Lab tests CPT 80051 Outpatient

Electrolyte panel cost in Baton Rouge, LA

In Baton Rouge, LA, 4 hospitals list a cash price for electrolyte panel (sodium, potassium, chloride, CO2): from $11.20 to $89.81, with a median of $57.63. The lowest listed price is at Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge — $46.43 less than the median here. Across Louisiana, the median is $36.50 at 50 hospitals.

Cash prices at 4 facilities across 2 cities for code 80051, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 27, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between — and —.

Lowest$11.20Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge
Median$57.63half pay less
Highest$89.81in this market
Difference8.0×highest vs lowest

Where each hospital's price falls

Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Baton Rouge, LA.

median
Lowest $11.20Highest $89.81

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge lowest Baton Rouge, LA · (225) 752-2470 HC ELECTROLYTE PANEL $11.20 $35.00 $6.31–$33.51 68% —
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St Helena Parish Hospital Greensburg, LA · (225) 222-6111 ELECTROLYTE PANEL $53.00 $53.00 $6.03–$52.47 — —
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Surgical Specialty Center Baton Rouge, LA · (225) 408-8080 ELECTROLYTE PANEL $62.25 $83.00 $4.17–$83.00 25% —
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Baton Rouge General Medical Center Baton Rouge, LA · (225) 387-7767 ELECTROLYTE PANEL $89.81 $128.30 $3.51–$98.79 30% —
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Outpatient: lowest $11.20, median $57.63, highest $89.81 — a 8.0× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 3 facilities here, median $53.00. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

Cash or insurance?

At 3 of 4 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at none is it below every plan's rate. If you have insurance but have not met your deductible, you usually pay your plan's negotiated rate, which falls somewhere in the "Insurers pay" column. Paying cash can cost less, but a cash payment usually does not count toward your deductible. Ask the hospital for both numbers before you book.

What it is

An electrolyte panel measures sodium, potassium, chloride and bicarbonate (CO2) in one blood sample. It checks fluid and acid balance in people with vomiting, diarrhea, kidney problems or on diuretics.

What the price covers

The price usually covers running the test. The blood draw (36415) is often billed as a separate line.

1 row held back from this comparison

It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 80051 ($80.10). Such a line is almost always a physician's fee billed separately, an assistant's share or a placeholder — a real charge, but not the price of the procedure itself.

Ochsner St Mary Morgan City, LAHC ELECTROLYTE PANEL $7.40 file