How much does lipid panel cost in California?
CPT 80061 — the fair price, every hospital's price, and the Medicare benchmark for California.
Estimates only. Educational estimates from public Medicare
benchmarks and hospital-published prices — not a guarantee, and not legal, medical, or financial advice.
80061 Lipid panel
Ask to pay
$27
About 2.0× what Medicare pays — most hospitals accept a self-pay rate in this range.
Typical
$146
Medicare $13
Ask $27
$2 lowboxed = typical rangehigh $1,409
What Medicare paysⓘ
$13
Typical price near you
$146
Cash / self-pay price
$146
Prices near you — 87 facilities, lowest first
| Facility | Type | Price | vs Medicare | Quality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adventist Health Bakersfield (Bakersfield) lowest ⚠ likely error | Hospital | $2cash | 0.1× | — |
| Adventist Health Glendale (Glendale) ⚠ likely error | Hospital | $2cash | 0.1× | ★★★★★ |
| Adventist Health Simi Valley (Simi Valley) ⚠ likely error | Hospital | $2cash | 0.1× | — |
| Adventist Health White Memorial (Los Angeles) ⚠ likely error | Hospital | $2cash | 0.2× | — |
| Tri-City Medical Center (Oceanside) ⚠ likely error | Hospital | $2cash | 0.2× | — |
| Clovis Community Medical Center (Clovis) | Hospital | $6cash | 0.5× | — |
| Community Regional Medical Center (Fresno) | Hospital | $6cash | 0.5× | — |
| Eisenhower Medical Center (Rancho Mirage) | Hospital | $7cash | 0.5× | ★★★★★ |
| UCI Health – Los Alamitos (Los Alamitos) | Hospital | $7cash | 0.5× | — |
| UCI Medical Center (Orange) | Hospital | $7cash | 0.5× | ★★★★★ |
| UCI Health – Placentia Linda (Placentia) | Hospital | $7cash | 0.5× | — |
| Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian (Newport Beach) | Hospital | $8cash | 0.6× | ★★★★★ |
| Sharp Memorial Hospital (San Diego) | Hospital | $10cash | 0.8× | ★★★★★ |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles) | Hospital | $11cash | 0.8× | ★★★★★ |
| Centinela Hospital Medical Center (Inglewood) | Hospital | $13cash | 1.0× | — |
| UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center (Santa Monica) | Hospital | $14negotiated | 1.1× | ★★★★★ |
| Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles) | Hospital | $15negotiated | 1.1× | ★★★★★ |
| Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center (Pomona) | Hospital | $15cash | 1.1× | ★★★★★ |
| UCI Health – Fountain Valley (Fountain Valley) | Hospital | $18cash | 1.4× | — |
| Loma Linda University Medical Center – Murrieta (Murrieta) | Hospital | $20cash | 1.5× | — |
| Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda) | Hospital | $20cash | 1.5× | ★★★★★ |
| Los Angeles General Medical Center (Los Angeles) | Hospital | $21negotiated | 1.5× | ★★★★★ |
| Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (Torrance) | Hospital | $21negotiated | 1.5× | — |
| Dignity St. John's Regional Medical Center (Oxnard) | Hospital | $23cash | 1.8× | — |
| UC Davis Medical Center (Sacramento) | Hospital | $29cash | 2.2× | ★★★★★ |
| John Muir Health Concord Medical Center (Concord) | Hospital | $29cash | 2.2× | — |
| Dignity Dominican Hospital (Santa Cruz) | Hospital | $61cash | 4.5× | — |
| Dignity Mercy General Hospital (Sacramento) | Hospital | $74cash | 5.6× | ★★★★★ |
| Providence St. Jude Medical Center (Fullerton) | Hospital | $88cash | 6.6× | ★★★★★ |
| Providence Holy Cross Medical Center (Mission Hills) | Hospital | $92cash | 6.9× | — |
| Dignity Mercy San Juan Medical Center (Carmichael) | Hospital | $93cash | 7.0× | — |
| Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center (Fontana) | Hospital | $101cash | 7.6× | — |
| Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center (Los Angeles) | Hospital | $101cash | 7.6× | ★★★★★ |
| UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco) | Hospital | $101cash | 7.6× | ★★★★★ |
| Kaiser Permanente San Diego Zion Medical Center (San Diego) | Hospital | $101cash | 7.6× | ★★★★★ |
| UC San Diego Health - Hillcrest & Jacobs Medical Center (San Diego) | Hospital | $102cash | 7.6× | — |
| Providence Mission Hospital (Mission Viejo) | Hospital | $108cash | 8.1× | ★★★★★ |
| Providence St. Joseph Hospital (Orange) | Hospital | $114cash | 8.5× | ★★★★★ |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center (Burbank) | Hospital | $121cash | 9.1× | — |
| Dignity Glendale Memorial Hospital (Glendale) | Hospital | $122cash | 9.1× | — |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center (Tarzana) | Hospital | $124cash | 9.2× | ★★★★★ |
| USC Arcadia Hospital (Arcadia) | Hospital | $128cash | 9.6× | — |
| Los Robles Health System (Thousand Oaks) | Hospital | $140cash | 10.4× | — |
| Providence Little Company of Mary Torrance (Torrance) | Hospital | $141cash | 10.6× | ★★★★★ |
| Sharp Coronado Hospital (Coronado) | Hospital | $146cash | 10.9× | ★★★★★ |
| Sharp Grossmont Hospital (La Mesa) | Hospital | $146cash | 10.9× | ★★★★★ |
| Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center (Chula Vista) | Hospital | $146cash | 10.9× | — |
| Highland Hospital – Alameda Health System (Oakland) | Hospital | $153cash | 11.4× | — |
| Kaiser Permanente Sacramento Medical Center (Sacramento) | Hospital | $156cash | 11.7× | ★★★★★ |
| Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center (San Francisco) | Hospital | $156cash | 11.7× | ★★★★★ |
| Kaiser Permanente Fresno Medical Center (Fresno) | Hospital | $156cash | 11.7× | — |
| John Muir Health Walnut Creek Medical Center (Walnut Creek) | Hospital | $168cash | 12.6× | ★★★★★ |
| Rady Children's Hospital (San Diego) | Hospital | $169cash | 12.6× | — |
| Keck Hospital of USC (Los Angeles) | Hospital | $184cash | 13.8× | ★★★★★ |
| Dignity St. Mary Medical Center (Long Beach) | Hospital | $192cash | 14.3× | — |
| Dignity Mercy Medical Center Redding (Redding) | Hospital | $200cash | 14.9× | — |
| Kaweah Health Medical Center (Visalia) | Hospital | $216cash | 16.1× | — |
| Providence Queen of the Valley Medical Center (Napa) | Hospital | $221cash | 16.5× | — |
| Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley (Pleasanton) | Hospital | $237cash | 17.7× | — |
| Providence St. Mary Medical Center (Apple Valley) | Hospital | $260cash | 19.4× | — |
| Stanford Health Care (Stanford) | Hospital | $265cash | 19.8× | ★★★★★ |
| Dignity California Hospital Medical Center (Los Angeles) | Hospital | $269cash | 20.1× | — |
| UCI Health – Lakewood (Lakewood) | Hospital | $274cash | 20.4× | — |
| Natividad Medical Center (Salinas) | Hospital | $283cash | 21.1× | — |
| Dignity St. Joseph's Medical Center (Stockton) | Hospital | $298cash | 22.3× | — |
| Dignity Bakersfield Memorial Hospital (Bakersfield) | Hospital | $314cash | 23.5× | — |
| Dignity St. Bernardine Medical Center (San Bernardino) | Hospital | $316cash | 23.6× | — |
| Providence Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital (Santa Rosa) | Hospital | $325cash | 24.3× | — |
| Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital (Santa Rosa) | Hospital | $331cash | 24.7× | — |
| Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford (Palo Alto) | Hospital | $331cash | 24.7× | — |
| Dignity Northridge Hospital Medical Center (Northridge) | Hospital | $342cash | 25.6× | ★★★★★ |
| Sutter Mills-Peninsula Medical Center (Burlingame) | Hospital | $343cash | 25.6× | ★★★★★ |
| Sutter Memorial Medical Center (Modesto) | Hospital | $343cash | 25.6× | — |
| Sutter Eden Medical Center (Castro Valley) | Hospital | $343cash | 25.6× | — |
| Sutter Roseville Medical Center (Roseville) | Hospital | $343cash | 25.6× | ★★★★★ |
| Sutter Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (Oakland) | Hospital | $343cash | 25.6× | — |
| Sutter CPMC Van Ness Campus (San Francisco) | Hospital | $343cash | 25.6× | — |
| Sutter Medical Center Sacramento (Sacramento) | Hospital | $343cash | 25.6× | ★★★★★ |
| Dignity Sequoia Hospital (Redwood City) | Hospital | $472cash | 35.3× | ★★★★★ |
| Desert Regional Medical Center (Palm Springs) | Hospital | $543cash | 40.6× | — |
| MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center (Long Beach) | Hospital | $549cash | 41.0× | ★★★★★ |
| MemorialCare Saddleback Medical Center (Laguna Hills) | Hospital | $549cash | 41.0× | ★★★★★ |
| MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center (Fountain Valley) | Hospital | $549cash | 41.0× | — |
| Riverside University Health System Medical Center (Moreno Valley) | Hospital | $750cash | 56.0× | — |
| JFK Memorial Hospital (Indio) gross charge | Hospital | $848cash | 63.3× | — |
| Riverside Community Hospital (Riverside) gross charge | Hospital | $1,262cash | 94.2× | — |
| Good Samaritan Hospital (San Jose) gross charge | Hospital | $1,409cash | 105.2× | — |
Prices from each hospital's public machine-readable file; imaging & surgery-center prices are published self-pay rates (often the cheapest option). vs Medicare is how many times the Medicare rate each facility charges. 8 unusually low/high prices excluded from the typical price as likely data errors.
💬 What to say — negotiation scripts
- For 80061 (Lipid panel), Medicare's benchmark rate is $13.39. A fair self-pay target for this line is $26.78. If I was charged more than that, please reduce it toward this benchmark.
- Your own published cash / self-pay price for 80061 is $145.50, and negotiated rates at nearby facilities run $20.69–$314.16. Please apply a rate in that range to my bill rather than the gross charge.
- Please send a fully itemized bill listing every CPT/HCPCS/DRG code and its individual charge, so I can review each line against published rates.
- Separately, what is your financial assistance / charity care policy, and am I eligible? Please send me the application and the income thresholds.
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What should 80061 cost in California?
For lipid panel (CPT 80061) in California, a fair self-pay price is around $146, with hospitals ranging from $21 to $314 across 87 facilities. Medicare's benchmark rate is $13, the floor to negotiate toward. The card above lists each hospital's price, cheapest first, with CMS quality stars.
Frequently asked questions
How much does lipid panel cost in California?
A fair self-pay price for lipid panel (CPT 80061) in California is around $146, with hospital prices ranging from $21 to $314 across 87 facilities. These are estimates from hospital-published prices, not a guarantee.
What is the Medicare rate for CPT 80061?
Medicare pays about $13 for lipid panel (CPT 80061). That's the negotiation floor — a fair cash-pay target is roughly 1.5–2× it, well below typical gross charges.
Can I negotiate the price of lipid panel?
Yes. Under the federal Hospital Price Transparency rule hospitals must publish these rates, so you can ask to pay the cash or negotiated rate instead of the gross charge. Paste your bill on the home page for a ready-to-send appeal letter and the exact numbers to cite.
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Prices last refreshed September 2026 from each hospital's official CMS machine-readable file. Medicare rate: CY2025 OPPS/PFS/CLFS. Estimates only — not a guarantee.