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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Growth hormone blood test

CPT 83003the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures the level of human growth hormone in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $76 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,041 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $79. Most fall between $30 and $141 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,041
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 3,041 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
$19$37$76$129$210

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $210).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $17: 122 hospitals$12$17 – $24: 166 hospitals$24 – $33: 237 hospitals$24$33 – $46: 235 hospitals$46 – $63: 384 hospitals$46$63 – $87: 457 hospitals$87 – $121: 450 hospitals$87$121 – $167: 366 hospitals$167 – $232: 210 hospitals$167$232 – $320: 111 hospitals$232median $76price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,738 of 3,041 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$17122
$17$24166
$24$33237
$33$46235
$46$63384
$63$87457
$87$121450
$121$167366
$167$232210
$232$320111

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $76.

Alaska: median $99 across 14 hospitalsAK$99Maine: median $76 across 25 hospitalsME$76Vermont: median $92 across 11 hospitalsVT$92New Hampshire: median $63 across 24 hospitalsNH$63Washington: median $85 across 66 hospitalsWA$85Idaho: median $64 across 20 hospitalsID$64Montana: median $116 across 27 hospitalsMT$116North Dakota: median $58 across 25 hospitalsND$58Minnesota: median $71 across 89 hospitalsMN$71Illinois: median $97 across 133 hospitalsIL$97Wisconsin: median $96 across 100 hospitalsWI$96Michigan: median $51 across 90 hospitalsMI$51New York: median $60 across 117 hospitalsNY$60Massachusetts: median $96 across 50 hospitalsMA$96Oregon: median $68 across 46 hospitalsOR$68Nevada: median $82 across 19 hospitalsNV$82Wyoming: median $60 across 16 hospitalsWY$60South Dakota: median $112 across 20 hospitalsSD$112Iowa: median $72 across 67 hospitalsIA$72Indiana: median $61 across 94 hospitalsIN$61Ohio: median $75 across 136 hospitalsOH$75Pennsylvania: median $90 across 120 hospitalsPA$90New Jersey: median $19 across 57 hospitalsNJ$19Connecticut: median $62 across 20 hospitalsCT$62Rhode Island: median $56 across 10 hospitalsRI$56California: median $21 across 140 hospitalsCA$21Utah: median $76 across 41 hospitalsUT$76Colorado: median $57 across 58 hospitalsCO$57Nebraska: median $96 across 62 hospitalsNE$96Missouri: median $94 across 70 hospitalsMO$94Kentucky: median $69 across 66 hospitalsKY$69West Virginia: median $72 across 40 hospitalsWV$72Virginia: median $96 across 69 hospitalsVA$96Maryland: median $88 across 41 hospitalsMD$88Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $83 across 39 hospitalsAZ$83New Mexico: median $101 across 18 hospitalsNM$101Kansas: median $89 across 68 hospitalsKS$89Arkansas: median $43 across 32 hospitalsAR$43Tennessee: median $60 across 75 hospitalsTN$60North Carolina: median $42 across 83 hospitalsNC$42South Carolina: median $116 across 52 hospitalsSC$116Oklahoma: median $57 across 68 hospitalsOK$57Louisiana: median $42 across 45 hospitalsLA$42Mississippi: median $53 across 49 hospitalsMS$53Alabama: median $76 across 42 hospitalsAL$76Georgia: median $67 across 100 hospitalsGA$67Hawaii: median $104 across 17 hospitalsHI$104Texas: median $106 across 223 hospitalsTX$106Florida: median $22 across 141 hospitalsFL$22
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $76. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Montana MT27$116+53%$93 – $134
South Carolina SC52$116+53%$59 – $132
South Dakota SD20$112+48%$34 – $246
Texas TX223$106+40%$34 – $233
Hawaii HI17$104+37%$43 – $167
New Mexico NM18$101+33%$54 – $173
Alaska AK14$99+30%$70 – $247
Illinois IL133$97+28%$49 – $210
Massachusetts MA50$96+27%$48 – $162
Nebraska NE62$96+27%$42 – $152
Virginia VA69$96+26%$29 – $174
Wisconsin WI100$96+26%$68 – $145
Missouri MO70$94+24%$57 – $163
Vermont VT11$92+22%$75 – $324
Pennsylvania PA120$90+18%$26 – $209
Kansas KS68$89+17%$56 – $129
Maryland MD41$88+16%$67 – $104
Washington WA66$85+13%$40 – $132
Arizona AZ39$83+10%$29 – $239
Nevada NV19$82+8%$25 – $164
Maine ME25$76+1%$37 – $132
Utah UT41$760%$64 – $114
Alabama AL42$760%$27 – $178
Ohio OH136$75−1%$43 – $140
West Virginia WV40$72−5%$42 – $109
Iowa IA67$72−5%$55 – $118
Minnesota MN89$71−6%$30 – $132
Kentucky KY66$69−9%$50 – $225
Oregon OR46$68−11%$31 – $93
Georgia GA100$67−11%$48 – $170
Idaho ID20$64−15%$21 – $103
New Hampshire NH24$63−17%$39 – $252
Connecticut CT20$62−18%$41 – $95
Indiana IN94$61−20%$36 – $129
New York NY117$60−20%$26 – $139
Tennessee TN75$60−21%$28 – $89
Wyoming WY16$60−21%$33 – $134
North Dakota ND25$58−23%$29 – $129
Oklahoma OK68$57−24%$33 – $114
Colorado CO58$57−25%$31 – $160
Rhode Island RI10$56−27%$39 – $133
Mississippi MS49$53−30%$22 – $122
Michigan MI90$51−33%$23 – $77
Arkansas AR32$43−43%$26 – $90
Louisiana LA45$42−45%$30 – $90
North Carolina NC83$42−45%$28 – $137
Florida FL141$22−71%$11 – $136
California CA140$21−73%$8 – $118
New Jersey NJ57$19−75%$17 – $81
Delaware DE6not 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 $76.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,182$71$27 – $139
Children’s58$125$53 – $181
Critical access791$84$46 – $140
Ownership
For-profit419$102$33 – $335
Government529$71$31 – $130
Non-profit2,083$75$30 – $134
System affiliation
Part of a system2,499$76$30 – $143
Independent542$76$33 – $129

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$125
Median cash price$76
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

2,067 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $75 and the average of the middle 60% is $77; most fall between $31 and $136.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,067 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
$20$38$75$122$191

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $191).

Of the 2,281 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,067 gave a usable cash price; 111 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 103 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,041 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (77%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,315 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,041
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here155
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded118
Hospitals that filed this code3,315

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.

Related procedures

Part of the Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Hgh (Thgh).

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, “Growth hormone blood test (CPT 83003) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83003-growth-hormone-blood-test