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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Urine organic acids test, full quantitative panel

CPT 83918the billing code this page is about

Measures the amounts of multiple organic acids in a sample, usually urine, as a screen for inherited metabolic disorders.

Hospitals typically charge $143 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,935 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $153. Most fall between $53 and $295 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,935
States
49
Filings dated
Dec 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 1,935 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
$30$68$143$260$465

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($30 vs $465).

How the prices are spread

$24 – $34: 126 hospitals$24$34 – $48: 127 hospitals$48 – $67: 133 hospitals$48$67 – $95: 188 hospitals$95 – $134: 261 hospitals$95$134 – $188: 244 hospitals$188 – $265: 290 hospitals$188$265 – $374: 193 hospitals$374 – $527: 108 hospitals$374$527 – $744: 73 hospitals$527median $143price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,743 of 1,935 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$24$34126
$34$48127
$48$67133
$67$95188
$95$134261
$134$188244
$188$265290
$265$374193
$374$527108
$527$74473

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $143.

Alaska: median $253 across 11 hospitalsAK$253Maine: median $102 across 12 hospitalsME$102Vermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $103 across 41 hospitalsWA$103Idaho: median $285 across 11 hospitalsID$285Montana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $45 across 15 hospitalsND$45Minnesota: median $224 across 30 hospitalsMN$224Illinois: median $171 across 91 hospitalsIL$171Wisconsin: median $182 across 67 hospitalsWI$182Michigan: median $85 across 45 hospitalsMI$85New York: median $69 across 78 hospitalsNY$69Massachusetts: median $164 across 31 hospitalsMA$164Oregon: median $173 across 28 hospitalsOR$173Nevada: median $71 across 14 hospitalsNV$71Wyoming: median $101 across 10 hospitalsWY$101South Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $79 across 29 hospitalsIA$79Indiana: median $88 across 74 hospitalsIN$88Ohio: median $115 across 100 hospitalsOH$115Pennsylvania: median $122 across 93 hospitalsPA$122New Jersey: median $27 across 49 hospitalsNJ$27Connecticut: median $94 across 12 hospitalsCT$94Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $91 across 82 hospitalsCA$91Utah: median $386 across 37 hospitalsUT$386Colorado: median $247 across 49 hospitalsCO$247Nebraska: median $309 across 33 hospitalsNE$309Missouri: median $279 across 51 hospitalsMO$279Kentucky: median $226 across 40 hospitalsKY$226West Virginia: median $207 across 20 hospitalsWV$207Virginia: median $136 across 43 hospitalsVA$136Maryland: median $312 across 26 hospitalsMD$312Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $205 across 27 hospitalsAZ$205New Mexico: median $94 across 11 hospitalsNM$94Kansas: median $183 across 29 hospitalsKS$183Arkansas: median $52 across 23 hospitalsAR$52Tennessee: median $104 across 48 hospitalsTN$104North Carolina: median $166 across 69 hospitalsNC$166South Carolina: median $239 across 15 hospitalsSC$239Oklahoma: median $107 across 53 hospitalsOK$107Louisiana: median $91 across 39 hospitalsLA$91Mississippi: median $72 across 30 hospitalsMS$72Alabama: median $148 across 16 hospitalsAL$148Georgia: median $163 across 75 hospitalsGA$163Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $231 across 165 hospitalsTX$231Florida: median $152 across 72 hospitalsFL$152
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $143. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT37$386+170%$282 – $454
Maryland MD26$312+119%$223 – $391
Nebraska NE33$309+116%$150 – $363
Idaho ID11$285+100%$209 – $386
Missouri MO51$279+95%$119 – $383
Alaska AK11$253+77%$193 – $448
Colorado CO49$247+73%$94 – $317
South Carolina SC15$239+68%$137 – $666
Texas TX165$231+62%$100 – $476
Kentucky KY40$226+58%$71 – $323
Minnesota MN30$224+57%$102 – $239
West Virginia WV20$207+45%$84 – $207
Arizona AZ27$205+44%$37 – $270
Kansas KS29$183+28%$69 – $1,166
Wisconsin WI67$182+27%$111 – $277
Oregon OR28$173+21%$118 – $224
Illinois IL91$171+20%$75 – $365
North Carolina NC69$166+16%$53 – $319
Massachusetts MA31$164+15%$53 – $284
Georgia GA75$163+14%$111 – $351
Florida FL72$152+6%$65 – $215
Alabama AL16$148+3%$38 – $245
Virginia VA43$136−5%$44 – $207
Pennsylvania PA93$122−15%$27 – $372
Ohio OH100$115−20%$74 – $272
Oklahoma OK53$107−25%$36 – $186
Tennessee TN48$104−27%$28 – $260
Washington WA41$103−28%$36 – $222
Maine ME12$102−29%$60 – $192
Wyoming WY10$101−29%$62 – $257
New Mexico NM11$94−34%$84 – $300
Connecticut CT12$94−35%$88 – $110
California CA82$91−36%$74 – $165
Louisiana LA39$91−36%$35 – $251
Indiana IN74$88−38%$46 – $212
Michigan MI45$85−40%$33 – $125
Iowa IA29$79−45%$32 – $211
Mississippi MS30$72−50%$35 – $118
Nevada NV14$71−50%$23 – $1,030
New York NY78$69−52%$25 – $184
Arkansas AR23$52−64%$25 – $174
North Dakota ND15$45−69%$40 – $176
New Jersey NJ49$27−81%$24 – $88
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not 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 $143.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,507$137$51 – $295
Children’s49$145$112 – $294
Critical access372$153$54 – $293
Ownership
For-profit267$173$71 – $883
Government280$131$53 – $298
Non-profit1,381$137$51 – $277
System affiliation
Part of a system1,640$137$51 – $295
Independent295$163$62 – $317

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$255
Median cash price$143
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

1,348 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $146 and the average of the middle 60% is $153; most fall between $62 and $277.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,348 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
$37$74$146$247$410

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($37 vs $410).

Of the 1,482 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,348 gave a usable cash price; 73 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 61 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,935 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (49%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,103 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,935
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here101
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded64
Hospitals that filed this code2,103

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

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Part of the Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as ORGANIC ACIDS TOTAL QUANT.

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, “Urine organic acids test, full quantitative panel (CPT 83918) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83918-urine-organic-acids-test-full-quantitative-panel