Procedure price report · Pathology

BRCA2 gene checked for missing or extra pieces

CPT code CPT 81167the billing code this page is about

Laboratory analysis of the BRCA2 gene looking for large deleted or duplicated segments, without reading the full sequence.

Hospitals typically charge $466 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 227 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $525. Most fall between $283 and $1,013 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
227
States
32
Filings dated
Aug 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 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
$272$297$466$1,004$5,054

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($272 vs $5,054).

How the prices are spread

$224 – $310: 52 hospitals$224$310 – $431: 50 hospitals$431 – $598: 18 hospitals$431$598 – $831: 27 hospitals$831 – $1,154: 27 hospitals$831$1,154 – $1,602: 5 hospitals$1,602 – $2,224: 5 hospitals$1,602$2,224 – $3,088: 7 hospitals$3,088 – $4,287: 1 hospitals$3,088$4,287 – $5,953: 25 hospitals$4,287median $466price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (217 of 227 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$224$31052
$310$43150
$431$59818
$598$83127
$831$1,15427
$1,154$1,6025
$1,602$2,2245
$2,224$3,0887
$3,088$4,2871
$4,287$5,95325

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $466.

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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $654 across 10 hospitalsIL$654Wisconsin: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $283 across 17 hospitalsNY$283Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $272 across 11 hospitalsIA$272Indiana: median $580 across 22 hospitalsIN$580Ohio: median $959 across 16 hospitalsOH$959Pennsylvania: median $234 across 10 hospitalsPA$234New Jersey: median $311 across 30 hospitalsNJ$311Connecticut: 4 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 $5,953 across 20 hospitalsCA$5,953Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $418 across 15 hospitalsVA$418Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $372 across 10 hospitalsTX$372Florida: median $1,013 across 10 hospitalsFL$1,013
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $466. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA20$5,953+1178%$5,953 – $5,953
Florida FL10$1,013+117%$283 – $1,013
Ohio OH16$959+106%$713 – $1,004
Illinois IL10$654+40%$654 – $654
Indiana IN22$580+25%$408 – $2,593
Virginia VA15$418−10%$297 – $807
Texas TX10$372−20%$231 – $372
New Jersey NJ30$311−33%$283 – $1,431
New York NY17$283−39%$283 – $339
Iowa IA11$272−42%$272 – $272
Pennsylvania PA10$234−50%$193 – $264
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $466.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care199$425$283 – $1,216
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access21$541$418 – $1,004
Ownership
For-profit11fewer than 20 hospitals
Government25$283$231 – $466
Non-profit190$466$283 – $1,431
System affiliation
Part of a system215$466$283 – $1,151
Independent12fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,016
Median cash price$466
Cash as a share of list, median hospital50%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 50%. 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

125 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $685 and the average of the middle 60% is $812; most fall between $372 and $2,358.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 125 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$397$685$1,840$5,953

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($272 vs $5,953).

Of the 157 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 125 gave a usable cash price; 27 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

227 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 254 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted227
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here21
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code254

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as BRCA2 GENE FULL DUP/DEL 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, “BRCA2 gene checked for missing or extra pieces (CPT 81167) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81167-brca2-gene-checked-for-missing-or-extra-pieces