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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Progesterone blood test

CPT 84144the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures the level of the hormone progesterone.

Hospitals typically charge $94 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,339 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $97. Most fall between $41 and $179 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,339
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 3,339 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
$28$49$94$155$249

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($28 vs $249).

How the prices are spread

$20 – $27: 156 hospitals$20$27 – $36: 201 hospitals$36 – $48: 301 hospitals$36$48 – $63: 334 hospitals$63 – $85: 330 hospitals$63$85 – $113: 499 hospitals$113 – $151: 491 hospitals$113$151 – $202: 342 hospitals$202 – $269: 252 hospitals$202$269 – $359: 114 hospitals$269median $94price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,020 of 3,339 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$20$27156
$27$36201
$36$48301
$48$63334
$63$85330
$85$113499
$113$151491
$151$202342
$202$269252
$269$359114

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $94.

Alaska: median $120 across 19 hospitalsAK$120Maine: median $89 across 28 hospitalsME$89Vermont: median $148 across 14 hospitalsVT$148New Hampshire: median $101 across 24 hospitalsNH$101Washington: median $96 across 77 hospitalsWA$96Idaho: median $75 across 25 hospitalsID$75Montana: median $115 across 30 hospitalsMT$115North Dakota: median $145 across 33 hospitalsND$145Minnesota: median $92 across 106 hospitalsMN$92Illinois: median $135 across 145 hospitalsIL$135Wisconsin: median $120 across 104 hospitalsWI$120Michigan: median $61 across 101 hospitalsMI$61New York: median $76 across 117 hospitalsNY$76Massachusetts: median $131 across 52 hospitalsMA$131Oregon: median $92 across 50 hospitalsOR$92Nevada: median $102 across 19 hospitalsNV$102Wyoming: median $120 across 16 hospitalsWY$120South Dakota: median $162 across 40 hospitalsSD$162Iowa: median $94 across 89 hospitalsIA$94Indiana: median $110 across 96 hospitalsIN$110Ohio: median $81 across 139 hospitalsOH$81Pennsylvania: median $104 across 119 hospitalsPA$104New Jersey: median $24 across 56 hospitalsNJ$24Connecticut: median $108 across 20 hospitalsCT$108Rhode Island: median $83 across 10 hospitalsRI$83California: median $88 across 153 hospitalsCA$88Utah: median $109 across 43 hospitalsUT$109Colorado: median $109 across 68 hospitalsCO$109Nebraska: median $119 across 81 hospitalsNE$119Missouri: median $111 across 76 hospitalsMO$111Kentucky: median $132 across 69 hospitalsKY$132West Virginia: median $100 across 43 hospitalsWV$100Virginia: median $144 across 73 hospitalsVA$144Maryland: median $41 across 41 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $179 across 42 hospitalsAZ$179New Mexico: median $123 across 27 hospitalsNM$123Kansas: median $109 across 90 hospitalsKS$109Arkansas: median $33 across 38 hospitalsAR$33Tennessee: median $64 across 82 hospitalsTN$64North Carolina: median $73 across 89 hospitalsNC$73South Carolina: median $144 across 53 hospitalsSC$144Oklahoma: median $66 across 73 hospitalsOK$66Louisiana: median $58 across 52 hospitalsLA$58Mississippi: median $64 across 56 hospitalsMS$64Alabama: median $77 across 44 hospitalsAL$77Georgia: median $71 across 107 hospitalsGA$71Hawaii: median $131 across 17 hospitalsHI$131Texas: median $103 across 245 hospitalsTX$103Florida: median $42 across 141 hospitalsFL$42
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $94. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ42$179+90%$59 – $374
South Dakota SD40$162+73%$99 – $233
Vermont VT14$148+58%$58 – $268
North Dakota ND33$145+55%$39 – $176
South Carolina SC53$144+53%$87 – $172
Virginia VA73$144+53%$64 – $237
Illinois IL145$135+44%$65 – $238
Kentucky KY69$132+41%$62 – $238
Hawaii HI17$131+39%$71 – $183
Massachusetts MA52$131+39%$71 – $244
New Mexico NM27$123+31%$88 – $149
Alaska AK19$120+28%$51 – $231
Wisconsin WI104$120+28%$76 – $157
Wyoming WY16$120+28%$40 – $180
Nebraska NE81$119+27%$78 – $171
Montana MT30$115+22%$69 – $161
Missouri MO76$111+18%$55 – $162
Indiana IN96$110+17%$46 – $186
Kansas KS90$109+17%$74 – $149
Colorado CO68$109+17%$62 – $234
Utah UT43$109+16%$92 – $143
Connecticut CT20$108+15%$65 – $174
Pennsylvania PA119$104+11%$32 – $245
Texas TX245$103+10%$36 – $308
Nevada NV19$102+9%$30 – $154
New Hampshire NH24$101+8%$52 – $262
West Virginia WV43$100+7%$59 – $181
Washington WA77$96+3%$58 – $141
Iowa IA89$940%$55 – $142
Oregon OR50$92−2%$54 – $144
Minnesota MN106$92−2%$39 – $146
Maine ME28$89−5%$47 – $227
California CA153$88−7%$14 – $206
Rhode Island RI10$83−12%$49 – $167
Ohio OH139$81−14%$40 – $115
Alabama AL44$77−18%$34 – $192
New York NY117$76−19%$38 – $176
Idaho ID25$75−20%$35 – $107
North Carolina NC89$73−23%$40 – $193
Georgia GA107$71−25%$41 – $179
Oklahoma OK73$66−29%$51 – $105
Tennessee TN82$64−32%$38 – $137
Mississippi MS56$64−32%$31 – $94
Michigan MI101$61−35%$32 – $91
Louisiana LA52$58−38%$44 – $103
Florida FL141$42−55%$17 – $170
Maryland MD41$41−56%$32 – $49
Arkansas AR38$33−65%$27 – $113
New Jersey NJ56$24−74%$23 – $71
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 $94.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,285$88$36 – $189
Children’s62$110$53 – $178
Critical access983$107$55 – $165
Ownership
For-profit457$121$41 – $374
Government633$96$45 – $155
Non-profit2,240$92$40 – $170
System affiliation
Part of a system2,703$94$39 – $185
Independent636$93$47 – $156

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$157
Median cash price$94
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

2,234 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $94 and the average of the middle 60% is $98; most fall between $41 and $178.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,234 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
$31$50$94$152$238

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($31 vs $238).

Of the 2,465 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,234 gave a usable cash price; 122 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 109 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,339 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 3,645 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,339
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here176
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 — excluded129
Hospitals that filed this code3,645

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 Progesterone, Serum (Cah6).

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, “Progesterone blood test (CPT 84144) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84144-progesterone-blood-test