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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) blood test

CPT 83615the billing code this page is about

Measures the total amount of the enzyme lactate dehydrogenase in a blood sample, an enzyme released when cells are damaged.

Hospitals typically charge $36 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,386 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $38. Most fall between $14 and $72 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,386
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 3,386 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
$9$17$36$62$108

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $108).

How the prices are spread

$6 – $8: 148 hospitals$6$8 – $11: 184 hospitals$11 – $16: 293 hospitals$11$16 – $22: 288 hospitals$22 – $31: 390 hospitals$22$31 – $43: 440 hospitals$43 – $60: 583 hospitals$43$60 – $85: 357 hospitals$85 – $119: 235 hospitals$85$119 – $167: 132 hospitals$119median $36price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,050 of 3,386 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$8148
$8$11184
$11$16293
$16$22288
$22$31390
$31$43440
$43$60583
$60$85357
$85$119235
$119$167132

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $36.

Alaska: median $67 across 19 hospitalsAK$67Maine: median $36 across 27 hospitalsME$36Vermont: median $56 across 14 hospitalsVT$56New Hampshire: median $39 across 25 hospitalsNH$39Washington: median $41 across 77 hospitalsWA$41Idaho: median $29 across 25 hospitalsID$29Montana: median $38 across 31 hospitalsMT$38North Dakota: median $45 across 35 hospitalsND$45Minnesota: median $38 across 106 hospitalsMN$38Illinois: median $58 across 144 hospitalsIL$58Wisconsin: median $48 across 107 hospitalsWI$48Michigan: median $18 across 90 hospitalsMI$18New York: median $21 across 117 hospitalsNY$21Massachusetts: median $39 across 54 hospitalsMA$39Oregon: median $30 across 50 hospitalsOR$30Nevada: median $50 across 22 hospitalsNV$50Wyoming: median $27 across 16 hospitalsWY$27South Dakota: median $90 across 41 hospitalsSD$90Iowa: median $44 across 89 hospitalsIA$44Indiana: median $32 across 97 hospitalsIN$32Ohio: median $27 across 141 hospitalsOH$27Pennsylvania: median $26 across 122 hospitalsPA$26New Jersey: median $7 across 57 hospitalsNJ$7Connecticut: median $32 across 23 hospitalsCT$32Rhode Island: median $48 across 10 hospitalsRI$48California: median $21 across 162 hospitalsCA$21Utah: median $46 across 43 hospitalsUT$46Colorado: median $36 across 72 hospitalsCO$36Nebraska: median $59 across 80 hospitalsNE$59Missouri: median $32 across 77 hospitalsMO$32Kentucky: median $42 across 69 hospitalsKY$42West Virginia: median $20 across 43 hospitalsWV$20Virginia: median $46 across 73 hospitalsVA$46Maryland: median $11 across 41 hospitalsMD$11Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $43 across 42 hospitalsAZ$43New Mexico: median $70 across 28 hospitalsNM$70Kansas: median $37 across 92 hospitalsKS$37Arkansas: median $14 across 38 hospitalsAR$14Tennessee: median $22 across 83 hospitalsTN$22North Carolina: median $44 across 87 hospitalsNC$44South Carolina: median $59 across 53 hospitalsSC$59Oklahoma: median $29 across 73 hospitalsOK$29Louisiana: median $24 across 53 hospitalsLA$24Mississippi: median $23 across 55 hospitalsMS$23Alabama: median $24 across 44 hospitalsAL$24Georgia: median $43 across 111 hospitalsGA$43Hawaii: median $47 across 20 hospitalsHI$47Texas: median $45 across 246 hospitalsTX$45Florida: median $23 across 155 hospitalsFL$23
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $36. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD41$90+148%$39 – $124
New Mexico NM28$70+93%$30 – $113
Alaska AK19$67+84%$51 – $101
Nebraska NE80$59+62%$18 – $90
South Carolina SC53$59+62%$27 – $68
Illinois IL144$58+58%$28 – $98
Vermont VT14$56+54%$41 – $105
Nevada NV22$50+38%$19 – $128
Rhode Island RI10$48+32%$15 – $48
Wisconsin WI107$48+30%$28 – $52
Hawaii HI20$47+28%$31 – $58
Virginia VA73$46+27%$31 – $71
Utah UT43$46+26%$39 – $82
Texas TX246$45+24%$13 – $162
North Dakota ND35$45+23%$11 – $53
North Carolina NC87$44+21%$21 – $53
Iowa IA89$44+20%$32 – $56
Arizona AZ42$43+19%$10 – $272
Georgia GA111$43+17%$21 – $90
Kentucky KY69$42+15%$12 – $73
Washington WA77$41+13%$27 – $60
New Hampshire NH25$39+7%$29 – $74
Massachusetts MA54$39+7%$23 – $73
Minnesota MN106$38+4%$18 – $62
Montana MT31$38+3%$19 – $60
Kansas KS92$370%$24 – $53
Colorado CO72$360%$12 – $71
Maine ME27$36−1%$16 – $67
Indiana IN97$32−11%$15 – $65
Connecticut CT23$32−11%$22 – $50
Missouri MO77$32−12%$21 – $70
Oregon OR50$30−18%$10 – $55
Oklahoma OK73$29−20%$16 – $57
Idaho ID25$29−21%$13 – $42
Ohio OH141$27−25%$16 – $55
Wyoming WY16$27−26%$12 – $55
Pennsylvania PA122$26−30%$9 – $57
Alabama AL44$24−35%$11 – $74
Louisiana LA53$24−35%$12 – $54
Florida FL155$23−38%$5 – $189
Mississippi MS55$23−38%$11 – $49
Tennessee TN83$22−40%$9 – $60
New York NY117$21−42%$12 – $68
California CA162$21−44%$6 – $90
West Virginia WV43$20−45%$5 – $49
Michigan MI90$18−50%$7 – $44
Arkansas AR38$14−61%$8 – $55
Maryland MD41$11−70%$9 – $13
New Jersey NJ57$7−81%$7 – $22
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 $36.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,317$32$12 – $72
Children’s66$49$15 – $83
Critical access994$44$22 – $72
Ownership
For-profit464$50$13 – $227
Government644$40$17 – $67
Non-profit2,269$34$13 – $64
System affiliation
Part of a system2,732$37$13 – $73
Independent654$36$16 – $71

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$60
Median cash price$36
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

2,291 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $36 and the average of the middle 60% is $37; most fall between $14 and $69.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,291 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
$10$17$36$60$104

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $104).

Of the 2,527 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,291 gave a usable cash price; 125 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 111 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,386 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (86%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,700 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,386
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here179
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 — excluded134
Hospitals that filed this code3,700

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 Ld(Ldh;Lactic Dehydrogenase).

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, “Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) blood test (CPT 83615) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83615-lactate-dehydrogenase-ldh-blood-test