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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Metanephrines test

CPT 83835the billing code this page is about

A test that measures metanephrines, breakdown products of adrenaline-type hormones, in blood or urine.

Hospitals typically charge $88 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,233 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $95. Most fall between $33 and $188 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,233
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 3,233 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
$20$40$88$164$286

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $286).

How the prices are spread

$16 – $22: 225 hospitals$16$22 – $31: 202 hospitals$31 – $43: 284 hospitals$31$43 – $59: 307 hospitals$59 – $82: 341 hospitals$59$82 – $114: 420 hospitals$114 – $158: 419 hospitals$114$158 – $219: 357 hospitals$219 – $304: 234 hospitals$219$304 – $422: 124 hospitals$304median $88price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,913 of 3,233 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$16$22225
$22$31202
$31$43284
$43$59307
$59$82341
$82$114420
$114$158419
$158$219357
$219$304234
$304$422124

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $88.

Alaska: median $148 across 19 hospitalsAK$148Maine: median $101 across 28 hospitalsME$101Vermont: median $90 across 14 hospitalsVT$90New Hampshire: median $88 across 24 hospitalsNH$88Washington: median $116 across 75 hospitalsWA$116Idaho: median $77 across 23 hospitalsID$77Montana: median $112 across 31 hospitalsMT$112North Dakota: median $99 across 32 hospitalsND$99Minnesota: median $81 across 105 hospitalsMN$81Illinois: median $123 across 142 hospitalsIL$123Wisconsin: median $104 across 105 hospitalsWI$104Michigan: median $23 across 75 hospitalsMI$23New York: median $61 across 104 hospitalsNY$61Massachusetts: median $99 across 53 hospitalsMA$99Oregon: median $77 across 46 hospitalsOR$77Nevada: median $120 across 20 hospitalsNV$120Wyoming: median $90 across 16 hospitalsWY$90South Dakota: median $179 across 39 hospitalsSD$179Iowa: median $115 across 87 hospitalsIA$115Indiana: median $65 across 97 hospitalsIN$65Ohio: median $76 across 137 hospitalsOH$76Pennsylvania: median $86 across 120 hospitalsPA$86New Jersey: median $19 across 57 hospitalsNJ$19Connecticut: median $85 across 23 hospitalsCT$85Rhode Island: median $87 across 10 hospitalsRI$87California: median $19 across 116 hospitalsCA$19Utah: median $108 across 41 hospitalsUT$108Colorado: median $146 across 66 hospitalsCO$146Nebraska: median $160 across 78 hospitalsNE$160Missouri: median $108 across 70 hospitalsMO$108Kentucky: median $147 across 69 hospitalsKY$147West Virginia: median $55 across 42 hospitalsWV$55Virginia: median $129 across 73 hospitalsVA$129Maryland: median $79 across 40 hospitalsMD$79Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $127 across 42 hospitalsAZ$127New Mexico: median $127 across 25 hospitalsNM$127Kansas: median $115 across 86 hospitalsKS$115Arkansas: median $50 across 37 hospitalsAR$50Tennessee: median $66 across 81 hospitalsTN$66North Carolina: median $71 across 88 hospitalsNC$71South Carolina: median $185 across 52 hospitalsSC$185Oklahoma: median $102 across 73 hospitalsOK$102Louisiana: median $62 across 51 hospitalsLA$62Mississippi: median $56 across 56 hospitalsMS$56Alabama: median $83 across 44 hospitalsAL$83Georgia: median $127 across 109 hospitalsGA$127Hawaii: median $107 across 17 hospitalsHI$107Texas: median $110 across 235 hospitalsTX$110Florida: median $23 across 153 hospitalsFL$23
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $88. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC52$185+110%$80 – $253
South Dakota SD39$179+103%$46 – $320
Nebraska NE78$160+81%$55 – $291
Alaska AK19$148+67%$59 – $293
Kentucky KY69$147+66%$57 – $236
Colorado CO66$146+64%$80 – $203
Virginia VA73$129+46%$30 – $257
Georgia GA109$127+44%$55 – $244
Arizona AZ42$127+44%$37 – $270
New Mexico NM25$127+43%$66 – $234
Illinois IL142$123+39%$55 – $270
Nevada NV20$120+36%$32 – $173
Washington WA75$116+31%$62 – $175
Iowa IA87$115+30%$55 – $174
Kansas KS86$115+30%$70 – $210
Montana MT31$112+27%$60 – $195
Texas TX235$110+24%$37 – $289
Utah UT41$108+23%$92 – $203
Missouri MO70$108+22%$72 – $177
Hawaii HI17$107+20%$44 – $187
Wisconsin WI105$104+17%$72 – $159
Oklahoma OK73$102+16%$35 – $161
Maine ME28$101+14%$34 – $305
Massachusetts MA53$99+12%$55 – $169
North Dakota ND32$99+12%$32 – $139
Vermont VT14$90+2%$71 – $300
Wyoming WY16$90+2%$44 – $150
New Hampshire NH24$880%$40 – $271
Rhode Island RI10$87−2%$49 – $149
Pennsylvania PA120$86−2%$25 – $269
Connecticut CT23$85−4%$54 – $141
Alabama AL44$83−6%$38 – $252
Minnesota MN105$81−9%$35 – $183
Maryland MD40$79−10%$60 – $98
Idaho ID23$77−13%$29 – $198
Oregon OR46$77−13%$35 – $119
Ohio OH137$76−14%$42 – $157
North Carolina NC88$71−20%$28 – $175
Tennessee TN81$66−25%$30 – $237
Indiana IN97$65−26%$37 – $159
Louisiana LA51$62−29%$39 – $138
New York NY104$61−31%$20 – $177
Mississippi MS56$56−37%$32 – $105
West Virginia WV42$55−37%$13 – $150
Arkansas AR37$50−43%$26 – $79
Florida FL153$23−74%$16 – $61
Michigan MI75$23−74%$14 – $57
New Jersey NJ57$19−78%$19 – $57
California CA116$19−78%$11 – $31
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 $88.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,229$78$28 – $183
Children’s52$90$34 – $154
Critical access942$112$52 – $199
Ownership
For-profit448$116$30 – $399
Government618$102$40 – $191
Non-profit2,157$83$31 – $169
System affiliation
Part of a system2,619$87$32 – $192
Independent614$97$41 – $186

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$148
Median cash price$88
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

2,173 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $88 and the average of the middle 60% is $93; most fall between $36 and $177.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,173 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
$22$42$88$158$261

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $261).

Of the 2,398 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,173 gave a usable cash price; 114 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 111 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,233 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (82%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,527 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,233
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here161
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 — excluded132
Hospitals that filed this code3,527

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 Metanephrines Plasm.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Metanephrines test (CPT 83835) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83835-metanephrines-test