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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Lipase blood test

CPT 83690the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of lipase, a digestive enzyme made by the pancreas, in a blood or fluid sample.

Hospitals typically charge $60 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,398 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $63. Most fall between $22 and $126 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,398
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 3,398 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
$12$28$60$108$180

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $180).

How the prices are spread

$8 – $11: 148 hospitals$8$11 – $16: 179 hospitals$16 – $23: 236 hospitals$16$23 – $33: 274 hospitals$33 – $47: 413 hospitals$33$47 – $67: 464 hospitals$67 – $96: 508 hospitals$67$96 – $136: 420 hospitals$136 – $195: 315 hospitals$136$195 – $278: 120 hospitals$195median $60price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,077 of 3,398 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$8$11148
$11$16179
$16$23236
$23$33274
$33$47413
$47$67464
$67$96508
$96$136420
$136$195315
$195$278120

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $60.

Alaska: median $122 across 19 hospitalsAK$122Maine: median $46 across 28 hospitalsME$46Vermont: median $42 across 14 hospitalsVT$42New Hampshire: median $59 across 25 hospitalsNH$59Washington: median $70 across 77 hospitalsWA$70Idaho: median $44 across 25 hospitalsID$44Montana: median $68 across 33 hospitalsMT$68North Dakota: median $55 across 33 hospitalsND$55Minnesota: median $57 across 107 hospitalsMN$57Illinois: median $90 across 141 hospitalsIL$90Wisconsin: median $68 across 107 hospitalsWI$68Michigan: median $26 across 97 hospitalsMI$26New York: median $28 across 118 hospitalsNY$28Massachusetts: median $50 across 53 hospitalsMA$50Oregon: median $61 across 51 hospitalsOR$61Nevada: median $78 across 22 hospitalsNV$78Wyoming: median $94 across 16 hospitalsWY$94South Dakota: median $152 across 41 hospitalsSD$152Iowa: median $65 across 90 hospitalsIA$65Indiana: median $52 across 94 hospitalsIN$52Ohio: median $53 across 143 hospitalsOH$53Pennsylvania: median $38 across 122 hospitalsPA$38New Jersey: median $8 across 54 hospitalsNJ$8Connecticut: median $37 across 23 hospitalsCT$37Rhode Island: median $53 across 10 hospitalsRI$53California: median $81 across 160 hospitalsCA$81Utah: median $47 across 42 hospitalsUT$47Colorado: median $86 across 70 hospitalsCO$86Nebraska: median $101 across 84 hospitalsNE$101Missouri: median $68 across 78 hospitalsMO$68Kentucky: median $72 across 69 hospitalsKY$72West Virginia: median $27 across 44 hospitalsWV$27Virginia: median $98 across 73 hospitalsVA$98Maryland: median $22 across 41 hospitalsMD$22Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $121 across 42 hospitalsAZ$121New Mexico: median $89 across 30 hospitalsNM$89Kansas: median $60 across 93 hospitalsKS$60Arkansas: median $21 across 39 hospitalsAR$21Tennessee: median $35 across 83 hospitalsTN$35North Carolina: median $90 across 86 hospitalsNC$90South Carolina: median $116 across 53 hospitalsSC$116Oklahoma: median $55 across 72 hospitalsOK$55Louisiana: median $40 across 53 hospitalsLA$40Mississippi: median $28 across 55 hospitalsMS$28Alabama: median $50 across 44 hospitalsAL$50Georgia: median $77 across 112 hospitalsGA$77Hawaii: median $61 across 21 hospitalsHI$61Texas: median $62 across 250 hospitalsTX$62Florida: median $40 across 154 hospitalsFL$40
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $60. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD41$152+155%$95 – $220
Alaska AK19$122+106%$76 – $170
Arizona AZ42$121+104%$12 – $294
South Carolina SC53$116+95%$41 – $151
Nebraska NE84$101+69%$52 – $148
Virginia VA73$98+65%$42 – $158
Wyoming WY16$94+58%$13 – $133
Illinois IL141$90+52%$45 – $147
North Carolina NC86$90+52%$44 – $138
New Mexico NM30$89+50%$48 – $127
Colorado CO70$86+44%$49 – $140
California CA160$81+36%$12 – $242
Nevada NV22$78+31%$25 – $168
Georgia GA112$77+29%$29 – $143
Kentucky KY69$72+21%$36 – $121
Washington WA77$70+17%$35 – $116
Missouri MO78$68+15%$26 – $116
Wisconsin WI107$68+15%$47 – $105
Montana MT33$68+14%$46 – $87
Iowa IA90$65+9%$34 – $96
Texas TX250$62+5%$12 – $186
Hawaii HI21$61+3%$42 – $82
Oregon OR51$61+3%$28 – $88
Kansas KS93$600%$37 – $81
New Hampshire NH25$59−1%$34 – $88
Minnesota MN107$57−5%$26 – $82
North Dakota ND33$55−8%$13 – $84
Oklahoma OK72$55−8%$21 – $83
Ohio OH143$53−10%$31 – $82
Rhode Island RI10$53−11%$19 – $56
Indiana IN94$52−13%$16 – $133
Massachusetts MA53$50−16%$26 – $86
Alabama AL44$50−17%$23 – $136
Utah UT42$47−20%$40 – $91
Maine ME28$46−23%$31 – $112
Idaho ID25$44−26%$10 – $78
Vermont VT14$42−30%$37 – $90
Florida FL154$40−33%$20 – $442
Louisiana LA53$40−33%$13 – $76
Pennsylvania PA122$38−36%$12 – $140
Connecticut CT23$37−38%$28 – $77
Tennessee TN83$35−41%$14 – $86
Mississippi MS55$28−52%$13 – $50
New York NY118$28−53%$10 – $98
West Virginia WV44$27−55%$5 – $74
Michigan MI97$26−56%$12 – $47
Maryland MD41$22−63%$17 – $26
Arkansas AR39$21−65%$13 – $56
New Jersey NJ54$8−87%$8 – $52
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 $60.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,325$54$19 – $134
Children’s67$60$33 – $136
Critical access997$67$34 – $113
Ownership
For-profit474$79$25 – $302
Government653$64$25 – $114
Non-profit2,262$54$21 – $116
System affiliation
Part of a system2,739$60$21 – $132
Independent659$56$27 – $109

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$99
Median cash price$60
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

2,282 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $61 and the average of the middle 60% is $65; most fall between $23 and $129.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,282 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
$12$30$61$111$178

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $178).

Of the 2,528 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,282 gave a usable cash price; 133 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 113 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,398 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 3,714 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,398
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here178
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 — excluded137
Hospitals that filed this code3,714

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 Body Fluid Lipase.

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, “Lipase blood test (CPT 83690) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83690-lipase-blood-test