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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone) blood test

CPT 82024the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures the level of adrenocorticotropic hormone, a pituitary hormone that signals the adrenal glands.

Hospitals typically charge $150 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,234 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $156. Most fall between $63 and $295 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,234
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 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 3,234 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
$38$71$150$258$428

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($38 vs $428).

How the prices are spread

$21 – $30: 84 hospitals$21$30 – $42: 129 hospitals$42 – $58: 243 hospitals$42$58 – $82: 318 hospitals$82 – $116: 368 hospitals$82$116 – $162: 436 hospitals$162 – $228: 518 hospitals$162$228 – $321: 415 hospitals$321 – $452: 265 hospitals$321$452 – $635: 137 hospitals$452median $150price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,913 of 3,234 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$21$3084
$30$42129
$42$58243
$58$82318
$82$116368
$116$162436
$162$228518
$228$321415
$321$452265
$452$635137

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $150.

Alaska: median $223 across 19 hospitalsAK$223Maine: median $163 across 27 hospitalsME$163Vermont: median $374 across 13 hospitalsVT$374New Hampshire: median $220 across 24 hospitalsNH$220Washington: median $205 across 76 hospitalsWA$205Idaho: median $135 across 23 hospitalsID$135Montana: median $226 across 27 hospitalsMT$226North Dakota: median $203 across 33 hospitalsND$203Minnesota: median $120 across 105 hospitalsMN$120Illinois: median $227 across 144 hospitalsIL$227Wisconsin: median $213 across 103 hospitalsWI$213Michigan: median $70 across 87 hospitalsMI$70New York: median $122 across 103 hospitalsNY$122Massachusetts: median $195 across 53 hospitalsMA$195Oregon: median $128 across 49 hospitalsOR$128Nevada: median $141 across 20 hospitalsNV$141Wyoming: median $140 across 16 hospitalsWY$140South Dakota: median $322 across 39 hospitalsSD$322Iowa: median $166 across 88 hospitalsIA$166Indiana: median $187 across 98 hospitalsIN$187Ohio: median $126 across 139 hospitalsOH$126Pennsylvania: median $161 across 122 hospitalsPA$161New Jersey: median $44 across 50 hospitalsNJ$44Connecticut: median $181 across 23 hospitalsCT$181Rhode Island: median $209 across 10 hospitalsRI$209California: median $55 across 108 hospitalsCA$55Utah: median $107 across 42 hospitalsUT$107Colorado: median $161 across 64 hospitalsCO$161Nebraska: median $217 across 79 hospitalsNE$217Missouri: median $150 across 75 hospitalsMO$150Kentucky: median $229 across 68 hospitalsKY$229West Virginia: median $199 across 43 hospitalsWV$199Virginia: median $192 across 73 hospitalsVA$192Maryland: median $82 across 41 hospitalsMD$82Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $236 across 42 hospitalsAZ$236New Mexico: median $173 across 29 hospitalsNM$173Kansas: median $165 across 89 hospitalsKS$165Arkansas: median $79 across 38 hospitalsAR$79Tennessee: median $97 across 82 hospitalsTN$97North Carolina: median $94 across 89 hospitalsNC$94South Carolina: median $205 across 51 hospitalsSC$205Oklahoma: median $126 across 72 hospitalsOK$126Louisiana: median $108 across 51 hospitalsLA$108Mississippi: median $117 across 55 hospitalsMS$117Alabama: median $120 across 40 hospitalsAL$120Georgia: median $130 across 107 hospitalsGA$130Hawaii: median $194 across 18 hospitalsHI$194Texas: median $213 across 241 hospitalsTX$213Florida: median $38 across 139 hospitalsFL$38
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $150. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT13$374+150%$165 – $681
South Dakota SD39$322+115%$114 – $481
Arizona AZ42$236+58%$55 – $410
Kentucky KY68$229+53%$116 – $552
Illinois IL144$227+52%$116 – $403
Montana MT27$226+51%$109 – $280
Alaska AK19$223+49%$118 – $432
New Hampshire NH24$220+47%$60 – $423
Nebraska NE79$217+45%$95 – $308
Texas TX241$213+43%$68 – $556
Wisconsin WI103$213+42%$142 – $324
Rhode Island RI10$209+40%$90 – $309
South Carolina SC51$205+37%$163 – $265
Washington WA76$205+37%$103 – $284
North Dakota ND33$203+36%$70 – $299
West Virginia WV43$199+33%$108 – $281
Massachusetts MA53$195+30%$120 – $374
Hawaii HI18$194+30%$106 – $458
Virginia VA73$192+28%$68 – $387
Indiana IN98$187+25%$62 – $355
Connecticut CT23$181+21%$112 – $322
New Mexico NM29$173+16%$102 – $265
Iowa IA88$166+11%$109 – $263
Kansas KS89$165+10%$112 – $253
Maine ME27$163+9%$54 – $322
Colorado CO64$161+8%$71 – $241
Pennsylvania PA122$161+8%$58 – $436
Missouri MO75$1500%$108 – $258
Nevada NV20$141−6%$43 – $273
Wyoming WY16$140−6%$71 – $203
Idaho ID23$135−10%$28 – $190
Georgia GA107$130−13%$77 – $277
Oregon OR49$128−14%$46 – $211
Oklahoma OK72$126−15%$74 – $209
Ohio OH139$126−16%$70 – $179
New York NY103$122−18%$44 – $250
Minnesota MN105$120−20%$61 – $291
Alabama AL40$120−20%$43 – $333
Mississippi MS55$117−22%$34 – $204
Louisiana LA51$108−28%$69 – $171
Utah UT42$107−28%$91 – $196
Tennessee TN82$97−35%$66 – $287
North Carolina NC89$94−37%$64 – $286
Maryland MD41$82−45%$64 – $98
Arkansas AR38$79−47%$42 – $120
Michigan MI87$70−53%$42 – $124
California CA108$55−63%$15 – $166
New Jersey NJ50$44−70%$39 – $182
Florida FL139$38−74%$14 – $135
Delaware DE7not 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 $150.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,203$132$52 – $286
Children’s60$219$68 – $373
Critical access962$182$85 – $304
Ownership
For-profit433$209$65 – $711
Government625$152$67 – $275
Non-profit2,167$140$60 – $277
System affiliation
Part of a system2,612$150$58 – $306
Independent622$149$69 – $250

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$251
Median cash price$150
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

2,187 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $147 and the average of the middle 60% is $154; most fall between $65 and $286.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,187 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
$41$74$147$247$403

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($41 vs $403).

Of the 2,422 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,187 gave a usable cash price; 130 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 105 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,234 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (82%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,557 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,234
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here195
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded125
Hospitals that filed this code3,557

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 July 20, 2026 and September 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

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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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone) blood test (CPT 82024) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82024-acth-adrenocorticotropic-hormone-blood-test