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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Measurement of one sugar, per specimen

CPT 84378the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that measures the amount of a single sugar in a specimen; billed once for each specimen tested.

Hospitals typically charge $62 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,407 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $69. Most fall between $23 and $147 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,407
States
49
Filings dated
Nov 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 1,407 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
$13$27$62$127$236

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $236).

How the prices are spread

$11 – $16: 119 hospitals$11$16 – $23: 106 hospitals$23 – $34: 151 hospitals$23$34 – $50: 179 hospitals$50 – $73: 143 hospitals$50$73 – $106: 209 hospitals$106 – $155: 177 hospitals$106$155 – $226: 106 hospitals$226 – $330: 56 hospitals$226$330 – $482: 25 hospitals$330median $62price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,271 of 1,407 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$11$16119
$16$23106
$23$34151
$34$50179
$50$73143
$73$106209
$106$155177
$155$226106
$226$33056
$330$48225

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $62.

Alaska: median $93 across 13 hospitalsAK$93Maine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $58 across 32 hospitalsWA$58Idaho: median $150 across 11 hospitalsID$150Montana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $83 across 21 hospitalsMN$83Illinois: median $46 across 58 hospitalsIL$46Wisconsin: median $96 across 39 hospitalsWI$96Michigan: median $28 across 38 hospitalsMI$28New York: median $35 across 65 hospitalsNY$35Massachusetts: median $146 across 12 hospitalsMA$146Oregon: median $92 across 19 hospitalsOR$92Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $64 across 19 hospitalsIA$64Indiana: median $32 across 45 hospitalsIN$32Ohio: median $89 across 74 hospitalsOH$89Pennsylvania: median $58 across 93 hospitalsPA$58New Jersey: median $13 across 48 hospitalsNJ$13Connecticut: median $62 across 10 hospitalsCT$62Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $31 across 70 hospitalsCA$31Utah: median $20 across 30 hospitalsUT$20Colorado: median $104 across 20 hospitalsCO$104Nebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $67 across 23 hospitalsMO$67Kentucky: median $95 across 26 hospitalsKY$95West Virginia: median $401 across 24 hospitalsWV$401Virginia: median $102 across 27 hospitalsVA$102Maryland: median $12 across 29 hospitalsMD$12Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $59 across 22 hospitalsAZ$59New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $258 across 12 hospitalsKS$258Arkansas: median $70 across 12 hospitalsAR$70Tennessee: median $27 across 21 hospitalsTN$27North Carolina: median $39 across 49 hospitalsNC$39South Carolina: median $98 across 42 hospitalsSC$98Oklahoma: median $93 across 32 hospitalsOK$93Louisiana: median $23 across 25 hospitalsLA$23Mississippi: median $37 across 20 hospitalsMS$37Alabama: median $42 across 17 hospitalsAL$42Georgia: median $118 across 50 hospitalsGA$118Hawaii: median $109 across 10 hospitalsHI$109Texas: median $84 across 116 hospitalsTX$84Florida: median $30 across 85 hospitalsFL$30
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $62. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
West Virginia WV24$401+548%$102 – $520
Kansas KS12$258+317%$122 – $1,440
Idaho ID11$150+142%$143 – $150
Massachusetts MA12$146+135%$57 – $592
Georgia GA50$118+91%$62 – $168
Hawaii HI10$109+76%$71 – $160
Colorado CO20$104+67%$72 – $149
Virginia VA27$102+65%$36 – $149
South Carolina SC42$98+59%$48 – $144
Wisconsin WI39$96+56%$47 – $183
Kentucky KY26$95+53%$43 – $143
Oklahoma OK32$93+50%$25 – $144
Alaska AK13$93+50%$61 – $192
Oregon OR19$92+48%$40 – $133
Ohio OH74$89+44%$43 – $203
Texas TX116$84+35%$38 – $203
Minnesota MN21$83+34%$79 – $234
Arkansas AR12$70+12%$25 – $136
Missouri MO23$67+8%$27 – $117
Iowa IA19$64+4%$64 – $236
Connecticut CT10$620%$49 – $90
Arizona AZ22$59−5%$17 – $85
Pennsylvania PA93$58−6%$13 – $135
Washington WA32$58−6%$38 – $164
Illinois IL58$46−26%$17 – $198
Alabama AL17$42−32%$24 – $110
North Carolina NC49$39−38%$36 – $143
Mississippi MS20$37−40%$28 – $50
New York NY65$35−44%$14 – $105
Indiana IN45$32−48%$16 – $98
California CA70$31−49%$28 – $93
Florida FL85$30−52%$22 – $61
Michigan MI38$28−55%$16 – $614
Tennessee TN21$27−57%$20 – $56
Louisiana LA25$23−63%$10 – $107
Utah UT30$20−68%$20 – $23
New Jersey NJ48$13−79%$12 – $64
Maryland MD29$12−81%$9 – $13
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not 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 $62.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,162$57$20 – $143
Children’s40$136$40 – $258
Critical access198$74$30 – $175
Ownership
For-profit186$61$24 – $168
Government191$65$28 – $143
Non-profit1,023$59$21 – $144
System affiliation
Part of a system1,207$59$22 – $143
Independent200$66$30 – $181

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$107
Median cash price$62
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

1,000 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $75 and the average of the middle 60% is $76; most fall between $28 and $155.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,000 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
$17$33$75$130$234

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $234).

Of the 1,120 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,000 gave a usable cash price; 65 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 55 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,407 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (36%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,552 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,407
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here83
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 — excluded61
Hospitals that filed this code1,552

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.

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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, “Measurement of one sugar, per specimen (CPT 84378) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84378-measurement-of-one-sugar-per-specimen