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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Blood test for total insulin

CPT 83525the billing code this page is about

Measures the total amount of insulin in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $59 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,331 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $62. Most fall between $23 and $118 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,331
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 3,331 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
$14$29$59$104$166

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $166).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $14: 173 hospitals$10$14 – $19: 171 hospitals$19 – $26: 240 hospitals$19$26 – $35: 258 hospitals$35 – $48: 367 hospitals$35$48 – $65: 448 hospitals$65 – $89: 472 hospitals$65$89 – $121: 411 hospitals$121 – $165: 285 hospitals$121$165 – $226: 174 hospitals$165median $59price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,999 of 3,331 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$14173
$14$19171
$19$26240
$26$35258
$35$48367
$48$65448
$65$89472
$89$121411
$121$165285
$165$226174

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $59.

Alaska: median $73 across 19 hospitalsAK$73Maine: median $51 across 28 hospitalsME$51Vermont: median $98 across 14 hospitalsVT$98New Hampshire: median $72 across 25 hospitalsNH$72Washington: median $75 across 77 hospitalsWA$75Idaho: median $43 across 24 hospitalsID$43Montana: median $80 across 30 hospitalsMT$80North Dakota: median $61 across 32 hospitalsND$61Minnesota: median $55 across 105 hospitalsMN$55Illinois: median $73 across 144 hospitalsIL$73Wisconsin: median $65 across 104 hospitalsWI$65Michigan: median $35 across 101 hospitalsMI$35New York: median $46 across 104 hospitalsNY$46Massachusetts: median $72 across 53 hospitalsMA$72Oregon: median $55 across 50 hospitalsOR$55Nevada: median $70 across 20 hospitalsNV$70Wyoming: median $50 across 16 hospitalsWY$50South Dakota: median $121 across 40 hospitalsSD$121Iowa: median $77 across 88 hospitalsIA$77Indiana: median $61 across 97 hospitalsIN$61Ohio: median $51 across 140 hospitalsOH$51Pennsylvania: median $50 across 121 hospitalsPA$50New Jersey: median $13 across 54 hospitalsNJ$13Connecticut: median $61 across 21 hospitalsCT$61Rhode Island: median $91 across 10 hospitalsRI$91California: median $18 across 148 hospitalsCA$18Utah: median $61 across 43 hospitalsUT$61Colorado: median $66 across 69 hospitalsCO$66Nebraska: median $108 across 82 hospitalsNE$108Missouri: median $56 across 76 hospitalsMO$56Kentucky: median $81 across 69 hospitalsKY$81West Virginia: median $58 across 42 hospitalsWV$58Virginia: median $75 across 73 hospitalsVA$75Maryland: median $41 across 41 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $76 across 42 hospitalsAZ$76New Mexico: median $91 across 27 hospitalsNM$91Kansas: median $78 across 90 hospitalsKS$78Arkansas: median $22 across 38 hospitalsAR$22Tennessee: median $41 across 83 hospitalsTN$41North Carolina: median $62 across 90 hospitalsNC$62South Carolina: median $118 across 52 hospitalsSC$118Oklahoma: median $46 across 73 hospitalsOK$46Louisiana: median $39 across 52 hospitalsLA$39Mississippi: median $41 across 57 hospitalsMS$41Alabama: median $54 across 44 hospitalsAL$54Georgia: median $73 across 108 hospitalsGA$73Hawaii: median $72 across 18 hospitalsHI$72Texas: median $63 across 244 hospitalsTX$63Florida: median $15 across 146 hospitalsFL$15
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $59. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD40$121+104%$55 – $209
South Carolina SC52$118+99%$49 – $174
Nebraska NE82$108+83%$39 – $146
Vermont VT14$98+65%$42 – $176
Rhode Island RI10$91+54%$29 – $110
New Mexico NM27$91+54%$55 – $103
Kentucky KY69$81+37%$34 – $155
Montana MT30$80+36%$41 – $131
Kansas KS90$78+32%$44 – $106
Iowa IA88$77+30%$53 – $106
Arizona AZ42$76+28%$24 – $134
Washington WA77$75+28%$37 – $110
Virginia VA73$75+27%$20 – $164
Georgia GA108$73+24%$35 – $122
Alaska AK19$73+23%$27 – $123
Illinois IL144$73+23%$45 – $165
Hawaii HI18$72+22%$29 – $104
Massachusetts MA53$72+22%$37 – $116
New Hampshire NH25$72+22%$36 – $145
Nevada NV20$70+18%$27 – $115
Colorado CO69$66+12%$21 – $142
Wisconsin WI104$65+10%$47 – $115
Texas TX244$63+7%$17 – $196
North Carolina NC90$62+4%$22 – $114
Connecticut CT21$61+4%$42 – $95
Utah UT43$61+3%$52 – $95
North Dakota ND32$61+3%$22 – $92
Indiana IN97$61+3%$25 – $124
West Virginia WV42$58−2%$30 – $102
Missouri MO76$56−4%$32 – $120
Minnesota MN105$55−7%$31 – $109
Oregon OR50$55−7%$35 – $74
Alabama AL44$54−9%$19 – $127
Maine ME28$51−13%$30 – $128
Ohio OH140$51−13%$29 – $104
Wyoming WY16$50−15%$35 – $105
Pennsylvania PA121$50−16%$18 – $146
New York NY104$46−22%$14 – $121
Oklahoma OK73$46−22%$31 – $85
Idaho ID24$43−27%$12 – $91
Maryland MD41$41−30%$31 – $49
Tennessee TN83$41−30%$20 – $82
Mississippi MS57$41−31%$20 – $71
Louisiana LA52$39−33%$20 – $74
Michigan MI101$35−41%$18 – $64
Arkansas AR38$22−62%$15 – $70
California CA148$18−70%$6 – $87
Florida FL146$15−74%$9 – $75
New Jersey NJ54$13−78%$13 – $58
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 $59.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,280$53$20 – $117
Children’s62$86$35 – $116
Critical access979$72$36 – $118
Ownership
For-profit464$75$22 – $224
Government640$64$27 – $112
Non-profit2,217$56$23 – $111
System affiliation
Part of a system2,696$59$22 – $118
Independent635$56$28 – $110

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$98
Median cash price$59
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

2,237 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $59 and the average of the middle 60% is $62; most fall between $23 and $115.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,237 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
$15$29$59$101$159

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $159).

Of the 2,463 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,237 gave a usable cash price; 115 carried a plausibility flag, 1 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

3,331 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (84%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,624 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,331
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here159
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 — excluded132
Hospitals that filed this code3,624

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 HC Insulin (Iri).

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, “Blood test for total insulin (CPT 83525) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83525-blood-test-for-total-insulin