HRHospitalRates.comCompare prices

Procedure price report · Other Laboratory

Thyroid-releasing hormone stimulation panel, two hours

CPT 80439the billing code this page is about

Blood measurements of thyroid stimulating hormone taken before and after a TRH injection over a two-hour test; the code covers the timed set of lab measurements for the two-hour version.

Hospitals typically charge $118 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 162 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $244. Most fall between $74 and $655 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
162
States
29
Filings dated
Dec 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 162 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$67$74$118$405$655

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($67 vs $655).

How the prices are spread

$55 – $72: 23 hospitals$55$72 – $96: 33 hospitals$96 – $128: 20 hospitals$96$128 – $170: 18 hospitals$170 – $226: 10 hospitals$170$226 – $300: 4 hospitals$300 – $399: 5 hospitals$300$399 – $531: 7 hospitals$531 – $705: 20 hospitals$531$705 – $937: 6 hospitals$705median $118price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (146 of 162 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$55$7223
$72$9633
$96$12820
$128$17018
$170$22610
$226$3004
$300$3995
$399$5317
$531$70520
$705$9376

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $118.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $67 across 14 hospitalsNY$67Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $169 across 12 hospitalsIA$169Indiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $53 across 16 hospitalsPA$53New Jersey: median $74 across 22 hospitalsNJ$74Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $655 across 20 hospitalsCA$655Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $118 across 12 hospitalsOK$118Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $118. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA20$655+454%$655 – $655
Iowa IA12$169+43%$169 – $169
Oklahoma OK12$1180%$118 – $147
New Jersey NJ22$74−38%$67 – $74
New York NY14$67−43%$67 – $81
Pennsylvania PA16$53−56%$44 – $101
Illinois IL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $118.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care150$118$67 – $589
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access11fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit25$277$101 – $1,569
Government15fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit122$118$74 – $655
System affiliation
Part of a system144$118$67 – $655
Independent18fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$405
Median cash price$118
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

How complete is this

162 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 167 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted162
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here3
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code167

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 5, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other Laboratory family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as TRH STIMULATION PANEL.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Thyroid-releasing hormone stimulation panel, two hours (CPT 80439) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-80439-thyroid-releasing-hormone-stimulation-panel-two-hours