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BCR-ABL1 major breakpoint test for leukemia

CPT 81206the billing code this page is about

Laboratory test on blood or bone marrow that detects or measures the amount of the BCR-ABL1 fusion gene at the major breakpoint, seen in chronic myeloid leukemia.

Hospitals typically charge $305 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,771 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $329. Most fall between $152 and $615 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,771
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 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 2,771 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
$84$175$305$543$857

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($84 vs $857).

How the prices are spread

$57 – $77: 87 hospitals$57$77 – $104: 123 hospitals$104 – $141: 173 hospitals$104$141 – $190: 294 hospitals$190 – $257: 337 hospitals$190$257 – $347: 414 hospitals$347 – $469: 379 hospitals$347$469 – $635: 312 hospitals$635 – $858: 244 hospitals$635$858 – $1,160: 139 hospitals$858median $305price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,502 of 2,771 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$57$7787
$77$104123
$104$141173
$141$190294
$190$257337
$257$347414
$347$469379
$469$635312
$635$858244
$858$1,160139

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $305.

Alaska: median $301 across 16 hospitalsAK$301Maine: median $314 across 26 hospitalsME$314Vermont: median $449 across 12 hospitalsVT$449New Hampshire: median $644 across 23 hospitalsNH$644Washington: median $356 across 66 hospitalsWA$356Idaho: median $221 across 18 hospitalsID$221Montana: median $295 across 20 hospitalsMT$295North Dakota: median $536 across 26 hospitalsND$536Minnesota: median $317 across 95 hospitalsMN$317Illinois: median $533 across 123 hospitalsIL$533Wisconsin: median $476 across 97 hospitalsWI$476Michigan: median $226 across 80 hospitalsMI$226New York: median $288 across 94 hospitalsNY$288Massachusetts: median $596 across 48 hospitalsMA$596Oregon: median $250 across 42 hospitalsOR$250Nevada: median $333 across 18 hospitalsNV$333Wyoming: median $344 across 12 hospitalsWY$344South Dakota: median $486 across 14 hospitalsSD$486Iowa: median $343 across 68 hospitalsIA$343Indiana: median $321 across 92 hospitalsIN$321Ohio: median $349 across 129 hospitalsOH$349Pennsylvania: median $400 across 114 hospitalsPA$400New Jersey: median $180 across 55 hospitalsNJ$180Connecticut: median $395 across 17 hospitalsCT$395Rhode Island: median $363 across 10 hospitalsRI$363California: median $119 across 117 hospitalsCA$119Utah: median $260 across 35 hospitalsUT$260Colorado: median $350 across 64 hospitalsCO$350Nebraska: median $500 across 54 hospitalsNE$500Missouri: median $371 across 67 hospitalsMO$371Kentucky: median $291 across 46 hospitalsKY$291West Virginia: median $245 across 35 hospitalsWV$245Virginia: median $328 across 67 hospitalsVA$328Maryland: median $175 across 34 hospitalsMD$175Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $444 across 36 hospitalsAZ$444New Mexico: median $324 across 14 hospitalsNM$324Kansas: median $250 across 67 hospitalsKS$250Arkansas: median $180 across 32 hospitalsAR$180Tennessee: median $253 across 60 hospitalsTN$253North Carolina: median $262 across 80 hospitalsNC$262South Carolina: median $466 across 44 hospitalsSC$466Oklahoma: median $264 across 60 hospitalsOK$264Louisiana: median $216 across 45 hospitalsLA$216Mississippi: median $152 across 46 hospitalsMS$152Alabama: median $272 across 33 hospitalsAL$272Georgia: median $185 across 84 hospitalsGA$185Hawaii: median $456 across 14 hospitalsHI$456Texas: median $259 across 190 hospitalsTX$259Florida: median $189 across 125 hospitalsFL$189
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $305. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Hampshire NH23$644+111%$209 – $1,090
Massachusetts MA48$596+96%$372 – $718
North Dakota ND26$536+76%$275 – $906
Illinois IL123$533+75%$287 – $857
Nebraska NE54$500+64%$267 – $916
South Dakota SD14$486+59%$400 – $765
Wisconsin WI97$476+56%$195 – $1,013
South Carolina SC44$466+53%$203 – $795
Hawaii HI14$456+50%$212 – $1,042
Vermont VT12$449+47%$223 – $634
Arizona AZ36$444+45%$176 – $957
Pennsylvania PA114$400+31%$189 – $947
Connecticut CT17$395+30%$273 – $512
Missouri MO67$371+22%$215 – $488
Rhode Island RI10$363+19%$163 – $380
Washington WA66$356+17%$200 – $594
Colorado CO64$350+15%$203 – $884
Ohio OH129$349+15%$270 – $644
Wyoming WY12$344+13%$230 – $528
Iowa IA68$343+13%$164 – $646
Nevada NV18$333+9%$75 – $574
Virginia VA67$328+8%$173 – $448
New Mexico NM14$324+6%$232 – $545
Indiana IN92$321+5%$231 – $462
Minnesota MN95$317+4%$141 – $528
Maine ME26$314+3%$123 – $558
Alaska AK16$301−1%$175 – $667
Montana MT20$295−3%$189 – $577
Kentucky KY46$291−5%$189 – $597
New York NY94$288−6%$164 – $602
Alabama AL33$272−11%$163 – $708
Oklahoma OK60$264−13%$193 – $434
North Carolina NC80$262−14%$83 – $604
Utah UT35$260−15%$259 – $306
Texas TX190$259−15%$89 – $627
Tennessee TN60$253−17%$139 – $433
Oregon OR42$250−18%$151 – $433
Kansas KS67$250−18%$165 – $564
West Virginia WV35$245−20%$50 – $546
Michigan MI80$226−26%$73 – $397
Idaho ID18$221−28%$52 – $451
Louisiana LA45$216−29%$124 – $300
Florida FL125$189−38%$68 – $492
Georgia GA84$185−39%$143 – $587
New Jersey NJ55$180−41%$164 – $255
Arkansas AR32$180−41%$80 – $421
Maryland MD34$175−43%$52 – $465
Mississippi MS46$152−50%$91 – $268
California CA117$119−61%$60 – $276
Delaware DE7not 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 $305.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,999$283$136 – $604
Children’s43$270$80 – $679
Critical access719$377$206 – $669
Ownership
For-profit349$324$138 – $852
Government471$314$152 – $604
Non-profit1,941$302$156 – $593
System affiliation
Part of a system2,290$305$150 – $629
Independent481$306$160 – $549

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$531
Median cash price$305
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

1,903 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $306 and the average of the middle 60% is $328; most fall between $152 and $608.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,903 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
$94$178$306$539$838

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($94 vs $838).

Of the 2,107 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,903 gave a usable cash price; 110 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 94 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,771 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (70%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,032 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,771
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here150
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded109
Hospitals that filed this code3,032

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 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 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 HC Bcr Abl 210.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “BCR-ABL1 major breakpoint test for leukemia (CPT 81206) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81206-bcr-abl1-major-breakpoint-test-for-leukemia