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Connexin 30 gene test for common variants

CPT 81254the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that looks for the common deletion variants in the GJB6 gene, usually as part of an evaluation for inherited hearing loss.

Hospitals typically charge $106 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 283 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $159. Most fall between $41 and $422 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
283
States
38
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 283 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
$35$48$106$360$862

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($35 vs $862).

How the prices are spread

$35 – $49: 59 hospitals$35$49 – $69: 19 hospitals$69 – $98: 26 hospitals$69$98 – $138: 37 hospitals$138 – $194: 26 hospitals$138$194 – $274: 12 hospitals$274 – $385: 33 hospitals$274$385 – $543: 10 hospitals$543 – $765: 14 hospitals$543$765 – $1,077: 21 hospitals$765median $106price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (257 of 283 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$35$4959
$49$6919
$69$9826
$98$13837
$138$19426
$194$27412
$274$38533
$385$54310
$543$76514
$765$1,07721

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $106.

Alaska: 3 hospitals 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 $41 across 13 hospitalsWA$41Idaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $85 across 14 hospitalsIL$85Wisconsin: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $35 across 17 hospitalsNY$35Massachusetts: median $155 across 10 hospitalsMA$155Oregon: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $51 across 12 hospitalsIN$51Ohio: median $528 across 33 hospitalsOH$528Pennsylvania: median $734 across 15 hospitalsPA$734New Jersey: median $39 across 22 hospitalsNJ$39Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $106 across 22 hospitalsCA$106Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $360 across 25 hospitalsTX$360Florida: median $299 across 14 hospitalsFL$299
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $106. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA15$734+590%$83 – $867
Ohio OH33$528+396%$250 – $862
Texas TX25$360+239%$343 – $1,753
Florida FL14$299+181%$179 – $299
Massachusetts MA10$155+46%$48 – $385
California CA22$1060%$106 – $106
Illinois IL14$85−20%$59 – $284
Indiana IN12$51−52%$45 – $69
Washington WA13$41−61%$32 – $103
New Jersey NJ22$39−64%$35 – $39
New York NY17$35−67%$35 – $109
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $106.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care235$106$40 – $360
Children’s25$315$54 – $580
Critical access21$248$69 – $569
Ownership
For-profit21$343$53 – $1,469
Government36$152$35 – $299
Non-profit224$106$41 – $387
System affiliation
Part of a system244$106$41 – $422
Independent39$117$40 – $431

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$255
Median cash price$106
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

168 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $214 and the average of the middle 60% is $253; most fall between $101 and $643.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 168 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
$52$106$214$503$862

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($52 vs $862).

Of the 195 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 168 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

283 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 318 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted283
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here25
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 — excluded9
Hospitals that filed this code318

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 GJB6 GENE COM VARIANTS.

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, “Connexin 30 gene test for common variants (CPT 81254) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81254-connexin-30-gene-test-for-common-variants