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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Sodium blood test

CPT 84295the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of sodium in serum, plasma, or whole blood.

Hospitals typically charge $35 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,381 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $37. Most fall between $15 and $67 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,381
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 3,381 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
$9$18$35$59$104

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $104).

How the prices are spread

$6 – $8: 133 hospitals$6$8 – $11: 165 hospitals$11 – $16: 251 hospitals$11$16 – $22: 353 hospitals$22 – $31: 456 hospitals$22$31 – $44: 555 hospitals$44 – $63: 563 hospitals$44$63 – $89: 304 hospitals$89 – $125: 176 hospitals$89$125 – $177: 101 hospitals$125median $35price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,057 of 3,381 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$8133
$8$11165
$11$16251
$16$22353
$22$31456
$31$44555
$44$63563
$63$89304
$89$125176
$125$177101

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $35.

Alaska: median $57 across 19 hospitalsAK$57Maine: median $26 across 28 hospitalsME$26Vermont: median $45 across 14 hospitalsVT$45New Hampshire: median $29 across 25 hospitalsNH$29Washington: median $39 across 77 hospitalsWA$39Idaho: median $26 across 24 hospitalsID$26Montana: median $45 across 33 hospitalsMT$45North Dakota: median $38 across 33 hospitalsND$38Minnesota: median $38 across 106 hospitalsMN$38Illinois: median $49 across 142 hospitalsIL$49Wisconsin: median $34 across 107 hospitalsWI$34Michigan: median $20 across 97 hospitalsMI$20New York: median $18 across 118 hospitalsNY$18Massachusetts: median $34 across 50 hospitalsMA$34Oregon: median $26 across 51 hospitalsOR$26Nevada: median $43 across 22 hospitalsNV$43Wyoming: median $20 across 16 hospitalsWY$20South Dakota: median $67 across 39 hospitalsSD$67Iowa: median $34 across 89 hospitalsIA$34Indiana: median $25 across 96 hospitalsIN$25Ohio: median $27 across 144 hospitalsOH$27Pennsylvania: median $25 across 122 hospitalsPA$25New Jersey: median $6 across 54 hospitalsNJ$6Connecticut: median $22 across 23 hospitalsCT$22Rhode Island: median $32 across 10 hospitalsRI$32California: median $66 across 163 hospitalsCA$66Utah: median $65 across 42 hospitalsUT$65Colorado: median $47 across 72 hospitalsCO$47Nebraska: median $53 across 81 hospitalsNE$53Missouri: median $31 across 77 hospitalsMO$31Kentucky: median $54 across 69 hospitalsKY$54West Virginia: median $26 across 42 hospitalsWV$26Virginia: median $45 across 73 hospitalsVA$45Maryland: median $5 across 41 hospitalsMD$5Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $41 across 42 hospitalsAZ$41New Mexico: median $44 across 29 hospitalsNM$44Kansas: median $31 across 90 hospitalsKS$31Arkansas: median $15 across 39 hospitalsAR$15Tennessee: median $27 across 83 hospitalsTN$27North Carolina: median $36 across 89 hospitalsNC$36South Carolina: median $43 across 53 hospitalsSC$43Oklahoma: median $25 across 71 hospitalsOK$25Louisiana: median $17 across 52 hospitalsLA$17Mississippi: median $26 across 54 hospitalsMS$26Alabama: median $23 across 44 hospitalsAL$23Georgia: median $30 across 109 hospitalsGA$30Hawaii: median $39 across 19 hospitalsHI$39Texas: median $62 across 246 hospitalsTX$62Florida: median $85 across 155 hospitalsFL$85
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $35. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL155$85+142%$19 – $331
South Dakota SD39$67+91%$48 – $98
California CA163$66+87%$27 – $119
Utah UT42$65+86%$58 – $80
Texas TX246$62+77%$31 – $135
Alaska AK19$57+63%$41 – $73
Kentucky KY69$54+54%$22 – $85
Nebraska NE81$53+51%$25 – $67
Illinois IL142$49+40%$26 – $75
Colorado CO72$47+33%$28 – $106
Vermont VT14$45+29%$23 – $58
Virginia VA73$45+28%$24 – $71
Montana MT33$45+27%$29 – $52
New Mexico NM29$44+25%$23 – $74
Nevada NV22$43+24%$25 – $77
South Carolina SC53$43+23%$25 – $48
Arizona AZ42$41+17%$15 – $210
Hawaii HI19$39+11%$19 – $49
Washington WA77$39+10%$24 – $53
North Dakota ND33$38+10%$31 – $46
Minnesota MN106$38+8%$16 – $57
North Carolina NC89$36+1%$20 – $43
Wisconsin WI107$34−3%$18 – $49
Massachusetts MA50$34−4%$16 – $62
Iowa IA89$34−4%$24 – $50
Rhode Island RI10$32−9%$10 – $35
Missouri MO77$31−10%$23 – $57
Kansas KS90$31−11%$16 – $44
Georgia GA109$30−13%$10 – $66
New Hampshire NH25$29−16%$18 – $60
Ohio OH144$27−22%$12 – $48
Tennessee TN83$27−23%$10 – $47
Idaho ID24$26−26%$21 – $65
Maine ME28$26−26%$13 – $57
West Virginia WV42$26−26%$19 – $52
Mississippi MS54$26−26%$15 – $47
Oregon OR51$26−27%$15 – $47
Oklahoma OK71$25−29%$14 – $41
Pennsylvania PA122$25−30%$7 – $57
Indiana IN96$25−30%$11 – $52
Alabama AL44$23−34%$14 – $45
Connecticut CT23$22−36%$15 – $29
Michigan MI97$20−43%$13 – $35
Wyoming WY16$20−43%$13 – $69
New York NY118$18−49%$12 – $59
Louisiana LA52$17−52%$9 – $42
Arkansas AR39$15−57%$7 – $46
New Jersey NJ54$6−84%$5 – $30
Maryland MD41$5−84%$4 – $7
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 $35.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,323$32$13 – $73
Children’s69$40$21 – $68
Critical access979$40$21 – $60
Ownership
For-profit469$62$19 – $212
Government641$38$18 – $60
Non-profit2,261$33$14 – $60
System affiliation
Part of a system2,734$36$15 – $69
Independent647$33$16 – $59

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$60
Median cash price$35
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

2,266 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $36 and the average of the middle 60% is $38; most fall between $16 and $66.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,266 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
$10$20$36$60$95

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $95).

Of the 2,504 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,266 gave a usable cash price; 127 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

3,381 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (85%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,687 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,381
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here170
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 — excluded135
Hospitals that filed this code3,687

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 Sodium, POC.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Sodium blood test (CPT 84295) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84295-sodium-blood-test