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Stool test for hidden blood, colon cancer screening

HCPCS G0328the billing code this page is about

Screening laboratory test that uses an immunoassay method to detect hidden blood in a stool sample, covering one to three determinations done at the same time.

Hospitals typically charge $44 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 174 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $53. Most fall between $23 and $84 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
174
States
36
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 174 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
$15$30$44$79$111

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $111).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $16: 11 hospitals$12$16 – $21: 8 hospitals$21 – $29: 13 hospitals$21$29 – $39: 26 hospitals$39 – $52: 25 hospitals$39$52 – $71: 29 hospitals$71 – $95: 31 hospitals$71$95 – $129: 11 hospitals$129 – $174: 1 hospitals$129$174 – $236: 3 hospitals$174median $44price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (158 of 174 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$1611
$16$218
$21$2913
$29$3926
$39$5225
$52$7129
$71$9531
$95$12911
$129$1741
$174$2363

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $44.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $73 across 16 hospitalsMN$73Illinois: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $34 across 14 hospitalsMI$34New York: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $79 across 14 hospitalsIN$79Ohio: median $12 across 11 hospitalsOH$12Pennsylvania: median $236 across 13 hospitalsPA$236New Jersey: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $41 across 28 hospitalsTX$41Florida: median $34 across 14 hospitalsFL$34
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $44. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA13$236+437%$38 – $239
Indiana IN14$79+80%$59 – $107
Minnesota MN16$73+65%$53 – $84
Texas TX28$41−6%$41 – $65
Michigan MI14$34−22%$5 – $83
Florida FL14$34−23%$15 – $34
Ohio OH11$12−73%$12 – $82
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $44.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care136$41$22 – $74
Critical access38$81$34 – $85
Ownership
For-profit19fewer than 20 hospitals
Government16fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit139$58$24 – $84
System affiliation
Part of a system152$50$24 – $84
Independent22$35$22 – $73

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$87
Median cash price$44
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

129 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $41 and the average of the middle 60% is $44; most fall between $22 and $69.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 129 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
$12$25$41$65$111

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $111).

Of the 130 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 129 gave a usable cash price; 0 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 1 a list price only.

How complete is this

174 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 179 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted174
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here0
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code179

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.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Fecal Immunochem Test.

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, “Stool test for hidden blood, colon cancer screening (CPT G0328) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-g0328-stool-test-for-hidden-blood-colon-cancer-screening