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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Troponin blood test, present or absent result

CPT 84512the billing code this page is about

A blood test that reports only whether troponin, a protein released from injured heart muscle, is detectable, without a numeric level.

Hospitals typically charge $42 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 326 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $49. Most fall between $11 and $94 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
326
States
42
Filings dated
Nov 2023 – 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 326 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
$10$13$42$88$110

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $110).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $13: 69 hospitals$10$13 – $18: 18 hospitals$18 – $24: 38 hospitals$18$24 – $31: 10 hospitals$31 – $42: 12 hospitals$31$42 – $56: 16 hospitals$56 – $74: 30 hospitals$56$74 – $99: 68 hospitals$99 – $132: 22 hospitals$99$132 – $176: 12 hospitals$132median $42price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (295 of 326 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$1369
$13$1818
$18$2438
$24$3110
$31$4212
$42$5616
$56$7430
$74$9968
$99$13222
$132$17612

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $42.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $81 across 15 hospitalsMN$81Illinois: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: median $94 across 15 hospitalsWI$94Michigan: median $14 across 11 hospitalsMI$14New York: median $10 across 21 hospitalsNY$10Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $22 across 13 hospitalsIA$22Indiana: median $15 across 13 hospitalsIN$15Ohio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $8 across 16 hospitalsPA$8New Jersey: median $11 across 23 hospitalsNJ$11Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $85 across 39 hospitalsCA$85Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $14 across 11 hospitalsAZ$14New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $18 across 15 hospitalsOK$18Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $17 across 12 hospitalsMS$17Alabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $88 across 22 hospitalsTX$88Florida: median $71 across 11 hospitalsFL$71
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $42. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI15$94+123%$69 – $94
Texas TX22$88+110%$88 – $113
California CA39$85+101%$69 – $85
Minnesota MN15$81+93%$76 – $97
Florida FL11$71+69%$32 – $299
Iowa IA13$22−47%$22 – $22
Oklahoma OK15$18−57%$18 – $30
Mississippi MS12$17−59%$15 – $44
Indiana IN13$15−64%$13 – $21
Michigan MI11$14−67%$11 – $94
Arizona AZ11$14−67%$12 – $245
New Jersey NJ23$11−74%$10 – $11
New York NY21$10−76%$10 – $63
Pennsylvania PA16$8−81%$7 – $12
Illinois IL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $42.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care255$31$11 – $88
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access70$81$20 – $108
Ownership
For-profit39$53$12 – $176
Government42$39$10 – $162
Non-profit245$42$11 – $88
System affiliation
Part of a system291$44$11 – $94
Independent35$30$11 – $89

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$104
Median cash price$42
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

179 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $81 and the average of the middle 60% is $68; most fall between $22 and $94.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 179 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
$18$29$81$94$113

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $113).

Of the 198 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 179 gave a usable cash price; 9 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

326 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 345 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted326
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here8
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 — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code345

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 TROPONIN QUAL.

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, “Troponin blood test, present or absent result (CPT 84512) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84512-troponin-blood-test-present-or-absent-result