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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Fetal hemoglobin test by alkali denaturation

CPT 83033the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that detects fetal hemoglobin in a sample by treating it with alkali, which destroys adult hemoglobin but not fetal hemoglobin.

Hospitals typically charge $44 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,302 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $48. Most fall between $17 and $98 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,302
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 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 1,302 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
$10$20$44$84$191

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $191).

How the prices are spread

$8 – $12: 109 hospitals$8$12 – $17: 96 hospitals$17 – $24: 112 hospitals$17$24 – $35: 134 hospitals$35 – $50: 222 hospitals$35$50 – $72: 213 hospitals$72 – $104: 130 hospitals$72$104 – $150: 52 hospitals$150 – $217: 100 hospitals$150$217 – $313: 25 hospitals$217median $44price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,193 of 1,302 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$8$12109
$12$1796
$17$24112
$24$35134
$35$50222
$50$72213
$72$104130
$104$15052
$150$217100
$217$31325

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $44.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $38 across 37 hospitalsWA$38Idaho: median $115 across 11 hospitalsID$115Montana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $82 across 16 hospitalsMN$82Illinois: median $63 across 56 hospitalsIL$63Wisconsin: median $37 across 52 hospitalsWI$37Michigan: median $17 across 35 hospitalsMI$17New York: median $25 across 46 hospitalsNY$25Massachusetts: median $40 across 22 hospitalsMA$40Oregon: median $35 across 14 hospitalsOR$35Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $35 across 30 hospitalsIA$35Indiana: median $27 across 48 hospitalsIN$27Ohio: median $46 across 74 hospitalsOH$46Pennsylvania: median $35 across 61 hospitalsPA$35New Jersey: median $9 across 50 hospitalsNJ$9Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $64 across 81 hospitalsCA$64Utah: median $162 across 27 hospitalsUT$162Colorado: median $94 across 37 hospitalsCO$94Nebraska: median $47 across 16 hospitalsNE$47Missouri: median $30 across 27 hospitalsMO$30Kentucky: median $66 across 22 hospitalsKY$66West Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $41 across 32 hospitalsVA$41Maryland: median $36 across 20 hospitalsMD$36Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $29 across 10 hospitalsAZ$29New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $48 across 12 hospitalsKS$48Arkansas: median $21 across 10 hospitalsAR$21Tennessee: median $19 across 27 hospitalsTN$19North Carolina: median $59 across 50 hospitalsNC$59South Carolina: median $46 across 25 hospitalsSC$46Oklahoma: median $26 across 31 hospitalsOK$26Louisiana: median $14 across 10 hospitalsLA$14Mississippi: median $16 across 18 hospitalsMS$16Alabama: median $40 across 14 hospitalsAL$40Georgia: median $65 across 35 hospitalsGA$65Hawaii: median $46 across 11 hospitalsHI$46Texas: median $71 across 118 hospitalsTX$71Florida: median $33 across 67 hospitalsFL$33
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $44. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT27$162+267%$162 – $191
Idaho ID11$115+160%$24 – $115
Colorado CO37$94+112%$33 – $194
Minnesota MN16$82+86%$41 – $86
Texas TX118$71+61%$39 – $215
Kentucky KY22$66+48%$27 – $70
Georgia GA35$65+47%$60 – $83
California CA81$64+44%$50 – $204
Illinois IL56$63+42%$15 – $173
North Carolina NC50$59+33%$32 – $84
Kansas KS12$48+9%$41 – $85
Nebraska NE16$47+7%$9 – $61
Ohio OH74$46+4%$28 – $95
South Carolina SC25$46+4%$40 – $160
Hawaii HI11$46+3%$38 – $55
Virginia VA32$41−7%$32 – $61
Alabama AL14$40−8%$12 – $62
Massachusetts MA22$40−10%$25 – $101
Washington WA37$38−14%$29 – $80
Wisconsin WI52$37−16%$20 – $60
Maryland MD20$36−18%$30 – $47
Pennsylvania PA61$35−20%$9 – $88
Oregon OR14$35−20%$32 – $46
Iowa IA30$35−21%$18 – $198
Florida FL67$33−26%$14 – $335
Missouri MO27$30−31%$27 – $55
Arizona AZ10$29−33%$9 – $72
Indiana IN48$27−39%$13 – $74
Oklahoma OK31$26−40%$21 – $60
New York NY46$25−44%$8 – $89
Arkansas AR10$21−51%$13 – $58
Tennessee TN27$19−57%$10 – $33
Michigan MI35$17−62%$15 – $37
Mississippi MS18$16−64%$9 – $20
Louisiana LA10$14−69%$7 – $23
New Jersey NJ50$9−79%$8 – $64
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $44.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,109$44$16 – $93
Children’s32$65$34 – $124
Critical access158$46$20 – $116
Ownership
For-profit158$65$21 – $284
Government138$41$13 – $84
Non-profit1,003$43$17 – $92
System affiliation
Part of a system1,172$44$17 – $98
Independent130$48$14 – $101

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$78
Median cash price$44
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

956 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $49 and the average of the middle 60% is $52; most fall between $20 and $98.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 956 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
$14$28$49$84$175

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $175).

Of the 1,041 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 956 gave a usable cash price; 49 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 36 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,302 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (33%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,394 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,302
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here49
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 — excluded42
Hospitals that filed this code1,394

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 FTL F ASSAY QUAL.

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, “Fetal hemoglobin test by alkali denaturation (CPT 83033) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83033-fetal-hemoglobin-test-by-alkali-denaturation