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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Sex hormone binding globulin blood test

CPT 84270the billing code this page is about

Measures the blood protein that carries sex hormones such as testosterone and estrogen.

Hospitals typically charge $72 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,194 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $78. Most fall between $30 and $148 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,194
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 3,194 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$37$72$132$201

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $201).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $16: 117 hospitals$12$16 – $22: 157 hospitals$22 – $31: 239 hospitals$22$31 – $42: 295 hospitals$42 – $57: 360 hospitals$42$57 – $78: 403 hospitals$78 – $107: 401 hospitals$78$107 – $146: 439 hospitals$146 – $200: 319 hospitals$146$200 – $274: 169 hospitals$200median $72price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,899 of 3,194 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$16117
$16$22157
$22$31239
$31$42295
$42$57360
$57$78403
$78$107401
$107$146439
$146$200319
$200$274169

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $72.

Alaska: median $77 across 16 hospitalsAK$77Maine: median $56 across 28 hospitalsME$56Vermont: median $92 across 13 hospitalsVT$92New Hampshire: median $79 across 24 hospitalsNH$79Washington: median $81 across 71 hospitalsWA$81Idaho: median $66 across 23 hospitalsID$66Montana: median $91 across 28 hospitalsMT$91North Dakota: median $113 across 33 hospitalsND$113Minnesota: median $59 across 85 hospitalsMN$59Illinois: median $102 across 138 hospitalsIL$102Wisconsin: median $107 across 100 hospitalsWI$107Michigan: median $49 across 96 hospitalsMI$49New York: median $53 across 103 hospitalsNY$53Massachusetts: median $131 across 52 hospitalsMA$131Oregon: median $53 across 49 hospitalsOR$53Nevada: median $100 across 20 hospitalsNV$100Wyoming: median $69 across 16 hospitalsWY$69South Dakota: median $120 across 38 hospitalsSD$120Iowa: median $87 across 89 hospitalsIA$87Indiana: median $67 across 97 hospitalsIN$67Ohio: median $78 across 136 hospitalsOH$78Pennsylvania: median $89 across 121 hospitalsPA$89New Jersey: median $25 across 55 hospitalsNJ$25Connecticut: median $94 across 22 hospitalsCT$94Rhode Island: median $98 across 10 hospitalsRI$98California: median $29 across 136 hospitalsCA$29Utah: median $96 across 42 hospitalsUT$96Colorado: median $101 across 65 hospitalsCO$101Nebraska: median $136 across 81 hospitalsNE$136Missouri: median $70 across 74 hospitalsMO$70Kentucky: median $80 across 68 hospitalsKY$80West Virginia: median $65 across 42 hospitalsWV$65Virginia: median $85 across 73 hospitalsVA$85Maryland: median $68 across 38 hospitalsMD$68Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $80 across 41 hospitalsAZ$80New Mexico: median $89 across 28 hospitalsNM$89Kansas: median $130 across 82 hospitalsKS$130Arkansas: median $33 across 37 hospitalsAR$33Tennessee: median $38 across 77 hospitalsTN$38North Carolina: median $42 across 84 hospitalsNC$42South Carolina: median $129 across 52 hospitalsSC$129Oklahoma: median $65 across 73 hospitalsOK$65Louisiana: median $48 across 50 hospitalsLA$48Mississippi: median $36 across 55 hospitalsMS$36Alabama: median $57 across 43 hospitalsAL$57Georgia: median $81 across 104 hospitalsGA$81Hawaii: median $67 across 11 hospitalsHI$67Texas: median $64 across 226 hospitalsTX$64Florida: median $24 across 142 hospitalsFL$24
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $72. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Nebraska NE81$136+89%$51 – $176
Massachusetts MA52$131+81%$70 – $189
Kansas KS82$130+81%$74 – $205
South Carolina SC52$129+79%$66 – $167
South Dakota SD38$120+67%$51 – $178
North Dakota ND33$113+57%$41 – $171
Wisconsin WI100$107+48%$70 – $140
Illinois IL138$102+42%$47 – $191
Colorado CO65$101+41%$45 – $169
Nevada NV20$100+39%$12 – $160
Rhode Island RI10$98+37%$50 – $174
Utah UT42$96+33%$79 – $154
Connecticut CT22$94+30%$61 – $181
Vermont VT13$92+28%$38 – $180
Montana MT28$91+26%$32 – $151
New Mexico NM28$89+23%$60 – $111
Pennsylvania PA121$89+23%$33 – $203
Iowa IA89$87+21%$63 – $150
Virginia VA73$85+18%$37 – $210
Washington WA71$81+13%$49 – $134
Georgia GA104$81+13%$41 – $175
Kentucky KY68$80+12%$43 – $133
Arizona AZ41$80+11%$37 – $142
New Hampshire NH24$79+10%$25 – $231
Ohio OH136$78+8%$46 – $132
Alaska AK16$77+6%$23 – $179
Missouri MO74$70−2%$55 – $161
Wyoming WY16$69−5%$42 – $119
Maryland MD38$68−6%$52 – $81
Hawaii HI11$67−7%$24 – $86
Indiana IN97$67−8%$35 – $113
Idaho ID23$66−8%$9 – $103
Oklahoma OK73$65−9%$37 – $105
West Virginia WV42$65−10%$14 – $117
Texas TX226$64−11%$15 – $257
Minnesota MN85$59−18%$30 – $153
Alabama AL43$57−21%$27 – $157
Maine ME28$56−23%$37 – $120
New York NY103$53−26%$22 – $129
Oregon OR49$53−27%$38 – $88
Michigan MI96$49−32%$29 – $89
Louisiana LA50$48−33%$33 – $73
North Carolina NC84$42−42%$23 – $153
Tennessee TN77$38−47%$29 – $119
Mississippi MS55$36−50%$21 – $63
Arkansas AR37$33−54%$19 – $68
California CA136$29−60%$11 – $101
New Jersey NJ55$25−65%$22 – $59
Florida FL142$24−67%$11 – $108
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 $72.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,202$66$25 – $142
Children’s55$65$28 – $161
Critical access927$92$43 – $153
Ownership
For-profit431$82$28 – $231
Government600$79$34 – $149
Non-profit2,153$70$30 – $140
System affiliation
Part of a system2,589$71$29 – $150
Independent605$74$35 – $136

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$125
Median cash price$72
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

2,158 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $70 and the average of the middle 60% is $77; most fall between $32 and $140.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,158 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$39$70$128$187

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $187).

Of the 2,385 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,158 gave a usable cash price; 117 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 110 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,194 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (81%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,488 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,194
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here161
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded130
Hospitals that filed this code3,488

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 Sex Hormone Bind Glb.

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, “Sex hormone binding globulin blood test (CPT 84270) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84270-sex-hormone-binding-globulin-blood-test