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Procedure price report · Other Laboratory

Blood test for a less common tumor marker, each marker

CPT 86316the billing code this page is about

An immunoassay that measures the amount of a tumor-associated substance in blood other than the commonly billed markers; the charge applies to each marker tested.

Hospitals typically charge $90 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,018 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $95. Most fall between $36 and $179 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,018
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 3,018 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$44$90$156$260

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($25 vs $260).

How the prices are spread

$20 – $27: 213 hospitals$20$27 – $36: 227 hospitals$36 – $48: 242 hospitals$36$48 – $64: 277 hospitals$64 – $85: 332 hospitals$64$85 – $113: 370 hospitals$113 – $151: 425 hospitals$113$151 – $202: 288 hospitals$202 – $270: 218 hospitals$202$270 – $360: 134 hospitals$270median $90price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,726 of 3,018 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$20$27213
$27$36227
$36$48242
$48$64277
$64$85332
$85$113370
$113$151425
$151$202288
$202$270218
$270$360134

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $90.

Alaska: median $147 across 14 hospitalsAK$147Maine: median $78 across 28 hospitalsME$78Vermont: median $131 across 13 hospitalsVT$131New Hampshire: median $109 across 24 hospitalsNH$109Washington: median $120 across 71 hospitalsWA$120Idaho: median $120 across 23 hospitalsID$120Montana: median $120 across 28 hospitalsMT$120North Dakota: median $92 across 28 hospitalsND$92Minnesota: median $74 across 96 hospitalsMN$74Illinois: median $130 across 134 hospitalsIL$130Wisconsin: median $108 across 96 hospitalsWI$108Michigan: median $27 across 71 hospitalsMI$27New York: median $75 across 104 hospitalsNY$75Massachusetts: median $106 across 50 hospitalsMA$106Oregon: median $111 across 47 hospitalsOR$111Nevada: median $102 across 19 hospitalsNV$102Wyoming: median $97 across 15 hospitalsWY$97South Dakota: median $115 across 23 hospitalsSD$115Iowa: median $108 across 77 hospitalsIA$108Indiana: median $109 across 96 hospitalsIN$109Ohio: median $86 across 135 hospitalsOH$86Pennsylvania: median $103 across 119 hospitalsPA$103New Jersey: median $24 across 55 hospitalsNJ$24Connecticut: median $89 across 20 hospitalsCT$89Rhode Island: median $76 across 10 hospitalsRI$76California: median $35 across 118 hospitalsCA$35Utah: median $155 across 40 hospitalsUT$155Colorado: median $122 across 59 hospitalsCO$122Nebraska: median $166 across 72 hospitalsNE$166Missouri: median $97 across 72 hospitalsMO$97Kentucky: median $92 across 65 hospitalsKY$92West Virginia: median $62 across 40 hospitalsWV$62Virginia: median $106 across 70 hospitalsVA$106Maryland: median $82 across 38 hospitalsMD$82Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $140 across 38 hospitalsAZ$140New Mexico: median $162 across 20 hospitalsNM$162Kansas: median $118 across 75 hospitalsKS$118Arkansas: median $41 across 35 hospitalsAR$41Tennessee: median $53 across 71 hospitalsTN$53North Carolina: median $59 across 84 hospitalsNC$59South Carolina: median $163 across 50 hospitalsSC$163Oklahoma: median $85 across 62 hospitalsOK$85Louisiana: median $51 across 49 hospitalsLA$51Mississippi: median $47 across 44 hospitalsMS$47Alabama: median $66 across 40 hospitalsAL$66Georgia: median $70 across 96 hospitalsGA$70Hawaii: median $102 across 16 hospitalsHI$102Texas: median $97 across 221 hospitalsTX$97Florida: median $31 across 141 hospitalsFL$31
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $90. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Nebraska NE72$166+85%$83 – $292
South Carolina SC50$163+81%$115 – $293
New Mexico NM20$162+80%$81 – $225
Utah UT40$155+73%$147 – $239
Alaska AK14$147+63%$71 – $299
Arizona AZ38$140+56%$28 – $218
Vermont VT13$131+45%$67 – $234
Illinois IL134$130+44%$50 – $258
Colorado CO59$122+35%$73 – $204
Idaho ID23$120+34%$40 – $186
Montana MT28$120+33%$62 – $180
Washington WA71$120+33%$79 – $178
Kansas KS75$118+32%$71 – $211
South Dakota SD23$115+28%$53 – $177
Oregon OR47$111+23%$41 – $166
New Hampshire NH24$109+21%$60 – $230
Indiana IN96$109+21%$45 – $215
Iowa IA77$108+20%$49 – $181
Wisconsin WI96$108+19%$72 – $159
Massachusetts MA50$106+18%$61 – $167
Virginia VA70$106+17%$36 – $181
Pennsylvania PA119$103+14%$24 – $245
Nevada NV19$102+14%$32 – $147
Hawaii HI16$102+13%$60 – $250
Texas TX221$97+8%$52 – $266
Missouri MO72$97+8%$51 – $142
Wyoming WY15$97+7%$57 – $173
North Dakota ND28$92+2%$37 – $147
Kentucky KY65$92+2%$58 – $211
Connecticut CT20$89−1%$40 – $173
Ohio OH135$86−5%$44 – $148
Oklahoma OK62$85−6%$62 – $176
Maryland MD38$82−8%$69 – $106
Maine ME28$78−14%$62 – $214
Rhode Island RI10$76−16%$28 – $166
New York NY104$75−16%$28 – $194
Minnesota MN96$74−18%$39 – $164
Georgia GA96$70−23%$38 – $146
Alabama AL40$66−27%$35 – $131
West Virginia WV40$62−31%$25 – $146
North Carolina NC84$59−35%$35 – $155
Tennessee TN71$53−41%$32 – $131
Louisiana LA49$51−43%$28 – $81
Mississippi MS44$47−48%$27 – $74
Arkansas AR35$41−55%$30 – $127
California CA118$35−61%$15 – $77
Florida FL141$31−66%$23 – $96
Michigan MI71$27−70%$15 – $113
New Jersey NJ55$24−73%$23 – $71
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 $90.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,138$79$32 – $166
Children’s45$66$34 – $166
Critical access825$119$56 – $202
Ownership
For-profit405$98$40 – $303
Government540$96$41 – $176
Non-profit2,063$88$36 – $167
System affiliation
Part of a system2,476$87$35 – $177
Independent542$99$46 – $182

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$152
Median cash price$90
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

2,048 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $90 and the average of the middle 60% is $95; most fall between $38 and $169.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,048 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
$27$49$90$151$243

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($27 vs $243).

Of the 2,267 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,048 gave a usable cash price; 113 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 106 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,018 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (76%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,298 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,018
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here154
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded124
Hospitals that filed this code3,298

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 Chromagranin A.

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, “Blood test for a less common tumor marker, each marker (CPT 86316) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86316-blood-test-for-a-less-common-tumor-marker-each-marker