Lab tests CPT 84484 Inpatient — admitted to hospital

Troponin test cost in Redding, CA — inpatient

In Redding, CA, 1 hospital lists a cash price for troponin test, quantitative as an inpatient: from $15.39 to $15.39, with a median of $15.39. Across California, the median is $182.40 at 207 hospitals.

Cash prices at 1 facility for code 84484, as an inpatient (admitted to hospital) . Collected Sep 27, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Feb 28, 2026 and Feb 28, 2026.

Lowest$15.39Mercy Medical Center Redding
Median$15.39half of hospitals charge less
Highest$15.39in this market
Difference1.0×highest vs lowest

Where each hospital's price falls

Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Redding, CA.

median
Lowest $15.39Highest $340.20

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash priceList priceInsurers payOff list
Mercy Medical Center Redding lowest Redding, CA · (530) 225-6102 RL-A-CTNT 3001831 File of Feb 28, 2026 · source file $15.39 $30.34 $27.31–$29.74 49%
Mercy Medical Center Redding Redding, CA · (530) 225-6102 TROPONIN QN LAB File of Feb 28, 2026 · source file $95.32 $188.00 $169.20–$184.24 49%
Mercy Medical Center Redding Redding, CA · (530) 225-6102 TROPONIN QN File of Feb 28, 2026 · source file $340.20 $671.00 $603.90–$657.58 49%
Hospital The hospital that published the price, its city and the line exactly as written in its price file.
Cash price The hospital's own price for a patient paying without insurance (“discounted cash” in its price file). Hospitals must publish it under federal law, 45 CFR 180.50. Call to confirm it before booking. More
List price The hospital's full chargemaster price (“gross charge”) before any discount. Almost nobody pays it; the gap to the cash price shows what the self-pay discount is worth. More
Insurers pay The lowest and highest rates this hospital has agreed with insurance plans for the same item, from its price file. If the cash price is below what your plan pays and you have not met your deductible, paying cash can cost you less. More
Off list How much lower the cash price is than the list price.

Inpatient: lowest $15.39, median $15.39, highest $15.39.

As an outpatient, the same code is billed by 2 facilities here, median $13.70 — that is the price to compare if you are not being admitted.

Cash or insurance?

At the one hospital here that publishes insurer rates for this code, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated and below every plan's rate. If you have insurance but have not met your deductible, you usually pay your plan's negotiated rate, which falls somewhere in the "Insurers pay" column. Paying cash can cost less, but a cash payment usually does not count toward your deductible. Ask the hospital for both numbers before you book.

What it is

A troponin test measures a heart muscle protein that leaks into the blood when the heart is damaged. It is the key blood test for a heart attack and is usually repeated a few hours apart in the emergency department.

What the price covers

The price usually covers running the test. The blood draw (36415) is often billed as a separate line.

1 row held back from this comparison

It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 84484 ($101.76). Such a line is almost always a physician's fee billed separately, an assistant's share or a placeholder — a real charge, but not the price of the procedure itself.

HospitalCash priceFile
Mercy Medical Center Redding Redding, CARL-SR-TROPONIN $6.33 file
File Link to the hospital's own price file.