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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Thyroxine-binding globulin blood test

CPT 84442the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures the protein that carries thyroid hormone through the bloodstream.

Hospitals typically charge $62 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,529 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $66. Most fall between $25 and $132 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,529
States
50
Filings dated
Nov 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 2,529 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
$17$30$62$117$198

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $198).

How the prices are spread

$13 – $18: 172 hospitals$13$18 – $24: 167 hospitals$24 – $33: 215 hospitals$24$33 – $44: 262 hospitals$44 – $60: 302 hospitals$44$60 – $81: 325 hospitals$81 – $110: 282 hospitals$81$110 – $149: 246 hospitals$149 – $201: 196 hospitals$149$201 – $272: 110 hospitals$201median $62price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,277 of 2,529 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$13$18172
$18$24167
$24$33215
$33$44262
$44$60302
$60$81325
$81$110282
$110$149246
$149$201196
$201$272110

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $62.

Alaska: median $119 across 10 hospitalsAK$119Maine: median $68 across 23 hospitalsME$68Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $67 across 20 hospitalsNH$67Washington: median $61 across 48 hospitalsWA$61Idaho: median $49 across 17 hospitalsID$49Montana: median $98 across 15 hospitalsMT$98North Dakota: median $52 across 17 hospitalsND$52Minnesota: median $52 across 56 hospitalsMN$52Illinois: median $83 across 118 hospitalsIL$83Wisconsin: median $93 across 75 hospitalsWI$93Michigan: median $26 across 64 hospitalsMI$26New York: median $54 across 96 hospitalsNY$54Massachusetts: median $93 across 51 hospitalsMA$93Oregon: median $45 across 40 hospitalsOR$45Nevada: median $72 across 16 hospitalsNV$72Wyoming: median $94 across 11 hospitalsWY$94South Dakota: median $49 across 15 hospitalsSD$49Iowa: median $55 across 57 hospitalsIA$55Indiana: median $58 across 79 hospitalsIN$58Ohio: median $59 across 131 hospitalsOH$59Pennsylvania: median $64 across 114 hospitalsPA$64New Jersey: median $17 across 56 hospitalsNJ$17Connecticut: median $63 across 14 hospitalsCT$63Rhode Island: median $77 across 10 hospitalsRI$77California: median $32 across 103 hospitalsCA$32Utah: median $70 across 36 hospitalsUT$70Colorado: median $68 across 49 hospitalsCO$68Nebraska: median $96 across 40 hospitalsNE$96Missouri: median $81 across 64 hospitalsMO$81Kentucky: median $138 across 59 hospitalsKY$138West Virginia: median $49 across 26 hospitalsWV$49Virginia: median $56 across 61 hospitalsVA$56Maryland: median $40 across 38 hospitalsMD$40Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $65 across 38 hospitalsAZ$65New Mexico: median $87 across 13 hospitalsNM$87Kansas: median $75 across 38 hospitalsKS$75Arkansas: median $61 across 24 hospitalsAR$61Tennessee: median $41 across 67 hospitalsTN$41North Carolina: median $33 across 72 hospitalsNC$33South Carolina: median $160 across 47 hospitalsSC$160Oklahoma: median $61 across 55 hospitalsOK$61Louisiana: median $47 across 41 hospitalsLA$47Mississippi: median $42 across 36 hospitalsMS$42Alabama: median $74 across 32 hospitalsAL$74Georgia: median $63 across 81 hospitalsGA$63Hawaii: median $93 across 14 hospitalsHI$93Texas: median $103 across 197 hospitalsTX$103Florida: median $19 across 132 hospitalsFL$19
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $62. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC47$160+160%$103 – $198
Kentucky KY59$138+123%$44 – $204
Alaska AK10$119+93%$31 – $176
Texas TX197$103+68%$40 – $211
Montana MT15$98+59%$33 – $122
Nebraska NE40$96+56%$36 – $175
Wyoming WY11$94+53%$35 – $130
Hawaii HI14$93+51%$37 – $179
Massachusetts MA51$93+51%$52 – $173
Wisconsin WI75$93+50%$45 – $98
New Mexico NM13$87+41%$48 – $109
Illinois IL118$83+35%$38 – $159
Missouri MO64$81+32%$44 – $158
Rhode Island RI10$77+24%$34 – $118
Kansas KS38$75+21%$40 – $148
Alabama AL32$74+20%$21 – $200
Nevada NV16$72+17%$22 – $145
Utah UT36$70+14%$59 – $85
Maine ME23$68+11%$48 – $152
Colorado CO49$68+10%$38 – $169
New Hampshire NH20$67+8%$25 – $144
Arizona AZ38$65+6%$24 – $108
Pennsylvania PA114$64+3%$22 – $204
Connecticut CT14$63+2%$43 – $90
Georgia GA81$63+2%$27 – $148
Oklahoma OK55$610%$34 – $99
Arkansas AR24$61−1%$14 – $97
Washington WA48$61−2%$33 – $82
Ohio OH131$59−4%$35 – $85
Indiana IN79$58−6%$21 – $150
Virginia VA61$56−9%$25 – $135
Iowa IA57$55−11%$40 – $92
New York NY96$54−13%$18 – $121
Minnesota MN56$52−15%$21 – $149
North Dakota ND17$52−16%$26 – $120
West Virginia WV26$49−20%$25 – $108
Idaho ID17$49−20%$21 – $63
South Dakota SD15$49−21%$41 – $135
Louisiana LA41$47−24%$25 – $68
Oregon OR40$45−27%$23 – $98
Mississippi MS36$42−32%$22 – $70
Tennessee TN67$41−33%$25 – $97
Maryland MD38$40−36%$31 – $49
North Carolina NC72$33−46%$27 – $126
California CA103$32−48%$13 – $64
Michigan MI64$26−59%$19 – $54
Florida FL132$19−70%$12 – $57
New Jersey NJ56$17−72%$16 – $62
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $62.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,921$59$23 – $128
Children’s56$74$39 – $134
Critical access543$69$35 – $145
Ownership
For-profit366$77$22 – $272
Government382$60$27 – $126
Non-profit1,772$59$25 – $122
System affiliation
Part of a system2,117$62$25 – $137
Independent412$63$30 – $121

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$108
Median cash price$62
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

1,737 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $63 and the average of the middle 60% is $68; most fall between $27 and $127.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,737 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
$19$34$63$113$182

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $182).

Of the 1,919 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,737 gave a usable cash price; 98 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 84 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,529 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (64%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,749 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,529
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here123
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded97
Hospitals that filed this code2,749

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 Tbg (Thyroid Binding Globulin).

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Thyroxine-binding globulin blood test (CPT 84442) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84442-thyroxine-binding-globulin-blood-test