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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Free prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test

CPT 84154the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures the unbound, or free, portion of prostate-specific antigen.

Hospitals typically charge $76 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,153 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $80. Most fall between $34 and $143 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,153
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 3,153 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
$20$41$76$128$201

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $201).

How the prices are spread

$13 – $18: 71 hospitals$13$18 – $24: 200 hospitals$24 – $32: 164 hospitals$24$32 – $43: 246 hospitals$43 – $59: 338 hospitals$43$59 – $80: 473 hospitals$80 – $108: 454 hospitals$80$108 – $145: 439 hospitals$145 – $197: 272 hospitals$145$197 – $266: 182 hospitals$197median $76price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,839 of 3,153 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$13$1871
$18$24200
$24$32164
$32$43246
$43$59338
$59$80473
$80$108454
$108$145439
$145$197272
$197$266182

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $76.

Alaska: median $96 across 18 hospitalsAK$96Maine: median $93 across 27 hospitalsME$93Vermont: median $104 across 14 hospitalsVT$104New Hampshire: median $67 across 25 hospitalsNH$67Washington: median $94 across 72 hospitalsWA$94Idaho: median $70 across 24 hospitalsID$70Montana: median $84 across 27 hospitalsMT$84North Dakota: median $71 across 32 hospitalsND$71Minnesota: median $77 across 95 hospitalsMN$77Illinois: median $105 across 134 hospitalsIL$105Wisconsin: median $95 across 101 hospitalsWI$95Michigan: median $57 across 93 hospitalsMI$57New York: median $50 across 115 hospitalsNY$50Massachusetts: median $102 across 50 hospitalsMA$102Oregon: median $75 across 45 hospitalsOR$75Nevada: median $90 across 20 hospitalsNV$90Wyoming: median $77 across 16 hospitalsWY$77South Dakota: median $125 across 34 hospitalsSD$125Iowa: median $88 across 85 hospitalsIA$88Indiana: median $54 across 94 hospitalsIN$54Ohio: median $81 across 133 hospitalsOH$81Pennsylvania: median $69 across 120 hospitalsPA$69New Jersey: median $21 across 55 hospitalsNJ$21Connecticut: median $78 across 15 hospitalsCT$78Rhode Island: median $147 across 10 hospitalsRI$147California: median $30 across 126 hospitalsCA$30Utah: median $96 across 40 hospitalsUT$96Colorado: median $88 across 66 hospitalsCO$88Nebraska: median $127 across 72 hospitalsNE$127Missouri: median $74 across 72 hospitalsMO$74Kentucky: median $84 across 67 hospitalsKY$84West Virginia: median $55 across 40 hospitalsWV$55Virginia: median $109 across 70 hospitalsVA$109Maryland: median $66 across 40 hospitalsMD$66Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $120 across 41 hospitalsAZ$120New Mexico: median $88 across 27 hospitalsNM$88Kansas: median $85 across 79 hospitalsKS$85Arkansas: median $51 across 33 hospitalsAR$51Tennessee: median $49 across 80 hospitalsTN$49North Carolina: median $63 across 86 hospitalsNC$63South Carolina: median $115 across 52 hospitalsSC$115Oklahoma: median $76 across 73 hospitalsOK$76Louisiana: median $49 across 48 hospitalsLA$49Mississippi: median $56 across 50 hospitalsMS$56Alabama: median $65 across 41 hospitalsAL$65Georgia: median $70 across 105 hospitalsGA$70Hawaii: median $87 across 16 hospitalsHI$87Texas: median $111 across 224 hospitalsTX$111Florida: median $22 across 145 hospitalsFL$22
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $76. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Rhode Island RI10$147+93%$49 – $166
Nebraska NE72$127+68%$56 – $168
South Dakota SD34$125+65%$69 – $204
Arizona AZ41$120+57%$40 – $172
South Carolina SC52$115+51%$77 – $140
Texas TX224$111+46%$44 – $251
Virginia VA70$109+44%$57 – $187
Illinois IL134$105+38%$59 – $192
Vermont VT14$104+37%$51 – $260
Massachusetts MA50$102+34%$55 – $161
Utah UT40$96+26%$80 – $127
Alaska AK18$96+26%$42 – $139
Wisconsin WI101$95+25%$68 – $141
Washington WA72$94+24%$63 – $140
Maine ME27$93+22%$40 – $157
Nevada NV20$90+19%$22 – $129
New Mexico NM27$88+16%$59 – $152
Colorado CO66$88+16%$35 – $137
Iowa IA85$88+15%$62 – $153
Hawaii HI16$87+15%$70 – $140
Kansas KS79$85+12%$50 – $130
Montana MT27$84+11%$68 – $133
Kentucky KY67$84+10%$40 – $188
Ohio OH133$81+6%$46 – $114
Connecticut CT15$78+3%$68 – $98
Wyoming WY16$77+1%$36 – $133
Minnesota MN95$77+1%$21 – $126
Oklahoma OK73$760%$31 – $112
Oregon OR45$75−2%$36 – $89
Missouri MO72$74−2%$54 – $116
North Dakota ND32$71−7%$33 – $131
Idaho ID24$70−8%$16 – $133
Georgia GA105$70−8%$45 – $157
Pennsylvania PA120$69−9%$28 – $216
New Hampshire NH25$67−12%$30 – $183
Maryland MD40$66−13%$50 – $81
Alabama AL41$65−14%$24 – $146
North Carolina NC86$63−17%$35 – $99
Michigan MI93$57−25%$26 – $78
Mississippi MS50$56−26%$23 – $81
West Virginia WV40$55−28%$23 – $118
Indiana IN94$54−29%$33 – $106
Arkansas AR33$51−33%$24 – $105
New York NY115$50−34%$22 – $102
Tennessee TN80$49−35%$27 – $92
Louisiana LA48$49−36%$28 – $74
California CA126$30−60%$10 – $201
Florida FL145$22−71%$8 – $95
New Jersey NJ55$21−72%$20 – $62
Delaware DE6not 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 $76.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,225$70$29 – $143
Children’s19fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access899$90$47 – $142
Ownership
For-profit438$91$31 – $257
Government578$78$38 – $133
Non-profit2,127$75$33 – $133
System affiliation
Part of a system2,581$77$32 – $147
Independent572$74$38 – $131

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$129
Median cash price$76
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

2,144 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $77 and the average of the middle 60% is $80; most fall between $35 and $140.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,144 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
$22$43$77$127$191

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $191).

Of the 2,385 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,144 gave a usable cash price; 138 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 103 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,153 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (80%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,462 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,153
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here182
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 — excluded126
Hospitals that filed this code3,462

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 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 Free Psa.

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, “Free prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test (CPT 84154) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84154-free-prostate-specific-antigen-psa-test