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Procedure price report · Pathology

DNA marker identity comparison, each extra sample

CPT 81266the billing code this page is about

Comparison of repeated DNA sequences between samples to check whether they come from the same person; this code covers one additional specimen beyond the first.

Hospitals typically charge $421 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 404 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $436. Most fall between $267 and $760 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
404
States
41
Filings dated
Dec 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 404 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
$209$292$421$694$1,111

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($209 vs $1,111).

How the prices are spread

$120 – $159: 9 hospitals$120$159 – $210: 17 hospitals$210 – $277: 53 hospitals$210$277 – $367: 96 hospitals$367 – $485: 79 hospitals$367$485 – $641: 20 hospitals$641 – $848: 40 hospitals$641$848 – $1,122: 36 hospitals$1,122 – $1,483: 14 hospitals$1,122$1,483 – $1,961: 6 hospitals$1,483median $421price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (370 of 404 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$120$1599
$159$21017
$210$27753
$277$36796
$367$48579
$485$64120
$641$84840
$848$1,12236
$1,122$1,48314
$1,483$1,9616

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $421.

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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $264 across 10 hospitalsMN$264Illinois: median $489 across 26 hospitalsIL$489Wisconsin: median $2,547 across 18 hospitalsWI$2,547Michigan: median $602 across 12 hospitalsMI$602New York: median $305 across 21 hospitalsNY$305Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 4 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: median $293 across 13 hospitalsIA$293Indiana: median $439 across 18 hospitalsIN$439Ohio: median $468 across 20 hospitalsOH$468Pennsylvania: median $760 across 28 hospitalsPA$760New Jersey: median $335 across 23 hospitalsNJ$335Connecticut: 4 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 $694 across 26 hospitalsCA$694Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: median $458 across 10 hospitalsMO$458Kentucky: 1 hospital 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: median $345 across 11 hospitalsMD$345Delaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 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: median $190 across 12 hospitalsTN$190North Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: median $534 across 10 hospitalsSC$534Oklahoma: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $258 across 29 hospitalsGA$258Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $366 across 39 hospitalsTX$366Florida: median $120 across 13 hospitalsFL$120
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $421. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI18$2,547+505%$270 – $2,547
Pennsylvania PA28$760+81%$351 – $1,080
California CA26$694+65%$694 – $694
Michigan MI12$602+43%$421 – $1,076
South Carolina SC10$534+27%$415 – $1,448
Illinois IL26$489+16%$451 – $704
Ohio OH20$468+11%$347 – $468
Missouri MO10$458+9%$458 – $458
Indiana IN18$439+4%$328 – $583
Texas TX39$366−13%$366 – $479
Maryland MD11$345−18%$84 – $469
New Jersey NJ23$335−20%$305 – $335
New York NY21$305−28%$305 – $832
Iowa IA13$293−30%$293 – $293
Minnesota MN10$264−37%$225 – $264
Georgia GA29$258−39%$258 – $1,111
Tennessee TN12$190−55%$119 – $222
Florida FL13$120−71%$120 – $305
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $421.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care348$419$270 – $760
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access40$366$264 – $692
Ownership
For-profit34$455$258 – $1,026
Government44$305$235 – $687
Non-profit324$426$270 – $730
System affiliation
Part of a system374$421$270 – $704
Independent30$402$235 – $914

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$799
Median cash price$421
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

294 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $458 and the average of the middle 60% is $465; most fall between $264 and $933.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 294 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
$213$272$458$694$1,265

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($213 vs $1,265).

Of the 311 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 294 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

404 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 415 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted404
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here4
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 — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code415

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 STR MARKERS SPEC ANAL ADDL.

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, “DNA marker identity comparison, each extra sample (CPT 81266) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81266-dna-marker-identity-comparison-each-extra-sample