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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Blood phenylalanine test, including newborn screening

CPT 84030the billing code this page is about

Measures the amount of the amino acid phenylalanine in a blood sample, used in screening for and monitoring phenylketonuria.

Hospitals typically charge $52 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,966 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $58. Most fall between $18 and $129 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,966
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2022 – 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 1,966 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
$10$22$52$106$202

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $202).

How the prices are spread

$7 – $10: 103 hospitals$7$10 – $15: 119 hospitals$15 – $22: 170 hospitals$15$22 – $32: 193 hospitals$32 – $48: 232 hospitals$32$48 – $71: 289 hospitals$71 – $105: 258 hospitals$71$105 – $155: 188 hospitals$155 – $230: 159 hospitals$155$230 – $340: 59 hospitals$230median $52price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,770 of 1,966 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$7$10103
$10$15119
$15$22170
$22$32193
$32$48232
$48$71289
$71$105258
$105$155188
$155$230159
$230$34059

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $52.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $73 across 20 hospitalsME$73Vermont: median $205 across 11 hospitalsVT$205New Hampshire: median $194 across 14 hospitalsNH$194Washington: median $68 across 55 hospitalsWA$68Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: median $31 across 24 hospitalsMT$31North Dakota: median $58 across 14 hospitalsND$58Minnesota: median $53 across 54 hospitalsMN$53Illinois: median $97 across 110 hospitalsIL$97Wisconsin: median $38 across 77 hospitalsWI$38Michigan: median $38 across 39 hospitalsMI$38New York: median $20 across 65 hospitalsNY$20Massachusetts: median $54 across 32 hospitalsMA$54Oregon: median $25 across 29 hospitalsOR$25Nevada: median $24 across 12 hospitalsNV$24Wyoming: median $28 across 15 hospitalsWY$28South Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $34 across 35 hospitalsIA$34Indiana: median $36 across 49 hospitalsIN$36Ohio: median $71 across 107 hospitalsOH$71Pennsylvania: median $23 across 53 hospitalsPA$23New Jersey: median $6 across 48 hospitalsNJ$6Connecticut: median $26 across 13 hospitalsCT$26Rhode Island: median $44 across 10 hospitalsRI$44California: median $50 across 90 hospitalsCA$50Utah: median $432 across 34 hospitalsUT$432Colorado: median $42 across 53 hospitalsCO$42Nebraska: median $72 across 46 hospitalsNE$72Missouri: median $55 across 59 hospitalsMO$55Kentucky: median $58 across 29 hospitalsKY$58West Virginia: median $59 across 33 hospitalsWV$59Virginia: median $82 across 53 hospitalsVA$82Maryland: median $48 across 24 hospitalsMD$48Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $39 across 32 hospitalsAZ$39New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $27 across 28 hospitalsKS$27Arkansas: median $53 across 20 hospitalsAR$53Tennessee: median $44 across 38 hospitalsTN$44North Carolina: median $85 across 75 hospitalsNC$85South Carolina: median $104 across 28 hospitalsSC$104Oklahoma: median $30 across 35 hospitalsOK$30Louisiana: median $26 across 37 hospitalsLA$26Mississippi: median $28 across 25 hospitalsMS$28Alabama: median $37 across 18 hospitalsAL$37Georgia: median $52 across 65 hospitalsGA$52Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $86 across 134 hospitalsTX$86Florida: median $35 across 83 hospitalsFL$35
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $52. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT34$432+726%$268 – $508
Vermont VT11$205+292%$92 – $281
New Hampshire NH14$194+272%$68 – $354
South Carolina SC28$104+98%$37 – $367
Illinois IL110$97+86%$25 – $176
Texas TX134$86+65%$40 – $283
North Carolina NC75$85+62%$33 – $129
Virginia VA53$82+56%$22 – $305
Maine ME20$73+41%$43 – $181
Nebraska NE46$72+38%$40 – $137
Ohio OH107$71+36%$25 – $128
Washington WA55$68+30%$21 – $124
West Virginia WV33$59+14%$16 – $175
Kentucky KY29$58+11%$27 – $200
North Dakota ND14$58+11%$26 – $75
Missouri MO59$55+4%$34 – $96
Massachusetts MA32$54+3%$19 – $102
Arkansas AR20$53+2%$18 – $95
Minnesota MN54$53+1%$31 – $109
Georgia GA65$520%$19 – $119
California CA90$50−5%$13 – $119
Maryland MD24$48−8%$36 – $65
Rhode Island RI10$44−16%$12 – $58
Tennessee TN38$44−17%$10 – $134
Colorado CO53$42−20%$9 – $129
Arizona AZ32$39−25%$33 – $103
Michigan MI39$38−27%$8 – $132
Wisconsin WI77$38−27%$13 – $61
Alabama AL18$37−30%$22 – $201
Indiana IN49$36−31%$9 – $113
Florida FL83$35−33%$18 – $68
Iowa IA35$34−36%$32 – $76
Montana MT24$31−41%$17 – $46
Oklahoma OK35$30−43%$18 – $57
Mississippi MS25$28−46%$15 – $63
Wyoming WY15$28−47%$10 – $125
Kansas KS28$27−49%$18 – $64
Louisiana LA37$26−50%$13 – $51
Connecticut CT13$26−50%$17 – $77
Oregon OR29$25−52%$10 – $124
Nevada NV12$24−55%$14 – $55
Pennsylvania PA53$23−56%$5 – $65
New York NY65$20−62%$6 – $64
New Jersey NJ48$6−88%$6 – $42
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not 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 $52.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,438$49$17 – $124
Children’s40$75$27 – $104
Critical access483$62$25 – $155
Ownership
For-profit269$84$21 – $274
Government318$55$21 – $124
Non-profit1,374$49$17 – $118
System affiliation
Part of a system1,632$52$18 – $129
Independent334$51$20 – $136

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$89
Median cash price$52
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

1,306 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $52 and the average of the middle 60% is $57; most fall between $20 and $118.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,306 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
$13$25$52$102$184

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $184).

Of the 1,421 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,306 gave a usable cash price; 56 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 59 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,966 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (50%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,104 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,966
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here72
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 — excluded65
Hospitals that filed this code2,104

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 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 BLOOD PKU.

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 phenylalanine test, including newborn screening (CPT 84030) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84030-blood-phenylalanine-test-including-newborn-screening