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Procedure price report · Pathology

Gene panel for drug reaction and drug processing

CPT 0029Uthe billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that sequences a targeted set of genes involved in how the body handles medicines, reported to help explain drug response or adverse reactions.

Hospitals typically charge $713 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 139 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $667. Most fall between $443 and $1,042 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
139
States
25
Filings dated
Dec 2025 – Aug 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 139 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
$390$490$713$829$1,448

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($390 vs $1,448).

How the prices are spread

$261 – $312: 4 hospitals$261$312 – $373: 2 hospitals$373 – $446: 16 hospitals$373$446 – $533: 17 hospitals$533 – $638: 13 hospitals$533$638 – $763: 28 hospitals$763 – $912: 24 hospitals$763$912 – $1,090: 2 hospitals$1,090 – $1,304: 4 hospitals$1,090$1,304 – $1,559: 19 hospitals$1,304median $713price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (129 of 139 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$261$3124
$312$3732
$373$44616
$446$53317
$533$63813
$638$76328
$763$91224
$912$1,0902
$1,090$1,3044
$1,304$1,55919

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $713.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $443 across 20 hospitalsMN$443Illinois: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMINew York: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $713 across 16 hospitalsIA$713Indiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceOHPennsylvania: median $512 across 10 hospitalsPA$512New Jersey: median $817 across 18 hospitalsNJ$817Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: median $1,448 across 11 hospitalsSC$1,448Oklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $750 across 15 hospitalsTX$750Florida: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $713. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC11$1,448+103%$1,448 – $1,448
New Jersey NJ18$817+15%$817 – $829
Texas TX15$750+5%$750 – $750
Iowa IA16$7130%$713 – $780
Pennsylvania PA10$512−28%$423 – $579
Minnesota MN20$443−38%$443 – $528
Illinois IL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $713.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care114$750$490 – $1,137
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access24$528$443 – $540
Ownership
For-profit8fewer than 20 hospitals
Government9fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit122$713$490 – $1,099
System affiliation
Part of a system130$713$443 – $829
Independent9fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,042
Median cash price$713
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.

How complete is this

139 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 139 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted139
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here0
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded0
Hospitals that filed this code139

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 September 5, 2026 and September 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Pathology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as RX METAB ADVRS TRGT SEQ ALYS.

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, “Gene panel for drug reaction and drug processing (CPT 0029U) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-0029u-gene-panel-for-drug-reaction-and-drug-processing