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BRAF gene mutation test

CPT 81210the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that checks a tissue or blood sample for a common change in the BRAF gene, a marker used in evaluating certain cancers.

Hospitals typically charge $322 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,169 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $355. Most fall between $167 and $711 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,169
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 2,169 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
$115$193$322$595$991

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($115 vs $991).

How the prices are spread

$88 – $115: 118 hospitals$88$115 – $150: 143 hospitals$150 – $196: 209 hospitals$150$196 – $256: 238 hospitals$256 – $335: 312 hospitals$256$335 – $437: 240 hospitals$437 – $571: 242 hospitals$437$571 – $745: 168 hospitals$745 – $973: 173 hospitals$745$973 – $1,271: 112 hospitals$973median $322price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,955 of 2,169 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$88$115118
$115$150143
$150$196209
$196$256238
$256$335312
$335$437240
$437$571242
$571$745168
$745$973173
$973$1,271112

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $322.

Alaska: median $195 across 11 hospitalsAK$195Maine: median $308 across 27 hospitalsME$308Vermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $576 across 14 hospitalsNH$576Washington: median $344 across 49 hospitalsWA$344Idaho: median $208 across 14 hospitalsID$208Montana: median $409 across 10 hospitalsMT$409North Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $294 across 60 hospitalsMN$294Illinois: median $440 across 88 hospitalsIL$440Wisconsin: median $475 across 89 hospitalsWI$475Michigan: median $255 across 70 hospitalsMI$255New York: median $365 across 70 hospitalsNY$365Massachusetts: median $569 across 43 hospitalsMA$569Oregon: median $211 across 32 hospitalsOR$211Nevada: median $313 across 11 hospitalsNV$313Wyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $273 across 35 hospitalsIA$273Indiana: median $304 across 75 hospitalsIN$304Ohio: median $368 across 112 hospitalsOH$368Pennsylvania: median $370 across 98 hospitalsPA$370New Jersey: median $193 across 46 hospitalsNJ$193Connecticut: median $547 across 12 hospitalsCT$547Rhode Island: median $305 across 10 hospitalsRI$305California: median $186 across 75 hospitalsCA$186Utah: median $843 across 29 hospitalsUT$843Colorado: median $281 across 43 hospitalsCO$281Nebraska: median $421 across 28 hospitalsNE$421Missouri: median $343 across 53 hospitalsMO$343Kentucky: median $340 across 40 hospitalsKY$340West Virginia: median $200 across 27 hospitalsWV$200Virginia: median $289 across 66 hospitalsVA$289Maryland: median $217 across 34 hospitalsMD$217Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $611 across 30 hospitalsAZ$611New Mexico: median $215 across 14 hospitalsNM$215Kansas: median $485 across 34 hospitalsKS$485Arkansas: median $116 across 24 hospitalsAR$116Tennessee: median $255 across 64 hospitalsTN$255North Carolina: median $193 across 74 hospitalsNC$193South Carolina: median $471 across 44 hospitalsSC$471Oklahoma: median $330 across 46 hospitalsOK$330Louisiana: median $214 across 38 hospitalsLA$214Mississippi: median $171 across 29 hospitalsMS$171Alabama: median $251 across 21 hospitalsAL$251Georgia: median $460 across 71 hospitalsGA$460Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $293 across 165 hospitalsTX$293Florida: median $154 across 104 hospitalsFL$154
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $322. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT29$843+162%$843 – $991
Arizona AZ30$611+90%$202 – $1,098
New Hampshire NH14$576+79%$403 – $1,702
Massachusetts MA43$569+77%$342 – $739
Connecticut CT12$547+70%$353 – $621
Kansas KS34$485+51%$167 – $823
Wisconsin WI89$475+47%$399 – $761
South Carolina SC44$471+46%$315 – $1,204
Georgia GA71$460+43%$259 – $691
Illinois IL88$440+37%$234 – $787
Nebraska NE28$421+31%$207 – $804
Montana MT10$409+27%$332 – $553
Pennsylvania PA98$370+15%$202 – $1,013
Ohio OH112$368+14%$215 – $787
New York NY70$365+13%$175 – $764
Washington WA49$344+7%$193 – $545
Missouri MO53$343+6%$221 – $874
Kentucky KY40$340+5%$202 – $827
Oklahoma OK46$330+2%$35 – $526
Nevada NV11$313−3%$249 – $614
Maine ME27$308−5%$166 – $521
Rhode Island RI10$305−5%$248 – $362
Indiana IN75$304−6%$192 – $380
Minnesota MN60$294−9%$148 – $410
Texas TX165$293−9%$202 – $690
Virginia VA66$289−10%$175 – $421
Colorado CO43$281−13%$188 – $519
Iowa IA35$273−15%$168 – $526
Michigan MI70$255−21%$111 – $432
Tennessee TN64$255−21%$209 – $471
Alabama AL21$251−22%$175 – $506
Maryland MD34$217−33%$156 – $785
New Mexico NM14$215−33%$194 – $419
Louisiana LA38$214−33%$101 – $414
Oregon OR32$211−34%$136 – $271
Idaho ID14$208−35%$138 – $473
West Virginia WV27$200−38%$119 – $797
Alaska AK11$195−40%$159 – $918
New Jersey NJ46$193−40%$175 – $375
North Carolina NC74$193−40%$105 – $600
California CA75$186−42%$79 – $795
Mississippi MS29$171−47%$99 – $275
Florida FL104$154−52%$120 – $572
Arkansas AR24$116−64%$81 – $354
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not 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 $322.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,758$316$163 – $712
Children’s35$370$118 – $654
Critical access367$343$211 – $685
Ownership
For-profit307$428$175 – $1,098
Government280$297$151 – $600
Non-profit1,573$319$168 – $669
System affiliation
Part of a system1,884$322$167 – $730
Independent285$330$176 – $620

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$578
Median cash price$322
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

1,560 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $333 and the average of the middle 60% is $370; most fall between $173 and $725.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,560 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
$120$202$333$602$965

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($120 vs $965).

Of the 1,725 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,560 gave a usable cash price; 107 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 58 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,169 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (55%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,359 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,169
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here127
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 — excluded62
Hospitals that filed this code2,359

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 Braf V600e/K by Pcr.

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, “BRAF gene mutation test (CPT 81210) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81210-braf-gene-mutation-test