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Tumor gene panel test of 324 genes from tissue

CPT 0037Uthe billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that sequences DNA from a tumor tissue sample across 324 genes to look for alterations, including markers such as microsatellite instability and tumor mutation burden.

Hospitals typically charge $3,467 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 283 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,705. Most fall between $2,520 and $5,878 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
283
States
37
Filings dated
Oct 2025 – Sep 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 283 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
$1,890$2,520$3,467$5,558$10,409

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,890 vs $10,409).

How the prices are spread

$1,285 – $1,600: 6 hospitals$1,285$1,600 – $1,994: 11 hospitals$1,994 – $2,484: 15 hospitals$1,994$2,484 – $3,095: 63 hospitals$3,095 – $3,856: 54 hospitals$3,095$3,856 – $4,804: 31 hospitals$4,804 – $5,986: 34 hospitals$4,804$5,986 – $7,458: 9 hospitals$7,458 – $9,292: 16 hospitals$7,458$9,292 – $11,576: 18 hospitals$9,292median $3,467price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (257 of 283 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,285$1,6006
$1,600$1,99411
$1,994$2,48415
$2,484$3,09563
$3,095$3,85654
$3,856$4,80431
$4,804$5,98634
$5,986$7,4589
$7,458$9,29216
$9,292$11,57618

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $3,467.

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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $8,453 across 16 hospitalsIL$8,453Wisconsin: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $3,360 across 11 hospitalsIA$3,360Indiana: median $4,770 across 18 hospitalsIN$4,770Ohio: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $5,250 across 23 hospitalsPA$5,250New Jersey: median $3,850 across 19 hospitalsNJ$3,850Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,299 across 14 hospitalsCA$1,299Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: median $11,576 across 11 hospitalsVA$11,576Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $2,552 across 19 hospitalsAZ$2,552New Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $2,662 across 12 hospitalsSC$2,662Oklahoma: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,520 across 33 hospitalsTX$2,520Florida: median $5,558 across 10 hospitalsFL$5,558
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,467. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA11$11,576+234%$5,788 – $11,576
Illinois IL16$8,453+144%$4,616 – $8,453
Florida FL10$5,558+60%$5,387 – $5,558
Pennsylvania PA23$5,250+51%$2,415 – $34,853
Indiana IN18$4,770+38%$3,874 – $5,949
New Jersey NJ19$3,850+11%$3,850 – $4,826
Iowa IA11$3,360−3%$3,360 – $3,360
South Carolina SC12$2,662−23%$2,662 – $2,662
Arizona AZ19$2,552−26%$1,869 – $4,620
Texas TX33$2,520−27%$2,520 – $2,520
California CA14$1,299−63%$959 – $1,908
Michigan MI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $3,467.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care252$3,360$2,520 – $5,788
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access26$4,834$2,975 – $6,936
Ownership
For-profit26$2,520$1,730 – $5,788
Government19fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit236$3,740$2,520 – $6,260
System affiliation
Part of a system263$3,360$2,520 – $5,788
Independent20$4,550$3,142 – $9,035

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$7,950
Median cash price$3,467
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

227 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,321 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,593; most fall between $2,520 and $5,722.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 227 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
$1,730$2,520$3,321$5,408$10,773

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,730 vs $10,773).

Of the 233 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 227 gave a usable cash price; 1 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

283 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 289 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted283
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here1
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code289

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 TRGT GEN SEQ DNA 324 GENES.

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, “Tumor gene panel test of 324 genes from tissue (CPT 0037U) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-0037u-tumor-gene-panel-test-of-324-genes-from-tissue