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High-sensitivity C-reactive protein blood test

CPT 86141the billing code this page is about

Blood test that measures C-reactive protein at very low levels, a more sensitive version of the standard inflammation test.

Hospitals typically charge $70 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,246 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $73. Most fall between $31 and $130 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,246
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 3,246 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$38$70$116$188

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $188).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $19: 128 hospitals$14$19 – $26: 188 hospitals$26 – $34: 233 hospitals$26$34 – $46: 327 hospitals$46 – $61: 408 hospitals$46$61 – $81: 429 hospitals$81 – $109: 472 hospitals$81$109 – $145: 381 hospitals$145 – $193: 215 hospitals$145$193 – $258: 141 hospitals$193median $70price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,922 of 3,246 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$19128
$19$26188
$26$34233
$34$46327
$46$61408
$61$81429
$81$109472
$109$145381
$145$193215
$193$258141

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $70.

Alaska: median $129 across 19 hospitalsAK$129Maine: median $54 across 28 hospitalsME$54Vermont: median $85 across 14 hospitalsVT$85New Hampshire: median $73 across 25 hospitalsNH$73Washington: median $72 across 76 hospitalsWA$72Idaho: median $58 across 23 hospitalsID$58Montana: median $78 across 30 hospitalsMT$78North Dakota: median $80 across 30 hospitalsND$80Minnesota: median $76 across 101 hospitalsMN$76Illinois: median $108 across 137 hospitalsIL$108Wisconsin: median $81 across 104 hospitalsWI$81Michigan: median $53 across 101 hospitalsMI$53New York: median $46 across 102 hospitalsNY$46Massachusetts: median $75 across 52 hospitalsMA$75Oregon: median $61 across 50 hospitalsOR$61Nevada: median $72 across 20 hospitalsNV$72Wyoming: median $66 across 16 hospitalsWY$66South Dakota: median $125 across 37 hospitalsSD$125Iowa: median $76 across 87 hospitalsIA$76Indiana: median $64 across 95 hospitalsIN$64Ohio: median $64 across 140 hospitalsOH$64Pennsylvania: median $54 across 120 hospitalsPA$54New Jersey: median $15 across 57 hospitalsNJ$15Connecticut: median $54 across 20 hospitalsCT$54Rhode Island: median $82 across 10 hospitalsRI$82California: median $66 across 147 hospitalsCA$66Utah: median $69 across 41 hospitalsUT$69Colorado: median $76 across 67 hospitalsCO$76Nebraska: median $97 across 79 hospitalsNE$97Missouri: median $58 across 75 hospitalsMO$58Kentucky: median $89 across 65 hospitalsKY$89West Virginia: median $62 across 42 hospitalsWV$62Virginia: median $69 across 72 hospitalsVA$69Maryland: median $42 across 40 hospitalsMD$42Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $74 across 42 hospitalsAZ$74New Mexico: median $67 across 26 hospitalsNM$67Kansas: median $85 across 81 hospitalsKS$85Arkansas: median $43 across 39 hospitalsAR$43Tennessee: median $41 across 72 hospitalsTN$41North Carolina: median $71 across 89 hospitalsNC$71South Carolina: median $106 across 51 hospitalsSC$106Oklahoma: median $43 across 70 hospitalsOK$43Louisiana: median $45 across 52 hospitalsLA$45Mississippi: median $29 across 51 hospitalsMS$29Alabama: median $43 across 42 hospitalsAL$43Georgia: median $88 across 108 hospitalsGA$88Hawaii: median $96 across 18 hospitalsHI$96Texas: median $72 across 236 hospitalsTX$72Florida: median $68 across 140 hospitalsFL$68
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $70. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK19$129+84%$73 – $202
South Dakota SD37$125+79%$78 – $186
Illinois IL137$108+55%$57 – $191
South Carolina SC51$106+52%$79 – $124
Nebraska NE79$97+39%$51 – $136
Hawaii HI18$96+38%$53 – $108
Kentucky KY65$89+27%$39 – $132
Georgia GA108$88+26%$43 – $198
Vermont VT14$85+22%$36 – $149
Kansas KS81$85+21%$50 – $121
Rhode Island RI10$82+17%$30 – $104
Wisconsin WI104$81+16%$62 – $128
North Dakota ND30$80+14%$23 – $105
Montana MT30$78+11%$25 – $97
Iowa IA87$76+9%$49 – $113
Colorado CO67$76+9%$34 – $148
Minnesota MN101$76+9%$30 – $104
Massachusetts MA52$75+7%$44 – $133
Arizona AZ42$74+6%$31 – $234
New Hampshire NH25$73+4%$42 – $162
Washington WA76$72+3%$46 – $102
Nevada NV20$72+2%$27 – $212
Texas TX236$72+2%$34 – $160
North Carolina NC89$71+2%$35 – $115
Utah UT41$69−2%$58 – $191
Virginia VA72$69−2%$46 – $144
Florida FL140$68−3%$18 – $338
New Mexico NM26$67−4%$50 – $117
California CA147$66−5%$24 – $177
Wyoming WY16$66−6%$40 – $129
Ohio OH140$64−9%$34 – $126
Indiana IN95$64−9%$29 – $105
West Virginia WV42$62−11%$38 – $112
Oregon OR50$61−12%$36 – $78
Idaho ID23$58−16%$49 – $95
Missouri MO75$58−17%$34 – $106
Pennsylvania PA120$54−22%$18 – $152
Connecticut CT20$54−23%$37 – $78
Maine ME28$54−23%$31 – $103
Michigan MI101$53−24%$25 – $118
New York NY102$46−34%$16 – $121
Louisiana LA52$45−36%$30 – $81
Oklahoma OK70$43−38%$31 – $103
Arkansas AR39$43−38%$28 – $100
Alabama AL42$43−39%$21 – $124
Maryland MD40$42−39%$32 – $52
Tennessee TN72$41−41%$23 – $62
Mississippi MS51$29−59%$19 – $40
New Jersey NJ57$15−79%$14 – $89
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 $70.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,243$64$28 – $137
Children’s58$99$48 – $127
Critical access935$78$40 – $120
Ownership
For-profit446$94$34 – $256
Government599$71$34 – $117
Non-profit2,191$67$31 – $124
System affiliation
Part of a system2,638$70$31 – $132
Independent608$68$33 – $120

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$117
Median cash price$70
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

2,205 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $71 and the average of the middle 60% is $75; most fall between $34 and $130.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,205 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
$23$39$71$118$176

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $176).

Of the 2,420 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,205 gave a usable cash price; 117 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 98 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,246 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (82%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,525 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,246
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here158
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 — excluded120
Hospitals that filed this code3,525

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 Crp, High Sensitivity.

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, “High-sensitivity C-reactive protein blood test (CPT 86141) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86141-high-sensitivity-c-reactive-protein-blood-test