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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Mercury level blood test

CPT 83825the billing code this page is about

A test that measures the amount of mercury in a blood or other specimen.

Hospitals typically charge $58 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,065 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $62. Most fall between $22 and $122 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,065
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 3,065 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
$15$28$58$107$195

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $195).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $13: 115 hospitals$10$13 – $19: 251 hospitals$19 – $26: 192 hospitals$19$26 – $37: 346 hospitals$37 – $51: 329 hospitals$37$51 – $72: 410 hospitals$72 – $100: 428 hospitals$72$100 – $140: 329 hospitals$140 – $196: 206 hospitals$140$196 – $273: 153 hospitals$196median $58price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,759 of 3,065 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$13115
$13$19251
$19$26192
$26$37346
$37$51329
$51$72410
$72$100428
$100$140329
$140$196206
$196$273153

By state

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

Alaska: median $78 across 18 hospitalsAK$78Maine: median $68 across 28 hospitalsME$68Vermont: median $66 across 14 hospitalsVT$66New Hampshire: median $79 across 25 hospitalsNH$79Washington: median $79 across 71 hospitalsWA$79Idaho: median $60 across 21 hospitalsID$60Montana: median $70 across 30 hospitalsMT$70North Dakota: median $75 across 28 hospitalsND$75Minnesota: median $46 across 93 hospitalsMN$46Illinois: median $73 across 131 hospitalsIL$73Wisconsin: median $83 across 100 hospitalsWI$83Michigan: median $10 across 69 hospitalsMI$10New York: median $39 across 104 hospitalsNY$39Massachusetts: median $101 across 51 hospitalsMA$101Oregon: median $35 across 43 hospitalsOR$35Nevada: median $80 across 19 hospitalsNV$80Wyoming: median $60 across 16 hospitalsWY$60South Dakota: median $67 across 29 hospitalsSD$67Iowa: median $65 across 77 hospitalsIA$65Indiana: median $59 across 95 hospitalsIN$59Ohio: median $56 across 136 hospitalsOH$56Pennsylvania: median $71 across 119 hospitalsPA$71New Jersey: median $19 across 57 hospitalsNJ$19Connecticut: median $67 across 17 hospitalsCT$67Rhode Island: median $68 across 10 hospitalsRI$68California: median $21 across 111 hospitalsCA$21Utah: median $52 across 40 hospitalsUT$52Colorado: median $70 across 61 hospitalsCO$70Nebraska: median $110 across 64 hospitalsNE$110Missouri: median $68 across 72 hospitalsMO$68Kentucky: median $74 across 66 hospitalsKY$74West Virginia: median $54 across 38 hospitalsWV$54Virginia: median $90 across 73 hospitalsVA$90Maryland: median $69 across 39 hospitalsMD$69Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $52 across 39 hospitalsAZ$52New Mexico: median $92 across 25 hospitalsNM$92Kansas: median $77 across 76 hospitalsKS$77Arkansas: median $30 across 38 hospitalsAR$30Tennessee: median $47 across 79 hospitalsTN$47North Carolina: median $37 across 88 hospitalsNC$37South Carolina: median $103 across 51 hospitalsSC$103Oklahoma: median $66 across 70 hospitalsOK$66Louisiana: median $36 across 48 hospitalsLA$36Mississippi: median $28 across 54 hospitalsMS$28Alabama: median $54 across 44 hospitalsAL$54Georgia: median $72 across 100 hospitalsGA$72Hawaii: median $23 across 16 hospitalsHI$23Texas: median $53 across 221 hospitalsTX$53Florida: median $19 across 144 hospitalsFL$19
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
Nebraska NE64$110+90%$39 – $189
South Carolina SC51$103+78%$43 – $127
Massachusetts MA51$101+75%$47 – $146
New Mexico NM25$92+58%$42 – $146
Virginia VA73$90+55%$29 – $209
Wisconsin WI100$83+43%$52 – $184
Nevada NV19$80+38%$24 – $174
New Hampshire NH25$79+37%$16 – $157
Washington WA71$79+36%$31 – $122
Alaska AK18$78+34%$21 – $162
Kansas KS76$77+32%$38 – $157
North Dakota ND28$75+30%$29 – $115
Kentucky KY66$74+27%$40 – $163
Illinois IL131$73+27%$34 – $166
Georgia GA100$72+24%$33 – $165
Pennsylvania PA119$71+22%$24 – $209
Montana MT30$70+21%$36 – $104
Colorado CO61$70+21%$31 – $172
Maryland MD39$69+19%$50 – $81
Missouri MO72$68+18%$41 – $109
Maine ME28$68+17%$28 – $132
Rhode Island RI10$68+17%$38 – $130
South Dakota SD29$67+16%$34 – $162
Connecticut CT17$67+15%$29 – $87
Vermont VT14$66+14%$35 – $153
Oklahoma OK70$66+14%$36 – $99
Iowa IA77$65+12%$32 – $107
Idaho ID21$60+4%$13 – $120
Wyoming WY16$60+4%$30 – $107
Indiana IN95$59+2%$27 – $100
Ohio OH136$56−4%$38 – $107
Alabama AL44$54−7%$18 – $137
West Virginia WV38$54−7%$10 – $90
Texas TX221$53−9%$18 – $195
Arizona AZ39$52−10%$27 – $128
Utah UT40$52−11%$46 – $114
Tennessee TN79$47−18%$21 – $119
Minnesota MN93$46−20%$22 – $130
New York NY104$39−33%$16 – $106
North Carolina NC88$37−37%$22 – $137
Louisiana LA48$36−37%$26 – $59
Oregon OR43$35−40%$16 – $82
Arkansas AR38$30−48%$28 – $81
Mississippi MS54$28−51%$15 – $76
Hawaii HI16$23−61%$22 – $145
California CA111$21−64%$9 – $48
Florida FL144$19−67%$8 – $60
New Jersey NJ57$19−68%$18 – $55
Michigan MI69$10−82%$7 – $36
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 care2,167$53$19 – $118
Children’s48$45$20 – $130
Critical access841$72$34 – $134
Ownership
For-profit431$71$24 – $232
Government559$60$24 – $122
Non-profit2,066$55$22 – $114
System affiliation
Part of a system2,494$57$21 – $126
Independent571$62$28 – $117

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$98
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

2,077 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $58 and the average of the middle 60% is $61; most fall between $24 and $114.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,077 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
$15$28$58$103$181

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $181).

Of the 2,295 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,077 gave a usable cash price; 116 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

3,065 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (77%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,342 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,065
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here160
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 — excluded116
Hospitals that filed this code3,342

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 Mercury 24 Hr Urine.

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, “Mercury level blood test (CPT 83825) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83825-mercury-level-blood-test