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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Blood test for osteocalcin, a bone protein

CPT 83937the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of osteocalcin, a protein made by bone-forming cells, in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $90 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,891 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $97. Most fall between $41 and $183 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,891
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 1,891 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$48$90$160$255

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($30 vs $255).

How the prices are spread

$22 – $29: 95 hospitals$22$29 – $39: 172 hospitals$39 – $52: 161 hospitals$39$52 – $69: 227 hospitals$69 – $92: 209 hospitals$69$92 – $123: 217 hospitals$123 – $163: 261 hospitals$123$163 – $218: 184 hospitals$218 – $290: 115 hospitals$218$290 – $386: 65 hospitals$290median $90price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,706 of 1,891 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$22$2995
$29$39172
$39$52161
$52$69227
$69$92209
$92$123217
$123$163261
$163$218184
$218$290115
$290$38665

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $90.

Alaska: median $120 across 12 hospitalsAK$120Maine: median $77 across 18 hospitalsME$77Vermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $165 across 15 hospitalsNH$165Washington: median $113 across 36 hospitalsWA$113Idaho: median $119 across 13 hospitalsID$119Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $175 across 11 hospitalsND$175Minnesota: median $96 across 47 hospitalsMN$96Illinois: median $111 across 93 hospitalsIL$111Wisconsin: median $122 across 58 hospitalsWI$122Michigan: median $41 across 56 hospitalsMI$41New York: median $68 across 83 hospitalsNY$68Massachusetts: median $155 across 42 hospitalsMA$155Oregon: median $92 across 27 hospitalsOR$92Nevada: median $104 across 12 hospitalsNV$104Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $109 across 28 hospitalsIA$109Indiana: median $90 across 80 hospitalsIN$90Ohio: median $94 across 115 hospitalsOH$94Pennsylvania: median $127 across 84 hospitalsPA$127New Jersey: median $34 across 45 hospitalsNJ$34Connecticut: median $128 across 13 hospitalsCT$128Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $53 across 93 hospitalsCA$53Utah: median $186 across 32 hospitalsUT$186Colorado: median $166 across 52 hospitalsCO$166Nebraska: median $107 across 19 hospitalsNE$107Missouri: median $94 across 61 hospitalsMO$94Kentucky: median $123 across 55 hospitalsKY$123West Virginia: median $22 across 17 hospitalsWV$22Virginia: median $103 across 53 hospitalsVA$103Maryland: median $43 across 31 hospitalsMD$43Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $42 across 15 hospitalsAZ$42New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $131 across 35 hospitalsKS$131Arkansas: median $99 across 19 hospitalsAR$99Tennessee: median $39 across 34 hospitalsTN$39North Carolina: median $67 across 51 hospitalsNC$67South Carolina: median $150 across 39 hospitalsSC$150Oklahoma: median $57 across 42 hospitalsOK$57Louisiana: median $60 across 26 hospitalsLA$60Mississippi: median $76 across 32 hospitalsMS$76Alabama: median $54 across 15 hospitalsAL$54Georgia: median $92 across 51 hospitalsGA$92Hawaii: median $102 across 11 hospitalsHI$102Texas: median $141 across 104 hospitalsTX$141Florida: median $36 across 69 hospitalsFL$36
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $90. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT32$186+106%$153 – $219
North Dakota ND11$175+94%$122 – $182
Colorado CO52$166+83%$95 – $399
New Hampshire NH15$165+83%$25 – $292
Massachusetts MA42$155+72%$90 – $262
South Carolina SC39$150+66%$83 – $233
Texas TX104$141+56%$37 – $205
Kansas KS35$131+45%$67 – $294
Connecticut CT13$128+42%$96 – $181
Pennsylvania PA84$127+41%$29 – $319
Kentucky KY55$123+36%$52 – $214
Wisconsin WI58$122+35%$60 – $233
Alaska AK12$120+33%$55 – $275
Idaho ID13$119+32%$98 – $172
Washington WA36$113+25%$60 – $148
Illinois IL93$111+22%$74 – $163
Iowa IA28$109+21%$91 – $179
Nebraska NE19$107+18%$61 – $301
Nevada NV12$104+16%$29 – $293
Virginia VA53$103+14%$30 – $193
Hawaii HI11$102+13%$76 – $187
Arkansas AR19$99+9%$45 – $110
Minnesota MN47$96+7%$31 – $237
Ohio OH115$94+4%$71 – $142
Missouri MO61$94+4%$52 – $158
Georgia GA51$92+2%$57 – $137
Oregon OR27$92+2%$39 – $155
Indiana IN80$90−1%$42 – $184
Maine ME18$77−14%$41 – $251
Mississippi MS32$76−15%$45 – $108
New York NY83$68−25%$30 – $150
North Carolina NC51$67−26%$50 – $177
Louisiana LA26$60−34%$43 – $155
Oklahoma OK42$57−37%$53 – $121
Alabama AL15$54−40%$25 – $102
California CA93$53−42%$23 – $131
Maryland MD31$43−52%$31 – $49
Arizona AZ15$42−53%$32 – $138
Michigan MI56$41−55%$19 – $84
Tennessee TN34$39−57%$31 – $71
Florida FL69$36−60%$25 – $205
New Jersey NJ45$34−62%$30 – $82
West Virginia WV17$22−76%$22 – $65
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not 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 $90.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,477$86$37 – $181
Children’s50$105$53 – $183
Critical access358$109$59 – $188
Ownership
For-profit220$123$45 – $272
Government263$77$43 – $154
Non-profit1,402$90$41 – $181
System affiliation
Part of a system1,600$89$40 – $185
Independent291$99$47 – $173

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$166
Median cash price$90
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

1,335 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $94 and the average of the middle 60% is $100; most fall between $45 and $184.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,335 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
$31$52$94$160$249

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($31 vs $249).

Of the 1,483 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,335 gave a usable cash price; 77 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 71 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,891 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (48%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,074 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,891
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here96
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 — excluded85
Hospitals that filed this code2,074

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 Osteocalacin (Gla).

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, “Blood test for osteocalcin, a bone protein (CPT 83937) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83937-blood-test-for-osteocalcin-a-bone-protein