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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Prealbumin blood test

CPT 84134the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of prealbumin, a protein made by the liver, in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $77 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,330 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $80. Most fall between $37 and $142 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,330
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 3,330 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
$24$44$77$123$206

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $206).

How the prices are spread

$16 – $22: 124 hospitals$16$22 – $29: 164 hospitals$29 – $39: 267 hospitals$29$39 – $52: 338 hospitals$52 – $69: 420 hospitals$52$69 – $93: 492 hospitals$93 – $124: 542 hospitals$93$124 – $166: 308 hospitals$166 – $223: 214 hospitals$166$223 – $298: 133 hospitals$223median $77price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,002 of 3,330 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$16$22124
$22$29164
$29$39267
$39$52338
$52$69420
$69$93492
$93$124542
$124$166308
$166$223214
$223$298133

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $77.

Alaska: median $137 across 19 hospitalsAK$137Maine: median $43 across 28 hospitalsME$43Vermont: median $102 across 14 hospitalsVT$102New Hampshire: median $70 across 24 hospitalsNH$70Washington: median $88 across 75 hospitalsWA$88Idaho: median $65 across 25 hospitalsID$65Montana: median $81 across 27 hospitalsMT$81North Dakota: median $78 across 32 hospitalsND$78Minnesota: median $80 across 103 hospitalsMN$80Illinois: median $107 across 137 hospitalsIL$107Wisconsin: median $87 across 105 hospitalsWI$87Michigan: median $51 across 96 hospitalsMI$51New York: median $44 across 117 hospitalsNY$44Massachusetts: median $86 across 52 hospitalsMA$86Oregon: median $71 across 49 hospitalsOR$71Nevada: median $80 across 20 hospitalsNV$80Wyoming: median $65 across 16 hospitalsWY$65South Dakota: median $113 across 29 hospitalsSD$113Iowa: median $73 across 87 hospitalsIA$73Indiana: median $88 across 95 hospitalsIN$88Ohio: median $66 across 143 hospitalsOH$66Pennsylvania: median $70 across 122 hospitalsPA$70New Jersey: median $17 across 57 hospitalsNJ$17Connecticut: median $68 across 23 hospitalsCT$68Rhode Island: median $65 across 10 hospitalsRI$65California: median $114 across 154 hospitalsCA$114Utah: median $77 across 42 hospitalsUT$77Colorado: median $95 across 66 hospitalsCO$95Nebraska: median $100 across 80 hospitalsNE$100Missouri: median $61 across 76 hospitalsMO$61Kentucky: median $91 across 68 hospitalsKY$91West Virginia: median $80 across 43 hospitalsWV$80Virginia: median $113 across 73 hospitalsVA$113Maryland: median $41 across 41 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $86 across 42 hospitalsAZ$86New Mexico: median $57 across 28 hospitalsNM$57Kansas: median $73 across 90 hospitalsKS$73Arkansas: median $51 across 37 hospitalsAR$51Tennessee: median $41 across 83 hospitalsTN$41North Carolina: median $75 across 90 hospitalsNC$75South Carolina: median $96 across 52 hospitalsSC$96Oklahoma: median $68 across 73 hospitalsOK$68Louisiana: median $38 across 52 hospitalsLA$38Mississippi: median $41 across 55 hospitalsMS$41Alabama: median $60 across 44 hospitalsAL$60Georgia: median $79 across 107 hospitalsGA$79Hawaii: median $100 across 21 hospitalsHI$100Texas: median $114 across 247 hospitalsTX$114Florida: median $119 across 154 hospitalsFL$119
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $77. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK19$137+76%$89 – $191
Florida FL154$119+54%$34 – $354
California CA154$114+48%$41 – $216
Texas TX247$114+47%$48 – $233
South Dakota SD29$113+47%$73 – $184
Virginia VA73$113+46%$64 – $159
Illinois IL137$107+38%$58 – $167
Vermont VT14$102+32%$47 – $212
Nebraska NE80$100+29%$51 – $158
Hawaii HI21$100+29%$88 – $117
South Carolina SC52$96+24%$46 – $120
Colorado CO66$95+23%$57 – $237
Kentucky KY68$91+18%$44 – $152
Washington WA75$88+14%$56 – $127
Indiana IN95$88+13%$27 – $132
Wisconsin WI105$87+13%$52 – $101
Massachusetts MA52$86+11%$50 – $123
Arizona AZ42$86+11%$29 – $316
Montana MT27$81+5%$67 – $130
Minnesota MN103$80+3%$35 – $123
West Virginia WV43$80+3%$49 – $121
Nevada NV20$80+3%$26 – $112
Georgia GA107$79+2%$36 – $167
North Dakota ND32$780%$28 – $102
Utah UT42$77−1%$65 – $130
North Carolina NC90$75−3%$34 – $102
Iowa IA87$73−5%$61 – $113
Kansas KS90$73−5%$51 – $100
Oregon OR49$71−8%$44 – $99
Pennsylvania PA122$70−10%$23 – $171
New Hampshire NH24$70−10%$44 – $184
Oklahoma OK73$68−12%$34 – $101
Connecticut CT23$68−12%$44 – $122
Ohio OH143$66−15%$41 – $122
Wyoming WY16$65−16%$36 – $139
Idaho ID25$65−16%$48 – $101
Rhode Island RI10$65−16%$42 – $116
Missouri MO76$61−22%$35 – $107
Alabama AL44$60−23%$26 – $227
New Mexico NM28$57−26%$33 – $163
Arkansas AR37$51−34%$30 – $87
Michigan MI96$51−34%$28 – $80
New York NY117$44−43%$18 – $102
Maine ME28$43−45%$28 – $171
Tennessee TN83$41−46%$27 – $92
Mississippi MS55$41−47%$21 – $76
Maryland MD41$41−47%$32 – $49
Louisiana LA52$38−51%$19 – $63
New Jersey NJ57$17−78%$16 – $51
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 $77.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,309$74$34 – $150
Children’s66$125$59 – $191
Critical access945$80$45 – $127
Ownership
For-profit465$108$43 – $316
Government625$75$39 – $124
Non-profit2,230$74$35 – $133
System affiliation
Part of a system2,697$79$36 – $146
Independent633$70$38 – $124

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$130
Median cash price$77
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

2,236 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $79 and the average of the middle 60% is $83; most fall between $38 and $142.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,236 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
$26$46$79$122$194

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($26 vs $194).

Of the 2,464 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,236 gave a usable cash price; 118 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 110 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,330 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (84%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,624 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,330
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here162
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 — excluded131
Hospitals that filed this code3,624

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 Prealbumin.

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, “Prealbumin blood test (CPT 84134) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84134-prealbumin-blood-test