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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Hemoglobin types measured by chromatography

CPT 83021the billing code this page is about

A blood test that separates and measures the different forms of hemoglobin using a chromatography method.

Hospitals typically charge $64 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,683 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $68. Most fall between $27 and $133 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,683
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 2,683 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
$18$32$64$113$185

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $185).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $16: 103 hospitals$12$16 – $22: 179 hospitals$22 – $30: 179 hospitals$22$30 – $40: 305 hospitals$40 – $54: 288 hospitals$40$54 – $73: 322 hospitals$73 – $99: 347 hospitals$73$99 – $134: 301 hospitals$134 – $180: 248 hospitals$134$180 – $243: 143 hospitals$180median $64price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,415 of 2,683 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$16103
$16$22179
$22$30179
$30$40305
$40$54288
$54$73322
$73$99347
$99$134301
$134$180248
$180$243143

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $64.

Alaska: median $64 across 18 hospitalsAK$64Maine: median $45 across 25 hospitalsME$45Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $74 across 22 hospitalsNH$74Washington: median $84 across 66 hospitalsWA$84Idaho: median $45 across 14 hospitalsID$45Montana: median $90 across 19 hospitalsMT$90North Dakota: median $92 across 27 hospitalsND$92Minnesota: median $61 across 89 hospitalsMN$61Illinois: median $83 across 105 hospitalsIL$83Wisconsin: median $100 across 97 hospitalsWI$100Michigan: median $42 across 76 hospitalsMI$42New York: median $54 across 101 hospitalsNY$54Massachusetts: median $114 across 41 hospitalsMA$114Oregon: median $53 across 39 hospitalsOR$53Nevada: median $69 across 17 hospitalsNV$69Wyoming: median $79 across 14 hospitalsWY$79South Dakota: median $71 across 16 hospitalsSD$71Iowa: median $52 across 56 hospitalsIA$52Indiana: median $52 across 86 hospitalsIN$52Ohio: median $55 across 117 hospitalsOH$55Pennsylvania: median $71 across 102 hospitalsPA$71New Jersey: median $21 across 54 hospitalsNJ$21Connecticut: median $77 across 18 hospitalsCT$77Rhode Island: median $61 across 10 hospitalsRI$61California: median $20 across 110 hospitalsCA$20Utah: median $135 across 37 hospitalsUT$135Colorado: median $79 across 58 hospitalsCO$79Nebraska: median $75 across 58 hospitalsNE$75Missouri: median $50 across 69 hospitalsMO$50Kentucky: median $66 across 58 hospitalsKY$66West Virginia: median $36 across 39 hospitalsWV$36Virginia: median $99 across 71 hospitalsVA$99Maryland: median $62 across 38 hospitalsMD$62Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $113 across 33 hospitalsAZ$113New Mexico: median $70 across 11 hospitalsNM$70Kansas: median $80 across 48 hospitalsKS$80Arkansas: median $38 across 30 hospitalsAR$38Tennessee: median $32 across 66 hospitalsTN$32North Carolina: median $98 across 77 hospitalsNC$98South Carolina: median $112 across 49 hospitalsSC$112Oklahoma: median $54 across 51 hospitalsOK$54Louisiana: median $42 across 42 hospitalsLA$42Mississippi: median $42 across 46 hospitalsMS$42Alabama: median $32 across 30 hospitalsAL$32Georgia: median $53 across 93 hospitalsGA$53Hawaii: median $45 across 17 hospitalsHI$45Texas: median $64 across 188 hospitalsTX$64Florida: median $32 across 121 hospitalsFL$32
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $64. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT37$135+112%$70 – $159
Massachusetts MA41$114+79%$66 – $166
Arizona AZ33$113+77%$21 – $185
South Carolina SC49$112+77%$52 – $174
Wisconsin WI97$100+57%$58 – $188
Virginia VA71$99+56%$71 – $166
North Carolina NC77$98+54%$30 – $155
North Dakota ND27$92+44%$33 – $127
Montana MT19$90+41%$35 – $131
Washington WA66$84+32%$48 – $147
Illinois IL105$83+31%$34 – $150
Kansas KS48$80+26%$48 – $127
Wyoming WY14$79+24%$26 – $130
Colorado CO58$79+24%$39 – $160
Connecticut CT18$77+21%$31 – $150
Nebraska NE58$75+18%$46 – $155
New Hampshire NH22$74+17%$23 – $147
South Dakota SD16$71+12%$43 – $184
Pennsylvania PA102$71+11%$21 – $187
New Mexico NM11$70+10%$53 – $97
Nevada NV17$69+9%$21 – $127
Kentucky KY58$66+3%$39 – $195
Alaska AK18$640%$34 – $174
Texas TX188$640%$34 – $155
Maryland MD38$62−2%$52 – $81
Minnesota MN89$61−4%$25 – $119
Rhode Island RI10$61−5%$42 – $144
Ohio OH117$55−14%$42 – $104
Oklahoma OK51$54−15%$31 – $74
New York NY101$54−15%$19 – $118
Georgia GA93$53−17%$33 – $148
Oregon OR39$53−17%$27 – $81
Iowa IA56$52−18%$34 – $82
Indiana IN86$52−18%$29 – $130
Missouri MO69$50−21%$30 – $112
Hawaii HI17$45−29%$25 – $113
Idaho ID14$45−30%$36 – $95
Maine ME25$45−30%$30 – $85
Louisiana LA42$42−34%$26 – $70
Mississippi MS46$42−34%$17 – $76
Michigan MI76$42−35%$19 – $83
Arkansas AR30$38−40%$14 – $60
West Virginia WV39$36−43%$13 – $99
Florida FL121$32−50%$13 – $74
Tennessee TN66$32−50%$17 – $81
Alabama AL30$32−50%$18 – $68
New Jersey NJ54$21−67%$18 – $49
California CA110$20−68%$11 – $91
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $64.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,965$58$23 – $133
Children’s46$68$29 – $148
Critical access663$74$36 – $133
Ownership
For-profit351$61$20 – $185
Government447$66$30 – $135
Non-profit1,876$62$29 – $126
System affiliation
Part of a system2,216$64$27 – $134
Independent467$62$28 – $114

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$107
Median cash price$64
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

1,841 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $64 and the average of the middle 60% is $70; most fall between $31 and $133.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,841 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
$20$34$64$115$181

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $181).

Of the 2,060 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,841 gave a usable cash price; 120 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 99 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,683 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (68%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,946 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,683
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here159
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded103
Hospitals that filed this code2,946

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.

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Part of the Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Quantitation by Hplc(Hbec).

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 measured by chromatography (CPT 83021) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83021-hemoglobin-types-measured-by-chromatography