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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Methemoglobin blood test, measured amount

CPT 83050the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures how much methemoglobin, an altered form of hemoglobin that cannot carry oxygen well, is present.

Hospitals typically charge $47 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,500 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $52. Most fall between $22 and $103 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,500
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 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 2,500 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$26$47$86$156

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $156).

How the prices are spread

$9 – $13: 137 hospitals$9$13 – $18: 149 hospitals$18 – $26: 213 hospitals$18$26 – $36: 297 hospitals$36 – $50: 401 hospitals$36$50 – $69: 352 hospitals$69 – $97: 286 hospitals$69$97 – $135: 187 hospitals$135 – $188: 176 hospitals$135$188 – $262: 58 hospitals$188median $47price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,256 of 2,500 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$9$13137
$13$18149
$18$26213
$26$36297
$36$50401
$50$69352
$69$97286
$97$135187
$135$188176
$188$26258

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $47.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $44 across 22 hospitalsME$44Vermont: median $34 across 10 hospitalsVT$34New Hampshire: median $53 across 16 hospitalsNH$53Washington: median $52 across 59 hospitalsWA$52Idaho: median $36 across 18 hospitalsID$36Montana: median $62 across 12 hospitalsMT$62North Dakota: median $46 across 14 hospitalsND$46Minnesota: median $42 across 72 hospitalsMN$42Illinois: median $61 across 107 hospitalsIL$61Wisconsin: median $34 across 98 hospitalsWI$34Michigan: median $36 across 81 hospitalsMI$36New York: median $27 across 86 hospitalsNY$27Massachusetts: median $42 across 42 hospitalsMA$42Oregon: median $44 across 40 hospitalsOR$44Nevada: median $43 across 13 hospitalsNV$43Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $56 across 53 hospitalsIA$56Indiana: median $51 across 81 hospitalsIN$51Ohio: median $38 across 123 hospitalsOH$38Pennsylvania: median $39 across 114 hospitalsPA$39New Jersey: median $9 across 49 hospitalsNJ$9Connecticut: median $34 across 20 hospitalsCT$34Rhode Island: median $59 across 10 hospitalsRI$59California: median $56 across 115 hospitalsCA$56Utah: median $115 across 30 hospitalsUT$115Colorado: median $93 across 55 hospitalsCO$93Nebraska: median $73 across 40 hospitalsNE$73Missouri: median $38 across 60 hospitalsMO$38Kentucky: median $64 across 45 hospitalsKY$64West Virginia: median $61 across 30 hospitalsWV$61Virginia: median $80 across 67 hospitalsVA$80Maryland: median $53 across 33 hospitalsMD$53Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $62 across 31 hospitalsAZ$62New Mexico: median $29 across 16 hospitalsNM$29Kansas: median $44 across 43 hospitalsKS$44Arkansas: median $33 across 18 hospitalsAR$33Tennessee: median $24 across 69 hospitalsTN$24North Carolina: median $43 across 73 hospitalsNC$43South Carolina: median $58 across 48 hospitalsSC$58Oklahoma: median $47 across 55 hospitalsOK$47Louisiana: median $27 across 36 hospitalsLA$27Mississippi: median $37 across 44 hospitalsMS$37Alabama: median $39 across 35 hospitalsAL$39Georgia: median $47 across 73 hospitalsGA$47Hawaii: median $39 across 14 hospitalsHI$39Texas: median $70 across 181 hospitalsTX$70Florida: median $42 across 117 hospitalsFL$42
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $47. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT30$115+145%$44 – $136
Colorado CO55$93+98%$48 – $185
Virginia VA67$80+70%$26 – $161
Nebraska NE40$73+56%$58 – $124
Texas TX181$70+50%$31 – $272
Kentucky KY45$64+36%$28 – $160
Montana MT12$62+32%$40 – $80
Arizona AZ31$62+32%$13 – $593
West Virginia WV30$61+31%$29 – $69
Illinois IL107$61+30%$20 – $137
Rhode Island RI10$59+26%$18 – $71
South Carolina SC48$58+23%$29 – $102
California CA115$56+20%$25 – $120
Iowa IA53$56+19%$34 – $90
New Hampshire NH16$53+14%$33 – $100
Maryland MD33$53+13%$42 – $65
Washington WA59$52+12%$30 – $93
Indiana IN81$51+9%$18 – $99
Georgia GA73$470%$19 – $109
Oklahoma OK55$47−1%$24 – $81
North Dakota ND14$46−2%$43 – $96
Oregon OR40$44−6%$34 – $71
Maine ME22$44−6%$29 – $86
Kansas KS43$44−7%$22 – $186
Nevada NV13$43−8%$12 – $142
North Carolina NC73$43−9%$22 – $65
Minnesota MN72$42−9%$35 – $59
Florida FL117$42−10%$17 – $127
Massachusetts MA42$42−10%$25 – $75
Pennsylvania PA114$39−16%$9 – $96
Alabama AL35$39−17%$19 – $147
Hawaii HI14$39−17%$38 – $130
Missouri MO60$38−18%$17 – $89
Ohio OH123$38−18%$28 – $67
Mississippi MS44$37−22%$19 – $59
Michigan MI81$36−22%$17 – $49
Idaho ID18$36−23%$31 – $76
Connecticut CT20$34−28%$30 – $49
Vermont VT10$34−28%$21 – $106
Wisconsin WI98$34−28%$23 – $71
Arkansas AR18$33−31%$23 – $54
New Mexico NM16$29−38%$26 – $90
Louisiana LA36$27−42%$12 – $79
New York NY86$27−43%$10 – $75
Tennessee TN69$24−49%$14 – $73
New Jersey NJ49$9−81%$8 – $25
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $47.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,910$45$20 – $104
Children’s63$59$34 – $109
Critical access519$54$28 – $99
Ownership
For-profit336$70$23 – $268
Government339$44$22 – $92
Non-profit1,817$47$21 – $96
System affiliation
Part of a system2,114$47$21 – $103
Independent386$47$23 – $103

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$81
Median cash price$47
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

1,744 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $48 and the average of the middle 60% is $52; most fall between $23 and $101.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,744 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
$16$28$48$84$149

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($16 vs $149).

Of the 1,915 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,744 gave a usable cash price; 91 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 80 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,500 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (63%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,707 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,500
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here113
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 — excluded93
Hospitals that filed this code2,707

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 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 HC Methemoglobin;Quant.

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 blood test, measured amount (CPT 83050) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83050-methemoglobin-blood-test-measured-amount