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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Test for des-gamma-carboxy prothrombin, a liver tumor marker

CPT 83951the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of the des-gamma-carboxy prothrombin protein in a blood sample, a marker used in liver cancer evaluation.

Hospitals typically charge $155 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,057 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $173. Most fall between $86 and $354 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,057
States
48
Filings dated
Dec 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 1,057 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
$64$97$155$288$534

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($64 vs $534).

How the prices are spread

$60 – $77: 128 hospitals$60$77 – $99: 95 hospitals$99 – $126: 125 hospitals$99$126 – $162: 138 hospitals$162 – $208: 135 hospitals$162$208 – $266: 92 hospitals$266 – $341: 76 hospitals$266$341 – $437: 56 hospitals$437 – $560: 69 hospitals$437$560 – $718: 39 hospitals$560median $155price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (953 of 1,057 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$60$77128
$77$9995
$99$126125
$126$162138
$162$208135
$208$26692
$266$34176
$341$43756
$437$56069
$560$71839

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $155.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $115 across 14 hospitalsME$115Vermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $135 across 15 hospitalsWA$135Idaho: median $218 across 10 hospitalsID$218Montana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $274 across 21 hospitalsMN$274Illinois: median $191 across 51 hospitalsIL$191Wisconsin: median $665 across 32 hospitalsWI$665Michigan: median $105 across 20 hospitalsMI$105New York: median $113 across 51 hospitalsNY$113Massachusetts: median $270 across 16 hospitalsMA$270Oregon: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: median $252 across 12 hospitalsNV$252Wyoming: 4 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 $86 across 16 hospitalsIA$86Indiana: median $147 across 60 hospitalsIN$147Ohio: median $289 across 63 hospitalsOH$289Pennsylvania: median $177 across 63 hospitalsPA$177New Jersey: median $71 across 44 hospitalsNJ$71Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $114 across 77 hospitalsCA$114Utah: median $169 across 29 hospitalsUT$169Colorado: median $181 across 12 hospitalsCO$181Nebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $210 across 15 hospitalsKY$210West Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $194 across 30 hospitalsVA$194Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $129 across 29 hospitalsAZ$129New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $77 across 10 hospitalsTN$77North Carolina: median $145 across 48 hospitalsNC$145South Carolina: median $224 across 16 hospitalsSC$224Oklahoma: median $124 across 16 hospitalsOK$124Louisiana: median $83 across 27 hospitalsLA$83Mississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $177 across 55 hospitalsGA$177Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $152 across 81 hospitalsTX$152Florida: median $224 across 38 hospitalsFL$224
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $155. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI32$665+329%$263 – $665
Ohio OH63$289+86%$189 – $516
Minnesota MN21$274+77%$95 – $521
Massachusetts MA16$270+74%$227 – $437
Nevada NV12$252+63%$125 – $387
South Carolina SC16$224+45%$224 – $224
Florida FL38$224+44%$140 – $534
Idaho ID10$218+41%$177 – $288
Kentucky KY15$210+35%$71 – $756
Virginia VA30$194+25%$133 – $892
Illinois IL51$191+23%$86 – $333
Colorado CO12$181+17%$102 – $470
Pennsylvania PA63$177+14%$74 – $454
Georgia GA55$177+14%$62 – $296
Utah UT29$169+9%$149 – $175
Texas TX81$152−2%$97 – $179
Indiana IN60$147−5%$90 – $276
North Carolina NC48$145−6%$145 – $390
Washington WA15$135−13%$120 – $244
Arizona AZ29$129−17%$74 – $406
Oklahoma OK16$124−20%$113 – $960
Maine ME14$115−26%$77 – $239
California CA77$114−27%$71 – $219
New York NY51$113−27%$64 – $171
Michigan MI20$105−32%$80 – $154
Iowa IA16$86−44%$86 – $210
Louisiana LA27$83−47%$57 – $179
Tennessee TN10$77−50%$63 – $117
New Jersey NJ44$71−54%$64 – $208
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $155.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care876$152$77 – $331
Children’s24$256$122 – $520
Critical access154$188$125 – $358
Ownership
For-profit129$153$80 – $410
Government137$146$82 – $232
Non-profit788$157$86 – $371
System affiliation
Part of a system923$152$86 – $390
Independent134$177$82 – $288

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$300
Median cash price$155
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

793 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $175 and the average of the middle 60% is $188; most fall between $94 and $390.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 793 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
$74$101$175$308$537

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($74 vs $537).

Of the 887 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 793 gave a usable cash price; 52 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 42 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,057 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (27%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,167 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,057
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here69
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 — excluded40
Hospitals that filed this code1,167

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 Pivka II.

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, “Test for des-gamma-carboxy prothrombin, a liver tumor marker (CPT 83951) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83951-test-for-des-gamma-carboxy-prothrombin-a-liver-tumor-marker