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EZH2 gene test, full gene sequencing

CPT 81236the billing code this page is about

Laboratory sequencing of the entire coding region of the EZH2 gene, used in evaluating certain blood and lymph cancers. Covers one test on one sample.

Hospitals typically charge $322 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 211 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $403. Most fall between $224 and $806 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
211
States
32
Filings dated
Nov 2025 – 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 211 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
$119$266$322$644$1,532

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($119 vs $1,532).

How the prices are spread

$99 – $135: 20 hospitals$99$135 – $185: 5 hospitals$185 – $252: 12 hospitals$185$252 – $345: 64 hospitals$345 – $470: 26 hospitals$345$470 – $643: 4 hospitals$643 – $877: 35 hospitals$643$877 – $1,198: 6 hospitals$1,198 – $1,636: 12 hospitals$1,198$1,636 – $2,234: 8 hospitals$1,636median $322price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (192 of 211 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$99$13520
$135$1855
$185$25212
$252$34564
$345$47026
$470$6434
$643$87735
$877$1,1986
$1,198$1,63612
$1,636$2,2348

By state

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

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $266 across 12 hospitalsWA$266Idaho: 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $686 across 12 hospitalsIL$686Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $283 across 14 hospitalsNY$283Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital 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 $272 across 11 hospitalsIA$272Indiana: median $99 across 12 hospitalsIN$99Ohio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $1,466 across 21 hospitalsPA$1,466New Jersey: median $311 across 25 hospitalsNJ$311Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $644 across 19 hospitalsCA$644Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $119 across 10 hospitalsVA$119Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $205 across 12 hospitalsOK$205Louisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: median $466 across 10 hospitalsGA$466Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
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
Pennsylvania PA21$1,466+356%$234 – $2,817
Illinois IL12$686+113%$567 – $686
California CA19$644+100%$644 – $644
Georgia GA10$466+45%$466 – $466
New Jersey NJ25$311−3%$283 – $311
New York NY14$283−12%$283 – $339
Iowa IA11$272−16%$272 – $272
Washington WA12$266−17%$266 – $447
Oklahoma OK12$205−36%$161 – $304
Virginia VA10$119−63%$119 – $2,234
Indiana IN12$99−69%$87 – $133
Minnesota MN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 care184$322$253 – $686
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access17fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit11fewer than 20 hospitals
Government21$325$283 – $454
Non-profit179$311$205 – $826
System affiliation
Part of a system196$311$224 – $686
Independent15fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$849
Median cash price$322
Cash as a share of list, median hospital55%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 45%. 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

134 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $466 and the average of the middle 60% is $519; most fall between $272 and $1,236.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 134 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
$161$272$466$860$2,234

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($161 vs $2,234).

Of the 163 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 134 gave a usable cash price; 24 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

211 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 244 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted211
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here27
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code244

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 23, 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 EZH2 GENE FULL GENE SEQUENCE.

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, “EZH2 gene test, full gene sequencing (CPT 81236) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81236-ezh2-gene-test-full-gene-sequencing