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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Methemoglobin screen, yes-or-no result

CPT 83045the billing code this page is about

A blood test that checks whether methemoglobin, an altered form of hemoglobin that cannot carry oxygen well, is present, without measuring the amount.

Hospitals typically charge $15 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 235 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $27. Most fall between $7 and $68 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
235
States
33
Filings dated
Dec 2025 – 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 235 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
$6$8$15$52$94

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($6 vs $94).

How the prices are spread

$6 – $9: 56 hospitals$6$9 – $13: 26 hospitals$13 – $18: 33 hospitals$13$18 – $26: 10 hospitals$26 – $37: 8 hospitals$26$37 – $52: 37 hospitals$52 – $74: 18 hospitals$52$74 – $105: 22 hospitals$105 – $149: 0 hospitals$105$149 – $211: 3 hospitals$149median $15price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (213 of 235 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$956
$9$1326
$13$1833
$18$2610
$26$378
$37$5237
$52$7418
$74$10522
$105$1490
$149$2113

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $15.

Alaska: 1 hospital 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $10 across 10 hospitalsIL$10Wisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $6 across 12 hospitalsNY$6Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 1 hospital 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 $14 across 11 hospitalsIA$14Indiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $5 across 15 hospitalsPA$5New Jersey: median $7 across 23 hospitalsNJ$7Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $52 across 34 hospitalsCA$52Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $12 across 15 hospitalsOK$12Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $76 across 10 hospitalsGA$76Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $68 across 37 hospitalsTX$68Florida: median $103 across 15 hospitalsFL$103
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $15. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL15$103+579%$8 – $103
Georgia GA10$76+397%$76 – $76
Texas TX37$68+346%$15 – $68
California CA34$52+239%$40 – $52
Iowa IA11$14−5%$14 – $14
Oklahoma OK15$12−22%$12 – $15
Illinois IL10$10−33%$7 – $19
New Jersey NJ23$7−53%$6 – $7
New York NY12$6−57%$6 – $6
Pennsylvania PA15$5−66%$4 – $7
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $15.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care212$15$7 – $58
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access22$27$11 – $103
Ownership
For-profit38$20$13 – $184
Government19fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit178$15$7 – $59
System affiliation
Part of a system211$15$7 – $68
Independent24$12$7 – $49

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$44
Median cash price$15
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

147 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $40 and the average of the middle 60% is $37; most fall between $14 and $68.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 147 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$14$40$68$103

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $103).

Of the 156 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 147 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 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

235 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 248 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted235
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here11
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 — excluded1
Hospitals that filed this code248

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 5, 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 HGB METHEMOGLOBIN 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, “Methemoglobin screen, yes-or-no result (CPT 83045) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83045-methemoglobin-screen-yes-or-no-result