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Prostate cancer risk score blood test

CPT 81539the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures four prostate-related proteins and combines the results into a score reflecting the probability of high-grade prostate cancer.

Hospitals typically charge $1,049 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 474 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,085. Most fall between $616 and $1,736 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
474
States
43
Filings dated
Nov 2024 – 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 474 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
$453$687$1,049$1,624$2,636

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($453 vs $2,636).

How the prices are spread

$386 – $484: 34 hospitals$386$484 – $608: 42 hospitals$608 – $764: 77 hospitals$608$764 – $960: 50 hospitals$960 – $1,205: 83 hospitals$960$1,205 – $1,514: 29 hospitals$1,514 – $1,901: 69 hospitals$1,514$1,901 – $2,388: 19 hospitals$2,388 – $2,999: 16 hospitals$2,388$2,999 – $3,767: 14 hospitals$2,999median $1,049price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (433 of 474 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$386$48434
$484$60842
$608$76477
$764$96050
$960$1,20583
$1,205$1,51429
$1,514$1,90169
$1,901$2,38819
$2,388$2,99916
$2,999$3,76714

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,049.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,621 across 19 hospitalsIL$1,621Wisconsin: median $707 across 14 hospitalsWI$707Michigan: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $1,051 across 32 hospitalsNY$1,051Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 5 hospitals 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 $730 across 15 hospitalsIA$730Indiana: median $963 across 28 hospitalsIN$963Ohio: median $1,624 across 36 hospitalsOH$1,624Pennsylvania: median $1,140 across 33 hospitalsPA$1,140New Jersey: median $836 across 35 hospitalsNJ$836Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,736 across 20 hospitalsCA$1,736Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,249 across 18 hospitalsCO$1,249Nebraska: median $1,038 across 10 hospitalsNE$1,038Missouri: median $836 across 11 hospitalsMO$836Kentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: median $494 across 14 hospitalsVA$494Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $384 across 10 hospitalsTN$384North Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $575 across 10 hospitalsMS$575Alabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $744 across 19 hospitalsGA$744Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $1,155 across 40 hospitalsTX$1,155Florida: median $760 across 22 hospitalsFL$760
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,049. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA20$1,736+66%$1,736 – $1,736
Ohio OH36$1,624+55%$866 – $1,847
Illinois IL19$1,621+55%$832 – $2,636
Colorado CO18$1,249+19%$453 – $1,457
Texas TX40$1,155+10%$630 – $1,155
Pennsylvania PA33$1,140+9%$524 – $6,516
New York NY32$1,0510%$760 – $1,790
Nebraska NE10$1,038−1%$542 – $1,199
Indiana IN28$963−8%$449 – $1,479
Missouri MO11$836−20%$836 – $1,141
New Jersey NJ35$836−20%$760 – $874
Florida FL22$760−28%$616 – $11,731
Georgia GA19$744−29%$386 – $1,125
Iowa IA15$730−30%$730 – $730
Wisconsin WI14$707−33%$687 – $1,755
Mississippi MS10$575−45%$328 – $592
Virginia VA14$494−53%$494 – $548
Tennessee TN10$384−63%$384 – $432
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $1,049.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care406$1,040$616 – $1,755
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access60$1,056$571 – $1,502
Ownership
For-profit34$1,155$542 – $2,280
Government52$760$575 – $1,306
Non-profit386$1,051$616 – $1,736
System affiliation
Part of a system436$988$602 – $1,736
Independent38$1,140$874 – $2,039

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,925
Median cash price$1,049
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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.

The same procedure, inpatient

326 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,141 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,137; most fall between $630 and $1,736.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 326 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
$453$707$1,141$1,736$2,565

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($453 vs $2,565).

Of the 357 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 326 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 19 a list price only.

How complete is this

474 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 511 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted474
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here21
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code511

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 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Pathology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as ONCOLOGY PROSTATE PROB SCORE.

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, “Prostate cancer risk score blood test (CPT 81539) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81539-prostate-cancer-risk-score-blood-test