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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Triglyceride blood test

CPT 84478the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures the level of triglycerides, a type of fat in the blood.

Hospitals typically charge $37 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,355 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $39. Most fall between $14 and $77 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,355
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 3,355 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
$8$17$37$65$127

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($8 vs $127).

How the prices are spread

$5 – $7: 159 hospitals$5$7 – $11: 177 hospitals$11 – $15: 276 hospitals$11$15 – $22: 265 hospitals$22 – $32: 417 hospitals$22$32 – $46: 557 hospitals$46 – $66: 518 hospitals$46$66 – $95: 328 hospitals$95 – $136: 213 hospitals$95$136 – $196: 111 hospitals$136median $37price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,021 of 3,355 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$5$7159
$7$11177
$11$15276
$15$22265
$22$32417
$32$46557
$46$66518
$66$95328
$95$136213
$136$196111

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $37.

Alaska: median $55 across 19 hospitalsAK$55Maine: median $44 across 28 hospitalsME$44Vermont: median $40 across 14 hospitalsVT$40New Hampshire: median $44 across 25 hospitalsNH$44Washington: median $42 across 77 hospitalsWA$42Idaho: median $29 across 25 hospitalsID$29Montana: median $36 across 33 hospitalsMT$36North Dakota: median $43 across 34 hospitalsND$43Minnesota: median $35 across 106 hospitalsMN$35Illinois: median $66 across 140 hospitalsIL$66Wisconsin: median $47 across 107 hospitalsWI$47Michigan: median $18 across 95 hospitalsMI$18New York: median $21 across 105 hospitalsNY$21Massachusetts: median $36 across 52 hospitalsMA$36Oregon: median $29 across 51 hospitalsOR$29Nevada: median $39 across 22 hospitalsNV$39Wyoming: median $29 across 16 hospitalsWY$29South Dakota: median $86 across 38 hospitalsSD$86Iowa: median $42 across 89 hospitalsIA$42Indiana: median $29 across 96 hospitalsIN$29Ohio: median $34 across 140 hospitalsOH$34Pennsylvania: median $32 across 122 hospitalsPA$32New Jersey: median $7 across 57 hospitalsNJ$7Connecticut: median $27 across 23 hospitalsCT$27Rhode Island: median $37 across 10 hospitalsRI$37California: median $41 across 156 hospitalsCA$41Utah: median $46 across 42 hospitalsUT$46Colorado: median $49 across 72 hospitalsCO$49Nebraska: median $55 across 79 hospitalsNE$55Missouri: median $35 across 77 hospitalsMO$35Kentucky: median $44 across 69 hospitalsKY$44West Virginia: median $28 across 43 hospitalsWV$28Virginia: median $51 across 72 hospitalsVA$51Maryland: median $5 across 41 hospitalsMD$5Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $34 across 42 hospitalsAZ$34New Mexico: median $57 across 29 hospitalsNM$57Kansas: median $32 across 88 hospitalsKS$32Arkansas: median $19 across 40 hospitalsAR$19Tennessee: median $23 across 81 hospitalsTN$23North Carolina: median $43 across 86 hospitalsNC$43South Carolina: median $43 across 53 hospitalsSC$43Oklahoma: median $27 across 73 hospitalsOK$27Louisiana: median $24 across 53 hospitalsLA$24Mississippi: median $19 across 54 hospitalsMS$19Alabama: median $31 across 44 hospitalsAL$31Georgia: median $40 across 110 hospitalsGA$40Hawaii: median $48 across 19 hospitalsHI$48Texas: median $58 across 246 hospitalsTX$58Florida: median $34 across 155 hospitalsFL$34
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $37. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD38$86+131%$29 – $140
Illinois IL140$66+78%$23 – $110
Texas TX246$58+56%$12 – $169
New Mexico NM29$57+53%$22 – $95
Alaska AK19$55+49%$45 – $91
Nebraska NE79$55+48%$30 – $78
Virginia VA72$51+38%$26 – $70
Colorado CO72$49+33%$34 – $111
Hawaii HI19$48+28%$15 – $56
Wisconsin WI107$47+26%$25 – $65
Utah UT42$46+23%$39 – $81
Kentucky KY69$44+19%$12 – $131
Maine ME28$44+18%$30 – $108
New Hampshire NH25$44+17%$25 – $74
North Carolina NC86$43+16%$22 – $75
South Carolina SC53$43+16%$24 – $61
North Dakota ND34$43+15%$30 – $56
Iowa IA89$42+12%$28 – $58
Washington WA77$42+12%$25 – $62
California CA156$41+10%$5 – $123
Vermont VT14$40+8%$17 – $90
Georgia GA110$40+7%$19 – $79
Nevada NV22$39+5%$18 – $102
Rhode Island RI10$37−1%$13 – $65
Massachusetts MA52$36−3%$20 – $69
Montana MT33$36−3%$19 – $57
Missouri MO77$35−5%$23 – $65
Minnesota MN106$35−6%$12 – $52
Ohio OH140$34−9%$21 – $61
Arizona AZ42$34−9%$16 – $260
Florida FL155$34−10%$8 – $216
Kansas KS88$32−14%$17 – $52
Pennsylvania PA122$32−14%$11 – $85
Alabama AL44$31−16%$15 – $64
Idaho ID25$29−21%$11 – $52
Oregon OR51$29−21%$16 – $52
Indiana IN96$29−22%$12 – $64
Wyoming WY16$29−23%$26 – $74
West Virginia WV43$28−25%$17 – $50
Connecticut CT23$27−27%$14 – $34
Oklahoma OK73$27−27%$14 – $60
Louisiana LA53$24−36%$12 – $54
Tennessee TN81$23−37%$10 – $58
New York NY105$21−43%$7 – $59
Arkansas AR40$19−48%$8 – $44
Mississippi MS54$19−49%$12 – $50
Michigan MI95$18−52%$6 – $42
New Jersey NJ57$7−82%$6 – $24
Maryland MD41$5−85%$4 – $7
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 $37.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,299$34$11 – $80
Children’s66$45$15 – $73
Critical access980$43$21 – $72
Ownership
For-profit460$54$14 – $248
Government640$39$16 – $71
Non-profit2,245$34$13 – $67
System affiliation
Part of a system2,706$38$13 – $80
Independent649$36$17 – $67

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$60
Median cash price$37
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

2,271 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $37 and the average of the middle 60% is $39; most fall between $14 and $75.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,271 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
$8$17$37$64$118

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($8 vs $118).

Of the 2,511 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,271 gave a usable cash price; 129 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 111 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,355 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (85%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,669 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,355
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here179
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 — excluded134
Hospitals that filed this code3,669

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 Triglyceride.

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, “Triglyceride blood test (CPT 84478) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84478-triglyceride-blood-test