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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Pregnancy hormone test, positive or negative only

CPT 84703the billing code this page is about

Laboratory test that checks whether the pregnancy hormone hCG is present, reporting only a positive or negative result rather than a number.

Hospitals typically charge $64 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,264 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $69. Most fall between $27 and $135 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,264
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 3,264 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
$16$33$64$116$200

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($16 vs $200).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $14: 97 hospitals$10$14 – $20: 168 hospitals$20 – $28: 272 hospitals$20$28 – $40: 368 hospitals$40 – $57: 383 hospitals$40$57 – $80: 490 hospitals$80 – $114: 484 hospitals$80$114 – $162: 367 hospitals$162 – $230: 197 hospitals$162$230 – $327: 114 hospitals$230median $64price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,940 of 3,264 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$1497
$14$20168
$20$28272
$28$40368
$40$57383
$57$80490
$80$114484
$114$162367
$162$230197
$230$327114

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $64.

Alaska: median $101 across 17 hospitalsAK$101Maine: median $43 across 27 hospitalsME$43Vermont: median $50 across 10 hospitalsVT$50New Hampshire: median $68 across 22 hospitalsNH$68Washington: median $74 across 76 hospitalsWA$74Idaho: median $36 across 23 hospitalsID$36Montana: median $57 across 33 hospitalsMT$57North Dakota: median $60 across 32 hospitalsND$60Minnesota: median $69 across 95 hospitalsMN$69Illinois: median $93 across 133 hospitalsIL$93Wisconsin: median $71 across 99 hospitalsWI$71Michigan: median $37 across 99 hospitalsMI$37New York: median $27 across 116 hospitalsNY$27Massachusetts: median $53 across 45 hospitalsMA$53Oregon: median $67 across 50 hospitalsOR$67Nevada: median $78 across 21 hospitalsNV$78Wyoming: median $57 across 16 hospitalsWY$57South Dakota: median $130 across 40 hospitalsSD$130Iowa: median $64 across 84 hospitalsIA$64Indiana: median $59 across 92 hospitalsIN$59Ohio: median $51 across 137 hospitalsOH$51Pennsylvania: median $39 across 115 hospitalsPA$39New Jersey: median $9 across 56 hospitalsNJ$9Connecticut: median $40 across 21 hospitalsCT$40Rhode Island: median $46 across 10 hospitalsRI$46California: median $174 across 162 hospitalsCA$174Utah: median $31 across 40 hospitalsUT$31Colorado: median $68 across 70 hospitalsCO$68Nebraska: median $119 across 80 hospitalsNE$119Missouri: median $52 across 68 hospitalsMO$52Kentucky: median $79 across 69 hospitalsKY$79West Virginia: median $49 across 34 hospitalsWV$49Virginia: median $86 across 72 hospitalsVA$86Maryland: median $27 across 41 hospitalsMD$27Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $123 across 41 hospitalsAZ$123New Mexico: median $104 across 27 hospitalsNM$104Kansas: median $53 across 92 hospitalsKS$53Arkansas: median $34 across 40 hospitalsAR$34Tennessee: median $47 across 81 hospitalsTN$47North Carolina: median $67 across 86 hospitalsNC$67South Carolina: median $109 across 50 hospitalsSC$109Oklahoma: median $51 across 68 hospitalsOK$51Louisiana: median $39 across 53 hospitalsLA$39Mississippi: median $38 across 56 hospitalsMS$38Alabama: median $49 across 40 hospitalsAL$49Georgia: median $86 across 106 hospitalsGA$86Hawaii: median $70 across 21 hospitalsHI$70Texas: median $137 across 246 hospitalsTX$137Florida: median $134 across 145 hospitalsFL$134
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $64. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA162$174+170%$47 – $278
Texas TX246$137+113%$47 – $244
Florida FL145$134+108%$36 – $670
South Dakota SD40$130+102%$80 – $205
Arizona AZ41$123+90%$21 – $547
Nebraska NE80$119+85%$63 – $151
South Carolina SC50$109+69%$36 – $155
New Mexico NM27$104+62%$58 – $129
Alaska AK17$101+57%$76 – $189
Illinois IL133$93+44%$49 – $157
Virginia VA72$86+34%$59 – $184
Georgia GA106$86+34%$23 – $135
Kentucky KY69$79+23%$38 – $120
Nevada NV21$78+22%$39 – $130
Washington WA76$74+14%$36 – $113
Wisconsin WI99$71+10%$38 – $96
Hawaii HI21$70+9%$50 – $101
Minnesota MN95$69+7%$28 – $90
Colorado CO70$68+6%$42 – $116
New Hampshire NH22$68+5%$34 – $138
Oregon OR50$67+5%$33 – $88
North Carolina NC86$67+3%$36 – $133
Iowa IA84$64−1%$34 – $93
North Dakota ND32$60−7%$50 – $79
Indiana IN92$59−8%$19 – $124
Wyoming WY16$57−11%$15 – $99
Montana MT33$57−11%$37 – $82
Kansas KS92$53−18%$38 – $85
Massachusetts MA45$53−18%$26 – $100
Missouri MO68$52−20%$35 – $83
Ohio OH137$51−20%$25 – $87
Oklahoma OK68$51−20%$27 – $87
Vermont VT10$50−23%$22 – $95
Alabama AL40$49−25%$15 – $126
West Virginia WV34$49−25%$25 – $88
Tennessee TN81$47−28%$17 – $81
Rhode Island RI10$46−29%$28 – $50
Maine ME27$43−33%$31 – $104
Connecticut CT21$40−38%$32 – $84
Louisiana LA53$39−39%$17 – $89
Pennsylvania PA115$39−39%$10 – $103
Mississippi MS56$38−41%$19 – $67
Michigan MI99$37−43%$20 – $59
Idaho ID23$36−44%$25 – $75
Arkansas AR40$34−47%$18 – $50
Utah UT40$31−52%$26 – $82
New York NY116$27−58%$16 – $91
Maryland MD41$27−58%$21 – $33
New Jersey NJ56$9−87%$8 – $25
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 $64.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,248$62$24 – $143
Children’s65$70$42 – $122
Critical access941$69$35 – $113
Ownership
For-profit472$105$35 – $428
Government611$69$32 – $119
Non-profit2,171$59$25 – $121
System affiliation
Part of a system2,639$66$27 – $138
Independent625$60$28 – $109

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$110
Median cash price$64
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

2,200 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $68 and the average of the middle 60% is $72; most fall between $30 and $137.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,200 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$34$68$120$189

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $189).

Of the 2,432 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,200 gave a usable cash price; 128 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 103 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,264 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (83%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,564 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,264
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here176
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded122
Hospitals that filed this code3,564

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 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 CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN ASSAY.

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, “Pregnancy hormone test, positive or negative only (CPT 84703) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84703-pregnancy-hormone-test-positive-or-negative-only