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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Vitamin A blood test

CPT 84590the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of vitamin A, also called retinol, in blood. Covers one measurement.

Hospitals typically charge $62 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,184 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $66. Most fall between $25 and $125 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,184
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 3,184 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
$15$29$62$111$189

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $189).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $16: 196 hospitals$12$16 – $22: 197 hospitals$22 – $30: 271 hospitals$22$30 – $40: 268 hospitals$40 – $55: 355 hospitals$40$55 – $75: 422 hospitals$75 – $103: 454 hospitals$75$103 – $140: 352 hospitals$140 – $192: 205 hospitals$140$192 – $262: 156 hospitals$192median $62price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,876 of 3,184 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$16196
$16$22197
$22$30271
$30$40268
$40$55355
$55$75422
$75$103454
$103$140352
$140$192205
$192$262156

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $62.

Alaska: median $146 across 17 hospitalsAK$146Maine: median $67 across 27 hospitalsME$67Vermont: median $123 across 14 hospitalsVT$123New Hampshire: median $83 across 25 hospitalsNH$83Washington: median $73 across 76 hospitalsWA$73Idaho: median $58 across 23 hospitalsID$58Montana: median $99 across 27 hospitalsMT$99North Dakota: median $70 across 32 hospitalsND$70Minnesota: median $50 across 97 hospitalsMN$50Illinois: median $87 across 140 hospitalsIL$87Wisconsin: median $98 across 103 hospitalsWI$98Michigan: median $31 across 87 hospitalsMI$31New York: median $42 across 105 hospitalsNY$42Massachusetts: median $84 across 52 hospitalsMA$84Oregon: median $59 across 49 hospitalsOR$59Nevada: median $101 across 19 hospitalsNV$101Wyoming: median $58 across 16 hospitalsWY$58South Dakota: median $161 across 35 hospitalsSD$161Iowa: median $79 across 87 hospitalsIA$79Indiana: median $89 across 98 hospitalsIN$89Ohio: median $48 across 138 hospitalsOH$48Pennsylvania: median $59 across 121 hospitalsPA$59New Jersey: median $13 across 57 hospitalsNJ$13Connecticut: median $49 across 19 hospitalsCT$49Rhode Island: median $56 across 10 hospitalsRI$56California: median $19 across 117 hospitalsCA$19Utah: median $68 across 40 hospitalsUT$68Colorado: median $74 across 60 hospitalsCO$74Nebraska: median $132 across 74 hospitalsNE$132Missouri: median $74 across 72 hospitalsMO$74Kentucky: median $67 across 68 hospitalsKY$67West Virginia: median $45 across 42 hospitalsWV$45Virginia: median $92 across 71 hospitalsVA$92Maryland: median $82 across 42 hospitalsMD$82Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $64 across 39 hospitalsAZ$64New Mexico: median $100 across 25 hospitalsNM$100Kansas: median $74 across 81 hospitalsKS$74Arkansas: median $25 across 35 hospitalsAR$25Tennessee: median $42 across 83 hospitalsTN$42North Carolina: median $33 across 85 hospitalsNC$33South Carolina: median $117 across 53 hospitalsSC$117Oklahoma: median $65 across 73 hospitalsOK$65Louisiana: median $43 across 48 hospitalsLA$43Mississippi: median $49 across 54 hospitalsMS$49Alabama: median $59 across 43 hospitalsAL$59Georgia: median $49 across 106 hospitalsGA$49Hawaii: median $88 across 17 hospitalsHI$88Texas: median $77 across 238 hospitalsTX$77Florida: median $18 across 137 hospitalsFL$18
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $62. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD35$161+159%$49 – $243
Alaska AK17$146+134%$74 – $247
Nebraska NE74$132+111%$52 – $206
Vermont VT14$123+98%$65 – $248
South Carolina SC53$117+88%$44 – $121
Nevada NV19$101+62%$30 – $168
New Mexico NM25$100+61%$44 – $162
Montana MT27$99+58%$43 – $154
Wisconsin WI103$98+57%$49 – $125
Virginia VA71$92+47%$20 – $163
Indiana IN98$89+42%$27 – $164
Hawaii HI17$88+41%$32 – $122
Illinois IL140$87+40%$40 – $166
Massachusetts MA52$84+35%$39 – $151
New Hampshire NH25$83+34%$26 – $134
Maryland MD42$82+31%$60 – $98
Iowa IA87$79+27%$53 – $111
Texas TX238$77+23%$25 – $185
Kansas KS81$74+20%$52 – $118
Missouri MO72$74+20%$39 – $116
Colorado CO60$74+18%$42 – $121
Washington WA76$73+17%$56 – $107
North Dakota ND32$70+13%$22 – $94
Utah UT40$68+10%$58 – $97
Maine ME27$67+8%$42 – $114
Kentucky KY68$67+8%$35 – $211
Oklahoma OK73$65+4%$38 – $102
Arizona AZ39$64+2%$28 – $116
Alabama AL43$59−5%$24 – $129
Pennsylvania PA121$59−5%$18 – $175
Oregon OR49$59−6%$29 – $106
Idaho ID23$58−7%$14 – $86
Wyoming WY16$58−7%$38 – $125
Rhode Island RI10$56−11%$27 – $92
Minnesota MN97$50−20%$23 – $123
Georgia GA106$49−21%$30 – $127
Connecticut CT19$49−21%$35 – $93
Mississippi MS54$49−22%$22 – $80
Ohio OH138$48−23%$28 – $104
West Virginia WV42$45−28%$10 – $104
Louisiana LA48$43−31%$24 – $89
New York NY105$42−32%$14 – $126
Tennessee TN83$42−33%$20 – $107
North Carolina NC85$33−47%$22 – $103
Michigan MI87$31−50%$13 – $46
Arkansas AR35$25−59%$19 – $53
California CA117$19−69%$9 – $54
Florida FL137$18−72%$12 – $41
New Jersey NJ57$13−79%$12 – $57
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 $62.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,190$54$20 – $118
Children’s64$74$26 – $122
Critical access920$77$40 – $134
Ownership
For-profit442$70$21 – $230
Government596$67$28 – $125
Non-profit2,136$60$24 – $118
System affiliation
Part of a system2,584$61$23 – $125
Independent600$66$31 – $120

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$105
Median cash price$62
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

2,156 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $64 and the average of the middle 60% is $66; most fall between $26 and $119.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,156 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
$19$31$64$106$168

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $168).

Of the 2,377 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,156 gave a usable cash price; 113 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 108 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,184 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (80%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,461 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,184
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here152
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 — excluded124
Hospitals that filed this code3,461

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 Vitamin A.

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, “Vitamin A blood test (CPT 84590) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84590-vitamin-a-blood-test