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Androgen receptor gene test to characterize alleles

CPT 81204the billing code this page is about

Laboratory test that sizes and characterizes the repeat region of the androgen receptor gene, used in evaluating conditions such as spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy.

Hospitals typically charge $314 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 328 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $331. Most fall between $168 and $531 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
328
States
41
Filings dated
Aug 2025 – 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 328 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
$137$203$314$427$701

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($137 vs $701).

How the prices are spread

$137 – $165: 53 hospitals$137$165 – $200: 15 hospitals$200 – $241: 20 hospitals$200$241 – $291: 32 hospitals$291 – $351: 43 hospitals$291$351 – $424: 69 hospitals$424 – $512: 9 hospitals$424$512 – $617: 27 hospitals$617 – $745: 17 hospitals$617$745 – $900: 17 hospitals$745median $314price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (302 of 328 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$137$16553
$165$20015
$200$24120
$241$29132
$291$35143
$351$42469
$424$5129
$512$61727
$617$74517
$745$90017

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $314.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $249 across 10 hospitalsWA$249Idaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $352 across 18 hospitalsMN$352Illinois: median $288 across 12 hospitalsIL$288Wisconsin: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $164 across 25 hospitalsNY$164Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals 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 $154 across 12 hospitalsIA$154Indiana: median $218 across 16 hospitalsIN$218Ohio: median $531 across 42 hospitalsOH$531Pennsylvania: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $151 across 29 hospitalsNJ$151Connecticut: 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 $314 across 22 hospitalsCA$314Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $420 across 18 hospitalsCO$420Nebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: median $398 across 11 hospitalsSC$398Oklahoma: 2 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $225 across 11 hospitalsGA$225Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: median $256 across 15 hospitalsFL$256
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $314. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH42$531+69%$402 – $889
Colorado CO18$420+34%$416 – $676
South Carolina SC11$398+27%$398 – $398
Minnesota MN18$352+12%$351 – $352
California CA22$3140%$314 – $314
Illinois IL12$288−8%$288 – $288
Florida FL15$256−18%$128 – $256
Washington WA10$249−21%$175 – $249
Georgia GA11$225−28%$225 – $225
Indiana IN16$218−31%$198 – $390
New York NY25$164−48%$137 – $296
Iowa IA12$154−51%$154 – $154
New Jersey NJ29$151−52%$137 – $673
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $314.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care278$314$154 – $531
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access35$354$269 – $402
Ownership
For-profit16fewer than 20 hospitals
Government34$225$137 – $433
Non-profit275$351$174 – $531
System affiliation
Part of a system301$314$178 – $531
Independent27$237$154 – $568

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$568
Median cash price$314
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.

The same procedure, inpatient

217 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $360 and the average of the middle 60% is $376; most fall between $260 and $540.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 217 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
$168$300$360$483$747

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($168 vs $747).

Of the 243 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 217 gave a usable cash price; 22 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

328 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 350 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted328
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here18
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code350

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 4, 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.

Related procedures

Part of the Pathology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as AR GENE CHARAC ALLELES.

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, “Androgen receptor gene test to characterize alleles (CPT 81204) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81204-androgen-receptor-gene-test-to-characterize-alleles