Lab tests CPT 83880 Inpatient — admitted to hospital

BNP test cost in Fayetteville, AR — inpatient

In Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR, 2 hospitals list a cash price for BNP or NT-proBNP blood test (heart failure marker) as an inpatient: from $125.73 to $215.00, with a median of $170.37. The lowest listed price is at Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital Northwest Arkansas — $44.64 less than the median here. Across Arkansas, the median is $67.30 at 18 hospitals.

Cash prices at 2 facilities across 2 cities for code 83880, as an inpatient (admitted to hospital) . Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Mar 16, 2026 and Mar 16, 2026.

Lowest$125.73Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital Northwest Arkansas
Median$170.37half pay less
Highest$215.00in this market
Difference1.7×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 Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR.

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Lowest $125.73Highest $215.00

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital Northwest Arkansas lowest Rogers, AR B-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTID $125.73 $125.73 $99.33–$125.73 — Mar 16, 2026
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Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital Northwest Arkansas Rogers, AR NT-PRO BNP $152.61 $152.61 $120.56–$152.61 — Mar 16, 2026
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Ozarks Community Hospital Gravette, AR · (479) 787-5291 BNP 37386 QT $215.00 $194.00 $34.92–$215.00 -11% —
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Ozarks Community Hospital Gravette, AR · (479) 787-5291 BNP, Pro - NT II GRV $215.00 $393.00 $34.92–$215.00 45% —
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Inpatient: lowest $125.73, median $170.37, highest $215.00 — a 1.7× difference within the same market.

As an outpatient, the same code is billed by 3 facilities here, median $82.55 — that is the price to compare if you are not being admitted.

Cash or insurance?

At 0 of 2 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

This code covers the natriuretic peptide tests, BNP and NT-proBNP. The heart releases these peptides when it is under strain, so the test helps tell heart failure from other causes of shortness of breath and tracks treatment.

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 83880 ($159.00). 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.

Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital Northwest Arkansas Rogers, ARBNP (B NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE) $14.99 file