How much does TSH (thyroid) cost in California?
CPT 84443 — the fair price, every hospital's price, and the Medicare benchmark for California.
Estimates only. Educational estimates from public Medicare
benchmarks and hospital-published prices — not a guarantee, and not legal, medical, or financial advice.
84443 TSH (thyroid)
Ask to pay
$34
About 2.0× what Medicare pays — most hospitals accept a self-pay rate in this range.
Typical
$108
Medicare $17
Ask $34
$2 lowboxed = typical rangehigh $1,901
What Medicare paysⓘ
$17
Typical price near you
$108
Cash / self-pay price
$85
Prices near you — 92 facilities, lowest first
| Facility | Type | Price | vs Medicare | Quality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dignity Mercy General Hospital (Sacramento) lowest ⚠ likely error | Hospital | $2cash | 0.1× | ★★★★★ |
| Dignity Mercy San Juan Medical Center (Carmichael) ⚠ likely error | Hospital | $2cash | 0.1× | — |
| Dignity Glendale Memorial Hospital (Glendale) ⚠ likely error | Hospital | $3cash | 0.2× | — |
| Dignity St. Bernardine Medical Center (San Bernardino) ⚠ likely error | Hospital | $3cash | 0.2× | — |
| Dignity Sequoia Hospital (Redwood City) ⚠ likely error | Hospital | $3cash | 0.2× | ★★★★★ |
| Tri-City Medical Center (Oceanside) ⚠ likely error | Hospital | $3cash | 0.2× | — |
| Dignity St. Mary Medical Center (Long Beach) ⚠ likely error | Hospital | $3cash | 0.2× | — |
| Dignity St. John's Regional Medical Center (Oxnard) ⚠ likely error | Hospital | $4cash | 0.2× | — |
| Providence St. Mary Medical Center (Apple Valley) ⚠ likely error | Hospital | $4cash | 0.2× | — |
| Providence Mission Hospital (Mission Viejo) ⚠ likely error | Hospital | $4cash | 0.2× | ★★★★★ |
| Providence St. Joseph Hospital (Orange) ⚠ likely error | Hospital | $4cash | 0.2× | ★★★★★ |
| Providence St. Jude Medical Center (Fullerton) ⚠ likely error | Hospital | $4cash | 0.2× | ★★★★★ |
| Providence Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital (Santa Rosa) | Hospital | $4cash | 0.3× | — |
| Providence Queen of the Valley Medical Center (Napa) | Hospital | $4cash | 0.3× | — |
| Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley (Pleasanton) | Hospital | $6cash | 0.3× | — |
| Dignity St. Joseph's Medical Center (Stockton) | Hospital | $6cash | 0.4× | — |
| USC Arcadia Hospital (Arcadia) | Hospital | $7cash | 0.4× | — |
| Stanford Health Care (Stanford) | Hospital | $8cash | 0.5× | ★★★★★ |
| Dignity Bakersfield Memorial Hospital (Bakersfield) | Hospital | $8cash | 0.5× | — |
| Eisenhower Medical Center (Rancho Mirage) | Hospital | $8cash | 0.5× | ★★★★★ |
| John Muir Health Walnut Creek Medical Center (Walnut Creek) | Hospital | $12cash | 0.7× | ★★★★★ |
| John Muir Health Concord Medical Center (Concord) | Hospital | $12cash | 0.7× | — |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles) | Hospital | $13cash | 0.8× | ★★★★★ |
| Centinela Hospital Medical Center (Inglewood) | Hospital | $16cash | 1.0× | — |
| UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center (Santa Monica) | Hospital | $18negotiated | 1.1× | ★★★★★ |
| Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles) | Hospital | $18negotiated | 1.1× | ★★★★★ |
| Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center (Pomona) | Hospital | $19cash | 1.1× | ★★★★★ |
| Community Regional Medical Center (Fresno) | Hospital | $23cash | 1.3× | — |
| UCI Health – Los Alamitos (Los Alamitos) | Hospital | $24cash | 1.4× | — |
| UCI Health – Fountain Valley (Fountain Valley) | Hospital | $24cash | 1.4× | — |
| UCI Medical Center (Orange) | Hospital | $24cash | 1.4× | ★★★★★ |
| UCI Health – Placentia Linda (Placentia) | Hospital | $24cash | 1.4× | — |
| Sharp Coronado Hospital (Coronado) | Hospital | $24cash | 1.4× | ★★★★★ |
| Sharp Memorial Hospital (San Diego) | Hospital | $24cash | 1.4× | ★★★★★ |
| UC Davis Medical Center (Sacramento) | Hospital | $24cash | 1.4× | ★★★★★ |
| Los Angeles General Medical Center (Los Angeles) | Hospital | $26negotiated | 1.6× | ★★★★★ |
| Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (Torrance) | Hospital | $26negotiated | 1.6× | — |
| Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego (San Diego) | Hospital | $34cash | 2.0× | ★★★★★ |
| Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla (La Jolla) | Hospital | $34cash | 2.0× | ★★★★★ |
| Scripps Green Hospital (La Jolla) | Hospital | $34cash | 2.0× | ★★★★★ |
| Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas (Encinitas) | Hospital | $34cash | 2.0× | ★★★★★ |
| Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista (Chula Vista) | Hospital | $34cash | 2.0× | — |
| Los Robles Health System (Thousand Oaks) | Hospital | $34cash | 2.0× | — |
| Adventist Health Glendale (Glendale) | Hospital | $34cash | 2.1× | ★★★★★ |
| Adventist Health Bakersfield (Bakersfield) | Hospital | $50cash | 3.0× | — |
| Adventist Health Simi Valley (Simi Valley) | Hospital | $51cash | 3.0× | — |
| Dignity Mercy Medical Center Redding (Redding) | Hospital | $53cash | 3.2× | — |
| Dignity Dominican Hospital (Santa Cruz) | Hospital | $69cash | 4.1× | — |
| Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian (Newport Beach) | Hospital | $101cash | 6.0× | ★★★★★ |
| Adventist Health White Memorial (Los Angeles) | Hospital | $103cash | 6.1× | — |
| UC San Diego Health - Hillcrest & Jacobs Medical Center (San Diego) | Hospital | $107cash | 6.4× | — |
| Kaiser Permanente San Diego Zion Medical Center (San Diego) | Hospital | $109cash | 6.5× | ★★★★★ |
| Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center (Fontana) | Hospital | $109cash | 6.5× | — |
| Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center (Los Angeles) | Hospital | $109cash | 6.5× | ★★★★★ |
| UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco) | Hospital | $122cash | 7.3× | ★★★★★ |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center (Tarzana) | Hospital | $125cash | 7.4× | ★★★★★ |
| Keck Hospital of USC (Los Angeles) | Hospital | $130cash | 7.8× | ★★★★★ |
| Loma Linda University Medical Center – Murrieta (Murrieta) | Hospital | $137cash | 8.2× | — |
| Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda) | Hospital | $137cash | 8.2× | ★★★★★ |
| Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center (San Francisco) | Hospital | $155cash | 9.2× | ★★★★★ |
| Kaiser Permanente Fresno Medical Center (Fresno) | Hospital | $155cash | 9.2× | — |
| Kaiser Permanente Sacramento Medical Center (Sacramento) | Hospital | $155cash | 9.2× | ★★★★★ |
| Sharp Grossmont Hospital (La Mesa) | Hospital | $155cash | 9.2× | ★★★★★ |
| Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center (Chula Vista) | Hospital | $155cash | 9.2× | — |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center (Burbank) | Hospital | $155cash | 9.2× | — |
| Dignity Northridge Hospital Medical Center (Northridge) | Hospital | $160cash | 9.5× | ★★★★★ |
| Highland Hospital – Alameda Health System (Oakland) | Hospital | $162cash | 9.6× | — |
| Dignity California Hospital Medical Center (Los Angeles) | Hospital | $178cash | 10.6× | — |
| Clovis Community Medical Center (Clovis) | Hospital | $192cash | 11.4× | — |
| Kaweah Health Medical Center (Visalia) | Hospital | $195cash | 11.6× | — |
| UCI Health – Lakewood (Lakewood) | Hospital | $198cash | 11.8× | — |
| Providence Little Company of Mary Torrance (Torrance) | Hospital | $204cash | 12.1× | ★★★★★ |
| Riverside University Health System Medical Center (Moreno Valley) | Hospital | $209cash | 12.4× | — |
| Rady Children's Hospital (San Diego) | Hospital | $218cash | 12.9× | — |
| Providence Holy Cross Medical Center (Mission Hills) | Hospital | $242cash | 14.4× | — |
| Natividad Medical Center (Salinas) | Hospital | $312cash | 18.6× | — |
| Sutter Medical Center Sacramento (Sacramento) | Hospital | $313cash | 18.6× | ★★★★★ |
| Sutter Memorial Medical Center (Modesto) | Hospital | $313cash | 18.6× | — |
| Sutter Roseville Medical Center (Roseville) | Hospital | $313cash | 18.6× | ★★★★★ |
| Sutter Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (Oakland) | Hospital | $313cash | 18.6× | — |
| Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital (Santa Rosa) | Hospital | $313cash | 18.6× | — |
| Sutter Mills-Peninsula Medical Center (Burlingame) | Hospital | $313cash | 18.6× | ★★★★★ |
| Sutter CPMC Van Ness Campus (San Francisco) | Hospital | $313cash | 18.6× | — |
| Sutter Eden Medical Center (Castro Valley) | Hospital | $313cash | 18.6× | — |
| Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford (Palo Alto) | Hospital | $330cash | 19.7× | — |
| Desert Regional Medical Center (Palm Springs) | Hospital | $365cash | 21.7× | — |
| MemorialCare Saddleback Medical Center (Laguna Hills) | Hospital | $395cash | 23.5× | ★★★★★ |
| MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center (Long Beach) | Hospital | $395cash | 23.5× | ★★★★★ |
| MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center (Fountain Valley) | Hospital | $395cash | 23.5× | — |
| JFK Memorial Hospital (Indio) | Hospital | $420cash | 25.0× | — |
| Riverside Community Hospital (Riverside) gross charge | Hospital | $1,262cash | 75.1× | — |
| Good Samaritan Hospital (San Jose) gross charge | Hospital | $1,901cash | 113.1× | — |
Prices from each hospital's public machine-readable file; imaging & surgery-center prices are published self-pay rates (often the cheapest option). vs Medicare is how many times the Medicare rate each facility charges. 14 unusually low/high prices excluded from the typical price as likely data errors.
💬 What to say — negotiation scripts
- For 84443 (TSH (thyroid)), Medicare's benchmark rate is $16.80. A fair self-pay target for this line is $33.60. If I was charged more than that, please reduce it toward this benchmark.
- Your own published cash / self-pay price for 84443 is $84.83, and negotiated rates at nearby facilities run $14.12–$194.19. Please apply a rate in that range to my bill rather than the gross charge.
- Please send a fully itemized bill listing every CPT/HCPCS/DRG code and its individual charge, so I can review each line against published rates.
- Separately, what is your financial assistance / charity care policy, and am I eligible? Please send me the application and the income thresholds.
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What should 84443 cost in California?
For TSH (thyroid) (CPT 84443) in California, a fair self-pay price is around $108, with hospitals ranging from $14 to $194 across 92 facilities. Medicare's benchmark rate is $17, the floor to negotiate toward. The card above lists each hospital's price, cheapest first, with CMS quality stars.
Frequently asked questions
How much does TSH (thyroid) cost in California?
A fair self-pay price for TSH (thyroid) (CPT 84443) in California is around $108, with hospital prices ranging from $14 to $194 across 92 facilities. These are estimates from hospital-published prices, not a guarantee.
What is the Medicare rate for CPT 84443?
Medicare pays about $17 for TSH (thyroid) (CPT 84443). That's the negotiation floor — a fair cash-pay target is roughly 1.5–2× it, well below typical gross charges.
Can I negotiate the price of TSH (thyroid)?
Yes. Under the federal Hospital Price Transparency rule hospitals must publish these rates, so you can ask to pay the cash or negotiated rate instead of the gross charge. Paste your bill on the home page for a ready-to-send appeal letter and the exact numbers to cite.
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Prices last refreshed September 2026 from each hospital's official CMS machine-readable file. Medicare rate: CY2025 OPPS/PFS/CLFS. Estimates only — not a guarantee.