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Hemoglobin A1c (Diabetes Test): cost by metro

Lab tests · outpatient (same-day) · billed as CPT 83036 · priced across 28 metros

What does a Hemoglobin A1c (Diabetes Test) cost? Across 28 major U.S. metros, the typical insurer-negotiated price for a A1c Test (CPT 83036) ranges from about $9 to $122 by metro, based on hospitals' own price-transparency files. Self-pay cash prices, where hospitals publish them, are often lower. Pick your metro for the local range and a hospital-by-hospital breakdown. These are price references from public data — not a quote, a bill, or medical or financial advice.

A1c Test price by metro

The typical insurer-negotiated price for a A1c Test, by metro — lowest first. Open a metro for the full three-level breakdown and every hospital.

Metro Typical negotiated Range Cash
Indianapolis, IN $9 $9 $176
Cleveland, OH $10 $10–$46 $44
Sacramento, CA $10 $10–$12 $80
San Francisco, CA $10 $10–$12 $80
Nashville, TN $10 $10–$39 —
Tampa, FL $10 $10–$11 —
Riverside, CA $11 $8–$30 $64
St. Louis, MO $11 $8–$21 $43
Virginia Beach, VA $13 $10–$17 —
New York, NY $14 $10–$31 $24
Hartford, CT $15 $10–$19 —
Seattle, WA $15 $13–$71 —
Memphis, TN $16 $16 $38
Birmingham, AL $17 $17–$230 $7
Jacksonville, FL $17 $17 $7
Kansas City, MO $22 $17–$89 —
Philadelphia, PA $23 $10–$75 $48
Denver, CO $24 $10–$54 $50
Detroit, MI $24 $8–$230 $39
Phoenix, AZ $25 $10–$93 $27
Pittsburgh, PA $30 $7–$76 $106
Milwaukee, WI $31 $10–$71 $55
San Jose, CA $33 $10–$178 —
Houston, TX $42 $39–$44 —
Dallas, TX $68 $10–$174 $103
Austin, TX $72 $10–$105 $63
Chicago, IL $91 $88–$100 $61
San Antonio, TX $122 $10–$137 —

Source: hospitals' own machine-readable Standard Charges files, published under the U.S. Hospital Price Transparency rule (45 CFR §180.50). Most recent hospital file in this dataset: July 2026. Prices are references, not quotes or bills, and never medical or financial advice — where a hospital reports no price, nothing is shown rather than a guess.

About A1c Test pricing

A A1c Test is billed as CPT 83036 and is usually a outpatient (same-day) service. Prices vary widely by metro and by hospital, which is why every figure here is tied to a specific hospital's own published file. 19 of these 28 metros have at least one hospital publishing a self-pay cash price.

The chargemaster (list) price is the hospital's undiscounted sticker rate. Almost no one actually pays it — insurers negotiate it down and self-pay patients are usually offered the cash price — but it shows how large the discount off list can be.

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