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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Total triiodothyronine (total T3) blood test

CPT 84480the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures the total amount of the thyroid hormone T3, both bound and unbound.

Hospitals typically charge $79 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,328 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $82. Most fall between $35 and $146 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,328
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 3,328 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$43$79$128$215

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $215).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $20: 166 hospitals$14$20 – $27: 167 hospitals$27 – $37: 208 hospitals$27$37 – $51: 292 hospitals$51 – $70: 467 hospitals$51$70 – $96: 545 hospitals$96 – $132: 530 hospitals$96$132 – $182: 324 hospitals$182 – $250: 202 hospitals$182$250 – $344: 99 hospitals$250median $79price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,000 of 3,328 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$20166
$20$27167
$27$37208
$37$51292
$51$70467
$70$96545
$96$132530
$132$182324
$182$250202
$250$34499

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $79.

Alaska: median $170 across 19 hospitalsAK$170Maine: median $79 across 28 hospitalsME$79Vermont: median $86 across 14 hospitalsVT$86New Hampshire: median $73 across 25 hospitalsNH$73Washington: median $83 across 76 hospitalsWA$83Idaho: median $67 across 25 hospitalsID$67Montana: median $90 across 31 hospitalsMT$90North Dakota: median $98 across 32 hospitalsND$98Minnesota: median $76 across 106 hospitalsMN$76Illinois: median $100 across 139 hospitalsIL$100Wisconsin: median $105 across 103 hospitalsWI$105Michigan: median $46 across 88 hospitalsMI$46New York: median $51 across 118 hospitalsNY$51Massachusetts: median $86 across 54 hospitalsMA$86Oregon: median $73 across 50 hospitalsOR$73Nevada: median $69 across 20 hospitalsNV$69Wyoming: median $80 across 16 hospitalsWY$80South Dakota: median $132 across 38 hospitalsSD$132Iowa: median $78 across 88 hospitalsIA$78Indiana: median $110 across 94 hospitalsIN$110Ohio: median $53 across 139 hospitalsOH$53Pennsylvania: median $72 across 122 hospitalsPA$72New Jersey: median $16 across 57 hospitalsNJ$16Connecticut: median $76 across 23 hospitalsCT$76Rhode Island: median $99 across 10 hospitalsRI$99California: median $70 across 142 hospitalsCA$70Utah: median $75 across 42 hospitalsUT$75Colorado: median $82 across 69 hospitalsCO$82Nebraska: median $104 across 83 hospitalsNE$104Missouri: median $75 across 77 hospitalsMO$75Kentucky: median $90 across 68 hospitalsKY$90West Virginia: median $85 across 43 hospitalsWV$85Virginia: median $114 across 70 hospitalsVA$114Maryland: median $40 across 42 hospitalsMD$40Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $100 across 42 hospitalsAZ$100New Mexico: median $96 across 29 hospitalsNM$96Kansas: median $77 across 90 hospitalsKS$77Arkansas: median $35 across 40 hospitalsAR$35Tennessee: median $47 across 82 hospitalsTN$47North Carolina: median $75 across 90 hospitalsNC$75South Carolina: median $120 across 53 hospitalsSC$120Oklahoma: median $59 across 73 hospitalsOK$59Louisiana: median $49 across 53 hospitalsLA$49Mississippi: median $47 across 51 hospitalsMS$47Alabama: median $61 across 44 hospitalsAL$61Georgia: median $84 across 109 hospitalsGA$84Hawaii: median $95 across 20 hospitalsHI$95Texas: median $125 across 248 hospitalsTX$125Florida: median $78 across 146 hospitalsFL$78
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $79. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK19$170+116%$102 – $217
South Dakota SD38$132+68%$89 – $185
Texas TX248$125+59%$55 – $261
South Carolina SC53$120+53%$72 – $160
Virginia VA70$114+45%$64 – $187
Indiana IN94$110+40%$32 – $177
Wisconsin WI103$105+34%$60 – $122
Nebraska NE83$104+32%$56 – $144
Illinois IL139$100+27%$51 – $205
Arizona AZ42$100+27%$23 – $410
Rhode Island RI10$99+26%$34 – $112
North Dakota ND32$98+25%$27 – $111
New Mexico NM29$96+22%$54 – $121
Hawaii HI20$95+20%$57 – $142
Montana MT31$90+15%$65 – $112
Kentucky KY68$90+14%$43 – $183
Vermont VT14$86+10%$40 – $260
Massachusetts MA54$86+10%$49 – $138
West Virginia WV43$85+8%$47 – $136
Georgia GA109$84+7%$29 – $182
Washington WA76$83+5%$62 – $130
Colorado CO69$82+4%$21 – $143
Wyoming WY16$80+2%$26 – $117
Maine ME28$79+1%$40 – $176
Iowa IA88$78−1%$55 – $114
Florida FL146$78−1%$16 – $272
Kansas KS90$77−2%$56 – $120
Minnesota MN106$76−3%$31 – $117
Connecticut CT23$76−3%$55 – $118
Utah UT42$75−5%$64 – $114
Missouri MO77$75−5%$51 – $114
North Carolina NC90$75−5%$27 – $106
New Hampshire NH25$73−7%$50 – $171
Oregon OR50$73−7%$52 – $86
Pennsylvania PA122$72−8%$22 – $213
California CA142$70−11%$12 – $185
Nevada NV20$69−12%$14 – $118
Idaho ID25$67−14%$45 – $101
Alabama AL44$61−23%$22 – $166
Oklahoma OK73$59−25%$41 – $101
Ohio OH139$53−33%$34 – $109
New York NY118$51−35%$17 – $133
Louisiana LA53$49−37%$15 – $87
Mississippi MS51$47−40%$20 – $79
Tennessee TN82$47−40%$28 – $117
Michigan MI88$46−41%$36 – $103
Maryland MD42$40−49%$31 – $49
Arkansas AR40$35−55%$20 – $77
New Jersey NJ57$16−79%$16 – $62
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 $79.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,287$75$32 – $156
Children’s64$86$30 – $174
Critical access967$86$47 – $135
Ownership
For-profit466$107$41 – $403
Government632$79$37 – $127
Non-profit2,220$75$34 – $136
System affiliation
Part of a system2,689$80$35 – $152
Independent639$74$35 – $128

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$130
Median cash price$79
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

2,231 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $82 and the average of the middle 60% is $84; most fall between $37 and $144.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,231 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$44$82$130$205

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $205).

Of the 2,473 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,231 gave a usable cash price; 131 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

3,328 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (84%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,646 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,328
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here185
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 — excluded132
Hospitals that filed this code3,646

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 T3(Triiodothyronine).

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, “Total triiodothyronine (total T3) blood test (CPT 84480) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84480-total-triiodothyronine-total-t3-blood-test