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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Fructosamine blood sugar control test

CPT 82985the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures glycated protein, also called fructosamine, which reflects average blood sugar over the preceding few weeks.

Hospitals typically charge $53 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,859 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $54. Most fall between $23 and $98 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,859
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 2,859 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
$16$27$53$85$145

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($16 vs $145).

How the prices are spread

$11 – $15: 112 hospitals$11$15 – $20: 242 hospitals$20 – $27: 215 hospitals$20$27 – $36: 311 hospitals$36 – $49: 310 hospitals$36$49 – $66: 431 hospitals$66 – $89: 445 hospitals$66$89 – $120: 246 hospitals$120 – $161: 170 hospitals$120$161 – $217: 98 hospitals$161median $53price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,580 of 2,859 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$11$15112
$15$20242
$20$27215
$27$36311
$36$49310
$49$66431
$66$89445
$89$120246
$120$161170
$161$21798

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $53.

Alaska: median $93 across 11 hospitalsAK$93Maine: median $55 across 25 hospitalsME$55Vermont: median $82 across 12 hospitalsVT$82New Hampshire: median $77 across 25 hospitalsNH$77Washington: median $54 across 68 hospitalsWA$54Idaho: median $49 across 21 hospitalsID$49Montana: median $68 across 17 hospitalsMT$68North Dakota: median $54 across 20 hospitalsND$54Minnesota: median $58 across 80 hospitalsMN$58Illinois: median $67 across 134 hospitalsIL$67Wisconsin: median $75 across 95 hospitalsWI$75Michigan: median $34 across 67 hospitalsMI$34New York: median $48 across 105 hospitalsNY$48Massachusetts: median $87 across 49 hospitalsMA$87Oregon: median $44 across 45 hospitalsOR$44Nevada: median $78 across 19 hospitalsNV$78Wyoming: median $50 across 15 hospitalsWY$50South Dakota: median $66 across 30 hospitalsSD$66Iowa: median $64 across 71 hospitalsIA$64Indiana: median $57 across 94 hospitalsIN$57Ohio: median $41 across 132 hospitalsOH$41Pennsylvania: median $70 across 120 hospitalsPA$70New Jersey: median $19 across 57 hospitalsNJ$19Connecticut: median $79 across 18 hospitalsCT$79Rhode Island: median $52 across 10 hospitalsRI$52California: median $18 across 108 hospitalsCA$18Utah: median $47 across 38 hospitalsUT$47Colorado: median $65 across 56 hospitalsCO$65Nebraska: median $104 across 43 hospitalsNE$104Missouri: median $51 across 67 hospitalsMO$51Kentucky: median $50 across 63 hospitalsKY$50West Virginia: median $18 across 28 hospitalsWV$18Virginia: median $69 across 66 hospitalsVA$69Maryland: median $41 across 41 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $43 across 38 hospitalsAZ$43New Mexico: median $68 across 21 hospitalsNM$68Kansas: median $62 across 68 hospitalsKS$62Arkansas: median $51 across 22 hospitalsAR$51Tennessee: median $46 across 71 hospitalsTN$46North Carolina: median $38 across 82 hospitalsNC$38South Carolina: median $64 across 48 hospitalsSC$64Oklahoma: median $56 across 59 hospitalsOK$56Louisiana: median $35 across 44 hospitalsLA$35Mississippi: median $26 across 49 hospitalsMS$26Alabama: median $46 across 38 hospitalsAL$46Georgia: median $47 across 94 hospitalsGA$47Hawaii: median $61 across 12 hospitalsHI$61Texas: median $66 across 208 hospitalsTX$66Florida: median $18 across 148 hospitalsFL$18
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $53. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Nebraska NE43$104+98%$36 – $152
Alaska AK11$93+76%$62 – $217
Massachusetts MA49$87+65%$38 – $121
Vermont VT12$82+55%$70 – $140
Connecticut CT18$79+50%$56 – $91
Nevada NV19$78+49%$26 – $107
New Hampshire NH25$77+45%$24 – $167
Wisconsin WI95$75+43%$38 – $101
Pennsylvania PA120$70+32%$21 – $197
Virginia VA66$69+30%$26 – $115
New Mexico NM21$68+29%$46 – $95
Montana MT17$68+29%$40 – $95
Illinois IL134$67+26%$35 – $115
Texas TX208$66+25%$31 – $176
South Dakota SD30$66+24%$43 – $151
Colorado CO56$65+24%$27 – $95
South Carolina SC48$64+22%$59 – $100
Iowa IA71$64+22%$53 – $87
Kansas KS68$62+16%$44 – $93
Hawaii HI12$61+15%$37 – $118
Minnesota MN80$58+9%$24 – $78
Indiana IN94$57+9%$26 – $113
Oklahoma OK59$56+6%$29 – $70
Maine ME25$55+4%$26 – $82
Washington WA68$54+2%$27 – $84
North Dakota ND20$54+2%$29 – $94
Rhode Island RI10$52−1%$35 – $120
Missouri MO67$51−3%$32 – $79
Arkansas AR22$51−4%$18 – $83
Wyoming WY15$50−5%$29 – $106
Kentucky KY63$50−5%$26 – $158
Idaho ID21$49−8%$14 – $89
New York NY105$48−9%$20 – $104
Georgia GA94$47−11%$30 – $104
Utah UT38$47−12%$46 – $62
Alabama AL38$46−12%$20 – $132
Tennessee TN71$46−13%$26 – $107
Oregon OR45$44−16%$24 – $69
Arizona AZ38$43−18%$19 – $100
Ohio OH132$41−22%$22 – $71
Maryland MD41$41−22%$32 – $49
North Carolina NC82$38−28%$25 – $75
Louisiana LA44$35−33%$23 – $57
Michigan MI67$34−35%$14 – $44
Mississippi MS49$26−50%$19 – $49
New Jersey NJ57$19−63%$17 – $51
California CA108$18−65%$6 – $31
Florida FL148$18−66%$7 – $86
West Virginia WV28$18−67%$5 – $84
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 $53.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,079$49$20 – $97
Children’s47$50$18 – $101
Critical access724$61$33 – $102
Ownership
For-profit396$61$21 – $200
Government484$50$25 – $86
Non-profit1,970$51$22 – $91
System affiliation
Part of a system2,341$53$22 – $100
Independent518$53$27 – $96

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$87
Median cash price$53
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

1,975 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $55 and the average of the middle 60% is $55; most fall between $25 and $95.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,975 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
$17$29$55$84$130

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $130).

Of the 2,179 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,975 gave a usable cash price; 108 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 96 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,859 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (72%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,121 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,859
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here147
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 — excluded113
Hospitals that filed this code3,121

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 Fructosamine.

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, “Fructosamine blood sugar control test (CPT 82985) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82985-fructosamine-blood-sugar-control-test