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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Lipoprotein (a) blood test

CPT 83695the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of lipoprotein (a), a cholesterol-carrying particle in the blood.

Hospitals typically charge $58 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,989 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $61. Most fall between $23 and $112 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,989
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 2,989 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
$16$28$58$98$164

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($16 vs $164).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $16: 160 hospitals$12$16 – $21: 219 hospitals$21 – $28: 223 hospitals$21$28 – $37: 280 hospitals$37 – $50: 268 hospitals$37$50 – $67: 373 hospitals$67 – $89: 394 hospitals$67$89 – $119: 387 hospitals$119 – $158: 224 hospitals$119$158 – $212: 164 hospitals$158median $58price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,692 of 2,989 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$16160
$16$21219
$21$28223
$28$37280
$37$50268
$50$67373
$67$89394
$89$119387
$119$158224
$158$212164

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $58.

Alaska: median $49 across 16 hospitalsAK$49Maine: median $64 across 26 hospitalsME$64Vermont: median $100 across 14 hospitalsVT$100New Hampshire: median $67 across 25 hospitalsNH$67Washington: median $64 across 69 hospitalsWA$64Idaho: median $42 across 21 hospitalsID$42Montana: median $69 across 27 hospitalsMT$69North Dakota: median $73 across 28 hospitalsND$73Minnesota: median $49 across 100 hospitalsMN$49Illinois: median $84 across 127 hospitalsIL$84Wisconsin: median $80 across 102 hospitalsWI$80Michigan: median $32 across 81 hospitalsMI$32New York: median $32 across 98 hospitalsNY$32Massachusetts: median $87 across 51 hospitalsMA$87Oregon: median $52 across 37 hospitalsOR$52Nevada: median $70 across 17 hospitalsNV$70Wyoming: median $46 across 13 hospitalsWY$46South Dakota: median $100 across 26 hospitalsSD$100Iowa: median $64 across 77 hospitalsIA$64Indiana: median $67 across 96 hospitalsIN$67Ohio: median $47 across 136 hospitalsOH$47Pennsylvania: median $60 across 117 hospitalsPA$60New Jersey: median $16 across 56 hospitalsNJ$16Connecticut: median $61 across 19 hospitalsCT$61Rhode Island: median $35 across 10 hospitalsRI$35California: median $21 across 134 hospitalsCA$21Utah: median $83 across 36 hospitalsUT$83Colorado: median $76 across 64 hospitalsCO$76Nebraska: median $91 across 58 hospitalsNE$91Missouri: median $60 across 73 hospitalsMO$60Kentucky: median $65 across 65 hospitalsKY$65West Virginia: median $38 across 40 hospitalsWV$38Virginia: median $81 across 70 hospitalsVA$81Maryland: median $66 across 37 hospitalsMD$66Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $46 across 38 hospitalsAZ$46New Mexico: median $87 across 19 hospitalsNM$87Kansas: median $63 across 71 hospitalsKS$63Arkansas: median $61 across 29 hospitalsAR$61Tennessee: median $41 across 75 hospitalsTN$41North Carolina: median $47 across 82 hospitalsNC$47South Carolina: median $127 across 47 hospitalsSC$127Oklahoma: median $62 across 67 hospitalsOK$62Louisiana: median $32 across 46 hospitalsLA$32Mississippi: median $30 across 53 hospitalsMS$30Alabama: median $36 across 35 hospitalsAL$36Georgia: median $49 across 99 hospitalsGA$49Hawaii: median $72 across 16 hospitalsHI$72Texas: median $77 across 205 hospitalsTX$77Florida: median $20 across 134 hospitalsFL$20
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $58. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC47$127+118%$98 – $150
Vermont VT14$100+72%$69 – $219
South Dakota SD26$100+71%$49 – $235
Nebraska NE58$91+55%$35 – $148
Massachusetts MA51$87+49%$35 – $117
New Mexico NM19$87+48%$58 – $112
Illinois IL127$84+44%$46 – $166
Utah UT36$83+41%$83 – $97
Virginia VA70$81+39%$23 – $150
Wisconsin WI102$80+37%$53 – $114
Texas TX205$77+31%$28 – $126
Colorado CO64$76+30%$26 – $196
North Dakota ND28$73+25%$26 – $102
Hawaii HI16$72+23%$28 – $143
Nevada NV17$70+20%$17 – $105
Montana MT27$69+18%$44 – $110
New Hampshire NH25$67+15%$21 – $158
Indiana IN96$67+14%$23 – $122
Maryland MD37$66+13%$52 – $81
Kentucky KY65$65+12%$30 – $114
Iowa IA77$64+10%$48 – $105
Maine ME26$64+10%$30 – $89
Washington WA69$64+10%$30 – $94
Kansas KS71$63+8%$33 – $119
Oklahoma OK67$62+7%$25 – $99
Connecticut CT19$61+4%$43 – $108
Arkansas AR29$61+4%$13 – $98
Pennsylvania PA117$60+4%$22 – $168
Missouri MO73$60+3%$37 – $119
Oregon OR37$52−11%$33 – $74
Georgia GA99$49−15%$33 – $119
Minnesota MN100$49−16%$26 – $85
Alaska AK16$49−17%$33 – $108
Ohio OH136$47−19%$29 – $113
North Carolina NC82$47−20%$22 – $107
Wyoming WY13$46−22%$35 – $89
Arizona AZ38$46−22%$22 – $132
Idaho ID21$42−28%$20 – $68
Tennessee TN75$41−29%$23 – $88
West Virginia WV40$38−35%$16 – $81
Alabama AL35$36−39%$21 – $89
Rhode Island RI10$35−40%$30 – $104
Michigan MI81$32−45%$16 – $56
New York NY98$32−45%$17 – $79
Louisiana LA46$32−45%$22 – $78
Mississippi MS53$30−49%$19 – $68
California CA134$21−64%$7 – $82
Florida FL134$20−65%$10 – $92
New Jersey NJ56$16−73%$14 – $38
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 $58.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,106$53$20 – $107
Children’s48$58$23 – $137
Critical access826$69$34 – $115
Ownership
For-profit393$60$19 – $171
Government530$54$25 – $107
Non-profit2,057$59$23 – $107
System affiliation
Part of a system2,454$59$23 – $113
Independent535$56$25 – $108

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$94
Median cash price$58
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

2,056 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $62 and the average of the middle 60% is $63; most fall between $25 and $109.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,056 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
$16$30$62$97$151

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($16 vs $151).

Of the 2,266 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,056 gave a usable cash price; 108 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 102 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,989 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (76%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,255 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,989
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here145
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded118
Hospitals that filed this code3,255

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 Lipoprotein a, Plasma.

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, “Lipoprotein (a) blood test (CPT 83695) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83695-lipoprotein-a-blood-test