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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Total acid phosphatase blood test

CPT 84060the billing code this page is about

Measures the total amount of the enzyme acid phosphatase in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $42 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,178 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $46. Most fall between $16 and $97 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,178
States
48
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 1,178 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
$9$20$42$81$161

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $161).

How the prices are spread

$7 – $10: 88 hospitals$7$10 – $15: 79 hospitals$15 – $21: 83 hospitals$15$21 – $31: 126 hospitals$31 – $44: 184 hospitals$31$44 – $63: 169 hospitals$63 – $91: 142 hospitals$63$91 – $131: 81 hospitals$131 – $188: 64 hospitals$131$188 – $271: 47 hospitals$188median $42price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,063 of 1,178 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$7$1088
$10$1579
$15$2183
$21$31126
$31$44184
$44$63169
$63$91142
$91$13181
$131$18864
$188$27147

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $42.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $38 across 10 hospitalsME$38Vermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $25 across 15 hospitalsWA$25Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $141 across 12 hospitalsMN$141Illinois: median $60 across 49 hospitalsIL$60Wisconsin: median $51 across 25 hospitalsWI$51Michigan: median $11 across 27 hospitalsMI$11New York: median $22 across 52 hospitalsNY$22Massachusetts: median $53 across 19 hospitalsMA$53Oregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: median $40 across 14 hospitalsNV$40Wyoming: 7 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 $34 across 23 hospitalsIA$34Indiana: median $59 across 47 hospitalsIN$59Ohio: median $40 across 64 hospitalsOH$40Pennsylvania: median $11 across 37 hospitalsPA$11New Jersey: median $8 across 36 hospitalsNJ$8Connecticut: 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 $21 across 56 hospitalsCA$21Utah: median $48 across 30 hospitalsUT$48Colorado: median $47 across 30 hospitalsCO$47Nebraska: median $39 across 18 hospitalsNE$39Missouri: median $69 across 26 hospitalsMO$69Kentucky: median $62 across 35 hospitalsKY$62West Virginia: median $57 across 10 hospitalsWV$57Virginia: median $84 across 25 hospitalsVA$84Maryland: median $31 across 10 hospitalsMD$31Delaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $35 across 19 hospitalsAZ$35New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $67 across 21 hospitalsKS$67Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $35 across 32 hospitalsTN$35North Carolina: median $131 across 39 hospitalsNC$131South Carolina: median $49 across 16 hospitalsSC$49Oklahoma: median $16 across 21 hospitalsOK$16Louisiana: median $33 across 23 hospitalsLA$33Mississippi: median $32 across 31 hospitalsMS$32Alabama: median $40 across 13 hospitalsAL$40Georgia: median $28 across 56 hospitalsGA$28Hawaii: median $45 across 11 hospitalsHI$45Texas: median $71 across 119 hospitalsTX$71Florida: median $25 across 57 hospitalsFL$25
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $42. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Minnesota MN12$141+235%$44 – $141
North Carolina NC39$131+213%$19 – $134
Virginia VA25$84+100%$35 – $97
Texas TX119$71+69%$28 – $302
Missouri MO26$69+63%$18 – $153
Kansas KS21$67+59%$46 – $109
Kentucky KY35$62+49%$35 – $86
Illinois IL49$60+43%$27 – $115
Indiana IN47$59+41%$13 – $91
West Virginia WV10$57+35%$20 – $83
Massachusetts MA19$53+27%$18 – $81
Wisconsin WI25$51+20%$44 – $122
South Carolina SC16$49+17%$39 – $64
Utah UT30$48+15%$41 – $48
Colorado CO30$47+11%$17 – $122
Hawaii HI11$45+7%$20 – $67
Alabama AL13$40−4%$9 – $70
Ohio OH64$40−4%$34 – $81
Nevada NV14$40−5%$7 – $104
Nebraska NE18$39−8%$4 – $96
Maine ME10$38−10%$15 – $58
Arizona AZ19$35−16%$12 – $54
Tennessee TN32$35−17%$13 – $77
Iowa IA23$34−20%$34 – $61
Louisiana LA23$33−21%$11 – $53
Mississippi MS31$32−24%$19 – $53
Maryland MD10$31−25%$23 – $33
Georgia GA56$28−33%$23 – $42
Washington WA15$25−40%$14 – $102
Florida FL57$25−41%$8 – $99
New York NY52$22−48%$8 – $56
California CA56$21−49%$10 – $55
Oklahoma OK21$16−61%$14 – $33
Pennsylvania PA37$11−73%$6 – $56
Michigan MI27$11−75%$7 – $44
New Jersey NJ36$8−80%$8 – $48
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not 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 $42.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care915$39$13 – $97
Children’s37$60$25 – $181
Critical access222$44$30 – $95
Ownership
For-profit206$56$21 – $243
Government190$42$20 – $87
Non-profit778$40$14 – $84
System affiliation
Part of a system992$42$14 – $96
Independent186$44$21 – $98

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$73
Median cash price$42
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

753 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $42 and the average of the middle 60% is $45; most fall between $20 and $84.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 753 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
$12$23$42$75$131

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $131).

Of the 863 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 753 gave a usable cash price; 62 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 48 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,178 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (30%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,316 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,178
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here83
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded55
Hospitals that filed this code1,316

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 Acid Phos Total Only.

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, “Total acid phosphatase blood test (CPT 84060) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84060-total-acid-phosphatase-blood-test