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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Lipoprotein blood test by electrophoresis

CPT 83700the billing code this page is about

Uses electrophoresis to separate the different cholesterol-carrying particles in blood and measure each one.

Hospitals typically charge $51 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,486 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $55. Most fall between $20 and $114 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,486
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 1,486 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
$13$24$51$94$174

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $174).

How the prices are spread

$11 – $15: 133 hospitals$11$15 – $20: 100 hospitals$20 – $28: 149 hospitals$20$28 – $39: 133 hospitals$39 – $53: 190 hospitals$39$53 – $74: 204 hospitals$74 – $102: 154 hospitals$74$102 – $140: 142 hospitals$140 – $193: 74 hospitals$140$193 – $266: 60 hospitals$193median $51price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,339 of 1,486 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$11$15133
$15$20100
$20$28149
$28$39133
$39$53190
$53$74204
$74$102154
$102$140142
$140$19374
$193$26660

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $51.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $34 across 32 hospitalsWA$34Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $53 across 12 hospitalsND$53Minnesota: median $67 across 37 hospitalsMN$67Illinois: median $83 across 56 hospitalsIL$83Wisconsin: median $65 across 40 hospitalsWI$65Michigan: median $16 across 59 hospitalsMI$16New York: median $31 across 71 hospitalsNY$31Massachusetts: median $71 across 21 hospitalsMA$71Oregon: median $42 across 12 hospitalsOR$42Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $64 across 41 hospitalsIA$64Indiana: median $26 across 51 hospitalsIN$26Ohio: median $63 across 98 hospitalsOH$63Pennsylvania: median $55 across 70 hospitalsPA$55New Jersey: median $12 across 42 hospitalsNJ$12Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $30 across 79 hospitalsCA$30Utah: median $212 across 29 hospitalsUT$212Colorado: median $57 across 27 hospitalsCO$57Nebraska: median $158 across 15 hospitalsNE$158Missouri: median $46 across 39 hospitalsMO$46Kentucky: median $67 across 50 hospitalsKY$67West Virginia: median $28 across 19 hospitalsWV$28Virginia: median $36 across 35 hospitalsVA$36Maryland: median $52 across 16 hospitalsMD$52Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $58 across 17 hospitalsAZ$58New Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $72 across 16 hospitalsKS$72Arkansas: median $41 across 14 hospitalsAR$41Tennessee: median $22 across 45 hospitalsTN$22North Carolina: median $51 across 32 hospitalsNC$51South Carolina: median $66 across 20 hospitalsSC$66Oklahoma: median $24 across 24 hospitalsOK$24Louisiana: median $25 across 18 hospitalsLA$25Mississippi: median $58 across 24 hospitalsMS$58Alabama: median $68 across 17 hospitalsAL$68Georgia: median $53 across 33 hospitalsGA$53Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $46 across 120 hospitalsTX$46Florida: median $15 across 69 hospitalsFL$15
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $51. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT29$212+318%$212 – $249
Nebraska NE15$158+212%$91 – $215
Illinois IL56$83+64%$35 – $110
Kansas KS16$72+42%$52 – $178
Massachusetts MA21$71+40%$35 – $109
Alabama AL17$68+33%$18 – $129
Minnesota MN37$67+33%$50 – $114
Kentucky KY50$67+33%$34 – $172
South Carolina SC20$66+29%$66 – $91
Wisconsin WI40$65+28%$56 – $116
Iowa IA41$64+27%$34 – $135
Ohio OH98$63+24%$46 – $111
Mississippi MS24$58+15%$16 – $146
Arizona AZ17$58+14%$25 – $125
Colorado CO27$57+12%$29 – $157
Pennsylvania PA70$55+9%$13 – $151
Georgia GA33$53+5%$53 – $129
North Dakota ND12$53+4%$37 – $73
Maryland MD16$52+3%$45 – $78
North Carolina NC32$51+1%$22 – $68
Texas TX120$46−9%$28 – $207
Missouri MO39$46−10%$26 – $97
Oregon OR12$42−17%$34 – $78
Arkansas AR14$41−19%$26 – $86
Virginia VA35$36−28%$26 – $102
Washington WA32$34−32%$23 – $64
New York NY71$31−40%$14 – $83
California CA79$30−41%$12 – $65
West Virginia WV19$28−45%$16 – $160
Indiana IN51$26−48%$16 – $104
Louisiana LA18$25−51%$11 – $42
Oklahoma OK24$24−54%$20 – $45
Tennessee TN45$22−57%$10 – $81
Michigan MI59$16−69%$12 – $29
Florida FL69$15−70%$10 – $128
New Jersey NJ42$12−76%$11 – $55
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $51.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,133$49$17 – $106
Children’s42$83$30 – $109
Critical access306$65$28 – $132
Ownership
For-profit198$69$17 – $320
Government167$48$18 – $91
Non-profit1,116$50$21 – $108
System affiliation
Part of a system1,301$51$20 – $120
Independent185$51$21 – $90

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$92
Median cash price$51
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

1,041 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $53 and the average of the middle 60% is $57; most fall between $23 and $117.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,041 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$28$53$97$160

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $160).

Of the 1,166 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,041 gave a usable cash price; 70 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 55 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,486 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (38%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,631 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,486
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here85
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded59
Hospitals that filed this code1,631

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 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 LIPOPRO BLD ELECTROPHORETIC.

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 blood test by electrophoresis (CPT 83700) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83700-lipoprotein-blood-test-by-electrophoresis