HRHospitalRates.comCompare prices

Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Fetal hemoglobin blood test, chemical method

CPT 83030the billing code this page is about

A chemical laboratory test that measures fetal hemoglobin (hemoglobin F) in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $48 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 606 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $51. Most fall between $17 and $94 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
606
States
45
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 606 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
$11$20$48$85$170

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $170).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $14: 76 hospitals$10$14 – $20: 52 hospitals$20 – $29: 28 hospitals$20$29 – $41: 63 hospitals$41 – $59: 114 hospitals$41$59 – $84: 94 hospitals$84 – $120: 66 hospitals$84$120 – $172: 28 hospitals$172 – $245: 20 hospitals$172$245 – $349: 10 hospitals$245median $48price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (551 of 606 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$1476
$14$2052
$20$2928
$29$4163
$41$59114
$59$8494
$84$12066
$120$17228
$172$24520
$245$34910

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $48.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $18 across 12 hospitalsWA$18Idaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $45 across 20 hospitalsIL$45Wisconsin: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $15 across 17 hospitalsMI$15New York: median $26 across 32 hospitalsNY$26Massachusetts: median $55 across 20 hospitalsMA$55Oregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $34 across 14 hospitalsIA$34Indiana: median $21 across 30 hospitalsIN$21Ohio: median $48 across 28 hospitalsOH$48Pennsylvania: median $12 across 27 hospitalsPA$12New Jersey: median $12 across 35 hospitalsNJ$12Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $42 across 42 hospitalsCA$42Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $54 across 18 hospitalsCO$54Nebraska: median $59 across 27 hospitalsNE$59Missouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $46 across 11 hospitalsKY$46West Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $85 across 14 hospitalsVA$85Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $59 across 10 hospitalsAZ$59New Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $85 across 11 hospitalsKS$85Arkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $73 across 18 hospitalsNC$73South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $32 across 19 hospitalsOK$32Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $32 across 15 hospitalsMS$32Alabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $85 across 66 hospitalsTX$85Florida: median $52 across 27 hospitalsFL$52
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $48. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX66$85+77%$75 – $544
Kansas KS11$85+77%$49 – $95
Virginia VA14$85+76%$15 – $91
North Carolina NC18$73+51%$44 – $92
Arizona AZ10$59+23%$59 – $59
Nebraska NE27$59+23%$35 – $81
Massachusetts MA20$55+13%$24 – $113
Colorado CO18$54+12%$47 – $70
Florida FL27$52+7%$12 – $166
Ohio OH28$480%$31 – $80
Kentucky KY11$46−5%$20 – $214
Illinois IL20$45−6%$20 – $83
California CA42$42−13%$42 – $74
Iowa IA14$34−30%$34 – $35
Oklahoma OK19$32−33%$19 – $76
Mississippi MS15$32−34%$11 – $132
New York NY32$26−46%$11 – $62
Indiana IN30$21−56%$16 – $73
Washington WA12$18−63%$18 – $38
Michigan MI17$15−69%$10 – $52
Pennsylvania PA27$12−74%$7 – $98
New Jersey NJ35$12−75%$11 – $98
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $48.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care500$47$15 – $88
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access94$63$31 – $114
Ownership
For-profit108$69$20 – $349
Government74$62$17 – $94
Non-profit423$46$16 – $85
System affiliation
Part of a system511$48$16 – $92
Independent95$52$17 – $102

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$84
Median cash price$48
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

364 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $50 and the average of the middle 60% is $56; most fall between $30 and $85.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 364 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
$19$34$50$77$131

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $131).

Of the 405 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 364 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 34 a list price only.

How complete is this

606 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 649 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted606
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here10
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded32
Hospitals that filed this code649

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 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 F FETAL CHEMICAL.

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, “Fetal hemoglobin blood test, chemical method (CPT 83030) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83030-fetal-hemoglobin-blood-test-chemical-method