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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Zinc blood test

CPT 84630the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of zinc in a blood sample. Covers one measurement.

Hospitals typically charge $55 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,243 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $57. Most fall between $20 and $108 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,243
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 3,243 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$23$55$96$159

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $159).

How the prices are spread

$8 – $12: 127 hospitals$8$12 – $16: 170 hospitals$16 – $22: 322 hospitals$16$22 – $31: 254 hospitals$31 – $43: 298 hospitals$31$43 – $59: 404 hospitals$59 – $82: 472 hospitals$59$82 – $113: 426 hospitals$113 – $157: 271 hospitals$113$157 – $217: 177 hospitals$157median $55price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,921 of 3,243 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$8$12127
$12$16170
$16$22322
$22$31254
$31$43298
$43$59404
$59$82472
$82$113426
$113$157271
$157$217177

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $55.

Alaska: median $73 across 18 hospitalsAK$73Maine: median $40 across 28 hospitalsME$40Vermont: median $132 across 14 hospitalsVT$132New Hampshire: median $64 across 25 hospitalsNH$64Washington: median $72 across 77 hospitalsWA$72Idaho: median $56 across 23 hospitalsID$56Montana: median $82 across 29 hospitalsMT$82North Dakota: median $71 across 34 hospitalsND$71Minnesota: median $69 across 101 hospitalsMN$69Illinois: median $88 across 143 hospitalsIL$88Wisconsin: median $78 across 104 hospitalsWI$78Michigan: median $23 across 88 hospitalsMI$23New York: median $30 across 106 hospitalsNY$30Massachusetts: median $72 across 54 hospitalsMA$72Oregon: median $46 across 50 hospitalsOR$46Nevada: median $60 across 20 hospitalsNV$60Wyoming: median $55 across 16 hospitalsWY$55South Dakota: median $102 across 41 hospitalsSD$102Iowa: median $57 across 88 hospitalsIA$57Indiana: median $55 across 98 hospitalsIN$55Ohio: median $47 across 138 hospitalsOH$47Pennsylvania: median $58 across 116 hospitalsPA$58New Jersey: median $13 across 54 hospitalsNJ$13Connecticut: median $53 across 22 hospitalsCT$53Rhode Island: median $91 across 10 hospitalsRI$91California: median $11 across 115 hospitalsCA$11Utah: median $44 across 41 hospitalsUT$44Colorado: median $67 across 65 hospitalsCO$67Nebraska: median $83 across 76 hospitalsNE$83Missouri: median $58 across 76 hospitalsMO$58Kentucky: median $94 across 69 hospitalsKY$94West Virginia: median $40 across 43 hospitalsWV$40Virginia: median $63 across 73 hospitalsVA$63Maryland: median $68 across 41 hospitalsMD$68Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $57 across 42 hospitalsAZ$57New Mexico: median $81 across 27 hospitalsNM$81Kansas: median $60 across 84 hospitalsKS$60Arkansas: median $24 across 38 hospitalsAR$24Tennessee: median $36 across 81 hospitalsTN$36North Carolina: median $37 across 88 hospitalsNC$37South Carolina: median $99 across 52 hospitalsSC$99Oklahoma: median $57 across 72 hospitalsOK$57Louisiana: median $35 across 49 hospitalsLA$35Mississippi: median $29 across 57 hospitalsMS$29Alabama: median $46 across 44 hospitalsAL$46Georgia: median $52 across 106 hospitalsGA$52Hawaii: median $86 across 17 hospitalsHI$86Texas: median $68 across 237 hospitalsTX$68Florida: median $15 across 146 hospitalsFL$15
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $55. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT14$132+143%$79 – $192
South Dakota SD41$102+87%$28 – $165
South Carolina SC52$99+82%$63 – $154
Kentucky KY69$94+73%$36 – $160
Rhode Island RI10$91+67%$27 – $110
Illinois IL143$88+61%$33 – $142
Hawaii HI17$86+57%$28 – $114
Nebraska NE76$83+52%$32 – $122
Montana MT29$82+50%$31 – $151
New Mexico NM27$81+49%$58 – $118
Wisconsin WI104$78+42%$42 – $104
Alaska AK18$73+34%$38 – $173
Massachusetts MA54$72+32%$33 – $110
Washington WA77$72+32%$46 – $114
North Dakota ND34$71+30%$22 – $93
Minnesota MN101$69+27%$24 – $104
Texas TX237$68+25%$18 – $161
Maryland MD41$68+25%$52 – $81
Colorado CO65$67+22%$21 – $123
New Hampshire NH25$64+17%$20 – $192
Virginia VA73$63+16%$20 – $155
Kansas KS84$60+11%$45 – $104
Nevada NV20$60+10%$17 – $128
Missouri MO76$58+6%$31 – $95
Pennsylvania PA116$58+6%$22 – $159
Oklahoma OK72$57+5%$28 – $79
Arizona AZ42$57+5%$24 – $162
Iowa IA88$57+5%$32 – $98
Idaho ID23$56+3%$10 – $83
Wyoming WY16$55+1%$23 – $121
Indiana IN98$55+1%$19 – $150
Connecticut CT22$53−3%$34 – $95
Georgia GA106$52−6%$28 – $131
Ohio OH138$47−15%$20 – $90
Oregon OR50$46−16%$22 – $78
Alabama AL44$46−16%$19 – $103
Utah UT41$44−19%$37 – $113
West Virginia WV43$40−26%$6 – $86
Maine ME28$40−27%$28 – $81
North Carolina NC88$37−33%$22 – $93
Tennessee TN81$36−34%$20 – $108
Louisiana LA49$35−37%$20 – $58
New York NY106$30−45%$11 – $91
Mississippi MS57$29−47%$17 – $76
Arkansas AR38$24−56%$15 – $48
Michigan MI88$23−57%$10 – $50
Florida FL146$15−73%$6 – $41
New Jersey NJ54$13−76%$13 – $58
California CA115$11−80%$6 – $21
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 $55.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,216$47$18 – $104
Children’s65$90$26 – $133
Critical access952$68$31 – $114
Ownership
For-profit450$59$17 – $205
Government620$58$26 – $103
Non-profit2,163$52$20 – $102
System affiliation
Part of a system2,622$53$20 – $111
Independent621$56$25 – $99

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$90
Median cash price$55
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

2,188 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $55 and the average of the middle 60% is $57; most fall between $21 and $104.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,188 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
$14$25$55$93$149

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $149).

Of the 2,412 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,188 gave a usable cash price; 115 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 109 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,243 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (82%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,530 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,243
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here158
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 — excluded128
Hospitals that filed this code3,530

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 Zinc(Zn).

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, “Zinc blood test (CPT 84630) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84630-zinc-blood-test