The median cash price for Lipid Panel (cholesterol blood test) is $77.55, based on the stated self-pay prices 37 hospitals publish in their federal price-transparency files. Across all 39 hospitals we cover, prices run $5.44–$480.
| Hospital | Cash price | Gross charge | File dated |
|---|---|---|---|
| UC Irvine Medical Center Orange, CA |
$5.44 cash | $13.60 | 2026-04-01 |
| Henry Ford Hospital Detroit, MI |
$7.18 est. | — | 2025-06-28 |
| Banner University Medical Center Phoenix Phoenix, AZ |
$8.16 cash | $51 | 2026-03-02 |
| Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center San Diego, CA |
$10.50 cash | $14 | 04/01/2026 |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles, CA |
$10.73 cash | $16.52 | 2025-11-26 |
| Providence Alaska Medical Center Anchorage, AK |
$10.92 cash | $14 | 2026-04-01 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital Houston, TX |
$12 cash | $24 | 2026-04-01 |
| HMH Hospitals Corporation (Hackensack) Hackensack, NJ |
$13.39 cash | $255 | 2025-12-31 |
| Temple University Hospital Philadelphia, PA |
$13.39 est. | — | 2026-04-13 |
| Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center Livingston, NJ |
$14.73 cash | $247 | 2026-03-04 |
| NYU Langone Tisch Hospital New York, NY |
$16.07 cash | $148.35 | 2026-01-01 |
| Baylor University Medical Center Dallas, TX |
$24 cash | $40 | 2026-02-18 |
| WVU Hospitals Morgantown, WV |
$28.20 cash | $56.40 | 3/30/2026 |
| MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center Baltimore, MD |
$40.70 cash | $41.53 | 2026-04-01 |
| University Hospitals Health System Cleveland, OH |
$44.25 cash | $59 | 2025-05-16 |
| Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital (Dartmouth) Lebanon, NH |
$47.12 cash | $154 | 1/1/2026 |
| University of Michigan Health Ann Arbor, MI |
$48.40 cash | $121 | 3/31/2026 |
| OHSU Hospital Portland, OR |
$52.65 cash | $81 | 2026-03-23 |
| Cleveland Clinic Main Campus Cleveland, OH |
$59.80 cash | $92 | 2026-06-16 |
| Duke University Hospital Durham, NC |
$59.94 cash | $222 | 04/01/2026 |
| Froedtert Hospital Milwaukee, WI |
$77.55 cash | $141 | 2025-12-31 |
| Montefiore Medical Center New York, NY |
$96.05 cash | $146.87 | 2026-04-01 |
| Texas Children's Hospital Houston, TX |
$97.82 cash | $146 | 2026-03-05 |
| UCSF Medical Center San Francisco, CA |
$101.40 cash | $338 | 2026-04-01 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Boston, MA |
$113.68 cash | $151.58 | 2026-04-01 |
| Tampa General Hospital Tampa, FL |
$119.35 cash | $341 | 2026-04-01 |
| Brigham and Womens Hospital Boston, MA |
$124.50 cash | $166 | 2026-03-27 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA |
$124.50 cash | $166 | 2026-03-27 |
| University of Chicago Medical Center Chicago, IL |
$128 cash | $128 | 2026-04-01 |
| North Carolina Baptist Hospital (Wake Forest) Winston-Salem, NC |
$146 cash | $292 | 2025-10-08 |
| Seattle Children's Hospital Seattle, WA |
$148.40 cash | $148.40 | 03/31/2026 |
| Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center Oakland, CA |
$156.24 cash | $279 | 4/1/2026 |
| OSF HealthCare Peoria, IL |
$160.80 cash | $268 | 2026-03-31 |
| Dignity Health St Josephs Hospital and Medical Center Phoenix, AZ |
$182.98 cash | $479 | 2026-02-28 |
| Stanford Health Care Palo Alto, CA |
$264.80 cash | $662 | 2026-04-01 |
| Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital Chicago, IL |
$282.10 cash | $403 | 4/1/2026 |
| Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center Houston, TX |
$305.68 cash | $955.25 | 2026-04-01 |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY |
$378 cash | $378 | 2025-12-01 |
| Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA |
$480 cash | $480 | 2026-02-10 |
"Cash price" = the hospital's published discounted_cash self-pay rate. "Gross charge" = the sticker price before any discount — what cash-pay patients are first billed and can negotiate down toward the cash rate.
If you're paying cash for Lipid Panel (cholesterol blood test), the hospital's published self-pay price is a ceiling you can negotiate from, not a fixed quote. Bring the figure above (and the source file) to billing and ask for the cash / prompt-pay rate. Free-standing imaging centers and ASCs are often well below hospital outpatient rates.