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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Test for one sugar, yes-or-no result, per specimen

CPT 84376the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that checks whether a single sugar is present in a specimen without measuring the amount; billed once for each specimen tested.

Hospitals typically charge $31 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,110 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $34. Most fall between $13 and $70 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,110
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 2,110 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$16$31$59$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: 111 hospitals$6$8 – $11: 124 hospitals$11 – $15: 179 hospitals$11$15 – $21: 193 hospitals$21 – $29: 251 hospitals$21$29 – $39: 301 hospitals$39 – $53: 233 hospitals$39$53 – $73: 232 hospitals$73 – $99: 167 hospitals$73$99 – $136: 117 hospitals$99median $31price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,908 of 2,110 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$8111
$8$11124
$11$15179
$15$21193
$21$29251
$29$39301
$39$53233
$53$73232
$73$99167
$99$136117

By state

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

Alaska: median $38 across 10 hospitalsAK$38Maine: median $25 across 25 hospitalsME$25Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $33 across 13 hospitalsNH$33Washington: median $27 across 44 hospitalsWA$27Idaho: median $30 across 16 hospitalsID$30Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $61 across 18 hospitalsND$61Minnesota: median $53 across 61 hospitalsMN$53Illinois: median $45 across 94 hospitalsIL$45Wisconsin: median $34 across 79 hospitalsWI$34Michigan: median $12 across 59 hospitalsMI$12New York: median $20 across 73 hospitalsNY$20Massachusetts: median $48 across 41 hospitalsMA$48Oregon: median $23 across 29 hospitalsOR$23Nevada: median $29 across 15 hospitalsNV$29Wyoming: median $42 across 12 hospitalsWY$42South Dakota: median $66 across 17 hospitalsSD$66Iowa: median $34 across 46 hospitalsIA$34Indiana: median $23 across 69 hospitalsIN$23Ohio: median $39 across 100 hospitalsOH$39Pennsylvania: median $23 across 87 hospitalsPA$23New Jersey: median $6 across 44 hospitalsNJ$6Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $30 across 105 hospitalsCA$30Utah: median $36 across 34 hospitalsUT$36Colorado: median $57 across 46 hospitalsCO$57Nebraska: median $48 across 36 hospitalsNE$48Missouri: median $36 across 54 hospitalsMO$36Kentucky: median $49 across 42 hospitalsKY$49West Virginia: median $7 across 23 hospitalsWV$7Virginia: median $46 across 43 hospitalsVA$46Maryland: median $20 across 23 hospitalsMD$20Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $13 across 13 hospitalsAZ$13New Mexico: median $40 across 16 hospitalsNM$40Kansas: median $63 across 41 hospitalsKS$63Arkansas: median $30 across 22 hospitalsAR$30Tennessee: median $20 across 49 hospitalsTN$20North Carolina: median $29 across 55 hospitalsNC$29South Carolina: median $45 across 41 hospitalsSC$45Oklahoma: median $36 across 51 hospitalsOK$36Louisiana: median $13 across 38 hospitalsLA$13Mississippi: median $28 across 42 hospitalsMS$28Alabama: median $22 across 20 hospitalsAL$22Georgia: median $32 across 81 hospitalsGA$32Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $20 across 163 hospitalsTX$20Florida: median $21 across 76 hospitalsFL$21
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
South Dakota SD17$66+116%$41 – $115
Kansas KS41$63+106%$36 – $115
North Dakota ND18$61+101%$29 – $110
Colorado CO46$57+86%$30 – $90
Minnesota MN61$53+74%$17 – $87
Kentucky KY42$49+60%$18 – $73
Massachusetts MA41$48+57%$19 – $68
Nebraska NE36$48+57%$30 – $85
Virginia VA43$46+49%$22 – $74
Illinois IL94$45+47%$14 – $105
South Carolina SC41$45+47%$42 – $104
Wyoming WY12$42+38%$39 – $54
New Mexico NM16$40+32%$20 – $68
Ohio OH100$39+28%$16 – $55
Alaska AK10$38+23%$20 – $81
Oklahoma OK51$36+19%$11 – $66
Utah UT34$36+17%$30 – $81
Missouri MO54$36+17%$23 – $56
Wisconsin WI79$34+13%$23 – $83
Iowa IA46$34+10%$28 – $76
New Hampshire NH13$33+8%$23 – $66
Georgia GA81$32+6%$21 – $87
Idaho ID16$300%$17 – $42
California CA105$30−1%$11 – $58
Arkansas AR22$30−3%$14 – $54
North Carolina NC55$29−5%$16 – $93
Nevada NV15$29−6%$12 – $77
Mississippi MS42$28−9%$15 – $65
Washington WA44$27−12%$11 – $50
Maine ME25$25−18%$12 – $44
Indiana IN69$23−24%$8 – $63
Pennsylvania PA87$23−24%$6 – $50
Oregon OR29$23−25%$14 – $42
Alabama AL20$22−28%$8 – $65
Florida FL76$21−30%$4 – $36
Texas TX163$20−33%$15 – $56
Tennessee TN49$20−35%$10 – $45
Maryland MD23$20−36%$14 – $25
New York NY73$20−36%$8 – $28
Louisiana LA38$13−57%$9 – $60
Arizona AZ13$13−59%$6 – $30
Michigan MI59$12−61%$7 – $42
West Virginia WV23$7−79%$7 – $33
New Jersey NJ44$6−79%$6 – $31
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 care1,552$29$12 – $63
Children’s47$31$14 – $79
Critical access504$42$22 – $83
Ownership
For-profit228$27$13 – $81
Government336$35$15 – $76
Non-profit1,539$30$13 – $68
System affiliation
Part of a system1,775$30$13 – $68
Independent335$38$16 – $77

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$57
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

1,508 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 $14 and $65.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,508 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$18$31$57$95

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $95).

Of the 1,665 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,508 gave a usable cash price; 88 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 69 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,110 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (53%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,301 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,110
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here116
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded73
Hospitals that filed this code2,301

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 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.

Related procedures

Part of the Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as SUGARS SINGLE QUAL.

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, “Test for one sugar, yes-or-no result, per specimen (CPT 84376) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84376-test-for-one-sugar-yes-or-no-result-per-specimen