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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

HDL (good) cholesterol blood test

CPT 83718the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $47 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,075 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $50. Most fall between $23 and $96 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,075
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 3,075 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$27$47$79$154

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $154).

How the prices are spread

$9 – $13: 138 hospitals$9$13 – $18: 162 hospitals$18 – $25: 250 hospitals$18$25 – $35: 370 hospitals$35 – $48: 496 hospitals$35$48 – $66: 510 hospitals$66 – $92: 351 hospitals$66$92 – $127: 256 hospitals$127 – $176: 139 hospitals$127$176 – $244: 112 hospitals$176median $47price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,784 of 3,075 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$9$13138
$13$18162
$18$25250
$25$35370
$35$48496
$48$66510
$66$92351
$92$127256
$127$176139
$176$244112

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $47.

Alaska: median $94 across 14 hospitalsAK$94Maine: median $49 across 26 hospitalsME$49Vermont: median $65 across 14 hospitalsVT$65New Hampshire: median $46 across 24 hospitalsNH$46Washington: median $46 across 71 hospitalsWA$46Idaho: median $36 across 22 hospitalsID$36Montana: median $51 across 32 hospitalsMT$51North Dakota: median $51 across 28 hospitalsND$51Minnesota: median $37 across 92 hospitalsMN$37Illinois: median $70 across 132 hospitalsIL$70Wisconsin: median $59 across 99 hospitalsWI$59Michigan: median $36 across 93 hospitalsMI$36New York: median $30 across 103 hospitalsNY$30Massachusetts: median $61 across 50 hospitalsMA$61Oregon: median $42 across 45 hospitalsOR$42Nevada: median $54 across 18 hospitalsNV$54Wyoming: median $43 across 16 hospitalsWY$43South Dakota: median $56 across 20 hospitalsSD$56Iowa: median $54 across 79 hospitalsIA$54Indiana: median $41 across 96 hospitalsIN$41Ohio: median $49 across 139 hospitalsOH$49Pennsylvania: median $36 across 121 hospitalsPA$36New Jersey: median $9 across 56 hospitalsNJ$9Connecticut: median $36 across 19 hospitalsCT$36Rhode Island: median $54 across 10 hospitalsRI$54California: median $63 across 151 hospitalsCA$63Utah: median $47 across 39 hospitalsUT$47Colorado: median $68 across 66 hospitalsCO$68Nebraska: median $56 across 60 hospitalsNE$56Missouri: median $44 across 74 hospitalsMO$44Kentucky: median $64 across 64 hospitalsKY$64West Virginia: median $35 across 37 hospitalsWV$35Virginia: median $57 across 65 hospitalsVA$57Maryland: median $41 across 38 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $48 across 41 hospitalsAZ$48New Mexico: median $48 across 17 hospitalsNM$48Kansas: median $40 across 79 hospitalsKS$40Arkansas: median $42 across 29 hospitalsAR$42Tennessee: median $26 across 73 hospitalsTN$26North Carolina: median $51 across 81 hospitalsNC$51South Carolina: median $72 across 53 hospitalsSC$72Oklahoma: median $39 across 67 hospitalsOK$39Louisiana: median $29 across 48 hospitalsLA$29Mississippi: median $34 across 50 hospitalsMS$34Alabama: median $34 across 36 hospitalsAL$34Georgia: median $45 across 96 hospitalsGA$45Hawaii: median $71 across 18 hospitalsHI$71Texas: median $61 across 233 hospitalsTX$61Florida: median $88 across 134 hospitalsFL$88
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $47. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK14$94+97%$44 – $101
Florida FL134$88+85%$25 – $656
South Carolina SC53$72+51%$40 – $72
Hawaii HI18$71+50%$64 – $116
Illinois IL132$70+47%$34 – $120
Colorado CO66$68+43%$42 – $170
Vermont VT14$65+37%$50 – $80
Kentucky KY64$64+35%$27 – $101
California CA151$63+34%$21 – $136
Texas TX233$61+30%$20 – $221
Massachusetts MA50$61+29%$29 – $102
Wisconsin WI99$59+23%$40 – $79
Virginia VA65$57+19%$34 – $72
Nebraska NE60$56+19%$27 – $78
South Dakota SD20$56+18%$25 – $134
Rhode Island RI10$54+14%$19 – $83
Nevada NV18$54+13%$31 – $145
Iowa IA79$54+13%$34 – $73
North Carolina NC81$51+8%$15 – $99
North Dakota ND28$51+8%$30 – $64
Montana MT32$51+7%$42 – $79
Maine ME26$49+4%$29 – $93
Ohio OH139$49+3%$29 – $90
Arizona AZ41$48+2%$12 – $228
New Mexico NM17$480%$28 – $103
Utah UT39$470%$40 – $109
Washington WA71$46−3%$33 – $65
New Hampshire NH24$46−3%$32 – $98
Georgia GA96$45−5%$22 – $158
Missouri MO74$44−7%$24 – $94
Wyoming WY16$43−9%$40 – $102
Arkansas AR29$42−12%$13 – $66
Oregon OR45$42−12%$26 – $57
Maryland MD38$41−13%$30 – $49
Indiana IN96$41−15%$18 – $91
Kansas KS79$40−16%$20 – $68
Oklahoma OK67$39−19%$23 – $66
Minnesota MN92$37−21%$16 – $55
Idaho ID22$36−24%$26 – $60
Michigan MI93$36−24%$18 – $53
Pennsylvania PA121$36−25%$14 – $96
Connecticut CT19$36−25%$25 – $49
West Virginia WV37$35−26%$21 – $69
Mississippi MS50$34−28%$19 – $66
Alabama AL36$34−29%$17 – $58
New York NY103$30−36%$10 – $95
Louisiana LA48$29−38%$16 – $59
Tennessee TN73$26−45%$14 – $67
New Jersey NJ56$9−80%$9 – $28
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 $47.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,172$45$20 – $103
Children’s64$69$35 – $118
Critical access829$50$27 – $79
Ownership
For-profit423$79$27 – $338
Government551$48$24 – $83
Non-profit2,091$45$21 – $83
System affiliation
Part of a system2,499$48$23 – $98
Independent576$46$24 – $90

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$81
Median cash price$47
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

2,083 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $47 and the average of the middle 60% is $50; most fall between $24 and $94.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,083 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$47$77$134

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($16 vs $134).

Of the 2,306 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,083 gave a usable cash price; 118 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 105 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,075 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (78%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,359 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,075
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here159
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded125
Hospitals that filed this code3,359

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 September 4, 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 Cholesterol Hdl.

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, “HDL (good) cholesterol blood test (CPT 83718) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83718-hdl-good-cholesterol-blood-test