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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Plasminogen protein level blood test

CPT 85421the billing code this page is about

Measures the amount of plasminogen protein in the blood using an antigen method, rather than how well it works.

Hospitals typically charge $72 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 458 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $81. Most fall between $15 and $188 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
458
States
40
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 458 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
$10$18$72$173$374

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 37× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $374).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $15: 74 hospitals$10$15 – $21: 43 hospitals$21 – $31: 36 hospitals$21$31 – $46: 29 hospitals$46 – $67: 27 hospitals$46$67 – $98: 32 hospitals$98 – $143: 63 hospitals$98$143 – $209: 55 hospitals$209 – $306: 27 hospitals$209$306 – $447: 34 hospitals$306median $72price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (420 of 458 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$1574
$15$2143
$21$3136
$31$4629
$46$6727
$67$9832
$98$14363
$143$20955
$209$30627
$306$44734

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $72.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $104 across 27 hospitalsIL$104Wisconsin: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $54 across 26 hospitalsMI$54New York: median $20 across 30 hospitalsNY$20Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $26 across 11 hospitalsIA$26Indiana: median $13 across 13 hospitalsIN$13Ohio: median $42 across 31 hospitalsOH$42Pennsylvania: median $12 across 27 hospitalsPA$12New Jersey: median $11 across 29 hospitalsNJ$11Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $104 across 39 hospitalsCA$104Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 9 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $18 across 10 hospitalsTN$18North Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $18 across 12 hospitalsOK$18Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $60 across 10 hospitalsMS$60Alabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $279 across 28 hospitalsGA$279Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $177 across 51 hospitalsTX$177Florida: median $72 across 18 hospitalsFL$72
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $72. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA28$279+290%$135 – $279
Texas TX51$177+147%$129 – $382
Illinois IL27$104+45%$18 – $184
California CA39$104+45%$104 – $173
Florida FL18$720%$64 – $88
Mississippi MS10$60−16%$10 – $71
Michigan MI26$54−25%$14 – $94
Ohio OH31$42−42%$34 – $374
Iowa IA11$26−64%$26 – $26
New York NY30$20−72%$10 – $153
Oklahoma OK12$18−75%$18 – $18
Tennessee TN10$18−75%$18 – $97
Indiana IN13$13−82%$11 – $18
Pennsylvania PA27$12−84%$7 – $112
New Jersey NJ29$11−84%$10 – $12
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $72.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care396$72$14 – $188
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access46$67$18 – $137
Ownership
For-profit78$96$27 – $382
Government47$64$12 – $177
Non-profit331$62$14 – $177
System affiliation
Part of a system403$85$14 – $197
Independent55$42$16 – $154

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$145
Median cash price$72
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

284 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $104 and the average of the middle 60% is $103; most fall between $26 and $245.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 284 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$29$104$177$374

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $374).

Of the 315 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 284 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

458 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 500 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted458
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here22
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 — excluded19
Hospitals that filed this code500

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 FIBRINOLYTIC PLASMINOGEN.

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, “Plasminogen protein level blood test (CPT 85421) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-85421-plasminogen-protein-level-blood-test