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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Porphyrins urine test, screening

CPT 84119the billing code this page is about

A screening urine test that reports only whether porphyrins are present, without measuring how much.

Hospitals typically charge $47 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 481 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $47. Most fall between $16 and $97 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
481
States
46
Filings dated
Jan 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 481 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$20$47$89$149

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $149).

How the prices are spread

$11 – $16: 71 hospitals$11$16 – $22: 45 hospitals$22 – $31: 73 hospitals$22$31 – $45: 21 hospitals$45 – $63: 73 hospitals$45$63 – $90: 69 hospitals$90 – $128: 48 hospitals$90$128 – $182: 15 hospitals$182 – $258: 11 hospitals$182$258 – $366: 7 hospitals$258median $47price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (433 of 481 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$11$1671
$16$2245
$22$3173
$31$4521
$45$6373
$63$9069
$90$12848
$128$18215
$182$25811
$258$3667

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $47.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $24 across 12 hospitalsIL$24Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $27 across 17 hospitalsMI$27New York: median $16 across 28 hospitalsNY$16Massachusetts: median $71 across 11 hospitalsMA$71Oregon: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $27 across 14 hospitalsIA$27Indiana: median $27 across 30 hospitalsIN$27Ohio: median $60 across 28 hospitalsOH$60Pennsylvania: median $15 across 28 hospitalsPA$15New Jersey: median $15 across 27 hospitalsNJ$15Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $89 across 35 hospitalsCA$89Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $49 across 10 hospitalsCO$49Nebraska: median $57 across 13 hospitalsNE$57Missouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $36 across 11 hospitalsTN$36North Carolina: median $96 across 17 hospitalsNC$96South Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $24 across 16 hospitalsOK$24Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $27 across 14 hospitalsMS$27Alabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $66 across 14 hospitalsGA$66Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $334 across 38 hospitalsTX$334Florida: median $27 across 28 hospitalsFL$27
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $47. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX38$334+604%$48 – $842
North Carolina NC17$96+102%$21 – $97
California CA35$89+88%$71 – $89
Massachusetts MA11$71+50%$30 – $76
Georgia GA14$66+40%$33 – $66
Ohio OH28$60+26%$39 – $98
Nebraska NE13$57+21%$50 – $83
Colorado CO10$49+4%$49 – $50
Tennessee TN11$36−24%$18 – $85
Mississippi MS14$27−42%$16 – $32
Florida FL28$27−42%$7 – $109
Iowa IA14$27−43%$27 – $47
Indiana IN30$27−43%$20 – $58
Michigan MI17$27−44%$18 – $58
Illinois IL12$24−50%$12 – $53
Oklahoma OK16$24−50%$24 – $29
New York NY28$16−66%$13 – $51
Pennsylvania PA28$15−68%$9 – $49
New Jersey NJ27$15−69%$13 – $15
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $47.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care403$47$15 – $90
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access72$47$27 – $104
Ownership
For-profit85$84$15 – $407
Government47$27$13 – $66
Non-profit348$47$16 – $89
System affiliation
Part of a system412$48$16 – $96
Independent69$40$15 – $99

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$92
Median cash price$47
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

283 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $49 and the average of the middle 60% is $53; most fall between $24 and $89.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 283 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
$16$25$49$76$107

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($16 vs $107).

Of the 320 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 283 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 29 a list price only.

How complete is this

481 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 526 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted481
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here15
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 — excluded29
Hospitals that filed this code526

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 Hc Assay Of Porphyrins Urine Qual.

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, “Porphyrins urine test, screening (CPT 84119) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84119-porphyrins-urine-test-screening