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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

BNP blood test for heart strain

CPT 83880the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures natriuretic peptide (BNP), a hormone released when the heart muscle is stretched or under strain.

Hospitals typically charge $144 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,412 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $151. Most fall between $70 and $267 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,412
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 3,412 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
$47$82$144$238$368

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($47 vs $368).

How the prices are spread

$39 – $51: 246 hospitals$39$51 – $67: 235 hospitals$67 – $87: 289 hospitals$67$87 – $113: 388 hospitals$113 – $147: 406 hospitals$113$147 – $191: 450 hospitals$191 – $249: 460 hospitals$191$249 – $324: 326 hospitals$324 – $422: 182 hospitals$324$422 – $550: 99 hospitals$422median $144price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,081 of 3,412 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$39$51246
$51$67235
$67$87289
$87$113388
$113$147406
$147$191450
$191$249460
$249$324326
$324$422182
$422$55099

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $144.

Alaska: median $311 across 19 hospitalsAK$311Maine: median $141 across 28 hospitalsME$141Vermont: median $252 across 14 hospitalsVT$252New Hampshire: median $126 across 25 hospitalsNH$126Washington: median $185 across 77 hospitalsWA$185Idaho: median $171 across 25 hospitalsID$171Montana: median $191 across 33 hospitalsMT$191North Dakota: median $243 across 33 hospitalsND$243Minnesota: median $116 across 107 hospitalsMN$116Illinois: median $189 across 140 hospitalsIL$189Wisconsin: median $140 across 109 hospitalsWI$140Michigan: median $70 across 101 hospitalsMI$70New York: median $98 across 119 hospitalsNY$98Massachusetts: median $208 across 53 hospitalsMA$208Oregon: median $164 across 51 hospitalsOR$164Nevada: median $214 across 22 hospitalsNV$214Wyoming: median $158 across 16 hospitalsWY$158South Dakota: median $257 across 41 hospitalsSD$257Iowa: median $155 across 89 hospitalsIA$155Indiana: median $131 across 97 hospitalsIN$131Ohio: median $143 across 142 hospitalsOH$143Pennsylvania: median $136 across 121 hospitalsPA$136New Jersey: median $45 across 57 hospitalsNJ$45Connecticut: median $181 across 23 hospitalsCT$181Rhode Island: median $158 across 10 hospitalsRI$158California: median $217 across 166 hospitalsCA$217Utah: median $201 across 42 hospitalsUT$201Colorado: median $197 across 72 hospitalsCO$197Nebraska: median $236 across 84 hospitalsNE$236Missouri: median $114 across 77 hospitalsMO$114Kentucky: median $169 across 69 hospitalsKY$169West Virginia: median $117 across 42 hospitalsWV$117Virginia: median $194 across 73 hospitalsVA$194Maryland: median $82 across 41 hospitalsMD$82Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $107 across 42 hospitalsAZ$107New Mexico: median $148 across 30 hospitalsNM$148Kansas: median $123 across 92 hospitalsKS$123Arkansas: median $60 across 39 hospitalsAR$60Tennessee: median $80 across 82 hospitalsTN$80North Carolina: median $133 across 91 hospitalsNC$133South Carolina: median $193 across 50 hospitalsSC$193Oklahoma: median $111 across 73 hospitalsOK$111Louisiana: median $84 across 52 hospitalsLA$84Mississippi: median $86 across 55 hospitalsMS$86Alabama: median $108 across 44 hospitalsAL$108Georgia: median $121 across 112 hospitalsGA$121Hawaii: median $197 across 21 hospitalsHI$197Texas: median $176 across 250 hospitalsTX$176Florida: median $188 across 154 hospitalsFL$188
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $144. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK19$311+116%$261 – $593
South Dakota SD41$257+79%$165 – $334
Vermont VT14$252+75%$110 – $366
North Dakota ND33$243+69%$181 – $271
Nebraska NE84$236+64%$126 – $329
California CA166$217+51%$55 – $394
Nevada NV22$214+48%$88 – $439
Massachusetts MA53$208+45%$110 – $292
Utah UT42$201+40%$171 – $244
Hawaii HI21$197+37%$87 – $253
Colorado CO72$197+37%$138 – $347
Virginia VA73$194+35%$105 – $338
South Carolina SC50$193+34%$116 – $238
Montana MT33$191+33%$125 – $296
Illinois IL140$189+31%$110 – $286
Florida FL154$188+31%$58 – $547
Washington WA77$185+29%$121 – $297
Connecticut CT23$181+26%$107 – $294
Texas TX250$176+22%$80 – $368
Idaho ID25$171+19%$92 – $206
Kentucky KY69$169+18%$93 – $230
Oregon OR51$164+14%$92 – $225
Wyoming WY16$158+10%$117 – $203
Rhode Island RI10$158+9%$91 – $284
Iowa IA89$155+8%$86 – $214
New Mexico NM30$148+3%$97 – $202
Ohio OH142$143−1%$86 – $203
Maine ME28$141−2%$67 – $327
Wisconsin WI109$140−3%$96 – $207
Pennsylvania PA121$136−5%$48 – $342
North Carolina NC91$133−7%$74 – $180
Indiana IN97$131−9%$63 – $241
New Hampshire NH25$126−12%$78 – $379
Kansas KS92$123−15%$81 – $207
Georgia GA112$121−16%$69 – $163
West Virginia WV42$117−19%$45 – $196
Minnesota MN107$116−20%$65 – $205
Missouri MO77$114−21%$84 – $198
Oklahoma OK73$111−23%$46 – $156
Alabama AL44$108−25%$50 – $246
Arizona AZ42$107−25%$52 – $406
New York NY119$98−32%$47 – $262
Mississippi MS55$86−40%$28 – $144
Louisiana LA52$84−42%$45 – $147
Maryland MD41$82−43%$63 – $98
Tennessee TN82$80−45%$59 – $164
Michigan MI101$70−51%$47 – $126
Arkansas AR39$60−58%$56 – $115
New Jersey NJ57$45−69%$43 – $115
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 $144.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,335$130$63 – $263
Children’s65$206$70 – $314
Critical access1,002$170$89 – $270
Ownership
For-profit474$179$78 – $537
Government654$148$74 – $246
Non-profit2,274$138$65 – $257
System affiliation
Part of a system2,756$146$68 – $273
Independent656$143$79 – $249

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$250
Median cash price$144
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

2,295 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $147 and the average of the middle 60% is $152; most fall between $74 and $257.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,295 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
$50$86$147$232$342

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($50 vs $342).

Of the 2,527 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,295 gave a usable cash price; 121 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

3,412 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (86%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,713 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,412
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here164
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded133
Hospitals that filed this code3,713

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 Nt-Pro-Bnp.

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, “BNP blood test for heart strain (CPT 83880) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83880-bnp-blood-test-for-heart-strain