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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Sodium test on other body fluid

CPT 84302the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of sodium in a specimen other than blood or urine, such as stool or sweat.

Hospitals typically charge $31 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,365 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $34. Most fall between $13 and $71 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,365
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 2,365 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
$8$15$31$58$102

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($8 vs $102).

How the prices are spread

$6 – $8: 101 hospitals$6$8 – $11: 167 hospitals$11 – $16: 240 hospitals$11$16 – $22: 246 hospitals$22 – $31: 319 hospitals$22$31 – $44: 356 hospitals$44 – $63: 280 hospitals$44$63 – $89: 224 hospitals$89 – $125: 140 hospitals$89$125 – $177: 56 hospitals$125median $31price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,129 of 2,365 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$8101
$8$11167
$11$16240
$16$22246
$22$31319
$31$44356
$44$63280
$63$89224
$89$125140
$125$17756

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $31.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $29 across 21 hospitalsME$29Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $29 across 12 hospitalsNH$29Washington: median $32 across 54 hospitalsWA$32Idaho: median $25 across 19 hospitalsID$25Montana: median $35 across 13 hospitalsMT$35North Dakota: median $24 across 11 hospitalsND$24Minnesota: median $27 across 54 hospitalsMN$27Illinois: median $47 across 114 hospitalsIL$47Wisconsin: median $31 across 89 hospitalsWI$31Michigan: median $16 across 67 hospitalsMI$16New York: median $18 across 91 hospitalsNY$18Massachusetts: median $25 across 41 hospitalsMA$25Oregon: median $22 across 30 hospitalsOR$22Nevada: median $32 across 17 hospitalsNV$32Wyoming: median $39 across 12 hospitalsWY$39South Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $34 across 41 hospitalsIA$34Indiana: median $23 across 68 hospitalsIN$23Ohio: median $37 across 119 hospitalsOH$37Pennsylvania: median $25 across 108 hospitalsPA$25New Jersey: median $5 across 43 hospitalsNJ$5Connecticut: median $22 across 13 hospitalsCT$22Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $33 across 118 hospitalsCA$33Utah: median $65 across 36 hospitalsUT$65Colorado: median $36 across 50 hospitalsCO$36Nebraska: median $54 across 37 hospitalsNE$54Missouri: median $33 across 59 hospitalsMO$33Kentucky: median $33 across 43 hospitalsKY$33West Virginia: median $13 across 20 hospitalsWV$13Virginia: median $22 across 60 hospitalsVA$22Maryland: median $27 across 39 hospitalsMD$27Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $36 across 34 hospitalsAZ$36New Mexico: median $20 across 11 hospitalsNM$20Kansas: median $37 across 44 hospitalsKS$37Arkansas: median $36 across 20 hospitalsAR$36Tennessee: median $23 across 53 hospitalsTN$23North Carolina: median $46 across 73 hospitalsNC$46South Carolina: median $46 across 41 hospitalsSC$46Oklahoma: median $40 across 49 hospitalsOK$40Louisiana: median $16 across 37 hospitalsLA$16Mississippi: median $26 across 44 hospitalsMS$26Alabama: median $54 across 29 hospitalsAL$54Georgia: median $52 across 76 hospitalsGA$52Hawaii: median $25 across 16 hospitalsHI$25Texas: median $44 across 176 hospitalsTX$44Florida: median $28 across 125 hospitalsFL$28
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $31. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT36$65+109%$64 – $76
Alabama AL29$54+74%$15 – $146
Nebraska NE37$54+74%$26 – $104
Georgia GA76$52+68%$19 – $84
Illinois IL114$47+52%$20 – $91
North Carolina NC73$46+49%$21 – $66
South Carolina SC41$46+49%$30 – $70
Texas TX176$44+41%$13 – $109
Oklahoma OK49$40+29%$21 – $102
Wyoming WY12$39+24%$25 – $66
Ohio OH119$37+19%$21 – $98
Kansas KS44$37+18%$19 – $171
Arizona AZ34$36+16%$8 – $74
Colorado CO50$36+16%$11 – $97
Arkansas AR20$36+15%$15 – $55
Montana MT13$35+13%$23 – $51
Iowa IA41$34+8%$13 – $42
California CA118$33+7%$9 – $43
Missouri MO59$33+7%$19 – $54
Kentucky KY43$33+5%$14 – $104
Nevada NV17$32+4%$7 – $117
Washington WA54$32+2%$16 – $47
Wisconsin WI89$31−1%$24 – $43
New Hampshire NH12$29−6%$16 – $113
Maine ME21$29−6%$19 – $52
Florida FL125$28−10%$8 – $67
Maryland MD39$27−11%$21 – $33
Minnesota MN54$27−14%$18 – $57
Mississippi MS44$26−16%$15 – $46
Idaho ID19$25−19%$16 – $65
Massachusetts MA41$25−19%$13 – $45
Hawaii HI16$25−21%$17 – $41
Pennsylvania PA108$25−21%$7 – $83
North Dakota ND11$24−23%$23 – $41
Indiana IN68$23−25%$11 – $70
Tennessee TN53$23−26%$9 – $52
Connecticut CT13$22−28%$18 – $32
Oregon OR30$22−29%$14 – $32
Virginia VA60$22−30%$10 – $54
New Mexico NM11$20−37%$16 – $41
New York NY91$18−43%$7 – $60
Michigan MI67$16−49%$10 – $25
Louisiana LA37$16−50%$8 – $46
West Virginia WV20$13−60%$7 – $42
New Jersey NJ43$5−83%$5 – $6
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $31.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,843$29$12 – $70
Children’s55$45$18 – $79
Critical access457$38$18 – $73
Ownership
For-profit320$38$14 – $178
Government324$35$14 – $71
Non-profit1,711$30$13 – $61
System affiliation
Part of a system2,009$31$13 – $70
Independent356$32$15 – $79

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$53
Median cash price$31
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

1,694 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $31 and the average of the middle 60% is $34; most fall between $13 and $65.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,694 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$16$31$54$89

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $89).

Of the 1,880 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,694 gave a usable cash price; 104 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 82 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,365 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (60%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,592 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,365
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here129
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 — excluded97
Hospitals that filed this code2,592

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 Sodium-Fecal.

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 test on other body fluid (CPT 84302) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84302-sodium-test-on-other-body-fluid