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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

G6PD screening test

CPT 82960the billing code this page is about

A screening blood test that shows whether the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase is present in red blood cells, without measuring an exact amount.

Hospitals typically charge $36 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 702 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $43. Most fall between $11 and $88 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
702
States
45
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 702 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$15$36$80$145

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7 vs $145).

How the prices are spread

$6 – $9: 103 hospitals$6$9 – $13: 34 hospitals$13 – $19: 58 hospitals$13$19 – $28: 90 hospitals$28 – $41: 56 hospitals$28$41 – $60: 76 hospitals$60 – $88: 118 hospitals$60$88 – $128: 68 hospitals$128 – $188: 23 hospitals$128$188 – $275: 17 hospitals$188median $36price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (643 of 702 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$9103
$9$1334
$13$1958
$19$2890
$28$4156
$41$6076
$60$88118
$88$12868
$128$18823
$188$27517

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $36.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $78 across 22 hospitalsWA$78Idaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $40 across 32 hospitalsIL$40Wisconsin: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $26 across 24 hospitalsMI$26New York: median $13 across 42 hospitalsNY$13Massachusetts: median $45 across 23 hospitalsMA$45Oregon: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $34 across 16 hospitalsIA$34Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $31 across 35 hospitalsOH$31Pennsylvania: median $8 across 28 hospitalsPA$8New Jersey: median $7 across 25 hospitalsNJ$7Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $88 across 56 hospitalsCA$88Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $49 across 14 hospitalsCO$49Nebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $46 across 26 hospitalsMO$46Kentucky: median $41 across 15 hospitalsKY$41West Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $7 across 12 hospitalsVA$7Maryland: median $29 across 10 hospitalsMD$29Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $88 across 12 hospitalsKS$88Arkansas: median $51 across 12 hospitalsAR$51Tennessee: median $8 across 23 hospitalsTN$8North Carolina: median $61 across 24 hospitalsNC$61South Carolina: median $546 across 17 hospitalsSC$546Oklahoma: median $11 across 15 hospitalsOK$11Louisiana: median $14 across 21 hospitalsLA$14Mississippi: median $9 across 18 hospitalsMS$9Alabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $22 across 25 hospitalsGA$22Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $72 across 61 hospitalsTX$72Florida: median $22 across 27 hospitalsFL$22
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $36. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC17$546+1408%$27 – $546
California CA56$88+143%$55 – $115
Kansas KS12$88+143%$44 – $136
Washington WA22$78+116%$36 – $124
Texas TX61$72+99%$56 – $90
North Carolina NC24$61+68%$30 – $81
Arkansas AR12$51+42%$14 – $54
Colorado CO14$49+36%$48 – $50
Missouri MO26$46+26%$26 – $155
Massachusetts MA23$45+24%$19 – $85
Kentucky KY15$41+13%$16 – $65
Illinois IL32$40+10%$16 – $109
Iowa IA16$34−7%$34 – $34
Ohio OH35$31−14%$16 – $58
Maryland MD10$29−21%$21 – $33
Michigan MI24$26−28%$8 – $29
Georgia GA25$22−40%$22 – $125
Florida FL27$22−41%$6 – $75
Louisiana LA21$14−60%$10 – $36
New York NY42$13−63%$6 – $68
Oklahoma OK15$11−69%$11 – $18
Mississippi MS18$9−76%$5 – $24
Pennsylvania PA28$8−78%$4 – $42
Tennessee TN23$8−78%$7 – $27
Virginia VA12$7−81%$7 – $82
New Jersey NJ25$7−82%$6 – $7
Wisconsin WI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $36.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care580$34$9 – $83
Children’s24$73$21 – $154
Critical access94$54$16 – $93
Ownership
For-profit82$56$16 – $210
Government84$26$7 – $88
Non-profit532$36$11 – $83
System affiliation
Part of a system614$36$10 – $88
Independent88$39$13 – $90

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$72
Median cash price$36
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

499 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $43 and the average of the middle 60% is $47; most fall between $16 and $93.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 499 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$21$43$80$125

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($8 vs $125).

Of the 564 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 499 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 35 a list price only.

How complete is this

702 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 768 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted702
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here31
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded34
Hospitals that filed this code768

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 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 TEST FOR G6PD ENZYME.

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, “G6PD screening test (CPT 82960) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82960-g6pd-screening-test