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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Parathyroid hormone blood test

CPT 83970the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of parathyroid hormone in a blood sample, the hormone that helps control calcium levels.

Hospitals typically charge $161 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,357 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $164. Most fall between $68 and $290 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,357
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 3,357 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
$44$79$161$255$410

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($44 vs $410).

How the prices are spread

$29 – $39: 90 hospitals$29$39 – $53: 225 hospitals$53 – $71: 238 hospitals$53$71 – $97: 306 hospitals$97 – $131: 373 hospitals$97$131 – $177: 405 hospitals$177 – $240: 590 hospitals$177$240 – $324: 403 hospitals$324 – $439: 273 hospitals$324$439 – $594: 121 hospitals$439median $161price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,024 of 3,357 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$29$3990
$39$53225
$53$71238
$71$97306
$97$131373
$131$177405
$177$240590
$240$324403
$324$439273
$439$594121

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $161.

Alaska: median $308 across 18 hospitalsAK$308Maine: median $93 across 28 hospitalsME$93Vermont: median $168 across 14 hospitalsVT$168New Hampshire: median $211 across 24 hospitalsNH$211Washington: median $198 across 76 hospitalsWA$198Idaho: median $160 across 25 hospitalsID$160Montana: median $198 across 31 hospitalsMT$198North Dakota: median $219 across 33 hospitalsND$219Minnesota: median $112 across 106 hospitalsMN$112Illinois: median $218 across 143 hospitalsIL$218Wisconsin: median $232 across 107 hospitalsWI$232Michigan: median $126 across 88 hospitalsMI$126New York: median $101 across 119 hospitalsNY$101Massachusetts: median $238 across 54 hospitalsMA$238Oregon: median $143 across 51 hospitalsOR$143Nevada: median $237 across 21 hospitalsNV$237Wyoming: median $97 across 16 hospitalsWY$97South Dakota: median $252 across 41 hospitalsSD$252Iowa: median $183 across 89 hospitalsIA$183Indiana: median $151 across 97 hospitalsIN$151Ohio: median $140 across 143 hospitalsOH$140Pennsylvania: median $182 across 122 hospitalsPA$182New Jersey: median $47 across 57 hospitalsNJ$47Connecticut: median $184 across 23 hospitalsCT$184Rhode Island: median $297 across 10 hospitalsRI$297California: median $143 across 137 hospitalsCA$143Utah: median $186 across 41 hospitalsUT$186Colorado: median $145 across 70 hospitalsCO$145Nebraska: median $240 across 82 hospitalsNE$240Missouri: median $141 across 78 hospitalsMO$141Kentucky: median $173 across 69 hospitalsKY$173West Virginia: median $153 across 43 hospitalsWV$153Virginia: median $232 across 73 hospitalsVA$232Maryland: median $41 across 41 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $142 across 42 hospitalsAZ$142New Mexico: median $185 across 29 hospitalsNM$185Kansas: median $193 across 93 hospitalsKS$193Arkansas: median $85 across 39 hospitalsAR$85Tennessee: median $102 across 83 hospitalsTN$102North Carolina: median $132 across 86 hospitalsNC$132South Carolina: median $214 across 53 hospitalsSC$214Oklahoma: median $137 across 73 hospitalsOK$137Louisiana: median $96 across 52 hospitalsLA$96Mississippi: median $84 across 57 hospitalsMS$84Alabama: median $125 across 43 hospitalsAL$125Georgia: median $146 across 110 hospitalsGA$146Hawaii: median $297 across 21 hospitalsHI$297Texas: median $182 across 249 hospitalsTX$182Florida: median $99 across 150 hospitalsFL$99
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $161. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK18$308+91%$144 – $455
Hawaii HI21$297+84%$126 – $385
Rhode Island RI10$297+84%$96 – $330
South Dakota SD41$252+56%$210 – $411
Nebraska NE82$240+48%$105 – $330
Massachusetts MA54$238+48%$125 – $386
Nevada NV21$237+47%$128 – $374
Virginia VA73$232+44%$72 – $396
Wisconsin WI107$232+44%$120 – $343
North Dakota ND33$219+36%$74 – $319
Illinois IL143$218+35%$103 – $318
South Carolina SC53$214+33%$114 – $278
New Hampshire NH24$211+30%$97 – $378
Washington WA76$198+23%$122 – $273
Montana MT31$198+22%$132 – $248
Kansas KS93$193+19%$122 – $257
Utah UT41$186+15%$170 – $218
New Mexico NM29$185+15%$89 – $302
Connecticut CT23$184+14%$130 – $344
Iowa IA89$183+14%$109 – $250
Pennsylvania PA122$182+13%$64 – $370
Texas TX249$182+13%$49 – $421
Kentucky KY69$173+7%$117 – $440
Vermont VT14$168+4%$115 – $398
Idaho ID25$160−1%$87 – $186
West Virginia WV43$153−5%$109 – $356
Indiana IN97$151−6%$66 – $233
Georgia GA110$146−9%$82 – $278
Colorado CO70$145−10%$42 – $288
Oregon OR51$143−11%$104 – $176
California CA137$143−11%$41 – $399
Arizona AZ42$142−12%$54 – $458
Missouri MO78$141−13%$86 – $236
Ohio OH143$140−13%$72 – $237
Oklahoma OK73$137−15%$72 – $202
North Carolina NC86$132−18%$86 – $246
Michigan MI88$126−22%$56 – $188
Alabama AL43$125−22%$53 – $311
Minnesota MN106$112−31%$61 – $283
Tennessee TN83$102−37%$65 – $230
New York NY119$101−37%$42 – $273
Florida FL150$99−39%$22 – $314
Wyoming WY16$97−40%$75 – $269
Louisiana LA52$96−41%$68 – $168
Maine ME28$93−43%$50 – $405
Arkansas AR39$85−47%$54 – $195
Mississippi MS57$84−48%$56 – $156
New Jersey NJ57$47−71%$45 – $140
Maryland MD41$41−75%$32 – $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 $161.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,300$146$57 – $294
Children’s64$216$101 – $400
Critical access983$186$89 – $283
Ownership
For-profit467$193$65 – $537
Government637$156$72 – $262
Non-profit2,243$156$67 – $278
System affiliation
Part of a system2,713$166$67 – $302
Independent644$149$72 – $258

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$264
Median cash price$161
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

2,270 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $169 and the average of the middle 60% is $170; most fall between $72 and $290.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,270 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
$46$87$169$258$400

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($46 vs $400).

Of the 2,523 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,270 gave a usable cash price; 141 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 112 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,357 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (85%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,691 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,357
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here198
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 — excluded135
Hospitals that filed this code3,691

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.

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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, “Parathyroid hormone blood test (CPT 83970) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83970-parathyroid-hormone-blood-test