30West Virginia: median $26 across 36 hospitalsWV$26Virginia: median $31 across 67 hospitalsVA$31Maryland: median $11 across 37 hospitalsMD$11Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $27 across 34 hospitalsAZ$27New Mexico: median $18 across 24 hospitalsNM$18Kansas: median $25 across 78 hospitalsKS$25Arkansas: median $12 across 34 hospitalsAR$12Tennessee: median $17 across 71 hospitalsTN$17North Carolina: median $23 across 79 hospitalsNC$23South Carolina: median $41 across 50 hospitalsSC$41Oklahoma: median $24 across 69 hospitalsOK$24Louisiana: median $14 across 48 hospitalsLA$14Mississippi: median $19 across 50 hospitalsMS$19Alabama: median $25 across 39 hospitalsAL$25Georgia: median $27 across 95 hospitalsGA$27Hawaii: median $27 across 13 hospitalsHI$27Texas: median $46 across 214 hospitalsTX$46Florida: median $60 across 143 hospitalsFL$60
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 SD31$64+114%$32 – $104
Florida FL143$60+101%$13 – $233
Nebraska NE74$59+96%$32 – $86
Alaska AK19$53+78%$19 – $76
California CA144$53+76%$26 – $77
Illinois IL129$50+67%$24 – $77
Texas TX214$46+53%$17 – $156
Colorado CO64$44+47%$25 – $61
Nevada NV20$43+45%$20 – $75
South Carolina SC50$41+35%$30 – $79
Vermont VT13$38+27%$24 – $68
Minnesota MN93$37+23%$24 – $54
Iowa IA79$35+17%$29 – $58
Wisconsin WI98$35+17%$22 – $39
Missouri MO74$34+14%$18 – $68
Washington WA65$31+4%$17 – $49
Virginia VA67$31+4%$20 – $57
Kentucky KY64$30+1%$13 – $103
Ohio OH128$29−4%$16 – $47
North Dakota ND28$28−6%$26 – $37
Hawaii HI13$27−9%$25 – $54
Arizona AZ34$27−10%$7 – $145
Georgia GA95$27−11%$15 – $54
Wyoming WY14$26−12%$8 – $62
Idaho ID20$26−13%$17 – $35
Montana MT25$26−14%$21 – $40
Massachusetts MA40$26−15%$11 – $50
Oregon OR44$26−15%$18 – $35
West Virginia WV36$26−15%$19 – $42
Alabama AL39$25−16%$8 – $63
Kansas KS78$25−16%$17 – $39
Oklahoma OK69$24−20%$12 – $40
Utah UT40$23−22%$20 – $104
North Carolina NC79$23−24%$16 – $45
Maine ME26$21−30%$17 – $63
New Hampshire NH24$20−33%$11 – $54
Pennsylvania PA117$20−34%$6 – $43
Michigan MI86$19−36%$12 – $32
Mississippi MS50$19−38%$10 – $38
New Mexico NM24$18−38%$15 – $47
New York NY98$17−43%$8 – $63
Tennessee TN71$17−44%$9 – $45
Connecticut CT15$17−45%$14 – $21
Indiana IN91$16−46%$10 – $34
Louisiana LA48$14−54%$7 – $40
Arkansas AR34$12−58%$9 – $41
Maryland MD37$11−65%$8 – $13
New Jersey NJ56$5−85%$4 – $17
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 $30.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,120$28$12 – $63
Children’s43$39$21 – $88
Critical access840$34$18 – $59
Ownership
For-profit393$48$17 – $224
Government565$31$15 – $59
Non-profit2,045$28$13 – $55
System affiliation
Part of a system2,463$30$13 – $63
Independent550$30$16 – $56

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$49
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

2,048 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $30 and the average of the middle 60% is $32; most fall between $15 and $58.

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
$9$17$30$50$84

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $84).

Of the 2,260 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,048 gave a usable cash price; 112 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 100 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,013 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 3,284 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,013
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here154
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 — excluded116
Hospitals that filed this code3,284

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 September 4, 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,Ea >3.

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, each extra blood sample (CPT 82952) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82952-glucose-tolerance-test-each-extra-blood-sample