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Precise drug testing, 1 to 7 drug classes

HCPCS G0480the billing code this page is about

Covers laboratory testing that identifies and measures specific drugs in a sample, billed once per day when 1 to 7 drug classes are tested.

Hospitals typically charge $86 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 393 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $102. Most fall between $29 and $236 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
393
States
44
Filings dated
Jan 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 393 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$39$86$197$339

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $339).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $14: 22 hospitals$10$14 – $21: 20 hospitals$21 – $32: 29 hospitals$21$32 – $48: 32 hospitals$48 – $71: 60 hospitals$48$71 – $106: 57 hospitals$106 – $158: 35 hospitals$106$158 – $236: 46 hospitals$236 – $352: 39 hospitals$236$352 – $525: 20 hospitals$352median $86price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (360 of 393 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$1422
$14$2120
$21$3229
$32$4832
$48$7160
$71$10657
$106$15835
$158$23646
$236$35239
$352$52520

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $86.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $69 across 14 hospitalsIL$69Wisconsin: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $454 across 17 hospitalsMI$454New York: median $281 across 17 hospitalsNY$281Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 8 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: median $283 across 17 hospitalsSD$283Iowa: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $24 across 25 hospitalsIN$24Ohio: median $21 across 24 hospitalsOH$21Pennsylvania: median $204 across 12 hospitalsPA$204New Jersey: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: median $100 across 25 hospitalsUT$100Colorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $30 across 20 hospitalsVA$30Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: median $52 across 19 hospitalsTN$52North Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $69 across 38 hospitalsTX$69Florida: median $12 across 17 hospitalsFL$12
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $86. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Michigan MI17$454+425%$33 – $612
South Dakota SD17$283+228%$179 – $379
New York NY17$281+225%$281 – $281
Pennsylvania PA12$204+136%$83 – $222
Utah UT25$100+16%$100 – $100
Texas TX38$69−21%$69 – $86
Illinois IL14$69−21%$69 – $324
Tennessee TN19$52−40%$24 – $136
Virginia VA20$30−65%$15 – $72
Indiana IN25$24−72%$17 – $129
Ohio OH24$21−75%$10 – $34
Florida FL17$12−86%$6 – $12
New Jersey NJ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $86.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care313$77$28 – $212
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access76$100$29 – $283
Ownership
For-profit71$94$47 – $182
Government49$88$18 – $202
Non-profit273$82$30 – $281
System affiliation
Part of a system341$85$29 – $235
Independent52$98$44 – $236

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$134
Median cash price$86
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

277 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $69 and the average of the middle 60% is $79; most fall between $24 and $179.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 277 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$32$69$147$268

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $268).

Of the 295 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 277 gave a usable cash price; 5 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

393 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 416 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted393
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here9
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 — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code416

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.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Pregabalin, S/P.

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, “Precise drug testing, 1 to 7 drug classes (CPT G0480) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-g0480-precise-drug-testing-1-to-7-drug-classes