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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Human placental lactogen blood test

CPT 83632the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of human placental lactogen, a hormone made by the placenta during pregnancy, in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $125 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 554 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $129. Most fall between $41 and $208 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
554
States
43
Filings dated
Oct 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 554 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
$23$57$125$206$294

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $294).

How the prices are spread

$20 – $28: 57 hospitals$20$28 – $39: 36 hospitals$39 – $53: 27 hospitals$39$53 – $73: 48 hospitals$73 – $101: 50 hospitals$73$101 – $140: 62 hospitals$140 – $193: 102 hospitals$140$193 – $267: 98 hospitals$267 – $368: 25 hospitals$267$368 – $508: 15 hospitals$368median $125price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (520 of 554 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$20$2857
$28$3936
$39$5327
$53$7348
$73$10150
$101$14062
$140$193102
$193$26798
$267$36825
$368$50815

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $125.

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: 1 hospital 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $125 across 30 hospitalsIL$125Wisconsin: median $140 across 18 hospitalsWI$140Michigan: median $79 across 28 hospitalsMI$79New York: median $37 across 35 hospitalsNY$37Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $64 across 12 hospitalsIA$64Indiana: median $44 across 18 hospitalsIN$44Ohio: median $236 across 36 hospitalsOH$236Pennsylvania: median $23 across 28 hospitalsPA$23New Jersey: median $22 across 34 hospitalsNJ$22Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $206 across 37 hospitalsCA$206Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $248 across 14 hospitalsKY$248West Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $292 across 11 hospitalsVA$292Maryland: median $166 across 11 hospitalsMD$166Delaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $144 across 15 hospitalsAZ$144New Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $174 across 18 hospitalsSC$174Oklahoma: median $36 across 17 hospitalsOK$36Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $187 across 17 hospitalsGA$187Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $208 across 58 hospitalsTX$208Florida: median $187 across 38 hospitalsFL$187
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $125. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA11$292+133%$180 – $292
Kentucky KY14$248+98%$71 – $508
Ohio OH36$236+89%$128 – $274
Texas TX58$208+66%$155 – $208
California CA37$206+64%$163 – $206
Florida FL38$187+49%$108 – $351
Georgia GA17$187+49%$155 – $187
South Carolina SC18$174+39%$62 – $174
Maryland MD11$166+32%$125 – $192
Arizona AZ15$144+15%$55 – $144
Wisconsin WI18$140+12%$82 – $140
Illinois IL30$1250%$36 – $164
Michigan MI28$79−37%$53 – $133
Iowa IA12$64−49%$64 – $64
Indiana IN18$44−65%$33 – $212
New York NY35$37−70%$20 – $90
Oklahoma OK17$36−72%$36 – $138
Pennsylvania PA28$23−81%$14 – $106
New Jersey NJ34$22−82%$20 – $82
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $125.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care494$125$40 – $208
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access54$123$52 – $234
Ownership
For-profit71$128$75 – $306
Government47$83$23 – $155
Non-profit434$133$40 – $208
System affiliation
Part of a system507$138$45 – $208
Independent47$62$30 – $148

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$219
Median cash price$125
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

369 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $150 and the average of the middle 60% is $148; most fall between $64 and $208.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 369 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
$36$74$150$208$263

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($36 vs $263).

Of the 392 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 369 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

554 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 586 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted554
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here27
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code586

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 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 Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PLACENTAL LACTOGEN.

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, “Human placental lactogen blood test (CPT 83632) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83632-human-placental-lactogen-blood-test