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BRCA2 gene test for a variant already known in the family

CPT 81217the billing code this page is about

A targeted genetic test that checks one sample for the specific BRCA2 change previously identified in a relative.

Hospitals typically charge $450 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 367 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $538. Most fall between $334 and $870 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
367
States
41
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 367 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
$214$375$450$857$1,308

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($214 vs $1,308).

How the prices are spread

$73 – $103: 12 hospitals$73$103 – $144: 0 hospitals$144 – $202: 14 hospitals$144$202 – $284: 26 hospitals$284 – $398: 71 hospitals$284$398 – $558: 88 hospitals$558 – $782: 41 hospitals$558$782 – $1,096: 61 hospitals$1,096 – $1,537: 22 hospitals$1,096$1,537 – $2,155: 13 hospitals$1,537median $450price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (348 of 367 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$73$10312
$103$1440
$144$20214
$202$28426
$284$39871
$398$55888
$558$78241
$782$1,09661
$1,096$1,53722
$1,537$2,15513

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $450.

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 $853 across 15 hospitalsWA$853Idaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $376 across 27 hospitalsMN$376Illinois: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: median $450 across 10 hospitalsWI$450Michigan: median $442 across 20 hospitalsMI$442New York: median $375 across 17 hospitalsNY$375Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $704 across 12 hospitalsOR$704Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $751 across 12 hospitalsIA$751Indiana: median $543 across 13 hospitalsIN$543Ohio: median $887 across 18 hospitalsOH$887Pennsylvania: median $293 across 30 hospitalsPA$293New Jersey: median $413 across 24 hospitalsNJ$413Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $857 across 23 hospitalsCA$857Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $2,155 across 10 hospitalsKY$2,155West Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: median $73 across 12 hospitalsVA$73Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: median $73 across 15 hospitalsTN$73North Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $617 across 11 hospitalsGA$617Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $450 across 22 hospitalsTX$450Florida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $450. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY10$2,155+379%$427 – $2,155
Ohio OH18$887+97%$775 – $1,059
California CA23$857+90%$857 – $857
Washington WA15$853+90%$402 – $1,109
Iowa IA12$751+67%$751 – $751
Oregon OR12$704+56%$704 – $1,370
Georgia GA11$617+37%$617 – $617
Indiana IN13$543+21%$476 – $768
Texas TX22$4500%$450 – $450
Wisconsin WI10$4500%$450 – $450
Michigan MI20$442−2%$298 – $484
New Jersey NJ24$413−8%$375 – $413
Minnesota MN27$376−16%$155 – $440
New York NY17$375−17%$375 – $450
Pennsylvania PA30$293−35%$236 – $4,080
Tennessee TN15$73−84%$73 – $200
Virginia VA12$73−84%$73 – $1,308
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $450.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care291$450$307 – $857
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access70$450$376 – $924
Ownership
For-profit26$540$375 – $1,126
Government49$402$307 – $775
Non-profit290$450$325 – $857
System affiliation
Part of a system321$450$335 – $857
Independent46$448$334 – $1,033

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$827
Median cash price$450
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

233 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $450 and the average of the middle 60% is $564; most fall between $298 and $887.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 233 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
$155$353$450$857$1,297

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($155 vs $1,297).

Of the 244 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 233 gave a usable cash price; 0 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

367 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 397 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted367
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here19
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 — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code397

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 BRCA2 GENE KNOWN FAMIL 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, “BRCA2 gene test for a variant already known in the family (CPT 81217) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81217-brca2-gene-test-for-a-variant-already-known-in-the-family