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Lipid Panel (Cholesterol Test): cost by metro

Lab tests · outpatient (same-day) · billed as CPT 80061 · priced across 28 metros

What does a Lipid Panel (Cholesterol Test) cost? Across 28 major U.S. metros, the typical insurer-negotiated price for a Lipid Panel (CPT 80061) ranges from about $12 to $195 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.

Lipid Panel price by metro

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

Metro Typical negotiated Range Cash
Indianapolis, IN $12 $12–$13 $183
Riverside, CA $13 $10–$70 $101
Sacramento, CA $13 $13–$17 $156
San Francisco, CA $13 $13–$15 $156
Philadelphia, PA $14 $13–$32 $78
Tampa, FL $14 $14–$24 —
Nashville, TN $14 $14–$54 —
Virginia Beach, VA $18 $13–$23 —
St. Louis, MO $19 $15–$63 $101
New York, NY $20 $14–$50 $33
Cleveland, OH $20 $14–$89 $60
Seattle, WA $21 $18–$108 —
Memphis, TN $21 $21 $80
Dallas, TX $26 $14–$312 $28
Hartford, CT $27 $13–$28 —
Kansas City, MO $31 $23–$157 —
Denver, CO $33 $12–$82 $72
Birmingham, AL $33 $33–$127 $157
Jacksonville, FL $33 $33 $157
Phoenix, AZ $34 $13–$95 $28
San Jose, CA $35 $13–$852 —
Detroit, MI $40 $13–$127 $74
Milwaukee, WI $58 $14–$129 $101
Houston, TX $60 $49–$63 —
Pittsburgh, PA $91 $14–$204 $289
Austin, TX $100 $14–$431 $150
Chicago, IL $122 $119–$134 $83
San Antonio, TX $195 $13–$218 —

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 Lipid Panel pricing

A Lipid Panel is billed as CPT 80061 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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