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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Hemoglobin A1c blood test

CPT 83036the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures the average blood sugar level over the past two to three months by measuring sugar attached to hemoglobin.

Hospitals typically charge $54 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,411 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $56. Most fall between $21 and $103 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,411
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 3,411 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
$12$27$54$92$164

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $164).

How the prices are spread

$9 – $13: 218 hospitals$9$13 – $17: 153 hospitals$17 – $24: 236 hospitals$17$24 – $34: 341 hospitals$34 – $47: 392 hospitals$34$47 – $66: 520 hospitals$66 – $92: 537 hospitals$66$92 – $128: 372 hospitals$128 – $178: 181 hospitals$128$178 – $248: 132 hospitals$178median $54price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,082 of 3,411 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$9$13218
$13$17153
$17$24236
$24$34341
$34$47392
$47$66520
$66$92537
$92$128372
$128$178181
$178$248132

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $54.

Alaska: median $88 across 19 hospitalsAK$88Maine: median $50 across 28 hospitalsME$50Vermont: median $57 across 14 hospitalsVT$57New Hampshire: median $54 across 25 hospitalsNH$54Washington: median $57 across 77 hospitalsWA$57Idaho: median $43 across 25 hospitalsID$43Montana: median $62 across 34 hospitalsMT$62North Dakota: median $73 across 33 hospitalsND$73Minnesota: median $31 across 106 hospitalsMN$31Illinois: median $83 across 147 hospitalsIL$83Wisconsin: median $63 across 108 hospitalsWI$63Michigan: median $26 across 98 hospitalsMI$26New York: median $29 across 120 hospitalsNY$29Massachusetts: median $75 across 54 hospitalsMA$75Oregon: median $42 across 51 hospitalsOR$42Nevada: median $59 across 22 hospitalsNV$59Wyoming: median $26 across 16 hospitalsWY$26South Dakota: median $120 across 41 hospitalsSD$120Iowa: median $60 across 91 hospitalsIA$60Indiana: median $48 across 95 hospitalsIN$48Ohio: median $46 across 142 hospitalsOH$46Pennsylvania: median $37 across 122 hospitalsPA$37New Jersey: median $11 across 57 hospitalsNJ$11Connecticut: median $45 across 23 hospitalsCT$45Rhode Island: median $57 across 10 hospitalsRI$57California: median $64 across 155 hospitalsCA$64Utah: median $59 across 42 hospitalsUT$59Colorado: median $60 across 72 hospitalsCO$60Nebraska: median $73 across 84 hospitalsNE$73Missouri: median $42 across 78 hospitalsMO$42Kentucky: median $63 across 67 hospitalsKY$63West Virginia: median $26 across 43 hospitalsWV$26Virginia: median $81 across 73 hospitalsVA$81Maryland: median $53 across 41 hospitalsMD$53Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $74 across 42 hospitalsAZ$74New Mexico: median $61 across 30 hospitalsNM$61Kansas: median $54 across 92 hospitalsKS$54Arkansas: median $27 across 39 hospitalsAR$27Tennessee: median $36 across 83 hospitalsTN$36North Carolina: median $65 across 93 hospitalsNC$65South Carolina: median $87 across 53 hospitalsSC$87Oklahoma: median $34 across 73 hospitalsOK$34Louisiana: median $38 across 54 hospitalsLA$38Mississippi: median $26 across 54 hospitalsMS$26Alabama: median $39 across 44 hospitalsAL$39Georgia: median $53 across 112 hospitalsGA$53Hawaii: median $77 across 21 hospitalsHI$77Texas: median $86 across 248 hospitalsTX$86Florida: median $71 across 153 hospitalsFL$71
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $54. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD41$120+123%$62 – $179
Alaska AK19$88+64%$39 – $153
South Carolina SC53$87+61%$49 – $96
Texas TX248$86+60%$45 – $190
Illinois IL147$83+55%$35 – $126
Virginia VA73$81+50%$42 – $115
Hawaii HI21$77+42%$22 – $101
Massachusetts MA54$75+39%$33 – $119
Arizona AZ42$74+38%$14 – $177
North Dakota ND33$73+35%$59 – $80
Nebraska NE84$73+35%$27 – $99
Florida FL153$71+33%$19 – $274
North Carolina NC93$65+20%$38 – $121
California CA155$64+20%$10 – $186
Kentucky KY67$63+17%$29 – $126
Wisconsin WI108$63+16%$28 – $95
Montana MT34$62+14%$33 – $83
New Mexico NM30$61+13%$38 – $84
Colorado CO72$60+12%$22 – $95
Iowa IA91$60+11%$34 – $87
Utah UT42$59+10%$50 – $79
Nevada NV22$59+10%$30 – $156
Vermont VT14$57+7%$26 – $128
Washington WA77$57+6%$29 – $80
Rhode Island RI10$57+6%$36 – $62
New Hampshire NH25$54+1%$21 – $116
Kansas KS92$540%$27 – $85
Maryland MD41$53−2%$40 – $65
Georgia GA112$53−2%$23 – $100
Maine ME28$50−7%$23 – $99
Indiana IN95$48−12%$14 – $102
Ohio OH142$46−15%$23 – $95
Connecticut CT23$45−16%$35 – $81
Idaho ID25$43−20%$25 – $55
Missouri MO78$42−22%$28 – $87
Oregon OR51$42−23%$20 – $69
Alabama AL44$39−28%$15 – $120
Louisiana LA54$38−29%$15 – $86
Pennsylvania PA122$37−32%$11 – $97
Tennessee TN83$36−33%$19 – $70
Oklahoma OK73$34−37%$17 – $58
Minnesota MN106$31−42%$18 – $79
New York NY120$29−46%$12 – $118
Arkansas AR39$27−51%$15 – $44
Mississippi MS54$26−51%$17 – $54
Wyoming WY16$26−51%$19 – $103
Michigan MI98$26−52%$9 – $58
West Virginia WV43$26−53%$5 – $75
New Jersey NJ57$11−79%$11 – $32
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 $54.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,327$50$19 – $105
Children’s66$81$38 – $151
Critical access1,008$60$28 – $99
Ownership
For-profit470$73$23 – $243
Government653$55$23 – $94
Non-profit2,278$51$20 – $95
System affiliation
Part of a system2,750$54$23 – $105
Independent661$50$20 – $97

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$92
Median cash price$54
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

2,292 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $56 and the average of the middle 60% is $58; most fall between $24 and $101.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,292 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$28$56$92$151

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $151).

Of the 2,554 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,292 gave a usable cash price; 152 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 110 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,411 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (86%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,740 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,411
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here196
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 — excluded132
Hospitals that filed this code3,740

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 Glycosylated A1c.

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 A1c blood test (CPT 83036) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83036-hemoglobin-a1c-blood-test