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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Protoporphyrin level in red blood cells

CPT 84202the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures the amount of protoporphyrin inside red blood cells.

Hospitals typically charge $58 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,069 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $61. Most fall between $24 and $125 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,069
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 2,069 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$29$58$104$184

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($16 vs $184).

How the prices are spread

$11 – $15: 102 hospitals$11$15 – $21: 147 hospitals$21 – $28: 169 hospitals$21$28 – $39: 222 hospitals$39 – $53: 225 hospitals$39$53 – $73: 317 hospitals$73 – $100: 250 hospitals$73$100 – $136: 186 hospitals$136 – $187: 155 hospitals$136$187 – $256: 96 hospitals$187median $58price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,869 of 2,069 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$11$15102
$15$21147
$21$28169
$28$39222
$39$53225
$53$73317
$73$100250
$100$136186
$136$187155
$187$25696

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $58.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $48 across 25 hospitalsME$48Vermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $67 across 16 hospitalsNH$67Washington: median $64 across 54 hospitalsWA$64Idaho: median $46 across 13 hospitalsID$46Montana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $27 across 14 hospitalsND$27Minnesota: median $41 across 36 hospitalsMN$41Illinois: median $78 across 101 hospitalsIL$78Wisconsin: median $71 across 81 hospitalsWI$71Michigan: median $22 across 53 hospitalsMI$22New York: median $35 across 88 hospitalsNY$35Massachusetts: median $65 across 41 hospitalsMA$65Oregon: median $46 across 37 hospitalsOR$46Nevada: median $67 across 16 hospitalsNV$67Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $64 across 41 hospitalsIA$64Indiana: median $52 across 83 hospitalsIN$52Ohio: median $61 across 118 hospitalsOH$61Pennsylvania: median $61 across 105 hospitalsPA$61New Jersey: median $16 across 44 hospitalsNJ$16Connecticut: median $55 across 15 hospitalsCT$55Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $38 across 74 hospitalsCA$38Utah: median $220 across 33 hospitalsUT$220Colorado: median $90 across 45 hospitalsCO$90Nebraska: median $71 across 27 hospitalsNE$71Missouri: median $66 across 60 hospitalsMO$66Kentucky: median $73 across 42 hospitalsKY$73West Virginia: median $8 across 21 hospitalsWV$8Virginia: median $105 across 49 hospitalsVA$105Maryland: median $143 across 32 hospitalsMD$143Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $94 across 25 hospitalsAZ$94New Mexico: median $78 across 10 hospitalsNM$78Kansas: median $67 across 35 hospitalsKS$67Arkansas: median $47 across 20 hospitalsAR$47Tennessee: median $35 across 56 hospitalsTN$35North Carolina: median $75 across 52 hospitalsNC$75South Carolina: median $89 across 41 hospitalsSC$89Oklahoma: median $62 across 47 hospitalsOK$62Louisiana: median $33 across 33 hospitalsLA$33Mississippi: median $35 across 34 hospitalsMS$35Alabama: median $41 across 23 hospitalsAL$41Georgia: median $53 across 65 hospitalsGA$53Hawaii: median $74 across 10 hospitalsHI$74Texas: median $82 across 122 hospitalsTX$82Florida: median $20 across 94 hospitalsFL$20
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $58. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT33$220+282%$126 – $259
Maryland MD32$143+148%$96 – $173
Virginia VA49$105+83%$8 – $126
Arizona AZ25$94+63%$20 – $94
Colorado CO45$90+56%$37 – $228
South Carolina SC41$89+55%$54 – $113
Texas TX122$82+43%$37 – $228
New Mexico NM10$78+35%$47 – $207
Illinois IL101$78+35%$35 – $189
North Carolina NC52$75+30%$27 – $120
Hawaii HI10$74+29%$37 – $129
Kentucky KY42$73+27%$36 – $179
Nebraska NE27$71+24%$34 – $163
Wisconsin WI81$71+23%$58 – $95
Kansas KS35$67+17%$32 – $138
Nevada NV16$67+17%$30 – $120
New Hampshire NH16$67+16%$26 – $111
Missouri MO60$66+14%$32 – $120
Massachusetts MA41$65+13%$38 – $124
Iowa IA41$64+12%$38 – $106
Washington WA54$64+11%$40 – $103
Oklahoma OK47$62+8%$34 – $97
Ohio OH118$61+6%$36 – $101
Pennsylvania PA105$61+6%$17 – $153
Connecticut CT15$55−5%$39 – $77
Georgia GA65$53−8%$29 – $66
Indiana IN83$52−9%$25 – $124
Maine ME25$48−17%$26 – $136
Arkansas AR20$47−18%$21 – $71
Idaho ID13$46−21%$25 – $187
Oregon OR37$46−21%$15 – $77
Minnesota MN36$41−28%$18 – $70
Alabama AL23$41−29%$24 – $74
California CA74$38−34%$10 – $128
Tennessee TN56$35−39%$24 – $61
New York NY88$35−39%$17 – $76
Mississippi MS34$35−40%$20 – $47
Louisiana LA33$33−42%$21 – $75
North Dakota ND14$27−53%$24 – $98
Michigan MI53$22−62%$11 – $64
Florida FL94$20−65%$10 – $100
New Jersey NJ44$16−73%$14 – $50
West Virginia WV21$8−86%$8 – $8
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $58.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,607$55$22 – $120
Children’s43$77$37 – $191
Critical access410$64$27 – $136
Ownership
For-profit268$67$21 – $232
Government296$51$25 – $94
Non-profit1,496$58$24 – $123
System affiliation
Part of a system1,740$58$24 – $127
Independent329$56$26 – $108

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$102
Median cash price$58
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

1,473 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $60 and the average of the middle 60% is $62; most fall between $26 and $123.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,473 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
$18$30$60$101$176

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $176).

Of the 1,633 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,473 gave a usable cash price; 88 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 72 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,069 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (52%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,271 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,069
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here118
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded82
Hospitals that filed this code2,271

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 PR Occ Hlth Lab - Protoporphyrin, Qn.

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, “Protoporphyrin level in red blood cells (CPT 84202) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84202-protoporphyrin-level-in-red-blood-cells