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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Free hemoglobin in blood plasma

CPT 83051the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures hemoglobin floating loose in the plasma, which occurs when red blood cells break apart.

Hospitals typically charge $43 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,226 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $45. Most fall between $16 and $86 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,226
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 2,226 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$21$43$75$133

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $133).

How the prices are spread

$8 – $11: 112 hospitals$8$11 – $15: 201 hospitals$15 – $21: 153 hospitals$15$21 – $29: 219 hospitals$29 – $41: 282 hospitals$29$41 – $58: 304 hospitals$58 – $81: 352 hospitals$58$81 – $114: 208 hospitals$114 – $159: 120 hospitals$114$159 – $223: 61 hospitals$159median $43price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,012 of 2,226 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$8$11112
$11$15201
$15$21153
$21$29219
$29$41282
$41$58304
$58$81352
$81$114208
$114$159120
$159$22361

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $43.

Alaska: median $41 across 10 hospitalsAK$41Maine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $47 across 12 hospitalsNH$47Washington: median $60 across 43 hospitalsWA$60Idaho: median $41 across 13 hospitalsID$41Montana: median $78 across 10 hospitalsMT$78North Dakota: median $49 across 12 hospitalsND$49Minnesota: median $53 across 53 hospitalsMN$53Illinois: median $50 across 102 hospitalsIL$50Wisconsin: median $52 across 82 hospitalsWI$52Michigan: median $22 across 73 hospitalsMI$22New York: median $26 across 68 hospitalsNY$26Massachusetts: median $41 across 33 hospitalsMA$41Oregon: median $41 across 31 hospitalsOR$41Nevada: median $32 across 12 hospitalsNV$32Wyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $74 across 11 hospitalsSD$74Iowa: median $53 across 57 hospitalsIA$53Indiana: median $45 across 79 hospitalsIN$45Ohio: median $45 across 113 hospitalsOH$45Pennsylvania: median $30 across 102 hospitalsPA$30New Jersey: median $8 across 47 hospitalsNJ$8Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $15 across 106 hospitalsCA$15Utah: median $71 across 32 hospitalsUT$71Colorado: median $94 across 37 hospitalsCO$94Nebraska: median $92 across 45 hospitalsNE$92Missouri: median $59 across 57 hospitalsMO$59Kentucky: median $62 across 41 hospitalsKY$62West Virginia: median $42 across 25 hospitalsWV$42Virginia: median $42 across 56 hospitalsVA$42Maryland: median $33 across 35 hospitalsMD$33Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $51 across 35 hospitalsAZ$51New Mexico: median $60 across 15 hospitalsNM$60Kansas: median $57 across 35 hospitalsKS$57Arkansas: median $29 across 28 hospitalsAR$29Tennessee: median $43 across 47 hospitalsTN$43North Carolina: median $38 across 62 hospitalsNC$38South Carolina: median $69 across 45 hospitalsSC$69Oklahoma: median $47 across 52 hospitalsOK$47Louisiana: median $17 across 32 hospitalsLA$17Mississippi: median $29 across 31 hospitalsMS$29Alabama: median $43 across 33 hospitalsAL$43Georgia: median $52 across 72 hospitalsGA$52Hawaii: median $58 across 13 hospitalsHI$58Texas: median $41 across 172 hospitalsTX$41Florida: median $22 across 117 hospitalsFL$22
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $43. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO37$94+120%$42 – $262
Nebraska NE45$92+114%$31 – $134
Montana MT10$78+82%$47 – $130
South Dakota SD11$74+73%$74 – $140
Utah UT32$71+64%$60 – $156
South Carolina SC45$69+60%$47 – $77
Kentucky KY41$62+45%$35 – $105
Washington WA43$60+41%$32 – $89
New Mexico NM15$60+40%$23 – $91
Missouri MO57$59+38%$34 – $101
Hawaii HI13$58+35%$50 – $69
Kansas KS35$57+33%$23 – $147
Minnesota MN53$53+23%$34 – $79
Iowa IA57$53+23%$34 – $78
Wisconsin WI82$52+22%$20 – $64
Georgia GA72$52+22%$21 – $112
Arizona AZ35$51+19%$11 – $76
Illinois IL102$50+17%$30 – $135
North Dakota ND12$49+14%$31 – $52
New Hampshire NH12$47+9%$27 – $166
Oklahoma OK52$47+9%$16 – $84
Indiana IN79$45+6%$17 – $112
Ohio OH113$45+4%$33 – $83
Alabama AL33$43−1%$21 – $225
Tennessee TN47$43−1%$13 – $79
Virginia VA56$42−2%$14 – $100
West Virginia WV25$42−3%$22 – $72
Idaho ID13$41−4%$23 – $99
Oregon OR31$41−4%$15 – $57
Massachusetts MA33$41−4%$23 – $90
Texas TX172$41−4%$19 – $181
Alaska AK10$41−6%$36 – $80
North Carolina NC62$38−13%$12 – $110
Maryland MD35$33−23%$21 – $39
Nevada NV12$32−25%$7 – $44
Pennsylvania PA102$30−29%$8 – $70
Arkansas AR28$29−32%$10 – $44
Mississippi MS31$29−32%$22 – $47
New York NY68$26−38%$8 – $85
Florida FL117$22−49%$11 – $103
Michigan MI73$22−49%$8 – $32
Louisiana LA32$17−60%$11 – $59
California CA106$15−64%$13 – $51
New Jersey NJ47$8−81%$7 – $25
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not 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 $43.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,740$40$14 – $85
Children’s47$58$21 – $123
Critical access431$52$23 – $89
Ownership
For-profit319$57$14 – $199
Government298$43$21 – $94
Non-profit1,601$41$15 – $79
System affiliation
Part of a system1,933$44$15 – $86
Independent293$42$20 – $88

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$75
Median cash price$43
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

1,581 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $47 and the average of the middle 60% is $48; most fall between $20 and $85.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,581 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$23$47$74$122

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $122).

Of the 1,749 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,581 gave a usable cash price; 89 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 79 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,226 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (56%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,435 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,226
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here120
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded89
Hospitals that filed this code2,435

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 Serum Free Hemoglobin.

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, “Free hemoglobin in blood plasma (CPT 83051) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83051-free-hemoglobin-in-blood-plasma