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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Blood lead level test

CPT 83655the billing code this page is about

Measures the amount of lead in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $44 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,292 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $47. Most fall between $17 and $90 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,292
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 3,292 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$20$44$81$128

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $128).

How the prices are spread

$6 – $9: 132 hospitals$6$9 – $13: 165 hospitals$13 – $18: 234 hospitals$13$18 – $25: 313 hospitals$25 – $35: 359 hospitals$25$35 – $49: 386 hospitals$49 – $68: 485 hospitals$49$68 – $96: 477 hospitals$96 – $135: 277 hospitals$96$135 – $190: 136 hospitals$135median $44price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,964 of 3,292 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$9132
$9$13165
$13$18234
$18$25313
$25$35359
$35$49386
$49$68485
$68$96477
$96$135277
$135$190136

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $44.

Alaska: median $83 across 19 hospitalsAK$83Maine: median $45 across 28 hospitalsME$45Vermont: median $64 across 14 hospitalsVT$64New Hampshire: median $44 across 25 hospitalsNH$44Washington: median $58 across 77 hospitalsWA$58Idaho: median $37 across 24 hospitalsID$37Montana: median $56 across 31 hospitalsMT$56North Dakota: median $68 across 33 hospitalsND$68Minnesota: median $42 across 105 hospitalsMN$42Illinois: median $58 across 142 hospitalsIL$58Wisconsin: median $59 across 107 hospitalsWI$59Michigan: median $9 across 83 hospitalsMI$9New York: median $30 across 120 hospitalsNY$30Massachusetts: median $73 across 54 hospitalsMA$73Oregon: median $30 across 48 hospitalsOR$30Nevada: median $60 across 20 hospitalsNV$60Wyoming: median $25 across 16 hospitalsWY$25South Dakota: median $82 across 37 hospitalsSD$82Iowa: median $50 across 88 hospitalsIA$50Indiana: median $40 across 97 hospitalsIN$40Ohio: median $47 across 138 hospitalsOH$47Pennsylvania: median $55 across 122 hospitalsPA$55New Jersey: median $14 across 57 hospitalsNJ$14Connecticut: median $38 across 23 hospitalsCT$38Rhode Island: median $35 across 10 hospitalsRI$35California: median $8 across 119 hospitalsCA$8Utah: median $48 across 42 hospitalsUT$48Colorado: median $58 across 65 hospitalsCO$58Nebraska: median $74 across 80 hospitalsNE$74Missouri: median $54 across 77 hospitalsMO$54Kentucky: median $59 across 69 hospitalsKY$59West Virginia: median $40 across 43 hospitalsWV$40Virginia: median $65 across 73 hospitalsVA$65Maryland: median $69 across 41 hospitalsMD$69Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $62 across 42 hospitalsAZ$62New Mexico: median $70 across 28 hospitalsNM$70Kansas: median $42 across 86 hospitalsKS$42Arkansas: median $21 across 39 hospitalsAR$21Tennessee: median $37 across 83 hospitalsTN$37North Carolina: median $36 across 89 hospitalsNC$36South Carolina: median $78 across 53 hospitalsSC$78Oklahoma: median $39 across 74 hospitalsOK$39Louisiana: median $29 across 52 hospitalsLA$29Mississippi: median $30 across 55 hospitalsMS$30Alabama: median $35 across 44 hospitalsAL$35Georgia: median $56 across 107 hospitalsGA$56Hawaii: median $50 across 19 hospitalsHI$50Texas: median $41 across 240 hospitalsTX$41Florida: median $10 across 147 hospitalsFL$10
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $44. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK19$83+90%$15 – $118
South Dakota SD37$82+87%$31 – $154
South Carolina SC53$78+79%$56 – $100
Nebraska NE80$74+69%$32 – $104
Massachusetts MA54$73+67%$34 – $110
New Mexico NM28$70+61%$39 – $96
Maryland MD41$69+57%$53 – $81
North Dakota ND33$68+56%$23 – $93
Virginia VA73$65+48%$21 – $133
Vermont VT14$64+47%$27 – $103
Arizona AZ42$62+43%$19 – $101
Nevada NV20$60+36%$18 – $114
Wisconsin WI107$59+36%$31 – $78
Kentucky KY69$59+36%$27 – $152
Colorado CO65$58+34%$23 – $110
Washington WA77$58+33%$30 – $97
Illinois IL142$58+32%$31 – $109
Georgia GA107$56+29%$26 – $85
Montana MT31$56+29%$26 – $88
Pennsylvania PA122$55+25%$17 – $133
Missouri MO77$54+24%$31 – $89
Hawaii HI19$50+15%$12 – $120
Iowa IA88$50+14%$32 – $90
Utah UT42$48+10%$41 – $88
Ohio OH138$47+7%$16 – $86
Maine ME28$45+3%$23 – $58
New Hampshire NH25$44+1%$16 – $126
Kansas KS86$42−5%$26 – $82
Minnesota MN105$42−5%$14 – $81
Texas TX240$41−6%$17 – $142
West Virginia WV43$40−8%$7 – $68
Indiana IN97$40−9%$17 – $79
Oklahoma OK74$39−12%$25 – $65
Connecticut CT23$38−13%$24 – $101
Idaho ID24$37−15%$8 – $89
Tennessee TN83$37−16%$21 – $66
North Carolina NC89$36−16%$20 – $80
Alabama AL44$35−19%$13 – $86
Rhode Island RI10$35−21%$26 – $72
Mississippi MS55$30−31%$15 – $58
Oregon OR48$30−31%$18 – $63
New York NY120$30−32%$12 – $93
Louisiana LA52$29−34%$19 – $56
Wyoming WY16$25−44%$22 – $80
Arkansas AR39$21−52%$15 – $61
New Jersey NJ57$14−68%$13 – $41
Florida FL147$10−76%$5 – $40
Michigan MI83$9−80%$4 – $31
California CA119$8−82%$4 – $51
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 $44.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,252$40$14 – $88
Children’s65$54$15 – $110
Critical access965$55$28 – $92
Ownership
For-profit458$53$15 – $185
Government630$46$18 – $85
Non-profit2,194$42$17 – $86
System affiliation
Part of a system2,652$43$17 – $92
Independent640$45$18 – $83

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$74
Median cash price$44
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

2,208 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $44 and the average of the middle 60% is $47; most fall between $17 and $87.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,208 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$20$44$79$118

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $118).

Of the 2,443 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,208 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 110 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,292 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (83%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,595 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,292
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here170
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 — excluded132
Hospitals that filed this code3,595

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 PR Occ Hlth Lab - Lead.

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 lead level test (CPT 83655) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83655-blood-lead-level-test