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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Thyroglobulin blood test

CPT 84432the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that measures the level of thyroglobulin, a protein made by the thyroid gland, in blood.

Hospitals typically charge $72 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,102 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $76. Most fall between $29 and $144 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,102
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 3,102 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$35$72$128$208

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $208).

How the prices are spread

$13 – $17: 145 hospitals$13$17 – $24: 181 hospitals$24 – $33: 247 hospitals$24$33 – $45: 294 hospitals$45 – $61: 358 hospitals$45$61 – $84: 415 hospitals$84 – $116: 413 hospitals$84$116 – $160: 373 hospitals$160 – $220: 244 hospitals$160$220 – $302: 128 hospitals$220median $72price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,798 of 3,102 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$13$17145
$17$24181
$24$33247
$33$45294
$45$61358
$61$84415
$84$116413
$116$160373
$160$220244
$220$302128

By state

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

Alaska: median $83 across 16 hospitalsAK$83Maine: median $90 across 28 hospitalsME$90Vermont: median $136 across 14 hospitalsVT$136New Hampshire: median $90 across 24 hospitalsNH$90Washington: median $87 across 70 hospitalsWA$87Idaho: median $96 across 22 hospitalsID$96Montana: median $77 across 28 hospitalsMT$77North Dakota: median $106 across 35 hospitalsND$106Minnesota: median $64 across 99 hospitalsMN$64Illinois: median $100 across 133 hospitalsIL$100Wisconsin: median $86 across 101 hospitalsWI$86Michigan: median $38 across 85 hospitalsMI$38New York: median $48 across 102 hospitalsNY$48Massachusetts: median $100 across 52 hospitalsMA$100Oregon: median $51 across 43 hospitalsOR$51Nevada: median $78 across 20 hospitalsNV$78Wyoming: median $77 across 16 hospitalsWY$77South Dakota: median $120 across 36 hospitalsSD$120Iowa: median $73 across 86 hospitalsIA$73Indiana: median $64 across 94 hospitalsIN$64Ohio: median $72 across 136 hospitalsOH$72Pennsylvania: median $71 across 121 hospitalsPA$71New Jersey: median $18 across 55 hospitalsNJ$18Connecticut: median $69 across 20 hospitalsCT$69Rhode Island: median $37 across 10 hospitalsRI$37California: median $20 across 134 hospitalsCA$20Utah: median $41 across 40 hospitalsUT$41Colorado: median $101 across 62 hospitalsCO$101Nebraska: median $119 across 75 hospitalsNE$119Missouri: median $77 across 72 hospitalsMO$77Kentucky: median $99 across 67 hospitalsKY$99West Virginia: median $47 across 41 hospitalsWV$47Virginia: median $57 across 64 hospitalsVA$57Maryland: median $69 across 37 hospitalsMD$69Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $64 across 39 hospitalsAZ$64New Mexico: median $107 across 25 hospitalsNM$107Kansas: median $124 across 76 hospitalsKS$124Arkansas: median $25 across 36 hospitalsAR$25Tennessee: median $32 across 72 hospitalsTN$32North Carolina: median $75 across 83 hospitalsNC$75South Carolina: median $109 across 50 hospitalsSC$109Oklahoma: median $70 across 65 hospitalsOK$70Louisiana: median $38 across 49 hospitalsLA$38Mississippi: median $39 across 51 hospitalsMS$39Alabama: median $53 across 41 hospitalsAL$53Georgia: median $92 across 102 hospitalsGA$92Hawaii: median $79 across 16 hospitalsHI$79Texas: median $90 across 217 hospitalsTX$90Florida: median $25 across 135 hospitalsFL$25
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
Vermont VT14$136+89%$69 – $242
Kansas KS76$124+72%$61 – $190
South Dakota SD36$120+66%$46 – $198
Nebraska NE75$119+64%$41 – $174
South Carolina SC50$109+51%$60 – $160
New Mexico NM25$107+48%$77 – $188
North Dakota ND35$106+47%$30 – $132
Colorado CO62$101+40%$52 – $156
Illinois IL133$100+39%$57 – $195
Massachusetts MA52$100+38%$50 – $160
Kentucky KY67$99+37%$42 – $262
Idaho ID22$96+33%$46 – $135
Georgia GA102$92+28%$40 – $177
Texas TX217$90+25%$44 – $230
Maine ME28$90+25%$38 – $159
New Hampshire NH24$90+24%$24 – $321
Washington WA70$87+21%$55 – $125
Wisconsin WI101$86+19%$64 – $121
Alaska AK16$83+15%$36 – $179
Hawaii HI16$79+9%$43 – $194
Nevada NV20$78+9%$17 – $158
Missouri MO72$77+7%$48 – $122
Wyoming WY16$77+7%$37 – $152
Montana MT28$77+6%$33 – $120
North Carolina NC83$75+3%$26 – $146
Iowa IA86$73+1%$41 – $125
Ohio OH136$720%$43 – $163
Pennsylvania PA121$71−2%$26 – $189
Oklahoma OK65$70−4%$27 – $92
Connecticut CT20$69−5%$47 – $134
Maryland MD37$69−5%$50 – $81
Arizona AZ39$64−11%$22 – $163
Indiana IN94$64−12%$30 – $106
Minnesota MN99$64−12%$26 – $139
Virginia VA64$57−21%$13 – $162
Alabama AL41$53−26%$25 – $132
Oregon OR43$51−30%$41 – $70
New York NY102$48−33%$19 – $87
West Virginia WV41$47−35%$30 – $89
Utah UT40$41−44%$35 – $161
Mississippi MS51$39−46%$18 – $65
Louisiana LA49$38−47%$22 – $96
Michigan MI85$38−47%$20 – $56
Rhode Island RI10$37−49%$24 – $129
Tennessee TN72$32−56%$17 – $83
Arkansas AR36$25−65%$21 – $90
Florida FL135$25−66%$8 – $80
California CA134$20−72%$9 – $123
New Jersey NJ55$18−74%$16 – $53
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 care2,159$64$25 – $137
Children’s48$73$21 – $185
Critical access885$89$41 – $156
Ownership
For-profit412$77$26 – $276
Government562$74$30 – $140
Non-profit2,118$71$29 – $136
System affiliation
Part of a system2,550$72$28 – $142
Independent552$72$32 – $148

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$120
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

2,114 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $72 and the average of the middle 60% is $75; most fall between $30 and $139.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,114 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$37$72$124$188

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $188).

Of the 2,337 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,114 gave a usable cash price; 115 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 108 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,102 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (78%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,397 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,102
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here166
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 — excluded128
Hospitals that filed this code3,397

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 Thyroglobulin by Lc-Ms/Ms, Serum/Plasma.

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, “Thyroglobulin blood test (CPT 84432) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84432-thyroglobulin-blood-test