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FLT3 gene test for kinase domain variants

CPT 81246the billing code this page is about

Laboratory analysis of the FLT3 gene for variants in the tyrosine kinase domain, commonly done on blood or marrow in leukemia. Covers one test on one sample.

Hospitals typically charge $181 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,389 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $194. Most fall between $99 and $345 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,389
States
49
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 1,389 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
$80$113$181$294$493

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($80 vs $493).

How the prices are spread

$61 – $78: 62 hospitals$61$78 – $100: 148 hospitals$100 – $127: 147 hospitals$100$127 – $161: 163 hospitals$161 – $205: 184 hospitals$161$205 – $261: 197 hospitals$261 – $333: 121 hospitals$261$333 – $423: 110 hospitals$423 – $539: 71 hospitals$423$539 – $686: 48 hospitals$539median $181price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,251 of 1,389 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$61$7862
$78$100148
$100$127147
$127$161163
$161$205184
$205$261197
$261$333121
$333$423110
$423$53971
$539$68648

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $181.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $104 across 14 hospitalsME$104Vermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $178 across 35 hospitalsWA$178Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $120 across 48 hospitalsMN$120Illinois: median $220 across 54 hospitalsIL$220Wisconsin: median $249 across 76 hospitalsWI$249Michigan: median $118 across 61 hospitalsMI$118New York: median $225 across 60 hospitalsNY$225Massachusetts: median $258 across 22 hospitalsMA$258Oregon: median $118 across 27 hospitalsOR$118Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $128 across 16 hospitalsIA$128Indiana: median $189 across 43 hospitalsIN$189Ohio: median $294 across 75 hospitalsOH$294Pennsylvania: median $170 across 42 hospitalsPA$170New Jersey: median $91 across 37 hospitalsNJ$91Connecticut: 9 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 $214 across 56 hospitalsCA$214Utah: median $143 across 24 hospitalsUT$143Colorado: median $259 across 25 hospitalsCO$259Nebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $343 across 42 hospitalsMO$343Kentucky: median $213 across 28 hospitalsKY$213West Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $186 across 31 hospitalsVA$186Maryland: median $221 across 22 hospitalsMD$221Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $291 across 26 hospitalsAZ$291New Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $343 across 18 hospitalsKS$343Arkansas: median $320 across 15 hospitalsAR$320Tennessee: median $107 across 42 hospitalsTN$107North Carolina: median $162 across 41 hospitalsNC$162South Carolina: median $233 across 29 hospitalsSC$233Oklahoma: median $418 across 28 hospitalsOK$418Louisiana: median $134 across 20 hospitalsLA$134Mississippi: median $88 across 17 hospitalsMS$88Alabama: median $232 across 17 hospitalsAL$232Georgia: median $267 across 56 hospitalsGA$267Hawaii: median $221 across 11 hospitalsHI$221Texas: median $167 across 104 hospitalsTX$167Florida: median $128 across 66 hospitalsFL$128
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $181. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Oklahoma OK28$418+131%$151 – $463
Kansas KS18$343+90%$122 – $758
Missouri MO42$343+89%$164 – $465
Arkansas AR15$320+77%$54 – $332
Ohio OH75$294+62%$149 – $423
Arizona AZ26$291+61%$158 – $2,106
Georgia GA56$267+48%$161 – $449
Colorado CO25$259+43%$120 – $437
Massachusetts MA22$258+43%$184 – $442
Wisconsin WI76$249+37%$185 – $419
South Carolina SC29$233+29%$155 – $493
Alabama AL17$232+28%$83 – $1,179
New York NY60$225+24%$83 – $361
Maryland MD22$221+22%$141 – $505
Hawaii HI11$221+22%$149 – $418
Illinois IL54$220+22%$162 – $641
California CA56$214+18%$71 – $223
Kentucky KY28$213+18%$104 – $404
Indiana IN43$189+4%$120 – $311
Virginia VA31$186+3%$107 – $303
Washington WA35$178−2%$106 – $235
Pennsylvania PA42$170−6%$95 – $246
Texas TX104$167−8%$102 – $204
North Carolina NC41$162−10%$125 – $268
Utah UT24$143−21%$143 – $169
Louisiana LA20$134−26%$37 – $234
Iowa IA16$128−29%$128 – $199
Florida FL66$128−29%$70 – $233
Minnesota MN48$120−34%$80 – $444
Michigan MI61$118−35%$83 – $246
Oregon OR27$118−35%$113 – $181
Tennessee TN42$107−41%$72 – $150
Maine ME14$104−43%$56 – $277
New Jersey NJ37$91−50%$83 – $181
Mississippi MS17$88−51%$48 – $114
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $181.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,158$180$95 – $336
Children’s20$240$95 – $344
Critical access206$181$120 – $419
Ownership
For-profit125$184$93 – $652
Government154$159$83 – $295
Non-profit1,105$184$105 – $339
System affiliation
Part of a system1,270$184$102 – $352
Independent119$154$87 – $292

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$332
Median cash price$181
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

1,057 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $185 and the average of the middle 60% is $203; most fall between $112 and $361.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,057 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
$81$122$185$304$494

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($81 vs $494).

Of the 1,176 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,057 gave a usable cash price; 78 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 40 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,389 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (35%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,511 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,389
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here83
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 — excluded37
Hospitals that filed this code1,511

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 Flt3 Tk Frag.

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, “FLT3 gene test for kinase domain variants (CPT 81246) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81246-flt3-gene-test-for-kinase-domain-variants