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C-reactive protein blood test

CPT 86140the billing code this page is about

Blood test that measures C-reactive protein, a substance that rises when there is inflammation in the body.

Hospitals typically charge $47 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,384 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $51. Most fall between $19 and $103 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,384
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 3,384 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
$9$22$47$88$146

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $146).

How the prices are spread

$6 – $9: 135 hospitals$6$9 – $12: 141 hospitals$12 – $18: 203 hospitals$12$18 – $25: 329 hospitals$25 – $36: 358 hospitals$25$36 – $52: 537 hospitals$52 – $75: 484 hospitals$52$75 – $107: 406 hospitals$107 – $153: 316 hospitals$107$153 – $220: 143 hospitals$153median $47price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,052 of 3,384 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$9135
$9$12141
$12$18203
$18$25329
$25$36358
$36$52537
$52$75484
$75$107406
$107$153316
$153$220143

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $47.

Alaska: median $73 across 19 hospitalsAK$73Maine: median $39 across 28 hospitalsME$39Vermont: median $61 across 14 hospitalsVT$61New Hampshire: median $58 across 25 hospitalsNH$58Washington: median $51 across 78 hospitalsWA$51Idaho: median $36 across 25 hospitalsID$36Montana: median $53 across 34 hospitalsMT$53North Dakota: median $38 across 33 hospitalsND$38Minnesota: median $48 across 107 hospitalsMN$48Illinois: median $74 across 140 hospitalsIL$74Wisconsin: median $52 across 107 hospitalsWI$52Michigan: median $32 across 97 hospitalsMI$32New York: median $20 across 117 hospitalsNY$20Massachusetts: median $50 across 54 hospitalsMA$50Oregon: median $41 across 51 hospitalsOR$41Nevada: median $43 across 21 hospitalsNV$43Wyoming: median $72 across 16 hospitalsWY$72South Dakota: median $115 across 41 hospitalsSD$115Iowa: median $61 across 88 hospitalsIA$61Indiana: median $51 across 94 hospitalsIN$51Ohio: median $42 across 143 hospitalsOH$42Pennsylvania: median $29 across 122 hospitalsPA$29New Jersey: median $6 across 54 hospitalsNJ$6Connecticut: median $32 across 23 hospitalsCT$32Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $47 across 159 hospitalsCA$47Utah: median $47 across 42 hospitalsUT$47Colorado: median $55 across 72 hospitalsCO$55Nebraska: median $103 across 83 hospitalsNE$103Missouri: median $44 across 75 hospitalsMO$44Kentucky: median $48 across 69 hospitalsKY$48West Virginia: median $28 across 44 hospitalsWV$28Virginia: median $78 across 73 hospitalsVA$78Maryland: median $41 across 39 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $49 across 42 hospitalsAZ$49New Mexico: median $56 across 30 hospitalsNM$56Kansas: median $43 across 95 hospitalsKS$43Arkansas: median $14 across 37 hospitalsAR$14Tennessee: median $21 across 83 hospitalsTN$21North Carolina: median $51 across 86 hospitalsNC$51South Carolina: median $81 across 53 hospitalsSC$81Oklahoma: median $34 across 73 hospitalsOK$34Louisiana: median $33 across 54 hospitalsLA$33Mississippi: median $25 across 54 hospitalsMS$25Alabama: median $45 across 42 hospitalsAL$45Georgia: median $64 across 109 hospitalsGA$64Hawaii: median $32 across 21 hospitalsHI$32Texas: median $51 across 250 hospitalsTX$51Florida: median $78 across 154 hospitalsFL$78
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $47. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD41$115+146%$66 – $174
Nebraska NE83$103+119%$40 – $129
South Carolina SC53$81+73%$33 – $107
Florida FL154$78+67%$17 – $308
Virginia VA73$78+67%$29 – $182
Illinois IL140$74+58%$35 – $126
Alaska AK19$73+56%$12 – $146
Wyoming WY16$72+54%$44 – $92
Georgia GA109$64+37%$18 – $103
Iowa IA88$61+30%$43 – $85
Vermont VT14$61+30%$32 – $68
New Hampshire NH25$58+23%$39 – $95
New Mexico NM30$56+19%$20 – $94
Colorado CO72$55+18%$32 – $109
Montana MT34$53+13%$27 – $86
Wisconsin WI107$52+12%$25 – $70
Washington WA78$51+10%$24 – $86
Indiana IN94$51+9%$15 – $101
North Carolina NC86$51+9%$31 – $102
Texas TX250$51+9%$25 – $134
Massachusetts MA54$50+7%$19 – $73
Arizona AZ42$49+5%$8 – $130
Minnesota MN107$48+3%$17 – $77
Kentucky KY69$48+2%$16 – $101
Utah UT42$47+1%$40 – $98
California CA159$470%$8 – $177
Alabama AL42$45−4%$20 – $105
Missouri MO75$44−5%$28 – $84
Kansas KS95$43−7%$20 – $64
Nevada NV21$43−8%$19 – $83
Ohio OH143$42−11%$22 – $94
Maryland MD39$41−13%$30 – $49
Oregon OR51$41−13%$21 – $67
Maine ME28$39−18%$20 – $99
North Dakota ND33$38−19%$10 – $63
Idaho ID25$36−23%$23 – $70
Oklahoma OK73$34−28%$16 – $62
Louisiana LA54$33−29%$9 – $67
Connecticut CT23$32−31%$22 – $58
Hawaii HI21$32−32%$19 – $55
Michigan MI97$32−33%$20 – $43
Pennsylvania PA122$29−37%$8 – $119
West Virginia WV44$28−41%$19 – $66
Mississippi MS54$25−46%$11 – $39
Tennessee TN83$21−54%$9 – $54
New York NY117$20−56%$11 – $88
Arkansas AR37$14−69%$7 – $53
New Jersey NJ54$6−87%$6 – $22
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $47.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,310$43$16 – $109
Children’s66$46$26 – $82
Critical access998$54$25 – $94
Ownership
For-profit471$76$25 – $253
Government646$52$21 – $93
Non-profit2,257$43$17 – $92
System affiliation
Part of a system2,730$47$18 – $106
Independent654$45$20 – $87

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$76
Median cash price$47
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

2,276 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $46 and the average of the middle 60% is $50; most fall between $19 and $101.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,276 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$22$46$86$132

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $132).

Of the 2,518 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,276 gave a usable cash price; 128 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

3,384 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (86%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,696 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,384
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here175
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 — excluded136
Hospitals that filed this code3,696

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 Other Laboratory family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC C-Reactive Protein (Crp).

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, “C-reactive protein blood test (CPT 86140) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86140-c-reactive-protein-blood-test