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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Cortisol-binding protein blood test

CPT 84449the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures transcortin, the protein that carries cortisol in the bloodstream.

Hospitals typically charge $70 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,008 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $75. Most fall between $30 and $136 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,008
States
48
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 1,008 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
$21$36$70$119$201

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($21 vs $201).

How the prices are spread

$18 – $24: 108 hospitals$18$24 – $31: 72 hospitals$31 – $40: 62 hospitals$31$40 – $53: 113 hospitals$53 – $69: 110 hospitals$53$69 – $91: 133 hospitals$91 – $119: 124 hospitals$91$119 – $156: 82 hospitals$156 – $204: 71 hospitals$156$204 – $267: 49 hospitals$204median $70price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (924 of 1,008 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$18$24108
$24$3172
$31$4062
$40$53113
$53$69110
$69$91133
$91$119124
$119$15682
$156$20471
$204$26749

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $70.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $45 across 27 hospitalsWA$45Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $105 across 11 hospitalsMN$105Illinois: median $88 across 45 hospitalsIL$88Wisconsin: median $101 across 29 hospitalsWI$101Michigan: median $30 across 33 hospitalsMI$30New York: median $46 across 46 hospitalsNY$46Massachusetts: median $79 across 23 hospitalsMA$79Oregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $36 across 16 hospitalsIA$36Indiana: median $40 across 34 hospitalsIN$40Ohio: median $81 across 80 hospitalsOH$81Pennsylvania: median $74 across 53 hospitalsPA$74New Jersey: median $20 across 39 hospitalsNJ$20Connecticut: median $84 across 11 hospitalsCT$84Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $109 across 49 hospitalsCA$109Utah: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $131 across 11 hospitalsNE$131Missouri: median $67 across 28 hospitalsMO$67Kentucky: median $66 across 29 hospitalsKY$66West Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $50 across 40 hospitalsVA$50Maryland: median $54 across 16 hospitalsMD$54Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $75 across 21 hospitalsAZ$75New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $110 across 12 hospitalsKS$110Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $21 across 33 hospitalsTN$21North Carolina: median $52 across 30 hospitalsNC$52South Carolina: median $206 across 21 hospitalsSC$206Oklahoma: median $76 across 25 hospitalsOK$76Louisiana: median $31 across 10 hospitalsLA$31Mississippi: median $42 across 13 hospitalsMS$42Alabama: median $30 across 13 hospitalsAL$30Georgia: median $51 across 43 hospitalsGA$51Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $90 across 70 hospitalsTX$90Florida: median $59 across 15 hospitalsFL$59
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $70. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC21$206+194%$111 – $206
Nebraska NE11$131+87%$110 – $196
Kansas KS12$110+56%$23 – $180
California CA49$109+56%$47 – $136
Minnesota MN11$105+51%$105 – $112
Wisconsin WI29$101+44%$73 – $131
Texas TX70$90+29%$61 – $158
Illinois IL45$88+26%$36 – $133
Connecticut CT11$84+20%$67 – $107
Ohio OH80$81+15%$57 – $226
Massachusetts MA23$79+13%$62 – $116
Oklahoma OK25$76+9%$32 – $130
Arizona AZ21$75+7%$24 – $124
Pennsylvania PA53$74+6%$18 – $201
Missouri MO28$67−5%$44 – $102
Kentucky KY29$66−6%$34 – $212
Florida FL15$59−16%$24 – $77
Maryland MD16$54−23%$52 – $73
North Carolina NC30$52−26%$44 – $157
Georgia GA43$51−27%$42 – $82
Virginia VA40$50−29%$21 – $107
New York NY46$46−34%$18 – $72
Washington WA27$45−36%$27 – $77
Mississippi MS13$42−41%$17 – $59
Indiana IN34$40−43%$29 – $122
Iowa IA16$36−49%$36 – $62
Louisiana LA10$31−55%$19 – $61
Alabama AL13$30−57%$20 – $140
Michigan MI33$30−57%$25 – $73
Tennessee TN33$21−71%$15 – $100
New Jersey NJ39$20−72%$18 – $21
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $70.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care820$67$29 – $134
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access172$73$36 – $143
Ownership
For-profit127$65$28 – $158
Government135$57$30 – $118
Non-profit743$73$30 – $136
System affiliation
Part of a system864$71$29 – $136
Independent144$68$38 – $134

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$124
Median cash price$70
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

705 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $76 and the average of the middle 60% is $79; most fall between $36 and $136.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 705 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
$25$46$76$120$190

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($25 vs $190).

Of the 767 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 705 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 32 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,008 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (25%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,095 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,008
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here51
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 — excluded36
Hospitals that filed this code1,095

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 TRANSCORTIN.

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, “Cortisol-binding protein blood test (CPT 84449) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84449-cortisol-binding-protein-blood-test