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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Blood sugar check with a home glucose meter

CPT 82962the billing code this page is about

A single blood sugar reading taken with a handheld glucose monitoring device approved for home use.

Hospitals typically charge $18 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,482 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $19. Most fall between $8 and $35 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,482
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 2,482 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
$5$9$18$32$51

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($5 vs $51).

How the prices are spread

$4 – $5: 131 hospitals$4$5 – $7: 135 hospitals$7 – $9: 205 hospitals$7$9 – $12: 294 hospitals$12 – $16: 271 hospitals$12$16 – $22: 313 hospitals$22 – $29: 315 hospitals$22$29 – $40: 307 hospitals$40 – $53: 156 hospitals$40$53 – $72: 110 hospitals$53median $18price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,237 of 2,482 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$4$5131
$5$7135
$7$9205
$9$12294
$12$16271
$16$22313
$22$29315
$29$40307
$40$53156
$53$72110

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $18.

Alaska: median $35 across 16 hospitalsAK$35Maine: median $11 across 24 hospitalsME$11Vermont: median $22 across 13 hospitalsVT$22New Hampshire: median $12 across 14 hospitalsNH$12Washington: median $22 across 67 hospitalsWA$22Idaho: median $13 across 17 hospitalsID$13Montana: median $16 across 19 hospitalsMT$16North Dakota: median $19 across 24 hospitalsND$19Minnesota: median $29 across 57 hospitalsMN$29Illinois: median $28 across 119 hospitalsIL$28Wisconsin: median $19 across 94 hospitalsWI$19Michigan: median $8 across 93 hospitalsMI$8New York: median $9 across 102 hospitalsNY$9Massachusetts: median $16 across 48 hospitalsMA$16Oregon: median $18 across 40 hospitalsOR$18Nevada: median $20 across 16 hospitalsNV$20Wyoming: median $33 across 11 hospitalsWY$33South Dakota: median $33 across 13 hospitalsSD$33Iowa: median $23 across 75 hospitalsIA$23Indiana: median $18 across 75 hospitalsIN$18Ohio: median $15 across 114 hospitalsOH$15Pennsylvania: median $11 across 85 hospitalsPA$11New Jersey: median $4 across 50 hospitalsNJ$4Connecticut: median $14 across 19 hospitalsCT$14Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $38 across 100 hospitalsCA$38Utah: median $24 across 10 hospitalsUT$24Colorado: median $21 across 39 hospitalsCO$21Nebraska: median $33 across 58 hospitalsNE$33Missouri: median $17 across 59 hospitalsMO$17Kentucky: median $14 across 51 hospitalsKY$14West Virginia: median $11 across 34 hospitalsWV$11Virginia: median $18 across 56 hospitalsVA$18Maryland: median $17 across 18 hospitalsMD$17Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $12 across 36 hospitalsAZ$12New Mexico: median $21 across 26 hospitalsNM$21Kansas: median $13 across 50 hospitalsKS$13Arkansas: median $13 across 24 hospitalsAR$13Tennessee: median $11 across 55 hospitalsTN$11North Carolina: median $11 across 66 hospitalsNC$11South Carolina: median $31 across 44 hospitalsSC$31Oklahoma: median $17 across 60 hospitalsOK$17Louisiana: median $8 across 46 hospitalsLA$8Mississippi: median $11 across 50 hospitalsMS$11Alabama: median $13 across 37 hospitalsAL$13Georgia: median $9 across 64 hospitalsGA$9Hawaii: median $23 across 18 hospitalsHI$23Texas: median $28 across 196 hospitalsTX$28Florida: median $22 across 69 hospitalsFL$22
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $18. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA100$38+114%$14 – $73
Alaska AK16$35+97%$22 – $66
Wyoming WY11$33+85%$17 – $46
Nebraska NE58$33+83%$10 – $55
South Dakota SD13$33+83%$29 – $46
South Carolina SC44$31+71%$17 – $51
Minnesota MN57$29+61%$10 – $38
Texas TX196$28+58%$13 – $52
Illinois IL119$28+57%$19 – $49
Utah UT10$24+32%$13 – $33
Hawaii HI18$23+30%$4 – $41
Iowa IA75$23+27%$9 – $34
Washington WA67$22+22%$10 – $41
Florida FL69$22+21%$9 – $51
Vermont VT13$22+20%$8 – $38
Colorado CO39$21+19%$10 – $32
New Mexico NM26$21+17%$6 – $49
Nevada NV16$20+10%$17 – $34
North Dakota ND24$19+7%$11 – $29
Wisconsin WI94$19+5%$10 – $37
Indiana IN75$180%$9 – $48
Oregon OR40$180%$10 – $25
Virginia VA56$180%$11 – $22
Maryland MD18$17−5%$13 – $26
Missouri MO59$17−6%$8 – $30
Oklahoma OK60$17−6%$8 – $29
Montana MT19$16−10%$7 – $28
Massachusetts MA48$16−11%$9 – $31
Ohio OH114$15−17%$7 – $35
Connecticut CT19$14−21%$9 – $15
Kentucky KY51$14−23%$9 – $18
Idaho ID17$13−28%$11 – $15
Arkansas AR24$13−28%$6 – $25
Alabama AL37$13−29%$8 – $31
Kansas KS50$13−30%$8 – $22
New Hampshire NH14$12−33%$8 – $17
Arizona AZ36$12−36%$10 – $23
Pennsylvania PA85$11−36%$3 – $28
Tennessee TN55$11−38%$4 – $30
Mississippi MS50$11−39%$6 – $23
Maine ME24$11−39%$7 – $19
West Virginia WV34$11−39%$7 – $23
North Carolina NC66$11−39%$10 – $24
Georgia GA64$9−50%$5 – $32
New York NY102$9−50%$4 – $24
Louisiana LA46$8−53%$4 – $16
Michigan MI93$8−56%$5 – $25
New Jersey NJ50$4−79%$3 – $8
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $18.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,713$16$7 – $35
Children’s50$22$15 – $43
Critical access712$20$9 – $36
Ownership
For-profit291$20$8 – $41
Government480$19$8 – $34
Non-profit1,704$17$8 – $35
System affiliation
Part of a system1,990$18$8 – $36
Independent492$17$7 – $34

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$32
Median cash price$18
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

1,725 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $20 and the average of the middle 60% is $21; most fall between $9 and $38.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,725 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
$6$10$20$35$57

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($6 vs $57).

Of the 1,895 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,725 gave a usable cash price; 94 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 74 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,482 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (63%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,703 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,482
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here131
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded88
Hospitals that filed this code2,703

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.

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 check with a home glucose meter (CPT 82962) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82962-blood-sugar-check-with-a-home-glucose-meter