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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Estrogen receptor test on tissue

CPT 84233the billing code this page is about

Laboratory test that measures estrogen receptors in a tissue sample, such as a tumor specimen.

Hospitals typically charge $226 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 521 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $293. Most fall between $113 and $627 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
521
States
43
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 521 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
$88$131$226$510$778

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($88 vs $778).

How the prices are spread

$68 – $93: 45 hospitals$68$93 – $126: 57 hospitals$126 – $172: 63 hospitals$126$172 – $234: 74 hospitals$234 – $318: 45 hospitals$234$318 – $433: 46 hospitals$433 – $590: 51 hospitals$433$590 – $803: 63 hospitals$803 – $1,093: 10 hospitals$803$1,093 – $1,488: 15 hospitals$1,093median $226price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (469 of 521 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$68$9345
$93$12657
$126$17263
$172$23474
$234$31845
$318$43346
$433$59051
$590$80363
$803$1,09310
$1,093$1,48815

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $226.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $348 across 30 hospitalsIL$348Wisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: median $149 across 23 hospitalsMI$149New York: median $88 across 23 hospitalsNY$88Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $186 across 16 hospitalsIA$186Indiana: median $407 across 16 hospitalsIN$407Ohio: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $101 across 29 hospitalsPA$101New Jersey: median $97 across 33 hospitalsNJ$97Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $627 across 32 hospitalsCA$627Utah: median $178 across 25 hospitalsUT$178Colorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $209 across 13 hospitalsNE$209Missouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $625 across 16 hospitalsKY$625West Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $441 across 10 hospitalsVA$441Maryland: 2 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $276 across 10 hospitalsAR$276Tennessee: median $150 across 15 hospitalsTN$150North Carolina: median $718 across 15 hospitalsNC$718South Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $155 across 22 hospitalsOK$155Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $479 across 18 hospitalsGA$479Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $510 across 61 hospitalsTX$510Florida: median $296 across 19 hospitalsFL$296
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $226. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
North Carolina NC15$718+218%$304 – $718
California CA32$627+178%$121 – $627
Kentucky KY16$625+177%$166 – $748
Texas TX61$510+126%$184 – $1,836
Georgia GA18$479+112%$177 – $1,340
Virginia VA10$441+95%$150 – $441
Indiana IN16$407+80%$161 – $649
Illinois IL30$348+54%$102 – $530
Florida FL19$296+31%$88 – $1,689
Arkansas AR10$276+22%$157 – $315
Nebraska NE13$209−7%$162 – $276
Iowa IA16$186−18%$186 – $186
Utah UT25$178−21%$152 – $178
Oklahoma OK22$155−31%$154 – $387
Tennessee TN15$150−34%$113 – $205
Michigan MI23$149−34%$96 – $746
Pennsylvania PA29$101−55%$61 – $235
New Jersey NJ33$97−57%$88 – $101
New York NY23$88−61%$88 – $183
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $226.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care421$186$100 – $627
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access95$326$166 – $530
Ownership
For-profit90$296$121 – $1,398
Government64$227$88 – $470
Non-profit367$205$113 – $616
System affiliation
Part of a system434$209$113 – $627
Independent87$232$101 – $470

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$485
Median cash price$226
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

306 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $209 and the average of the middle 60% is $283; most fall between $152 and $516.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 306 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
$111$154$209$510$649

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($111 vs $649).

Of the 353 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 306 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 38 a list price only.

How complete is this

521 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 577 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted521
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here18
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 — excluded37
Hospitals that filed this code577

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 ASSAY OF ESTROGEN.

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, “Estrogen receptor test on tissue (CPT 84233) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84233-estrogen-receptor-test-on-tissue