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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Myoglobin blood test

CPT 83874the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures myoglobin, a protein released when heart or skeletal muscle is damaged.

Hospitals typically charge $69 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,136 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $74. Most fall between $27 and $138 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,136
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 3,136 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
$15$33$69$122$206

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $206).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $16: 211 hospitals$12$16 – $23: 182 hospitals$23 – $32: 218 hospitals$23$32 – $44: 273 hospitals$44 – $62: 372 hospitals$44$62 – $87: 442 hospitals$87 – $121: 469 hospitals$87$121 – $169: 384 hospitals$169 – $236: 176 hospitals$169$236 – $329: 103 hospitals$236median $69price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,830 of 3,136 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$16211
$16$23182
$23$32218
$32$44273
$44$62372
$62$87442
$87$121469
$121$169384
$169$236176
$236$329103

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $69.

Alaska: median $193 across 15 hospitalsAK$193Maine: median $71 across 27 hospitalsME$71Vermont: median $116 across 13 hospitalsVT$116New Hampshire: median $77 across 22 hospitalsNH$77Washington: median $90 across 73 hospitalsWA$90Idaho: median $71 across 22 hospitalsID$71Montana: median $80 across 21 hospitalsMT$80North Dakota: median $66 across 26 hospitalsND$66Minnesota: median $55 across 80 hospitalsMN$55Illinois: median $99 across 135 hospitalsIL$99Wisconsin: median $79 across 100 hospitalsWI$79Michigan: median $27 across 82 hospitalsMI$27New York: median $36 across 104 hospitalsNY$36Massachusetts: median $90 across 51 hospitalsMA$90Oregon: median $76 across 45 hospitalsOR$76Nevada: median $87 across 20 hospitalsNV$87Wyoming: median $51 across 15 hospitalsWY$51South Dakota: median $123 across 26 hospitalsSD$123Iowa: median $88 across 83 hospitalsIA$88Indiana: median $82 across 94 hospitalsIN$82Ohio: median $58 across 141 hospitalsOH$58Pennsylvania: median $65 across 121 hospitalsPA$65New Jersey: median $15 across 56 hospitalsNJ$15Connecticut: median $47 across 19 hospitalsCT$47Rhode Island: median $84 across 10 hospitalsRI$84California: median $21 across 141 hospitalsCA$21Utah: median $62 across 39 hospitalsUT$62Colorado: median $68 across 63 hospitalsCO$68Nebraska: median $124 across 72 hospitalsNE$124Missouri: median $76 across 75 hospitalsMO$76Kentucky: median $105 across 66 hospitalsKY$105West Virginia: median $43 across 39 hospitalsWV$43Virginia: median $79 across 73 hospitalsVA$79Maryland: median $54 across 40 hospitalsMD$54Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $89 across 42 hospitalsAZ$89New Mexico: median $114 across 21 hospitalsNM$114Kansas: median $80 across 74 hospitalsKS$80Arkansas: median $33 across 35 hospitalsAR$33Tennessee: median $42 across 81 hospitalsTN$42North Carolina: median $46 across 85 hospitalsNC$46South Carolina: median $107 across 52 hospitalsSC$107Oklahoma: median $77 across 68 hospitalsOK$77Louisiana: median $43 across 50 hospitalsLA$43Mississippi: median $49 across 56 hospitalsMS$49Alabama: median $64 across 44 hospitalsAL$64Georgia: median $88 across 105 hospitalsGA$88Hawaii: median $81 across 18 hospitalsHI$81Texas: median $99 across 236 hospitalsTX$99Florida: median $20 across 153 hospitalsFL$20
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $69. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK15$193+180%$84 – $241
Nebraska NE72$124+81%$83 – $168
South Dakota SD26$123+80%$68 – $212
Vermont VT13$116+69%$62 – $279
New Mexico NM21$114+66%$59 – $204
South Carolina SC52$107+55%$62 – $134
Kentucky KY66$105+53%$44 – $167
Illinois IL135$99+45%$52 – $174
Texas TX236$99+44%$37 – $202
Massachusetts MA51$90+31%$41 – $128
Washington WA73$90+31%$51 – $134
Arizona AZ42$89+29%$38 – $329
Georgia GA105$88+28%$41 – $142
Iowa IA83$88+28%$54 – $120
Nevada NV20$87+26%$20 – $148
Rhode Island RI10$84+22%$30 – $103
Indiana IN94$82+19%$25 – $175
Hawaii HI18$81+18%$32 – $167
Montana MT21$80+17%$67 – $171
Kansas KS74$80+16%$55 – $121
Virginia VA73$79+15%$23 – $143
Wisconsin WI100$79+15%$61 – $116
New Hampshire NH22$77+13%$38 – $202
Oklahoma OK68$77+12%$46 – $114
Missouri MO75$76+11%$41 – $124
Oregon OR45$76+10%$20 – $116
Maine ME27$71+4%$43 – $132
Idaho ID22$71+3%$16 – $104
Colorado CO63$68−1%$45 – $111
North Dakota ND26$66−3%$23 – $113
Pennsylvania PA121$65−5%$21 – $164
Alabama AL44$64−7%$26 – $159
Utah UT39$62−9%$53 – $206
Ohio OH141$58−16%$36 – $123
Minnesota MN80$55−20%$28 – $128
Maryland MD40$54−21%$42 – $65
Wyoming WY15$51−25%$36 – $100
Mississippi MS56$49−29%$26 – $80
Connecticut CT19$47−31%$17 – $69
North Carolina NC85$46−32%$24 – $96
West Virginia WV39$43−37%$14 – $110
Louisiana LA50$43−38%$23 – $70
Tennessee TN81$42−39%$23 – $92
New York NY104$36−47%$14 – $119
Arkansas AR35$33−52%$22 – $75
Michigan MI82$27−61%$11 – $57
California CA141$21−69%$9 – $122
Florida FL153$20−71%$10 – $87
New Jersey NJ56$15−78%$14 – $49
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 $69.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,238$63$22 – $134
Children’s62$84$32 – $155
Critical access826$88$41 – $144
Ownership
For-profit454$85$23 – $300
Government571$76$34 – $128
Non-profit2,101$66$26 – $130
System affiliation
Part of a system2,556$68$25 – $139
Independent580$71$34 – $125

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$119
Median cash price$69
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

2,134 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $68 and the average of the middle 60% is $73; most fall between $29 and $133.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,134 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
$17$35$68$118$181

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $181).

Of the 2,357 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,134 gave a usable cash price; 117 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 106 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,136 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (79%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,421 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,136
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here162
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 — excluded122
Hospitals that filed this code3,421

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 Myoglobin-Chem.

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, “Myoglobin blood test (CPT 83874) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83874-myoglobin-blood-test