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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Homovanillic acid test

CPT 83150the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test, usually on urine, that measures homovanillic acid, a breakdown product of the chemical messenger dopamine.

Hospitals typically charge $62 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,925 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $69. Most fall between $27 and $143 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,925
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 1,925 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
$20$31$62$115$221

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $221).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $19: 91 hospitals$14$19 – $26: 187 hospitals$26 – $35: 184 hospitals$26$35 – $48: 200 hospitals$48 – $65: 225 hospitals$48$65 – $88: 249 hospitals$88 – $120: 233 hospitals$88$120 – $163: 152 hospitals$163 – $221: 116 hospitals$163$221 – $300: 96 hospitals$221median $62price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,733 of 1,925 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$1991
$19$26187
$26$35184
$35$48200
$48$65225
$65$88249
$88$120233
$120$163152
$163$221116
$221$30096

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $62.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $100 across 23 hospitalsME$100Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $42 across 14 hospitalsNH$42Washington: median $51 across 41 hospitalsWA$51Idaho: median $76 across 13 hospitalsID$76Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $81 across 20 hospitalsND$81Minnesota: median $69 across 45 hospitalsMN$69Illinois: median $89 across 86 hospitalsIL$89Wisconsin: median $90 across 73 hospitalsWI$90Michigan: median $40 across 61 hospitalsMI$40New York: median $36 across 77 hospitalsNY$36Massachusetts: median $85 across 36 hospitalsMA$85Oregon: median $51 across 21 hospitalsOR$51Nevada: median $110 across 13 hospitalsNV$110Wyoming: median $56 across 13 hospitalsWY$56South Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $55 across 32 hospitalsIA$55Indiana: median $44 across 56 hospitalsIN$44Ohio: median $70 across 79 hospitalsOH$70Pennsylvania: median $60 across 84 hospitalsPA$60New Jersey: median $25 across 46 hospitalsNJ$25Connecticut: median $72 across 12 hospitalsCT$72Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $31 across 89 hospitalsCA$31Utah: median $90 across 35 hospitalsUT$90Colorado: median $111 across 41 hospitalsCO$111Nebraska: median $76 across 28 hospitalsNE$76Missouri: median $56 across 48 hospitalsMO$56Kentucky: median $65 across 35 hospitalsKY$65West Virginia: median $48 across 27 hospitalsWV$48Virginia: median $72 across 45 hospitalsVA$72Maryland: median $86 across 31 hospitalsMD$86Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $38 across 23 hospitalsAZ$38New Mexico: median $86 across 10 hospitalsNM$86Kansas: median $98 across 27 hospitalsKS$98Arkansas: median $47 across 18 hospitalsAR$47Tennessee: median $46 across 43 hospitalsTN$46North Carolina: median $50 across 70 hospitalsNC$50South Carolina: median $114 across 30 hospitalsSC$114Oklahoma: median $77 across 38 hospitalsOK$77Louisiana: median $45 across 31 hospitalsLA$45Mississippi: median $58 across 27 hospitalsMS$58Alabama: median $53 across 27 hospitalsAL$53Georgia: median $76 across 60 hospitalsGA$76Hawaii: median $38 across 10 hospitalsHI$38Texas: median $73 across 153 hospitalsTX$73Florida: median $26 across 97 hospitalsFL$26
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $62. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC30$114+85%$73 – $114
Colorado CO41$111+79%$53 – $308
Nevada NV13$110+77%$22 – $277
Maine ME23$100+62%$37 – $160
Kansas KS27$98+58%$49 – $282
Wisconsin WI73$90+45%$54 – $143
Utah UT35$90+45%$76 – $135
Illinois IL86$89+44%$38 – $212
Maryland MD31$86+39%$50 – $96
New Mexico NM10$86+39%$18 – $170
Massachusetts MA36$85+37%$50 – $160
North Dakota ND20$81+31%$39 – $152
Oklahoma OK38$77+24%$51 – $118
Nebraska NE28$76+23%$40 – $218
Georgia GA60$76+23%$25 – $116
Idaho ID13$76+22%$21 – $140
Texas TX153$73+17%$21 – $266
Virginia VA45$72+16%$16 – $111
Connecticut CT12$72+16%$47 – $103
Ohio OH79$70+12%$42 – $214
Minnesota MN45$69+11%$22 – $103
Kentucky KY35$65+5%$30 – $244
Pennsylvania PA84$60−4%$25 – $117
Mississippi MS27$58−6%$41 – $76
Wyoming WY13$56−10%$42 – $116
Missouri MO48$56−10%$38 – $100
Iowa IA32$55−11%$45 – $71
Alabama AL27$53−14%$31 – $210
Oregon OR21$51−17%$27 – $87
Washington WA41$51−18%$35 – $85
North Carolina NC70$50−19%$31 – $269
West Virginia WV27$48−22%$7 – $85
Arkansas AR18$47−24%$12 – $60
Tennessee TN43$46−26%$34 – $86
Louisiana LA31$45−28%$28 – $57
Indiana IN56$44−29%$27 – $112
New Hampshire NH14$42−33%$14 – $197
Michigan MI61$40−35%$17 – $50
Hawaii HI10$38−38%$38 – $155
Arizona AZ23$38−38%$18 – $197
New York NY77$36−42%$22 – $118
California CA89$31−50%$13 – $142
Florida FL97$26−58%$20 – $116
New Jersey NJ46$25−60%$22 – $26
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not 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 $62.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,493$58$25 – $143
Children’s52$60$24 – $171
Critical access373$72$40 – $142
Ownership
For-profit249$87$26 – $288
Government256$57$29 – $120
Non-profit1,413$59$27 – $129
System affiliation
Part of a system1,655$61$26 – $143
Independent270$65$31 – $129

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$108
Median cash price$62
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

1,358 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $68 and the average of the middle 60% is $71; most fall between $29 and $143.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,358 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
$20$34$68$114$196

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $196).

Of the 1,511 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,358 gave a usable cash price; 92 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 61 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,925 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (49%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,105 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,925
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here108
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded70
Hospitals that filed this code2,105

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 Hva, Urine.

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, “Homovanillic acid test (CPT 83150) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83150-homovanillic-acid-test