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Sweat collection using a mild electric current

CPT 89230the billing code this page is about

Collection of a sweat sample from the skin using a small electric current to draw sweat out, usually for chloride testing.

Hospitals typically charge $121 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 874 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $133. Most fall between $59 and $278 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
874
States
49
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 874 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
$38$65$121$221$507

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($38 vs $507).

How the prices are spread

$23 – $33: 41 hospitals$23$33 – $46: 42 hospitals$46 – $65: 99 hospitals$46$65 – $91: 132 hospitals$91 – $127: 104 hospitals$91$127 – $178: 107 hospitals$178 – $250: 128 hospitals$178$250 – $351: 46 hospitals$351 – $493: 53 hospitals$351$493 – $692: 53 hospitals$493median $121price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (805 of 874 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$23$3341
$33$4642
$46$6599
$65$91132
$91$127104
$127$178107
$178$250128
$250$35146
$351$49353
$493$69253

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$53
Median cash price$121
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.3×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $121.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $76 across 15 hospitalsWA$76Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $393 across 11 hospitalsMN$393Illinois: median $139 across 41 hospitalsIL$139Wisconsin: median $49 across 16 hospitalsWI$49Michigan: median $106 across 37 hospitalsMI$106New York: median $63 across 37 hospitalsNY$63Massachusetts: median $442 across 12 hospitalsMA$442Oregon: median $82 across 14 hospitalsOR$82Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $70 across 15 hospitalsIA$70Indiana: median $97 across 50 hospitalsIN$97Ohio: median $101 across 19 hospitalsOH$101Pennsylvania: median $115 across 31 hospitalsPA$115New Jersey: median $67 across 36 hospitalsNJ$67Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $218 across 56 hospitalsCA$218Utah: median $588 across 24 hospitalsUT$588Colorado: median $95 across 16 hospitalsCO$95Nebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $133 across 22 hospitalsMO$133Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $178 across 18 hospitalsVA$178Maryland: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $126 across 10 hospitalsKS$126Arkansas: median $61 across 13 hospitalsAR$61Tennessee: median $34 across 22 hospitalsTN$34North Carolina: median $245 across 39 hospitalsNC$245South Carolina: median $181 across 19 hospitalsSC$181Oklahoma: median $83 across 26 hospitalsOK$83Louisiana: median $42 across 22 hospitalsLA$42Mississippi: median $53 across 23 hospitalsMS$53Alabama: median $152 across 10 hospitalsAL$152Georgia: median $23 across 18 hospitalsGA$23Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $194 across 71 hospitalsTX$194Florida: median $304 across 45 hospitalsFL$304
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $121. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT24$588+386%$588 – $692
Massachusetts MA12$442+266%$134 – $502
Minnesota MN11$393+225%$108 – $393
Florida FL45$304+151%$44 – $648
North Carolina NC39$245+103%$171 – $678
California CA56$218+81%$188 – $229
Texas TX71$194+61%$72 – $303
South Carolina SC19$181+50%$78 – $181
Virginia VA18$178+47%$23 – $260
Alabama AL10$152+26%$56 – $391
Illinois IL41$139+15%$100 – $178
Missouri MO22$133+10%$90 – $202
Kansas KS10$126+4%$118 – $153
Pennsylvania PA31$115−5%$74 – $647
Michigan MI37$106−12%$58 – $135
Ohio OH19$101−17%$79 – $157
Indiana IN50$97−20%$69 – $190
Colorado CO16$95−22%$81 – $1,989
Oklahoma OK26$83−31%$46 – $116
Oregon OR14$82−32%$77 – $200
Washington WA15$76−37%$76 – $149
Iowa IA15$70−42%$70 – $70
New Jersey NJ36$67−44%$59 – $113
New York NY37$63−48%$53 – $167
Arkansas AR13$61−49%$30 – $105
Mississippi MS23$53−56%$39 – $84
Wisconsin WI16$49−59%$49 – $156
Louisiana LA22$42−66%$15 – $161
Tennessee TN22$34−72%$23 – $72
Georgia GA18$23−81%$23 – $408
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $121.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care710$117$58 – $260
Children’s49$205$81 – $448
Critical access114$109$52 – $258
Ownership
For-profit86$147$54 – $588
Government106$106$53 – $221
Non-profit681$121$61 – $252
System affiliation
Part of a system789$121$59 – $261
Independent85$118$53 – $285

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$250
Median cash price$121
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

615 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $139 and the average of the middle 60% is $145; most fall between $69 and $275.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 615 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
$41$74$139$226$528

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($41 vs $528).

Of the 700 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 615 gave a usable cash price; 68 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 17 a list price only.

How complete is this

874 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (22%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 962 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted874
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here64
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded24
Hospitals that filed this code962

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 Other Laboratory family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Sweat Collection.

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, “Sweat collection using a mild electric current (CPT 89230) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-89230-sweat-collection-using-a-mild-electric-current