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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Hemoglobin types separated by electrophoresis

CPT 83020the billing code this page is about

A blood test that separates and measures the different forms of hemoglobin, such as A2, S, C or F, using electrophoresis.

Hospitals typically charge $53 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,925 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $56. Most fall between $21 and $114 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,925
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 2,925 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
$13$25$53$96$168

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $168).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $14: 166 hospitals$10$14 – $19: 203 hospitals$19 – $26: 287 hospitals$19$26 – $36: 304 hospitals$36 – $50: 287 hospitals$36$50 – $69: 451 hospitals$69 – $95: 328 hospitals$69$95 – $130: 297 hospitals$130 – $179: 184 hospitals$130$179 – $247: 127 hospitals$179median $53price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,634 of 2,925 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$14166
$14$19203
$19$26287
$26$36304
$36$50287
$50$69451
$69$95328
$95$130297
$130$179184
$179$247127

By state

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

Alaska: median $45 across 14 hospitalsAK$45Maine: median $50 across 24 hospitalsME$50Vermont: median $116 across 14 hospitalsVT$116New Hampshire: median $60 across 19 hospitalsNH$60Washington: median $69 across 66 hospitalsWA$69Idaho: median $58 across 19 hospitalsID$58Montana: median $26 across 27 hospitalsMT$26North Dakota: median $40 across 26 hospitalsND$40Minnesota: median $60 across 93 hospitalsMN$60Illinois: median $69 across 123 hospitalsIL$69Wisconsin: median $46 across 96 hospitalsWI$46Michigan: median $43 across 97 hospitalsMI$43New York: median $39 across 115 hospitalsNY$39Massachusetts: median $83 across 52 hospitalsMA$83Oregon: median $53 across 40 hospitalsOR$53Nevada: median $39 across 18 hospitalsNV$39Wyoming: median $47 across 15 hospitalsWY$47South Dakota: median $77 across 25 hospitalsSD$77Iowa: median $64 across 71 hospitalsIA$64Indiana: median $34 across 94 hospitalsIN$34Ohio: median $58 across 133 hospitalsOH$58Pennsylvania: median $55 across 106 hospitalsPA$55New Jersey: median $15 across 54 hospitalsNJ$15Connecticut: median $55 across 17 hospitalsCT$55Rhode Island: median $53 across 10 hospitalsRI$53California: median $18 across 107 hospitalsCA$18Utah: median $59 across 36 hospitalsUT$59Colorado: median $32 across 61 hospitalsCO$32Nebraska: median $81 across 62 hospitalsNE$81Missouri: median $30 across 71 hospitalsMO$30Kentucky: median $85 across 50 hospitalsKY$85West Virginia: median $17 across 31 hospitalsWV$17Virginia: median $90 across 69 hospitalsVA$90Maryland: median $68 across 40 hospitalsMD$68Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $67 across 29 hospitalsAZ$67New Mexico: median $54 across 18 hospitalsNM$54Kansas: median $58 across 62 hospitalsKS$58Arkansas: median $20 across 34 hospitalsAR$20Tennessee: median $30 across 76 hospitalsTN$30North Carolina: median $81 across 85 hospitalsNC$81South Carolina: median $63 across 50 hospitalsSC$63Oklahoma: median $37 across 66 hospitalsOK$37Louisiana: median $34 across 43 hospitalsLA$34Mississippi: median $27 across 56 hospitalsMS$27Alabama: median $37 across 40 hospitalsAL$37Georgia: median $66 across 94 hospitalsGA$66Hawaii: median $75 across 16 hospitalsHI$75Texas: median $62 across 207 hospitalsTX$62Florida: median $34 across 147 hospitalsFL$34
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
Vermont VT14$116+121%$51 – $225
Virginia VA69$90+71%$32 – $281
Kentucky KY50$85+62%$29 – $163
Massachusetts MA52$83+58%$46 – $151
North Carolina NC85$81+54%$24 – $108
Nebraska NE62$81+53%$30 – $123
South Dakota SD25$77+47%$35 – $128
Hawaii HI16$75+43%$39 – $117
Illinois IL123$69+32%$25 – $159
Washington WA66$69+30%$40 – $127
Maryland MD40$68+29%$52 – $81
Arizona AZ29$67+28%$13 – $121
Georgia GA94$66+25%$50 – $159
Iowa IA71$64+22%$39 – $98
South Carolina SC50$63+20%$36 – $127
Texas TX207$62+17%$24 – $197
Minnesota MN93$60+14%$25 – $105
New Hampshire NH19$60+14%$11 – $118
Utah UT36$59+12%$50 – $85
Idaho ID19$58+11%$41 – $206
Kansas KS62$58+11%$27 – $131
Ohio OH133$58+10%$31 – $150
Connecticut CT17$55+5%$28 – $69
Pennsylvania PA106$55+4%$15 – $126
New Mexico NM18$54+2%$40 – $161
Rhode Island RI10$53+1%$48 – $73
Oregon OR40$530%$26 – $79
Maine ME24$50−4%$29 – $85
Wyoming WY15$47−10%$30 – $109
Wisconsin WI96$46−13%$21 – $84
Alaska AK14$45−14%$33 – $178
Michigan MI97$43−18%$18 – $58
North Dakota ND26$40−24%$22 – $88
Nevada NV18$39−26%$12 – $108
New York NY115$39−26%$17 – $87
Alabama AL40$37−30%$12 – $114
Oklahoma OK66$37−31%$16 – $93
Louisiana LA43$34−36%$20 – $67
Indiana IN94$34−36%$21 – $71
Florida FL147$34−36%$13 – $105
Colorado CO61$32−39%$17 – $111
Missouri MO71$30−44%$14 – $78
Tennessee TN76$30−44%$12 – $86
Mississippi MS56$27−48%$12 – $66
Montana MT27$26−51%$17 – $52
Arkansas AR34$20−62%$19 – $55
California CA107$18−65%$9 – $68
West Virginia WV31$17−68%$9 – $38
New Jersey NJ54$15−72%$13 – $44
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 care2,127$51$19 – $114
Children’s62$75$27 – $125
Critical access726$58$26 – $109
Ownership
For-profit411$67$21 – $242
Government492$55$23 – $100
Non-profit2,012$50$20 – $105
System affiliation
Part of a system2,420$52$20 – $114
Independent505$55$24 – $105

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$84
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

1,981 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $52 and the average of the middle 60% is $54; most fall between $24 and $104.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,981 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
$15$26$52$89$145

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $145).

Of the 2,195 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,981 gave a usable cash price; 118 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

2,925 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (74%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,194 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,925
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here157
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 — excluded110
Hospitals that filed this code3,194

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 July 20, 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 Hemoglobin Fractj/Quantj Electrophoresis.

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, “Hemoglobin types separated by electrophoresis (CPT 83020) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83020-hemoglobin-types-separated-by-electrophoresis