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CA 19-9 tumor marker blood test

CPT 86301the billing code this page is about

Blood test measuring the amount of the CA 19-9 cancer antigen, a marker associated with pancreatic and other digestive cancers.

Hospitals typically charge $97 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,257 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $102. Most fall between $40 and $187 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,257
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 3,257 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
$25$49$97$171$253

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($25 vs $253).

How the prices are spread

$20 – $26: 196 hospitals$20$26 – $35: 178 hospitals$35 – $47: 243 hospitals$35$47 – $63: 272 hospitals$63 – $84: 355 hospitals$63$84 – $113: 467 hospitals$113 – $151: 424 hospitals$113$151 – $203: 406 hospitals$203 – $272: 269 hospitals$203$272 – $364: 123 hospitals$272median $97price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,933 of 3,257 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$20$26196
$26$35178
$35$47243
$47$63272
$63$84355
$84$113467
$113$151424
$151$203406
$203$272269
$272$364123

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $97.

Alaska: median $186 across 19 hospitalsAK$186Maine: median $48 across 28 hospitalsME$48Vermont: median $220 across 14 hospitalsVT$220New Hampshire: median $117 across 24 hospitalsNH$117Washington: median $110 across 73 hospitalsWA$110Idaho: median $74 across 23 hospitalsID$74Montana: median $126 across 31 hospitalsMT$126North Dakota: median $130 across 31 hospitalsND$130Minnesota: median $102 across 102 hospitalsMN$102Illinois: median $138 across 142 hospitalsIL$138Wisconsin: median $115 across 104 hospitalsWI$115Michigan: median $65 across 89 hospitalsMI$65New York: median $62 across 117 hospitalsNY$62Massachusetts: median $97 across 51 hospitalsMA$97Oregon: median $93 across 48 hospitalsOR$93Nevada: median $132 across 21 hospitalsNV$132Wyoming: median $98 across 15 hospitalsWY$98South Dakota: median $174 across 35 hospitalsSD$174Iowa: median $96 across 85 hospitalsIA$96Indiana: median $127 across 97 hospitalsIN$127Ohio: median $73 across 136 hospitalsOH$73Pennsylvania: median $91 across 119 hospitalsPA$91New Jersey: median $24 across 56 hospitalsNJ$24Connecticut: median $100 across 22 hospitalsCT$100Rhode Island: median $48 across 10 hospitalsRI$48California: median $50 across 150 hospitalsCA$50Utah: median $87 across 41 hospitalsUT$87Colorado: median $117 across 68 hospitalsCO$117Nebraska: median $182 across 77 hospitalsNE$182Missouri: median $79 across 73 hospitalsMO$79Kentucky: median $127 across 65 hospitalsKY$127West Virginia: median $79 across 41 hospitalsWV$79Virginia: median $108 across 73 hospitalsVA$108Maryland: median $90 across 41 hospitalsMD$90Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $67 across 36 hospitalsAZ$67New Mexico: median $150 across 28 hospitalsNM$150Kansas: median $87 across 89 hospitalsKS$87Arkansas: median $30 across 39 hospitalsAR$30Tennessee: median $64 across 81 hospitalsTN$64North Carolina: median $104 across 83 hospitalsNC$104South Carolina: median $171 across 51 hospitalsSC$171Oklahoma: median $80 across 72 hospitalsOK$80Louisiana: median $49 across 49 hospitalsLA$49Mississippi: median $64 across 56 hospitalsMS$64Alabama: median $85 across 44 hospitalsAL$85Georgia: median $96 across 103 hospitalsGA$96Hawaii: median $130 across 18 hospitalsHI$130Texas: median $133 across 232 hospitalsTX$133Florida: median $56 across 148 hospitalsFL$56
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $97. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT14$220+128%$110 – $355
Alaska AK19$186+92%$123 – $349
Nebraska NE77$182+89%$56 – $249
South Dakota SD35$174+80%$102 – $264
South Carolina SC51$171+77%$83 – $199
New Mexico NM28$150+55%$80 – $249
Illinois IL142$138+42%$74 – $244
Texas TX232$133+38%$49 – $275
Nevada NV21$132+37%$36 – $177
North Dakota ND31$130+34%$39 – $168
Hawaii HI18$130+34%$105 – $172
Indiana IN97$127+32%$53 – $207
Kentucky KY65$127+32%$44 – $297
Montana MT31$126+31%$97 – $151
New Hampshire NH24$117+21%$64 – $287
Colorado CO68$117+21%$41 – $171
Wisconsin WI104$115+19%$85 – $204
Washington WA73$110+13%$79 – $189
Virginia VA73$108+12%$64 – $232
North Carolina NC83$104+8%$40 – $155
Minnesota MN102$102+5%$46 – $178
Connecticut CT22$100+3%$77 – $135
Wyoming WY15$98+2%$44 – $134
Massachusetts MA51$970%$51 – $192
Georgia GA103$96−1%$41 – $161
Iowa IA85$96−1%$49 – $162
Oregon OR48$93−4%$58 – $115
Pennsylvania PA119$91−5%$31 – $245
Maryland MD41$90−7%$69 – $107
Kansas KS89$87−10%$58 – $192
Utah UT41$87−10%$74 – $143
Alabama AL44$85−12%$32 – $284
Oklahoma OK72$80−17%$39 – $138
West Virginia WV41$79−18%$31 – $131
Missouri MO73$79−19%$46 – $151
Idaho ID23$74−24%$19 – $113
Ohio OH136$73−24%$34 – $133
Arizona AZ36$67−31%$24 – $239
Michigan MI89$65−33%$37 – $179
Tennessee TN81$64−34%$44 – $137
Mississippi MS56$64−34%$31 – $104
New York NY117$62−36%$25 – $184
Florida FL148$56−42%$22 – $181
California CA150$50−48%$13 – $176
Louisiana LA49$49−49%$36 – $115
Rhode Island RI10$48−50%$32 – $166
Maine ME28$48−50%$30 – $174
Arkansas AR39$30−69%$27 – $99
New Jersey NJ56$24−75%$23 – $71
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 $97.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,264$90$35 – $186
Children’s42$61$25 – $180
Critical access942$114$59 – $193
Ownership
For-profit437$131$42 – $372
Government623$100$45 – $181
Non-profit2,188$93$38 – $176
System affiliation
Part of a system2,648$97$39 – $191
Independent609$94$44 – $161

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$163
Median cash price$97
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

2,196 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $98 and the average of the middle 60% is $103; most fall between $41 and $182.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,196 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
$26$51$98$170$236

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($26 vs $236).

Of the 2,424 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,196 gave a usable cash price; 118 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 110 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,257 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 3,558 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,257
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here172
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 — excluded128
Hospitals that filed this code3,558

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 Ca 19-9.

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, “CA 19-9 tumor marker blood test (CPT 86301) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86301-ca-19-9-tumor-marker-blood-test