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BRCA1 and BRCA2 test for three founder variants

CPT 81212the billing code this page is about

A genetic test that looks only for the three specific BRCA1 and BRCA2 changes most often found in people of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry, rather than reading the whole genes.

Hospitals typically charge $572 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 280 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $653. Most fall between $338 and $1,168 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
280
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 280 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
$244$440$572$959$1,312

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($244 vs $1,312).

How the prices are spread

$139 – $177: 15 hospitals$139$177 – $226: 0 hospitals$226 – $288: 9 hospitals$226$288 – $368: 28 hospitals$368 – $469: 38 hospitals$368$469 – $598: 47 hospitals$598 – $763: 22 hospitals$598$763 – $973: 46 hospitals$973 – $1,241: 37 hospitals$973$1,241 – $1,584: 21 hospitals$1,241median $572price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (263 of 280 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$139$17715
$177$2260
$226$2889
$288$36828
$368$46938
$469$59847
$598$76322
$763$97346
$973$1,24137
$1,241$1,58421

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $572.

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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $1,001 across 11 hospitalsWA$1,001Idaho: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $959 across 15 hospitalsIL$959Wisconsin: median $805 across 11 hospitalsWI$805Michigan: median $440 across 11 hospitalsMI$440New York: median $440 across 21 hospitalsNY$440Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 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 $880 across 14 hospitalsIA$880Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $660 across 28 hospitalsPA$660New Jersey: median $484 across 25 hospitalsNJ$484Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,221 across 23 hospitalsCA$1,221Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: median $139 across 12 hospitalsVA$139Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: median $139 across 16 hospitalsTN$139North Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $300 across 27 hospitalsGA$300Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $528 across 24 hospitalsTX$528Florida: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $572. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA23$1,221+113%$1,221 – $1,221
Washington WA11$1,001+75%$491 – $1,312
Illinois IL15$959+68%$880 – $1,076
Iowa IA14$880+54%$880 – $880
Wisconsin WI11$805+41%$805 – $805
Pennsylvania PA28$660+15%$440 – $1,158
Texas TX24$528−8%$244 – $528
New Jersey NJ25$484−15%$440 – $484
Michigan MI11$440−23%$361 – $607
New York NY21$440−23%$440 – $772
Georgia GA27$300−48%$300 – $724
Tennessee TN16$139−76%$139 – $318
Virginia VA12$139−76%$139 – $1,584
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not 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 $572.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care254$528$338 – $1,158
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access25$1,001$309 – $1,176
Ownership
For-profit26$495$300 – $1,020
Government29$440$300 – $724
Non-profit225$667$414 – $1,221
System affiliation
Part of a system252$592$327 – $1,176
Independent28$541$440 – $896

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,100
Median cash price$572
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

185 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $724 and the average of the middle 60% is $715; most fall between $300 and $1,221.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 185 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$318$724$1,158$1,356

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($168 vs $1,356).

Of the 192 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 185 gave a usable cash price; 1 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

280 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 292 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted280
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here6
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code292

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 24, 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 BRCA1&2 185&5385&6174 VRNT.

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, “BRCA1 and BRCA2 test for three founder variants (CPT 81212) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81212-brca1-and-brca2-test-for-three-founder-variants