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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Fibrinogen protein level blood test

CPT 85385the billing code this page is about

Measures the amount of the clotting protein fibrinogen present in the blood, rather than how well it functions.

Hospitals typically charge $62 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,421 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $68. Most fall between $24 and $130 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,421
States
49
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 1,421 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
$17$30$62$119$182

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $182).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $17: 92 hospitals$12$17 – $23: 106 hospitals$23 – $31: 102 hospitals$23$31 – $42: 127 hospitals$42 – $57: 184 hospitals$42$57 – $78: 165 hospitals$78 – $106: 137 hospitals$78$106 – $144: 204 hospitals$144 – $196: 113 hospitals$144$196 – $266: 50 hospitals$196median $62price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,280 of 1,421 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$1792
$17$23106
$23$31102
$31$42127
$42$57184
$57$78165
$78$106137
$106$144204
$144$196113
$196$26650

By state

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

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $47 across 31 hospitalsWA$47Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $27 across 14 hospitalsND$27Minnesota: median $72 across 31 hospitalsMN$72Illinois: median $85 across 58 hospitalsIL$85Wisconsin: median $73 across 45 hospitalsWI$73Michigan: median $23 across 37 hospitalsMI$23New York: median $28 across 56 hospitalsNY$28Massachusetts: median $41 across 21 hospitalsMA$41Oregon: median $109 across 12 hospitalsOR$109Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 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 $33 across 27 hospitalsIA$33Indiana: median $32 across 37 hospitalsIN$32Ohio: median $65 across 92 hospitalsOH$65Pennsylvania: median $32 across 70 hospitalsPA$32New Jersey: median $16 across 42 hospitalsNJ$16Connecticut: median $40 across 10 hospitalsCT$40Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $76 across 57 hospitalsCA$76Utah: median $109 across 32 hospitalsUT$109Colorado: median $71 across 35 hospitalsCO$71Nebraska: median $108 across 11 hospitalsNE$108Missouri: median $109 across 31 hospitalsMO$109Kentucky: median $80 across 26 hospitalsKY$80West Virginia: median $72 across 12 hospitalsWV$72Virginia: median $22 across 38 hospitalsVA$22Maryland: median $43 across 17 hospitalsMD$43Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $24 across 14 hospitalsAZ$24New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $109 across 31 hospitalsKS$109Arkansas: median $48 across 16 hospitalsAR$48Tennessee: median $49 across 36 hospitalsTN$49North Carolina: median $110 across 56 hospitalsNC$110South Carolina: median $64 across 32 hospitalsSC$64Oklahoma: median $72 across 37 hospitalsOK$72Louisiana: median $32 across 28 hospitalsLA$32Mississippi: median $21 across 28 hospitalsMS$21Alabama: median $34 across 14 hospitalsAL$34Georgia: median $123 across 54 hospitalsGA$123Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $48 across 122 hospitalsTX$48Florida: median $64 across 50 hospitalsFL$64
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
Georgia GA54$123+98%$21 – $182
North Carolina NC56$110+78%$29 – $130
Kansas KS31$109+76%$65 – $218
Missouri MO31$109+76%$54 – $144
Oregon OR12$109+76%$44 – $123
Utah UT32$109+76%$76 – $128
Nebraska NE11$108+74%$44 – $172
Illinois IL58$85+38%$47 – $206
Kentucky KY26$80+29%$39 – $147
California CA57$76+23%$36 – $88
Wisconsin WI45$73+18%$35 – $80
West Virginia WV12$72+17%$22 – $146
Minnesota MN31$72+16%$56 – $95
Oklahoma OK37$72+16%$26 – $127
Colorado CO35$71+14%$47 – $132
Ohio OH92$65+5%$46 – $154
South Carolina SC32$64+4%$40 – $139
Florida FL50$64+3%$30 – $144
Tennessee TN36$49−21%$9 – $103
Texas TX122$48−22%$46 – $151
Arkansas AR16$48−23%$40 – $112
Washington WA31$47−24%$19 – $68
Maryland MD17$43−30%$33 – $50
Massachusetts MA21$41−34%$24 – $119
Connecticut CT10$40−35%$27 – $60
Alabama AL14$34−45%$16 – $84
Iowa IA27$33−47%$33 – $122
Indiana IN37$32−49%$21 – $118
Pennsylvania PA70$32−49%$12 – $137
Louisiana LA28$32−49%$15 – $160
New York NY56$28−55%$14 – $61
North Dakota ND14$27−56%$24 – $108
Arizona AZ14$24−61%$22 – $121
Michigan MI37$23−63%$12 – $121
Virginia VA38$22−65%$12 – $100
Mississippi MS28$21−66%$14 – $64
New Jersey NJ42$16−74%$14 – $40
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 care1,121$57$22 – $130
Children’s33$90$36 – $184
Critical access262$75$28 – $136
Ownership
For-profit170$50$21 – $218
Government207$79$30 – $134
Non-profit1,039$60$23 – $127
System affiliation
Part of a system1,224$62$23 – $130
Independent197$58$30 – $157

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$109
Median cash price$62
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

1,031 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $64 and the average of the middle 60% is $70; most fall between $28 and $128.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,031 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$36$64$117$181

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $181).

Of the 1,127 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,031 gave a usable cash price; 53 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 43 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,421 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (36%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,546 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,421
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here72
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 — excluded52
Hospitals that filed this code1,546

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 4, 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 Fibrinogen Antigen.

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, “Fibrinogen protein level blood test (CPT 85385) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-85385-fibrinogen-protein-level-blood-test