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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Pregnancy hormone free beta portion blood test

CPT 84704the billing code this page is about

Laboratory test measuring the free beta subunit of the hCG hormone, a fragment used in prenatal screening and tumor marker testing.

Hospitals typically charge $50 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 498 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $55. Most fall between $20 and $116 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
498
States
41
Filings dated
Jun 2025 – 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 498 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$25$50$103$184

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $184).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $18: 57 hospitals$14$18 – $23: 35 hospitals$23 – $30: 52 hospitals$23$30 – $39: 44 hospitals$39 – $51: 38 hospitals$39$51 – $67: 60 hospitals$67 – $88: 31 hospitals$67$88 – $115: 57 hospitals$115 – $150: 37 hospitals$115$150 – $196: 39 hospitals$150median $50price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (450 of 498 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$1857
$18$2335
$23$3052
$30$3944
$39$5138
$51$6760
$67$8831
$88$11557
$115$15037
$150$19639

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $50.

Alaska: 5 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $64 across 34 hospitalsIL$64Wisconsin: median $52 across 41 hospitalsWI$52Michigan: median $21 across 10 hospitalsMI$21New York: median $15 across 24 hospitalsNY$15Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $64 across 19 hospitalsIA$64Indiana: median $25 across 14 hospitalsIN$25Ohio: median $69 across 39 hospitalsOH$69Pennsylvania: median $24 across 25 hospitalsPA$24New Jersey: median $17 across 25 hospitalsNJ$17Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $135 across 45 hospitalsCA$135Utah: median $44 across 23 hospitalsUT$44Colorado: median $37 across 19 hospitalsCO$37Nebraska: median $122 across 11 hospitalsNE$122Missouri: median $130 across 10 hospitalsMO$130Kentucky: median $48 across 10 hospitalsKY$48West Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 7 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $33 across 23 hospitalsOK$33Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: median $73 across 13 hospitalsHI$73Texas: median $99 across 32 hospitalsTX$99Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $50. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA45$135+170%$4 – $184
Missouri MO10$130+160%$22 – $250
Nebraska NE11$122+143%$44 – $122
Texas TX32$99+98%$14 – $99
Hawaii HI13$73+45%$35 – $112
Ohio OH39$69+37%$39 – $126
Iowa IA19$64+28%$30 – $64
Illinois IL34$64+28%$25 – $189
Wisconsin WI41$52+5%$28 – $113
Kentucky KY10$48−4%$23 – $58
Utah UT23$44−11%$44 – $52
Colorado CO19$37−27%$21 – $46
Oklahoma OK23$33−35%$27 – $70
Indiana IN14$25−51%$21 – $35
Pennsylvania PA25$24−53%$11 – $38
Michigan MI10$21−58%$21 – $38
New Jersey NJ25$17−66%$15 – $17
New York NY24$15−69%$15 – $44
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $50.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care421$51$18 – $122
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access67$50$28 – $104
Ownership
For-profit32$36$20 – $125
Government55$36$18 – $90
Non-profit410$52$21 – $122
System affiliation
Part of a system453$51$20 – $122
Independent45$44$18 – $101

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$80
Median cash price$50
Cash as a share of list, median hospital59%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 41%. 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

366 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $58 and the average of the middle 60% is $69; most fall between $28 and $126.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 366 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
$20$35$58$113$184

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $184).

Of the 406 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 366 gave a usable cash price; 6 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 34 a list price only.

How complete is this

498 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 552 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted498
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here24
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 — excluded29
Hospitals that filed this code552

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 HCG FREE BETACHAIN TEST.

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 free beta portion blood test (CPT 84704) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-84704-pregnancy-hormone-free-beta-portion-blood-test