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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Breath test for stomach ulcer bacteria

CPT 83013the billing code this page is about

Analysis of exhaled breath samples for urease activity from Helicobacter pylori using a non-radioactive isotope; covers the laboratory analysis only.

Hospitals typically charge $170 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,434 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $183. Most fall between $79 and $323 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,434
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 2,434 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
$60$93$170$291$418

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($60 vs $418).

How the prices are spread

$42 – $54: 87 hospitals$42$54 – $70: 159 hospitals$70 – $91: 224 hospitals$70$91 – $118: 251 hospitals$118 – $154: 246 hospitals$118$154 – $199: 258 hospitals$199 – $258: 330 hospitals$199$258 – $335: 307 hospitals$335 – $435: 220 hospitals$335$435 – $564: 110 hospitals$435median $170price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,192 of 2,434 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$42$5487
$54$70159
$70$91224
$91$118251
$118$154246
$154$199258
$199$258330
$258$335307
$335$435220
$435$564110

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $170.

Alaska: median $278 across 18 hospitalsAK$278Maine: median $75 across 11 hospitalsME$75Vermont: median $207 across 11 hospitalsVT$207New Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $224 across 68 hospitalsWA$224Idaho: median $200 across 19 hospitalsID$200Montana: median $168 across 19 hospitalsMT$168North Dakota: median $234 across 22 hospitalsND$234Minnesota: median $134 across 84 hospitalsMN$134Illinois: median $253 across 112 hospitalsIL$253Wisconsin: median $266 across 85 hospitalsWI$266Michigan: median $98 across 86 hospitalsMI$98New York: median $154 across 73 hospitalsNY$154Massachusetts: median $279 across 40 hospitalsMA$279Oregon: median $119 across 39 hospitalsOR$119Nevada: median $203 across 16 hospitalsNV$203Wyoming: median $135 across 10 hospitalsWY$135South Dakota: median $310 across 19 hospitalsSD$310Iowa: median $202 across 36 hospitalsIA$202Indiana: median $188 across 91 hospitalsIN$188Ohio: median $164 across 126 hospitalsOH$164Pennsylvania: median $209 across 90 hospitalsPA$209New Jersey: median $74 across 52 hospitalsNJ$74Connecticut: median $245 across 12 hospitalsCT$245Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $117 across 107 hospitalsCA$117Utah: median $175 across 39 hospitalsUT$175Colorado: median $161 across 53 hospitalsCO$161Nebraska: median $265 across 43 hospitalsNE$265Missouri: median $169 across 50 hospitalsMO$169Kentucky: median $202 across 59 hospitalsKY$202West Virginia: median $164 across 29 hospitalsWV$164Virginia: median $197 across 58 hospitalsVA$197Maryland: median $58 across 27 hospitalsMD$58Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $200 across 37 hospitalsAZ$200New Mexico: median $168 across 12 hospitalsNM$168Kansas: median $319 across 48 hospitalsKS$319Arkansas: median $84 across 31 hospitalsAR$84Tennessee: median $118 across 49 hospitalsTN$118North Carolina: median $128 across 77 hospitalsNC$128South Carolina: median $246 across 48 hospitalsSC$246Oklahoma: median $129 across 56 hospitalsOK$129Louisiana: median $103 across 36 hospitalsLA$103Mississippi: median $100 across 34 hospitalsMS$100Alabama: median $122 across 37 hospitalsAL$122Georgia: median $149 across 90 hospitalsGA$149Hawaii: median $417 across 14 hospitalsHI$417Texas: median $231 across 159 hospitalsTX$231Florida: median $80 across 81 hospitalsFL$80
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $170. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Hawaii HI14$417+145%$337 – $538
Kansas KS48$319+87%$143 – $478
South Dakota SD19$310+82%$162 – $479
Massachusetts MA40$279+63%$202 – $415
Alaska AK18$278+63%$84 – $371
Wisconsin WI85$266+56%$184 – $318
Nebraska NE43$265+56%$130 – $312
Illinois IL112$253+49%$138 – $376
South Carolina SC48$246+45%$131 – $347
Connecticut CT12$245+44%$170 – $288
North Dakota ND22$234+37%$117 – $461
Texas TX159$231+36%$70 – $362
Washington WA68$224+32%$121 – $323
Pennsylvania PA90$209+23%$77 – $379
Vermont VT11$207+21%$180 – $280
Nevada NV16$203+19%$48 – $323
Iowa IA36$202+19%$147 – $291
Kentucky KY59$202+19%$104 – $404
Idaho ID19$200+17%$75 – $350
Arizona AZ37$200+17%$66 – $674
Virginia VA58$197+15%$118 – $371
Indiana IN91$188+10%$103 – $354
Utah UT39$175+3%$157 – $241
Missouri MO50$169−1%$101 – $223
New Mexico NM12$168−1%$103 – $267
Montana MT19$168−1%$120 – $260
Ohio OH126$164−4%$106 – $316
West Virginia WV29$164−4%$60 – $371
Colorado CO53$161−6%$91 – $230
New York NY73$154−10%$67 – $288
Georgia GA90$149−13%$115 – $309
Wyoming WY10$135−21%$116 – $208
Minnesota MN84$134−21%$91 – $287
Oklahoma OK56$129−24%$75 – $250
North Carolina NC77$128−25%$74 – $227
Alabama AL37$122−29%$74 – $231
Oregon OR39$119−30%$75 – $252
Tennessee TN49$118−31%$85 – $244
California CA107$117−31%$45 – $354
Louisiana LA36$103−39%$52 – $160
Mississippi MS34$100−41%$36 – $129
Michigan MI86$98−43%$47 – $182
Arkansas AR31$84−51%$68 – $123
Florida FL81$80−53%$32 – $195
Maine ME11$75−56%$62 – $258
New Jersey NJ52$74−57%$67 – $159
Maryland MD27$58−66%$43 – $65
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $170.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,743$160$74 – $314
Children’s30$137$84 – $417
Critical access654$215$113 – $338
Ownership
For-profit285$173$77 – $370
Government432$193$99 – $309
Non-profit1,710$168$77 – $318
System affiliation
Part of a system2,008$169$77 – $323
Independent426$192$91 – $323

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$302
Median cash price$170
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

1,705 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $184 and the average of the middle 60% is $190; most fall between $84 and $326.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,705 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
$60$104$184$294$420

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($60 vs $420).

Of the 1,874 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,705 gave a usable cash price; 84 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 85 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,434 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (62%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,636 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,434
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here108
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 — excluded92
Hospitals that filed this code2,636

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 Hcc C13 Breath Test Analysis.

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, “Breath test for stomach ulcer bacteria (CPT 83013) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83013-breath-test-for-stomach-ulcer-bacteria