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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

ST2 heart strain blood test

CPT 83006the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures the protein made by the growth stimulation expressed gene 2, also called soluble ST2.

Hospitals typically charge $151 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 433 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $159. Most fall between $76 and $327 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
433
States
38
Filings dated
Oct 2025 – 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 433 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
$55$83$151$240$453

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($55 vs $453).

How the prices are spread

$45 – $61: 37 hospitals$45$61 – $82: 41 hospitals$82 – $110: 67 hospitals$82$110 – $148: 41 hospitals$148 – $199: 74 hospitals$148$199 – $269: 48 hospitals$269 – $362: 42 hospitals$269$362 – $487: 25 hospitals$487 – $656: 7 hospitals$487$656 – $884: 12 hospitals$656median $151price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (394 of 433 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$45$6137
$61$8241
$82$11067
$110$14841
$148$19974
$199$26948
$269$36242
$362$48725
$487$6567
$656$88412

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $151.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 4 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: median $73 across 13 hospitalsWI$73Michigan: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $76 across 20 hospitalsNY$76Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $151 across 13 hospitalsIA$151Indiana: median $118 across 21 hospitalsIN$118Ohio: median $339 across 46 hospitalsOH$339Pennsylvania: median $52 across 23 hospitalsPA$52New Jersey: median $83 across 28 hospitalsNJ$83Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $190 across 48 hospitalsCA$190Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $680 across 11 hospitalsCO$680Nebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $53 across 10 hospitalsVA$53Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $156 across 24 hospitalsNC$156South Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $88 across 16 hospitalsGA$88Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $181 across 46 hospitalsTX$181Florida: median $320 across 12 hospitalsFL$320
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $151. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO11$680+350%$529 – $865
Ohio OH46$339+124%$133 – $1,637
Florida FL12$320+112%$115 – $320
California CA48$190+26%$146 – $206
Texas TX46$181+19%$55 – $225
North Carolina NC24$156+3%$156 – $327
Iowa IA13$1510%$151 – $151
Indiana IN21$118−22%$106 – $172
Georgia GA16$88−42%$88 – $193
New Jersey NJ28$83−45%$76 – $87
New York NY20$76−50%$76 – $114
Wisconsin WI13$73−52%$73 – $73
Virginia VA10$53−65%$53 – $93
Pennsylvania PA23$52−66%$41 – $234
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $151.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care379$151$76 – $327
Children’s19fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access33$120$57 – $172
Ownership
For-profit48$160$57 – $411
Government52$156$87 – $327
Non-profit331$151$76 – $318
System affiliation
Part of a system398$156$76 – $327
Independent35$115$76 – $227

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$327
Median cash price$151
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.

The same procedure, inpatient

325 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $181 and the average of the middle 60% is $187; most fall between $87 and $339.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 325 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
$55$93$181$327$523

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($55 vs $523).

Of the 354 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 325 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 9 a list price only.

How complete is this

433 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 468 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted433
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here13
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 — excluded20
Hospitals that filed this code468

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 4, 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 St2 Agvhd.

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, “ST2 heart strain blood test (CPT 83006) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83006-st2-heart-strain-blood-test