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Familial dysautonomia gene test for common variants

CPT 81260the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that checks the IKBKAP (ELP1) gene for the common variants that cause familial dysautonomia.

Hospitals typically charge $143 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 657 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $157. Most fall between $54 and $366 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
657
States
43
Filings dated
Sep 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 657 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
$39$63$143$293$733

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($39 vs $733).

How the prices are spread

$35 – $49: 85 hospitals$35$49 – $70: 67 hospitals$70 – $99: 67 hospitals$70$99 – $141: 71 hospitals$141 – $199: 115 hospitals$141$199 – $283: 55 hospitals$283 – $402: 40 hospitals$283$402 – $570: 37 hospitals$570 – $810: 32 hospitals$570$810 – $1,149: 27 hospitals$810median $143price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (596 of 657 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$35$4985
$49$7067
$70$9967
$99$14171
$141$199115
$199$28355
$283$40240
$402$57037
$570$81032
$810$1,14927

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $143.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $72 across 22 hospitalsWA$72Idaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $173 across 10 hospitalsMN$173Illinois: median $140 across 38 hospitalsIL$140Wisconsin: median $143 across 23 hospitalsWI$143Michigan: median $46 across 14 hospitalsMI$46New York: median $47 across 30 hospitalsNY$47Massachusetts: median $170 across 23 hospitalsMA$170Oregon: median $132 across 10 hospitalsOR$132Nevada: 5 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 $128 across 11 hospitalsIA$128Indiana: median $70 across 28 hospitalsIN$70Ohio: median $228 across 55 hospitalsOH$228Pennsylvania: median $154 across 40 hospitalsPA$154New Jersey: median $43 across 40 hospitalsNJ$43Connecticut: 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 $86 across 48 hospitalsCA$86Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $298 across 14 hospitalsKY$298West Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $235 across 13 hospitalsVA$235Maryland: median $703 across 11 hospitalsMD$703Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: median $176 across 10 hospitalsTN$176North Carolina: median $296 across 35 hospitalsNC$296South Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $293 across 12 hospitalsOK$293Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $175 across 45 hospitalsTX$175Florida: median $105 across 29 hospitalsFL$105
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $143. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD11$703+393%$182 – $956
Kentucky KY14$298+109%$123 – $1,664
North Carolina NC35$296+108%$105 – $649
Oklahoma OK12$293+105%$84 – $427
Virginia VA13$235+65%$180 – $485
Ohio OH55$228+60%$176 – $733
Tennessee TN10$176+24%$126 – $180
Texas TX45$175+23%$39 – $476
Minnesota MN10$173+22%$75 – $218
Massachusetts MA23$170+19%$77 – $658
Pennsylvania PA40$154+8%$31 – $601
Wisconsin WI23$1430%$84 – $222
Illinois IL38$140−2%$91 – $1,648
Oregon OR10$132−7%$60 – $136
Iowa IA11$128−10%$128 – $128
Florida FL29$105−26%$80 – $255
California CA48$86−40%$69 – $194
Washington WA22$72−50%$55 – $109
Indiana IN28$70−51%$49 – $88
New York NY30$47−67%$39 – $246
Michigan MI14$46−67%$38 – $54
New Jersey NJ40$43−70%$39 – $750
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $143.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care573$143$50 – $366
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access64$133$76 – $255
Ownership
For-profit46$118$45 – $476
Government67$105$42 – $296
Non-profit538$156$57 – $366
System affiliation
Part of a system600$156$55 – $366
Independent57$105$45 – $278

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$271
Median cash price$143
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

473 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $175 and the average of the middle 60% is $187; most fall between $75 and $409.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 473 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
$47$94$175$302$733

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($47 vs $733).

Of the 512 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 473 gave a usable cash price; 22 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 17 a list price only.

How complete is this

657 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (17%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 711 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted657
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here33
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded21
Hospitals that filed this code711

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 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 GENE ANALYSIS (INHIBITOR OF KAPPA LIGHT POLYPEPTIDE GENE ENHANCER IN B-CELLS; KINASE COMPLEX-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN) COMMON 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, “Familial dysautonomia gene test for common variants (CPT 81260) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81260-familial-dysautonomia-gene-test-for-common-variants