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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Pregnancy hormone blood test, measured amount

CPT 84702the billing code this page is about

Laboratory test that measures the exact level of the pregnancy hormone hCG in blood or urine, giving a numeric result.

Hospitals typically charge $79 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,379 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $85. Most fall between $31 and $167 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,379
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 3,379 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$37$79$145$239

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $239).

How the prices are spread

$13 – $18: 190 hospitals$13$18 – $25: 181 hospitals$25 – $36: 270 hospitals$25$36 – $50: 333 hospitals$50 – $70: 386 hospitals$50$70 – $98: 428 hospitals$98 – $137: 514 hospitals$98$137 – $192: 408 hospitals$192 – $270: 214 hospitals$192$270 – $378: 123 hospitals$270median $79price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,047 of 3,379 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$13$18190
$18$25181
$25$36270
$36$50333
$50$70386
$70$98428
$98$137514
$137$192408
$192$270214
$270$378123

By state

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

Alaska: median $115 across 19 hospitalsAK$115Maine: median $77 across 28 hospitalsME$77Vermont: median $122 across 14 hospitalsVT$122New Hampshire: median $83 across 25 hospitalsNH$83Washington: median $108 across 77 hospitalsWA$108Idaho: median $77 across 25 hospitalsID$77Montana: median $103 across 31 hospitalsMT$103North Dakota: median $87 across 33 hospitalsND$87Minnesota: median $79 across 107 hospitalsMN$79Illinois: median $113 across 142 hospitalsIL$113Wisconsin: median $109 across 109 hospitalsWI$109Michigan: median $46 across 86 hospitalsMI$46New York: median $54 across 120 hospitalsNY$54Massachusetts: median $102 across 54 hospitalsMA$102Oregon: median $77 across 51 hospitalsOR$77Nevada: median $99 across 22 hospitalsNV$99Wyoming: median $49 across 16 hospitalsWY$49South Dakota: median $145 across 41 hospitalsSD$145Iowa: median $82 across 90 hospitalsIA$82Indiana: median $47 across 97 hospitalsIN$47Ohio: median $68 across 143 hospitalsOH$68Pennsylvania: median $60 across 122 hospitalsPA$60New Jersey: median $17 across 57 hospitalsNJ$17Connecticut: median $64 across 23 hospitalsCT$64Rhode Island: median $88 across 10 hospitalsRI$88California: median $201 across 152 hospitalsCA$201Utah: median $94 across 42 hospitalsUT$94Colorado: median $97 across 72 hospitalsCO$97Nebraska: median $113 across 84 hospitalsNE$113Missouri: median $84 across 76 hospitalsMO$84Kentucky: median $76 across 69 hospitalsKY$76West Virginia: median $71 across 43 hospitalsWV$71Virginia: median $134 across 73 hospitalsVA$134Maryland: median $65 across 41 hospitalsMD$65Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $109 across 42 hospitalsAZ$109New Mexico: median $136 across 30 hospitalsNM$136Kansas: median $85 across 93 hospitalsKS$85Arkansas: median $36 across 38 hospitalsAR$36Tennessee: median $55 across 83 hospitalsTN$55North Carolina: median $102 across 90 hospitalsNC$102South Carolina: median $132 across 53 hospitalsSC$132Oklahoma: median $54 across 73 hospitalsOK$54Louisiana: median $49 across 52 hospitalsLA$49Mississippi: median $46 across 56 hospitalsMS$46Alabama: median $55 across 44 hospitalsAL$55Georgia: median $106 across 109 hospitalsGA$106Hawaii: median $76 across 21 hospitalsHI$76Texas: median $79 across 247 hospitalsTX$79Florida: median $49 across 147 hospitalsFL$49
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
California CA152$201+154%$17 – $374
South Dakota SD41$145+82%$79 – $227
New Mexico NM30$136+71%$64 – $188
Virginia VA73$134+69%$69 – $239
South Carolina SC53$132+67%$68 – $190
Vermont VT14$122+54%$47 – $213
Alaska AK19$115+45%$27 – $233
Illinois IL142$113+43%$38 – $195
Nebraska NE84$113+43%$41 – $162
Arizona AZ42$109+38%$20 – $636
Wisconsin WI109$109+38%$59 – $137
Washington WA77$108+37%$63 – $151
Georgia GA109$106+34%$35 – $186
Montana MT31$103+30%$82 – $130
Massachusetts MA54$102+29%$52 – $179
North Carolina NC90$102+29%$34 – $153
Nevada NV22$99+24%$22 – $284
Colorado CO72$97+22%$36 – $188
Utah UT42$94+19%$80 – $124
Rhode Island RI10$88+10%$41 – $132
North Dakota ND33$87+10%$27 – $116
Kansas KS93$85+7%$46 – $127
Missouri MO76$84+6%$45 – $137
New Hampshire NH25$83+4%$20 – $206
Iowa IA90$82+4%$55 – $117
Minnesota MN107$790%$29 – $114
Texas TX247$79−1%$26 – $266
Idaho ID25$77−2%$18 – $90
Oregon OR51$77−2%$46 – $121
Maine ME28$77−3%$38 – $183
Kentucky KY69$76−4%$25 – $189
Hawaii HI21$76−5%$41 – $150
West Virginia WV43$71−10%$43 – $136
Ohio OH143$68−15%$36 – $107
Maryland MD41$65−18%$50 – $78
Connecticut CT23$64−19%$47 – $125
Pennsylvania PA122$60−24%$20 – $178
Alabama AL44$55−30%$22 – $167
Tennessee TN83$55−31%$26 – $142
New York NY120$54−31%$23 – $149
Oklahoma OK73$54−32%$23 – $105
Florida FL147$49−38%$11 – $337
Wyoming WY16$49−38%$30 – $156
Louisiana LA52$49−39%$24 – $126
Indiana IN97$47−40%$26 – $96
Mississippi MS56$46−42%$21 – $117
Michigan MI86$46−42%$17 – $79
Arkansas AR38$36−55%$23 – $54
New Jersey NJ57$17−78%$17 – $51
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 care2,311$72$26 – $179
Children’s65$79$34 – $143
Critical access993$94$42 – $153
Ownership
For-profit478$106$29 – $383
Government650$85$34 – $154
Non-profit2,241$76$30 – $152
System affiliation
Part of a system2,722$79$29 – $171
Independent657$82$36 – $155

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$132
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

2,273 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $80 and the average of the middle 60% is $86; most fall between $31 and $167.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,273 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$38$80$144$229

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $229).

Of the 2,524 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,273 gave a usable cash price; 137 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 114 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,379 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 3,703 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,379
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here186
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 — excluded137
Hospitals that filed this code3,703

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 Gonadotropin Chorionic Quantitative.

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, “Pregnancy hormone blood test, measured amount (CPT 84702) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84702-pregnancy-hormone-blood-test-measured-amount