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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Blood test for 5'-nucleotidase enzyme

CPT 83915the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of the enzyme 5'-nucleotidase in a blood sample, an enzyme associated with the liver and bile ducts.

Hospitals typically charge $55 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,281 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $59. Most fall between $22 and $117 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,281
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 2,281 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$55$98$169

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $169).

How the prices are spread

$11 – $15: 164 hospitals$11$15 – $21: 162 hospitals$21 – $29: 162 hospitals$21$29 – $40: 258 hospitals$40 – $55: 279 hospitals$40$55 – $76: 285 hospitals$76 – $104: 332 hospitals$76$104 – $144: 227 hospitals$144 – $198: 130 hospitals$144$198 – $273: 59 hospitals$198median $55price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,058 of 2,281 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$11$15164
$15$21162
$21$29162
$29$40258
$40$55279
$55$76285
$76$104332
$104$144227
$144$198130
$198$27359

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $55.

Alaska: median $86 across 13 hospitalsAK$86Maine: median $45 across 24 hospitalsME$45Vermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $56 across 21 hospitalsNH$56Washington: median $63 across 55 hospitalsWA$63Idaho: median $69 across 19 hospitalsID$69Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $47 across 20 hospitalsND$47Minnesota: median $78 across 52 hospitalsMN$78Illinois: median $82 across 106 hospitalsIL$82Wisconsin: median $69 across 86 hospitalsWI$69Michigan: median $15 across 62 hospitalsMI$15New York: median $34 across 88 hospitalsNY$34Massachusetts: median $65 across 45 hospitalsMA$65Oregon: median $40 across 38 hospitalsOR$40Nevada: median $54 across 16 hospitalsNV$54Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $64 across 42 hospitalsIA$64Indiana: median $79 across 79 hospitalsIN$79Ohio: median $50 across 114 hospitalsOH$50Pennsylvania: median $56 across 103 hospitalsPA$56New Jersey: median $13 across 54 hospitalsNJ$13Connecticut: median $48 across 17 hospitalsCT$48Rhode Island: median $53 across 10 hospitalsRI$53California: median $30 across 82 hospitalsCA$30Utah: median $66 across 36 hospitalsUT$66Colorado: median $64 across 43 hospitalsCO$64Nebraska: median $60 across 22 hospitalsNE$60Missouri: median $64 across 57 hospitalsMO$64Kentucky: median $72 across 49 hospitalsKY$72West Virginia: median $47 across 33 hospitalsWV$47Virginia: median $61 across 56 hospitalsVA$61Maryland: median $41 across 29 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $56 across 28 hospitalsAZ$56New Mexico: median $78 across 14 hospitalsNM$78Kansas: median $69 across 36 hospitalsKS$69Arkansas: median $37 across 21 hospitalsAR$37Tennessee: median $54 across 56 hospitalsTN$54North Carolina: median $83 across 69 hospitalsNC$83South Carolina: median $93 across 42 hospitalsSC$93Oklahoma: median $50 across 45 hospitalsOK$50Louisiana: median $30 across 25 hospitalsLA$30Mississippi: median $26 across 32 hospitalsMS$26Alabama: median $50 across 30 hospitalsAL$50Georgia: median $40 across 83 hospitalsGA$40Hawaii: median $60 across 11 hospitalsHI$60Texas: median $55 across 165 hospitalsTX$55Florida: median $23 across 123 hospitalsFL$23
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $55. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC42$93+68%$53 – $117
Alaska AK13$86+56%$20 – $146
North Carolina NC69$83+49%$21 – $95
Illinois IL106$82+48%$45 – $142
Indiana IN79$79+42%$20 – $152
Minnesota MN52$78+41%$37 – $121
New Mexico NM14$78+41%$36 – $130
Kentucky KY49$72+30%$33 – $115
Wisconsin WI86$69+25%$38 – $125
Idaho ID19$69+25%$18 – $98
Kansas KS36$69+25%$51 – $129
Utah UT36$66+20%$58 – $78
Massachusetts MA45$65+18%$29 – $111
Iowa IA42$64+16%$40 – $89
Missouri MO57$64+16%$35 – $184
Colorado CO43$64+16%$29 – $163
Washington WA55$63+14%$39 – $98
Virginia VA56$61+10%$19 – $121
Nebraska NE22$60+8%$28 – $83
Hawaii HI11$60+8%$29 – $81
Pennsylvania PA103$56+2%$13 – $162
New Hampshire NH21$56+1%$29 – $146
Arizona AZ28$560%$13 – $80
Texas TX165$55−1%$29 – $136
Tennessee TN56$54−2%$19 – $87
Nevada NV16$54−2%$23 – $81
Rhode Island RI10$53−4%$18 – $89
Ohio OH114$50−9%$33 – $157
Oklahoma OK45$50−10%$20 – $88
Alabama AL30$50−10%$20 – $94
Connecticut CT17$48−13%$40 – $93
West Virginia WV33$47−15%$8 – $107
North Dakota ND20$47−15%$19 – $80
Maine ME24$45−19%$31 – $127
Maryland MD29$41−26%$31 – $49
Oregon OR38$40−27%$23 – $79
Georgia GA83$40−27%$28 – $132
Arkansas AR21$37−32%$31 – $56
New York NY88$34−39%$15 – $111
California CA82$30−45%$10 – $88
Louisiana LA25$30−46%$20 – $88
Mississippi MS32$26−53%$20 – $45
Florida FL123$23−58%$9 – $82
Michigan MI62$15−72%$11 – $66
New Jersey NJ54$13−77%$11 – $77
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not 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 $55.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,763$51$20 – $113
Children’s40$56$23 – $145
Critical access470$66$33 – $125
Ownership
For-profit319$73$18 – $208
Government325$59$24 – $101
Non-profit1,629$54$21 – $111
System affiliation
Part of a system1,916$55$21 – $119
Independent365$56$27 – $114

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$99
Median cash price$55
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

1,618 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $57 and the average of the middle 60% is $60; most fall between $25 and $113.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,618 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
$17$30$57$93$154

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $154).

Of the 1,793 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,618 gave a usable cash price; 94 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 80 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,281 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (58%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,498 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,281
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here125
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 — excluded91
Hospitals that filed this code2,498

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 5-Nucledtidase.

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, “Blood test for 5'-nucleotidase enzyme (CPT 83915) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83915-blood-test-for-5-nucleotidase-enzyme