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BCR-ABL1 test for other breakpoints in leukemia

CPT 81208the billing code this page is about

Laboratory test on blood or bone marrow that detects or measures BCR-ABL1 fusion at breakpoints other than the major or minor sites.

Hospitals typically charge $296 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,207 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $318. Most fall between $160 and $607 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,207
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 1,207 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
$92$184$296$520$957

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($92 vs $957).

How the prices are spread

$75 – $99: 77 hospitals$75$99 – $133: 64 hospitals$133 – $177: 82 hospitals$133$177 – $236: 180 hospitals$236 – $315: 193 hospitals$236$315 – $419: 157 hospitals$419 – $559: 127 hospitals$419$559 – $746: 90 hospitals$746 – $995: 80 hospitals$746$995 – $1,327: 44 hospitals$995median $296price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,094 of 1,207 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$75$9977
$99$13364
$133$17782
$177$236180
$236$315193
$315$419157
$419$559127
$559$74690
$746$99580
$995$1,32744

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $296.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $327 across 19 hospitalsME$327Vermont: median $256 across 10 hospitalsVT$256New Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $325 across 25 hospitalsWA$325Idaho: median $70 across 11 hospitalsID$70Montana: median $287 across 10 hospitalsMT$287North Dakota: median $540 across 18 hospitalsND$540Minnesota: median $266 across 77 hospitalsMN$266Illinois: median $372 across 45 hospitalsIL$372Wisconsin: median $541 across 66 hospitalsWI$541Michigan: median $188 across 41 hospitalsMI$188New York: median $284 across 60 hospitalsNY$284Massachusetts: median $716 across 18 hospitalsMA$716Oregon: median $247 across 20 hospitalsOR$247Nevada: median $313 across 10 hospitalsNV$313Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $219 across 32 hospitalsIA$219Indiana: median $309 across 20 hospitalsIN$309Ohio: median $513 across 66 hospitalsOH$513Pennsylvania: median $843 across 33 hospitalsPA$843New Jersey: median $236 across 32 hospitalsNJ$236Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $941 across 31 hospitalsCA$941Utah: median $70 across 24 hospitalsUT$70Colorado: median $263 across 26 hospitalsCO$263Nebraska: median $360 across 20 hospitalsNE$360Missouri: median $449 across 33 hospitalsMO$449Kentucky: median $202 across 20 hospitalsKY$202West Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $282 across 20 hospitalsVA$282Maryland: median $332 across 32 hospitalsMD$332Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $247 across 14 hospitalsAZ$247New Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $167 across 18 hospitalsKS$167Arkansas: median $252 across 16 hospitalsAR$252Tennessee: median $279 across 18 hospitalsTN$279North Carolina: median $256 across 12 hospitalsNC$256South Carolina: median $206 across 13 hospitalsSC$206Oklahoma: median $322 across 22 hospitalsOK$322Louisiana: median $272 across 29 hospitalsLA$272Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $330 across 34 hospitalsGA$330Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $160 across 98 hospitalsTX$160Florida: median $201 across 48 hospitalsFL$201
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $296. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA31$941+218%$68 – $941
Pennsylvania PA33$843+185%$322 – $1,842
Massachusetts MA18$716+142%$468 – $925
Wisconsin WI66$541+83%$188 – $1,327
North Dakota ND18$540+82%$343 – $1,054
Ohio OH66$513+73%$281 – $963
Missouri MO33$449+52%$324 – $640
Illinois IL45$372+26%$262 – $561
Nebraska NE20$360+22%$165 – $519
Maryland MD32$332+12%$52 – $565
Georgia GA34$330+11%$301 – $454
Maine ME19$327+10%$149 – $551
Washington WA25$325+10%$223 – $594
Oklahoma OK22$322+9%$198 – $460
Nevada NV10$313+6%$119 – $751
Indiana IN20$309+4%$235 – $440
Montana MT10$287−3%$240 – $541
New York NY60$284−4%$215 – $629
Virginia VA20$282−5%$136 – $347
Tennessee TN18$279−6%$175 – $282
Louisiana LA29$272−8%$108 – $389
Minnesota MN77$266−10%$180 – $395
Colorado CO26$263−11%$110 – $575
North Carolina NC12$256−13%$256 – $373
Vermont VT10$256−14%$164 – $389
Arkansas AR16$252−15%$78 – $374
Oregon OR20$247−16%$80 – $476
Arizona AZ14$247−17%$202 – $713
New Jersey NJ32$236−20%$215 – $965
Iowa IA32$219−26%$206 – $383
South Carolina SC13$206−30%$206 – $206
Kentucky KY20$202−32%$157 – $355
Florida FL48$201−32%$110 – $935
Michigan MI41$188−37%$96 – $332
Kansas KS18$167−43%$122 – $1,175
Texas TX98$160−46%$81 – $221
Idaho ID11$70−76%$52 – $196
Utah UT24$70−76%$70 – $82
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $296.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care888$282$144 – $616
Children’s22$240$79 – $323
Critical access291$356$180 – $601
Ownership
For-profit79$309$92 – $686
Government149$256$147 – $476
Non-profit973$299$164 – $629
System affiliation
Part of a system1,065$301$160 – $629
Independent142$264$158 – $484

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$521
Median cash price$296
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

879 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $293 and the average of the middle 60% is $322; most fall between $144 and $637.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 879 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
$82$175$293$541$963

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($82 vs $963).

Of the 1,000 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 879 gave a usable cash price; 74 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 47 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,207 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (31%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,341 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,207
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here90
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded41
Hospitals that filed this code1,341

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 Pcr Qualitative Blood or Bone Marrow.

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, “BCR-ABL1 test for other breakpoints in leukemia (CPT 81208) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81208-bcr-abl1-test-for-other-breakpoints-in-leukemia