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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Porphobilinogen urine test, screening

CPT 84106the billing code this page is about

A screening urine test that reports only whether porphobilinogen is present, without measuring how much.

Hospitals typically charge $26 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 552 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $30. Most fall between $10 and $63 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
552
States
45
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 552 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
$6$12$26$55$106

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($6 vs $106).

How the prices are spread

$5 – $7: 65 hospitals$5$7 – $11: 44 hospitals$11 – $16: 40 hospitals$11$16 – $24: 88 hospitals$24 – $36: 86 hospitals$24$36 – $53: 64 hospitals$53 – $79: 71 hospitals$53$79 – $117: 24 hospitals$117 – $174: 9 hospitals$117$174 – $257: 14 hospitals$174median $26price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (505 of 552 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$5$765
$7$1144
$11$1640
$16$2488
$24$3686
$36$5364
$53$7971
$79$11724
$117$1749
$174$25714

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $26.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $35 across 17 hospitalsIL$35Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $18 across 20 hospitalsMI$18New York: median $6 across 27 hospitalsNY$6Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $34 across 18 hospitalsIA$34Indiana: median $40 across 18 hospitalsIN$40Ohio: median $27 across 40 hospitalsOH$27Pennsylvania: median $7 across 27 hospitalsPA$7New Jersey: median $6 across 29 hospitalsNJ$6Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $17 across 40 hospitalsCA$17Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $25 across 15 hospitalsCO$25Nebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $59 across 16 hospitalsMO$59Kentucky: median $37 across 14 hospitalsKY$37West Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $41 across 15 hospitalsVA$41Maryland: median $21 across 11 hospitalsMD$21Delaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $49 across 10 hospitalsAR$49Tennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $70 across 13 hospitalsSC$70Oklahoma: median $25 across 17 hospitalsOK$25Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $38 across 36 hospitalsGA$38Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $74 across 33 hospitalsTX$74Florida: median $23 across 27 hospitalsFL$23
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $26. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX33$74+187%$36 – $481
South Carolina SC13$70+172%$12 – $257
Missouri MO16$59+129%$57 – $101
Arkansas AR10$49+89%$47 – $56
Virginia VA15$41+59%$11 – $60
Indiana IN18$40+54%$15 – $63
Georgia GA36$38+46%$17 – $77
Kentucky KY14$37+44%$15 – $56
Illinois IL17$35+34%$15 – $99
Iowa IA18$34+30%$34 – $55
Ohio OH40$27+3%$26 – $79
Oklahoma OK17$25−2%$13 – $40
Colorado CO15$25−3%$24 – $396
Florida FL27$23−9%$10 – $37
Maryland MD11$21−17%$11 – $29
Michigan MI20$18−32%$8 – $38
California CA40$17−35%$17 – $35
Pennsylvania PA27$7−74%$4 – $19
New Jersey NJ29$6−75%$6 – $7
New York NY27$6−77%$6 – $46
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $26.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care466$24$8 – $61
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access78$42$20 – $98
Ownership
For-profit80$25$11 – $337
Government58$19$7 – $77
Non-profit410$26$10 – $56
System affiliation
Part of a system474$26$10 – $61
Independent78$25$9 – $105

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$60
Median cash price$26
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

345 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $29 and the average of the middle 60% is $32; most fall between $16 and $61.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 345 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
$11$17$29$55$81

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $81).

Of the 377 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 345 gave a usable cash price; 4 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 28 a list price only.

How complete is this

552 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 589 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted552
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here8
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 — excluded28
Hospitals that filed this code589

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 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 TEST FOR PORPHOBILINOGEN.

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, “Porphobilinogen urine test, screening (CPT 84106) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84106-porphobilinogen-urine-test-screening