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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Transferrin blood test

CPT 84466the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures transferrin, the protein that carries iron through the bloodstream.

Hospitals typically charge $71 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,296 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $75. Most fall between $32 and $133 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,296
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 3,296 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$38$71$118$189

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $189).

How the prices are spread

$13 – $17: 131 hospitals$13$17 – $24: 149 hospitals$24 – $32: 221 hospitals$24$32 – $43: 300 hospitals$43 – $59: 415 hospitals$43$59 – $80: 445 hospitals$80 – $109: 538 hospitals$80$109 – $148: 411 hospitals$148 – $201: 245 hospitals$148$201 – $273: 131 hospitals$201median $71price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,986 of 3,296 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$13$17131
$17$24149
$24$32221
$32$43300
$43$59415
$59$80445
$80$109538
$109$148411
$148$201245
$201$273131

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $71.

Alaska: median $116 across 18 hospitalsAK$116Maine: median $62 across 28 hospitalsME$62Vermont: median $89 across 13 hospitalsVT$89New Hampshire: median $79 across 19 hospitalsNH$79Washington: median $83 across 76 hospitalsWA$83Idaho: median $60 across 24 hospitalsID$60Montana: median $91 across 30 hospitalsMT$91North Dakota: median $78 across 32 hospitalsND$78Minnesota: median $74 across 105 hospitalsMN$74Illinois: median $98 across 140 hospitalsIL$98Wisconsin: median $93 across 105 hospitalsWI$93Michigan: median $48 across 96 hospitalsMI$48New York: median $40 across 119 hospitalsNY$40Massachusetts: median $81 across 51 hospitalsMA$81Oregon: median $53 across 50 hospitalsOR$53Nevada: median $71 across 21 hospitalsNV$71Wyoming: median $58 across 16 hospitalsWY$58South Dakota: median $106 across 23 hospitalsSD$106Iowa: median $70 across 86 hospitalsIA$70Indiana: median $68 across 98 hospitalsIN$68Ohio: median $68 across 142 hospitalsOH$68Pennsylvania: median $59 across 122 hospitalsPA$59New Jersey: median $15 across 56 hospitalsNJ$15Connecticut: median $60 across 23 hospitalsCT$60Rhode Island: median $30 across 10 hospitalsRI$30California: median $63 across 141 hospitalsCA$63Utah: median $68 across 43 hospitalsUT$68Colorado: median $83 across 69 hospitalsCO$83Nebraska: median $104 across 76 hospitalsNE$104Missouri: median $67 across 77 hospitalsMO$67Kentucky: median $93 across 69 hospitalsKY$93West Virginia: median $56 across 44 hospitalsWV$56Virginia: median $77 across 73 hospitalsVA$77Maryland: median $41 across 41 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $77 across 42 hospitalsAZ$77New Mexico: median $85 across 27 hospitalsNM$85Kansas: median $97 across 87 hospitalsKS$97Arkansas: median $28 across 38 hospitalsAR$28Tennessee: median $52 across 83 hospitalsTN$52North Carolina: median $67 across 84 hospitalsNC$67South Carolina: median $99 across 53 hospitalsSC$99Oklahoma: median $53 across 71 hospitalsOK$53Louisiana: median $47 across 50 hospitalsLA$47Mississippi: median $40 across 57 hospitalsMS$40Alabama: median $52 across 44 hospitalsAL$52Georgia: median $88 across 108 hospitalsGA$88Hawaii: median $64 across 19 hospitalsHI$64Texas: median $114 across 239 hospitalsTX$114Florida: median $67 across 151 hospitalsFL$67
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $71. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK18$116+63%$73 – $164
Texas TX239$114+59%$56 – $211
South Dakota SD23$106+48%$54 – $148
Nebraska NE76$104+46%$64 – $149
South Carolina SC53$99+39%$74 – $124
Illinois IL140$98+38%$59 – $177
Kansas KS87$97+36%$59 – $134
Kentucky KY69$93+31%$41 – $155
Wisconsin WI105$93+30%$48 – $113
Montana MT30$91+27%$59 – $126
Vermont VT13$89+25%$36 – $197
Georgia GA108$88+24%$26 – $211
New Mexico NM27$85+19%$48 – $102
Colorado CO69$83+16%$54 – $204
Washington WA76$83+16%$53 – $116
Massachusetts MA51$81+14%$40 – $119
New Hampshire NH19$79+11%$41 – $243
North Dakota ND32$78+10%$24 – $115
Arizona AZ42$77+8%$22 – $158
Virginia VA73$77+8%$22 – $142
Minnesota MN105$74+4%$26 – $123
Nevada NV21$71−1%$33 – $104
Iowa IA86$70−1%$54 – $110
Indiana IN98$68−5%$21 – $149
Ohio OH142$68−5%$45 – $108
Utah UT43$68−5%$58 – $113
North Carolina NC84$67−6%$43 – $95
Missouri MO77$67−6%$32 – $129
Florida FL151$67−6%$20 – $247
Hawaii HI19$64−10%$34 – $96
California CA141$63−12%$11 – $176
Maine ME28$62−13%$24 – $101
Idaho ID24$60−15%$10 – $105
Connecticut CT23$60−16%$43 – $106
Pennsylvania PA122$59−17%$20 – $150
Wyoming WY16$58−18%$24 – $120
West Virginia WV44$56−21%$27 – $116
Oklahoma OK71$53−25%$29 – $93
Oregon OR50$53−26%$41 – $78
Alabama AL44$52−27%$18 – $172
Tennessee TN83$52−28%$26 – $113
Michigan MI96$48−33%$36 – $101
Louisiana LA50$47−34%$29 – $78
Maryland MD41$41−43%$31 – $49
Mississippi MS57$40−44%$20 – $69
New York NY119$40−44%$16 – $116
Rhode Island RI10$30−58%$20 – $102
Arkansas AR38$28−61%$19 – $54
New Jersey NJ56$15−79%$14 – $43
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 $71.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,286$67$29 – $137
Children’s65$102$50 – $162
Critical access935$81$42 – $128
Ownership
For-profit461$96$34 – $247
Government619$74$35 – $122
Non-profit2,206$67$32 – $122
System affiliation
Part of a system2,658$73$32 – $137
Independent638$67$35 – $124

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$119
Median cash price$71
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

2,218 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $74 and the average of the middle 60% is $77; most fall between $36 and $129.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,218 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$43$74$117$184

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $184).

Of the 2,443 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,218 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

3,296 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (83%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,600 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,296
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here171
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 code3,600

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 Transferin.

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, “Transferrin blood test (CPT 84466) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84466-transferrin-blood-test