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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Renin blood test

CPT 84244the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of renin, a kidney enzyme involved in blood pressure control, in a blood sample; the aldosterone portion of a ratio is billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $89 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,231 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $95. Most fall between $34 and $183 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,231
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 3,231 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$40$89$163$264

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $264).

How the prices are spread

$13 – $18: 104 hospitals$13$18 – $25: 188 hospitals$25 – $35: 228 hospitals$25$35 – $49: 284 hospitals$49 – $69: 352 hospitals$49$69 – $97: 412 hospitals$97 – $137: 474 hospitals$97$137 – $193: 453 hospitals$193 – $272: 276 hospitals$193$272 – $383: 144 hospitals$272median $89price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,915 of 3,231 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$13$18104
$18$25188
$25$35228
$35$49284
$49$69352
$69$97412
$97$137474
$137$193453
$193$272276
$272$383144

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $89.

Alaska: median $128 across 19 hospitalsAK$128Maine: median $68 across 28 hospitalsME$68Vermont: median $199 across 14 hospitalsVT$199New Hampshire: median $123 across 25 hospitalsNH$123Washington: median $118 across 75 hospitalsWA$118Idaho: median $75 across 22 hospitalsID$75Montana: median $157 across 29 hospitalsMT$157North Dakota: median $109 across 32 hospitalsND$109Minnesota: median $66 across 101 hospitalsMN$66Illinois: median $115 across 142 hospitalsIL$115Wisconsin: median $143 across 103 hospitalsWI$143Michigan: median $38 across 88 hospitalsMI$38New York: median $70 across 104 hospitalsNY$70Massachusetts: median $132 across 51 hospitalsMA$132Oregon: median $77 across 49 hospitalsOR$77Nevada: median $116 across 20 hospitalsNV$116Wyoming: median $129 across 16 hospitalsWY$129South Dakota: median $152 across 38 hospitalsSD$152Iowa: median $107 across 88 hospitalsIA$107Indiana: median $86 across 95 hospitalsIN$86Ohio: median $86 across 138 hospitalsOH$86Pennsylvania: median $106 across 121 hospitalsPA$106New Jersey: median $25 across 53 hospitalsNJ$25Connecticut: median $103 across 23 hospitalsCT$103Rhode Island: median $102 across 10 hospitalsRI$102California: median $22 across 117 hospitalsCA$22Utah: median $69 across 41 hospitalsUT$69Colorado: median $97 across 64 hospitalsCO$97Nebraska: median $158 across 78 hospitalsNE$158Missouri: median $91 across 74 hospitalsMO$91Kentucky: median $154 across 69 hospitalsKY$154West Virginia: median $69 across 43 hospitalsWV$69Virginia: median $132 across 73 hospitalsVA$132Maryland: median $41 across 41 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $156 across 39 hospitalsAZ$156New Mexico: median $123 across 27 hospitalsNM$123Kansas: median $123 across 83 hospitalsKS$123Arkansas: median $47 across 38 hospitalsAR$47Tennessee: median $62 across 81 hospitalsTN$62North Carolina: median $53 across 89 hospitalsNC$53South Carolina: median $141 across 51 hospitalsSC$141Oklahoma: median $75 across 73 hospitalsOK$75Louisiana: median $64 across 49 hospitalsLA$64Mississippi: median $52 across 57 hospitalsMS$52Alabama: median $110 across 44 hospitalsAL$110Georgia: median $105 across 108 hospitalsGA$105Hawaii: median $110 across 16 hospitalsHI$110Texas: median $101 across 237 hospitalsTX$101Florida: median $14 across 148 hospitalsFL$14
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $89. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT14$199+122%$92 – $365
Nebraska NE78$158+77%$59 – $224
Montana MT29$157+76%$87 – $234
Arizona AZ39$156+75%$34 – $220
Kentucky KY69$154+72%$66 – $295
South Dakota SD38$152+71%$51 – $260
Wisconsin WI103$143+60%$85 – $183
South Carolina SC51$141+58%$80 – $188
Virginia VA73$132+48%$39 – $244
Massachusetts MA51$132+48%$64 – $213
Wyoming WY16$129+44%$42 – $156
Alaska AK19$128+43%$26 – $218
Kansas KS83$123+38%$68 – $166
New Mexico NM27$123+38%$74 – $165
New Hampshire NH25$123+37%$33 – $254
Washington WA75$118+32%$53 – $172
Nevada NV20$116+30%$37 – $203
Illinois IL142$115+29%$61 – $243
Hawaii HI16$110+24%$61 – $200
Alabama AL44$110+23%$40 – $379
North Dakota ND32$109+22%$40 – $170
Iowa IA88$107+19%$55 – $176
Pennsylvania PA121$106+19%$33 – $258
Georgia GA108$105+18%$71 – $245
Connecticut CT23$103+15%$62 – $183
Rhode Island RI10$102+14%$51 – $176
Texas TX237$101+13%$41 – $358
Colorado CO64$97+8%$52 – $189
Missouri MO74$91+2%$62 – $174
Indiana IN95$86−3%$42 – $154
Ohio OH138$86−4%$44 – $148
Oregon OR49$77−14%$29 – $125
Oklahoma OK73$75−16%$41 – $122
Idaho ID22$75−16%$22 – $137
New York NY104$70−22%$24 – $164
West Virginia WV43$69−23%$13 – $165
Utah UT41$69−23%$58 – $131
Maine ME28$68−23%$40 – $176
Minnesota MN101$66−26%$22 – $178
Louisiana LA49$64−29%$42 – $115
Tennessee TN81$62−30%$39 – $148
North Carolina NC89$53−40%$37 – $124
Mississippi MS57$52−42%$23 – $159
Arkansas AR38$47−48%$34 – $90
Maryland MD41$41−54%$32 – $49
Michigan MI88$38−57%$21 – $56
New Jersey NJ53$25−72%$22 – $75
California CA117$22−75%$9 – $37
Florida FL148$14−84%$9 – $69
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 $89.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,218$80$27 – $178
Children’s59$133$44 – $195
Critical access944$112$51 – $188
Ownership
For-profit445$107$33 – $416
Government614$95$41 – $176
Non-profit2,162$86$33 – $174
System affiliation
Part of a system2,612$89$32 – $186
Independent619$90$42 – $169

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$153
Median cash price$89
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

2,188 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $89 and the average of the middle 60% is $95; most fall between $37 and $177.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,188 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$41$89$159$245

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $245).

Of the 2,413 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,188 gave a usable cash price; 116 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

3,231 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (82%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,532 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,231
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here168
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded131
Hospitals that filed this code3,532

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 Renin-Random.

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, “Renin blood test (CPT 84244) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84244-renin-blood-test