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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Stool trypsin measurement from a 24-hour collection

CPT 84490the billing code this page is about

A stool test that measures the amount of the digestive enzyme trypsin in a sample collected over 24 hours.

Hospitals typically charge $32 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 324 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $41. Most fall between $10 and $97 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
324
States
40
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 324 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
$9$11$32$78$164

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $164).

How the prices are spread

$9 – $13: 79 hospitals$9$13 – $18: 28 hospitals$18 – $26: 26 hospitals$18$26 – $38: 16 hospitals$38 – $54: 15 hospitals$38$54 – $79: 64 hospitals$79 – $113: 29 hospitals$79$113 – $164: 18 hospitals$164 – $236: 12 hospitals$164$236 – $341: 5 hospitals$236median $32price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (292 of 324 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$9$1379
$13$1828
$18$2626
$26$3816
$38$5415
$54$7964
$79$11329
$113$16418
$164$23612
$236$3415

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $32.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $27 across 15 hospitalsIL$27Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $12 across 10 hospitalsMI$12New York: median $10 across 23 hospitalsNY$10Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $22 across 11 hospitalsIA$22Indiana: median $21 across 13 hospitalsIN$21Ohio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $8 across 18 hospitalsPA$8New Jersey: median $11 across 24 hospitalsNJ$11Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $78 across 38 hospitalsCA$78Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $97 across 17 hospitalsKY$97West Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: median $102 across 13 hospitalsVA$102Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $9 across 11 hospitalsTN$9North Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $18 across 14 hospitalsOK$18Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $80 across 10 hospitalsGA$80Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $65 across 29 hospitalsTX$65Florida: median $136 across 10 hospitalsFL$136
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $32. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL10$136+322%$6 – $223
Virginia VA13$102+217%$9 – $102
Kentucky KY17$97+200%$34 – $105
Georgia GA10$80+149%$48 – $96
California CA38$78+142%$62 – $78
Texas TX29$65+101%$65 – $1,307
Illinois IL15$27−17%$9 – $147
Iowa IA11$22−30%$22 – $22
Indiana IN13$21−35%$11 – $122
Oklahoma OK14$18−46%$18 – $30
Michigan MI10$12−64%$9 – $14
New Jersey NJ24$11−66%$10 – $11
New York NY23$10−69%$10 – $19
Tennessee TN11$9−73%$9 – $9
Pennsylvania PA18$8−75%$7 – $11
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $32.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care284$27$10 – $87
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access38$71$21 – $160
Ownership
For-profit59$65$10 – $661
Government42$48$10 – $102
Non-profit222$24$10 – $78
System affiliation
Part of a system270$30$10 – $87
Independent54$42$15 – $137

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$105
Median cash price$32
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

186 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $62 and the average of the middle 60% is $49; most fall between $18 and $78.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 186 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
$9$19$62$78$122

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $122).

Of the 203 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 186 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

324 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 346 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted324
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here6
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded15
Hospitals that filed this code346

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 5, 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 FECES FOR TRYPSIN.

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, “Stool trypsin measurement from a 24-hour collection (CPT 84490) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84490-stool-trypsin-measurement-from-a-24-hour-collection