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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Test for phencyclidine (PCP) in blood or urine

CPT 83992the billing code this page is about

Measures phencyclidine, also known as PCP, in a blood, plasma, or urine sample; one unit is one specimen tested.

Hospitals typically charge $71 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,940 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $76. Most fall between $26 and $155 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,940
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 1,940 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$32$71$132$227

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $227).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $14: 92 hospitals$10$14 – $20: 63 hospitals$20 – $28: 184 hospitals$20$28 – $40: 165 hospitals$40 – $57: 208 hospitals$40$57 – $81: 273 hospitals$81 – $116: 283 hospitals$81$116 – $166: 232 hospitals$166 – $237: 178 hospitals$166$237 – $339: 69 hospitals$237median $71price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,747 of 1,940 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$1492
$14$2063
$20$28184
$28$40165
$40$57208
$57$81273
$81$116283
$116$166232
$166$237178
$237$33969

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $71.

Alaska: median $104 across 13 hospitalsAK$104Maine: median $71 across 26 hospitalsME$71Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $108 across 13 hospitalsNH$108Washington: median $83 across 42 hospitalsWA$83Idaho: median $86 across 13 hospitalsID$86Montana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $71 across 19 hospitalsND$71Minnesota: median $61 across 42 hospitalsMN$61Illinois: median $105 across 93 hospitalsIL$105Wisconsin: median $82 across 79 hospitalsWI$82Michigan: median $53 across 61 hospitalsMI$53New York: median $88 across 71 hospitalsNY$88Massachusetts: median $102 across 30 hospitalsMA$102Oregon: median $78 across 32 hospitalsOR$78Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: median $37 across 10 hospitalsWY$37South Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $44 across 41 hospitalsIA$44Indiana: median $94 across 64 hospitalsIN$94Ohio: median $60 across 108 hospitalsOH$60Pennsylvania: median $178 across 69 hospitalsPA$178New Jersey: median $82 across 29 hospitalsNJ$82Connecticut: median $128 across 11 hospitalsCT$128Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $57 across 90 hospitalsCA$57Utah: median $375 across 30 hospitalsUT$375Colorado: median $101 across 47 hospitalsCO$101Nebraska: median $117 across 43 hospitalsNE$117Missouri: median $62 across 55 hospitalsMO$62Kentucky: median $36 across 36 hospitalsKY$36West Virginia: median $30 across 31 hospitalsWV$30Virginia: median $92 across 34 hospitalsVA$92Maryland: median $36 across 33 hospitalsMD$36Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $122 across 19 hospitalsAZ$122New Mexico: median $165 across 12 hospitalsNM$165Kansas: median $76 across 35 hospitalsKS$76Arkansas: median $53 across 17 hospitalsAR$53Tennessee: median $62 across 52 hospitalsTN$62North Carolina: median $61 across 62 hospitalsNC$61South Carolina: median $71 across 35 hospitalsSC$71Oklahoma: median $56 across 24 hospitalsOK$56Louisiana: median $40 across 41 hospitalsLA$40Mississippi: median $32 across 33 hospitalsMS$32Alabama: median $27 across 20 hospitalsAL$27Georgia: median $47 across 71 hospitalsGA$47Hawaii: median $143 across 12 hospitalsHI$143Texas: median $107 across 131 hospitalsTX$107Florida: median $38 across 74 hospitalsFL$38
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $71. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT30$375+431%$152 – $441
Pennsylvania PA69$178+152%$53 – $264
New Mexico NM12$165+134%$57 – $245
Hawaii HI12$143+102%$65 – $205
Connecticut CT11$128+81%$60 – $158
Arizona AZ19$122+72%$36 – $225
Nebraska NE43$117+66%$34 – $200
New Hampshire NH13$108+52%$50 – $228
Texas TX131$107+51%$41 – $212
Illinois IL93$105+49%$25 – $213
Alaska AK13$104+47%$85 – $120
Massachusetts MA30$102+44%$58 – $172
Colorado CO47$101+42%$72 – $144
Indiana IN64$94+34%$37 – $174
Virginia VA34$92+30%$36 – $160
New York NY71$88+25%$32 – $179
Idaho ID13$86+22%$40 – $87
Washington WA42$83+17%$29 – $120
New Jersey NJ29$82+17%$22 – $191
Wisconsin WI79$82+16%$57 – $104
Oregon OR32$78+10%$48 – $89
Kansas KS35$76+7%$45 – $148
North Dakota ND19$71+1%$15 – $96
South Carolina SC35$710%$49 – $172
Maine ME26$710%$31 – $128
Missouri MO55$62−12%$22 – $114
Tennessee TN52$62−12%$18 – $132
Minnesota MN42$61−13%$22 – $115
North Carolina NC62$61−13%$25 – $101
Ohio OH108$60−15%$21 – $105
California CA90$57−19%$16 – $147
Oklahoma OK24$56−21%$20 – $114
Arkansas AR17$53−25%$20 – $75
Michigan MI61$53−25%$11 – $80
Georgia GA71$47−33%$35 – $216
Iowa IA41$44−38%$32 – $106
Louisiana LA41$40−44%$22 – $97
Florida FL74$38−47%$11 – $162
Wyoming WY10$37−47%$34 – $179
Kentucky KY36$36−49%$16 – $52
Maryland MD33$36−49%$7 – $47
Mississippi MS33$32−54%$25 – $77
West Virginia WV31$30−58%$5 – $123
Alabama AL20$27−61%$10 – $139
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not 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 $71.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,405$70$26 – $160
Children’s36$65$28 – $130
Critical access492$72$26 – $145
Ownership
For-profit240$83$30 – $212
Government313$62$25 – $127
Non-profit1,380$72$26 – $151
System affiliation
Part of a system1,619$72$26 – $162
Independent321$59$22 – $130

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$120
Median cash price$71
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

1,369 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $72 and the average of the middle 60% is $79; most fall between $30 and $158.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,369 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$36$72$137$230

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $230).

Of the 1,535 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,369 gave a usable cash price; 96 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 70 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,940 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 2,176 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,940
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here127
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 — excluded108
Hospitals that filed this code2,176

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 Phencyclidines, Conf 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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Test for phencyclidine (PCP) in blood or urine (CPT 83992) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83992-test-for-phencyclidine-pcp-in-blood-or-urine