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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Luteinizing hormone-releasing factor blood test

CPT 83727the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures the brain hormone that signals the pituitary gland to release luteinizing hormone.

Hospitals typically charge $185 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 783 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $168. Most fall between $34 and $303 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
783
States
49
Filings dated
Jan 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 783 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$43$185$284$522

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 28× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $522).

How the prices are spread

$17 – $25: 84 hospitals$17$25 – $36: 52 hospitals$36 – $53: 42 hospitals$36$53 – $77: 54 hospitals$77 – $112: 41 hospitals$77$112 – $163: 44 hospitals$163 – $237: 169 hospitals$163$237 – $344: 127 hospitals$344 – $501: 52 hospitals$344$501 – $729: 47 hospitals$501median $185price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (712 of 783 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$17$2584
$25$3652
$36$5342
$53$7754
$77$11241
$112$16344
$163$237169
$237$344127
$344$50152
$501$72947

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $185.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $49 across 12 hospitalsWA$49Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $146 across 29 hospitalsIL$146Wisconsin: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $169 across 41 hospitalsMI$169New York: median $24 across 28 hospitalsNY$24Massachusetts: median $115 across 12 hospitalsMA$115Oregon: median $288 across 11 hospitalsOR$288Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $55 across 18 hospitalsIA$55Indiana: median $58 across 47 hospitalsIN$58Ohio: median $367 across 69 hospitalsOH$367Pennsylvania: median $122 across 48 hospitalsPA$122New Jersey: median $19 across 35 hospitalsNJ$19Connecticut: 5 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 $175 across 37 hospitalsCA$175Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $233 across 13 hospitalsCO$233Nebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $204 across 12 hospitalsMO$204Kentucky: median $295 across 21 hospitalsKY$295West Virginia: median $187 across 11 hospitalsWV$187Virginia: median $190 across 26 hospitalsVA$190Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: median $92 across 10 hospitalsNM$92Kansas: median $425 across 19 hospitalsKS$425Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $32 across 27 hospitalsTN$32North Carolina: median $141 across 13 hospitalsNC$141South Carolina: median $185 across 16 hospitalsSC$185Oklahoma: median $61 across 28 hospitalsOK$61Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $15 across 10 hospitalsMS$15Alabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $194 across 20 hospitalsGA$194Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $260 across 62 hospitalsTX$260Florida: median $220 across 16 hospitalsFL$220
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $185. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kansas KS19$425+129%$237 – $597
Ohio OH69$367+98%$65 – $670
Kentucky KY21$295+59%$74 – $301
Oregon OR11$288+55%$215 – $288
Texas TX62$260+40%$108 – $624
Colorado CO13$233+26%$99 – $274
Florida FL16$220+19%$196 – $274
Missouri MO12$204+10%$99 – $468
Georgia GA20$194+5%$110 – $522
Virginia VA26$190+2%$17 – $201
West Virginia WV11$187+1%$187 – $187
South Carolina SC16$1850%$185 – $185
California CA37$175−6%$175 – $253
Michigan MI41$169−9%$24 – $221
Illinois IL29$146−21%$28 – $529
North Carolina NC13$141−24%$124 – $157
Pennsylvania PA48$122−34%$17 – $248
Massachusetts MA12$115−38%$60 – $242
New Mexico NM10$92−50%$65 – $385
Oklahoma OK28$61−67%$30 – $190
Indiana IN47$58−69%$28 – $273
Iowa IA18$55−70%$55 – $235
Washington WA12$49−73%$34 – $235
Tennessee TN27$32−83%$17 – $207
New York NY28$24−87%$17 – $73
New Jersey NJ35$19−90%$17 – $153
Mississippi MS10$15−92%$13 – $115
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $185.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care613$175$30 – $288
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access153$238$44 – $425
Ownership
For-profit110$172$35 – $502
Government108$207$44 – $371
Non-profit561$180$33 – $295
System affiliation
Part of a system652$175$33 – $295
Independent131$207$63 – $454

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$312
Median cash price$185
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

519 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $188 and the average of the middle 60% is $182; most fall between $55 and $308.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 519 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
$30$68$188$281$522

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($30 vs $522).

Of the 571 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 519 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 32 a list price only.

How complete is this

783 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (20%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 836 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted783
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here19
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded33
Hospitals that filed this code836

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 ASSAY OF LRH HORMONE.

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, “Luteinizing hormone-releasing factor blood test (CPT 83727) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83727-luteinizing-hormone-releasing-factor-blood-test