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Procedure price report · Fetal monitoring

Blood sampling from the umbilical cord before birth

CPT 59012the billing code this page is about

A needle is guided through the abdomen to draw a blood sample from the fetal umbilical cord for testing.

Hospitals typically charge $578 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 607 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $609. Most fall between $331 and $1,102 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
607
States
47
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 607 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
$225$357$578$931$1,624

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($225 vs $1,624).

How the prices are spread

$146 – $195: 15 hospitals$146$195 – $261: 34 hospitals$261 – $347: 63 hospitals$261$347 – $463: 113 hospitals$463 – $618: 78 hospitals$463$618 – $824: 85 hospitals$824 – $1,099: 66 hospitals$824$1,099 – $1,466: 48 hospitals$1,466 – $1,955: 28 hospitals$1,466$1,955 – $2,608: 20 hospitals$1,955median $578price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (550 of 607 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$146$19515
$195$26134
$261$34763
$347$463113
$463$61878
$618$82485
$824$1,09966
$1,099$1,46648
$1,466$1,95528
$1,955$2,60820

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$311
Median cash price$578
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.86×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $578.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $540 across 14 hospitalsWA$540Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $628 across 13 hospitalsMN$628Illinois: median $627 across 27 hospitalsIL$627Wisconsin: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $357 across 27 hospitalsMI$357New York: median $362 across 31 hospitalsNY$362Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $618 across 16 hospitalsOR$618Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $488 across 15 hospitalsIA$488Indiana: median $160 across 15 hospitalsIN$160Ohio: median $923 across 41 hospitalsOH$923Pennsylvania: median $415 across 43 hospitalsPA$415New Jersey: median $1,332 across 35 hospitalsNJ$1,332Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $777 across 47 hospitalsCA$777Utah: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $459 across 10 hospitalsCO$459Nebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $569 across 12 hospitalsMO$569Kentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,017 across 25 hospitalsVA$1,017Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $819 across 22 hospitalsNC$819South Carolina: median $461 across 16 hospitalsSC$461Oklahoma: median $331 across 13 hospitalsOK$331Louisiana: median $260 across 12 hospitalsLA$260Mississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $626 across 22 hospitalsGA$626Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $794 across 31 hospitalsTX$794Florida: median $496 across 34 hospitalsFL$496
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $578. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ35$1,332+130%$332 – $4,881
Virginia VA25$1,017+76%$157 – $1,102
Ohio OH41$923+60%$442 – $1,161
North Carolina NC22$819+42%$697 – $819
Texas TX31$794+37%$272 – $834
California CA47$777+34%$588 – $1,624
Minnesota MN13$628+9%$628 – $2,421
Illinois IL27$627+9%$161 – $649
Georgia GA22$626+8%$626 – $2,256
Oregon OR16$618+7%$367 – $793
Missouri MO12$569−2%$313 – $705
Washington WA14$540−7%$514 – $929
Florida FL34$496−14%$399 – $1,366
Iowa IA15$488−16%$435 – $488
South Carolina SC16$461−20%$461 – $573
Colorado CO10$459−21%$315 – $604
Pennsylvania PA43$415−28%$152 – $1,034
New York NY31$362−37%$360 – $1,305
Michigan MI27$357−38%$225 – $419
Oklahoma OK13$331−43%$331 – $620
Louisiana LA12$260−55%$147 – $392
Indiana IN15$160−72%$128 – $230
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $578.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care554$573$331 – $1,102
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access31$488$207 – $834
Ownership
For-profit42$459$194 – $834
Government79$484$315 – $819
Non-profit481$588$331 – $1,139
System affiliation
Part of a system543$588$331 – $1,102
Independent64$491$313 – $1,111

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,045
Median cash price$578
Cash as a share of list, median hospital58%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 42%. 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

451 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $613 and the average of the middle 60% is $655; most fall between $357 and $1,111.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 451 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
$272$393$613$1,030$1,624

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($272 vs $1,624).

Of the 477 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 451 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

607 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 636 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted607
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here19
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 — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code636

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Fetal monitoring family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Cordocentesis Intrauterine.

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 sampling from the umbilical cord before birth (CPT 59012) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-59012-blood-sampling-from-the-umbilical-cord-before-birth