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KIT gene test for mutations in tumor or blood

CPT 81272the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that reads selected portions of the KIT gene in a blood or tissue sample to look for mutations linked to certain tumors and blood disorders.

Hospitals typically charge $495 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,339 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $582. Most fall between $285 and $1,112 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,339
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 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 1,339 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
$226$323$495$975$1,715

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($226 vs $1,715).

How the prices are spread

$164 – $218: 57 hospitals$164$218 – $289: 151 hospitals$289 – $384: 199 hospitals$289$384 – $511: 226 hospitals$511 – $679: 105 hospitals$511$679 – $902: 146 hospitals$902 – $1,198: 170 hospitals$902$1,198 – $1,592: 80 hospitals$1,592 – $2,116: 38 hospitals$1,592$2,116 – $2,811: 42 hospitals$2,116median $495price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,214 of 1,339 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$164$21857
$218$289151
$289$384199
$384$511226
$511$679105
$679$902146
$902$1,198170
$1,198$1,59280
$1,592$2,11638
$2,116$2,81142

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $495.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $308 across 10 hospitalsME$308Vermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $480 across 29 hospitalsWA$480Idaho: median $470 across 12 hospitalsID$470Montana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $640 across 38 hospitalsMN$640Illinois: median $739 across 51 hospitalsIL$739Wisconsin: median $878 across 62 hospitalsWI$878Michigan: median $455 across 39 hospitalsMI$455New York: median $578 across 56 hospitalsNY$578Massachusetts: median $790 across 27 hospitalsMA$790Oregon: median $359 across 18 hospitalsOR$359Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $316 across 21 hospitalsIA$316Indiana: median $567 across 43 hospitalsIN$567Ohio: median $1,013 across 77 hospitalsOH$1,013Pennsylvania: median $512 across 64 hospitalsPA$512New Jersey: median $362 across 39 hospitalsNJ$362Connecticut: median $1,028 across 11 hospitalsCT$1,028Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $919 across 46 hospitalsCA$919Utah: median $2,811 across 25 hospitalsUT$2,811Colorado: median $360 across 23 hospitalsCO$360Nebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $655 across 46 hospitalsMO$655Kentucky: median $794 across 28 hospitalsKY$794West Virginia: median $394 across 17 hospitalsWV$394Virginia: median $450 across 42 hospitalsVA$450Maryland: median $526 across 23 hospitalsMD$526Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,245 across 21 hospitalsAZ$2,245New Mexico: median $398 across 11 hospitalsNM$398Kansas: median $805 across 20 hospitalsKS$805Arkansas: median $497 across 14 hospitalsAR$497Tennessee: median $423 across 32 hospitalsTN$423North Carolina: median $255 across 48 hospitalsNC$255South Carolina: median $469 across 31 hospitalsSC$469Oklahoma: median $348 across 31 hospitalsOK$348Louisiana: median $243 across 13 hospitalsLA$243Mississippi: median $254 across 15 hospitalsMS$254Alabama: median $659 across 15 hospitalsAL$659Georgia: median $485 across 41 hospitalsGA$485Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $447 across 110 hospitalsTX$447Florida: median $330 across 44 hospitalsFL$330
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $495. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT25$2,811+468%$2,811 – $3,307
Arizona AZ21$2,245+354%$353 – $4,124
Connecticut CT11$1,028+108%$543 – $1,401
Ohio OH77$1,013+105%$564 – $1,822
California CA46$919+86%$182 – $1,159
Wisconsin WI62$878+78%$345 – $1,425
Kansas KS20$805+63%$224 – $1,183
Kentucky KY28$794+61%$387 – $989
Massachusetts MA27$790+60%$519 – $1,121
Illinois IL51$739+49%$365 – $1,305
Alabama AL15$659+33%$329 – $796
Missouri MO46$655+32%$432 – $764
Minnesota MN38$640+29%$183 – $878
New York NY56$578+17%$330 – $1,112
Indiana IN43$567+15%$475 – $975
Maryland MD23$526+6%$431 – $800
Pennsylvania PA64$512+3%$329 – $3,281
Arkansas AR14$497+1%$247 – $945
Georgia GA41$485−2%$285 – $1,112
Washington WA29$480−3%$286 – $912
Idaho ID12$470−5%$323 – $719
South Carolina SC31$469−5%$380 – $914
Michigan MI39$455−8%$226 – $945
Virginia VA42$450−9%$165 – $1,013
Texas TX110$447−10%$276 – $735
Tennessee TN32$423−14%$236 – $590
New Mexico NM11$398−20%$371 – $756
West Virginia WV17$394−20%$250 – $1,648
New Jersey NJ39$362−27%$330 – $379
Colorado CO23$360−27%$231 – $588
Oregon OR18$359−28%$359 – $719
Oklahoma OK31$348−30%$71 – $743
Florida FL44$330−33%$206 – $853
Iowa IA21$316−36%$316 – $820
Maine ME10$308−38%$270 – $403
North Carolina NC48$255−48%$227 – $307
Mississippi MS15$254−49%$204 – $356
Louisiana LA13$243−51%$155 – $440
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $495.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,122$485$284 – $1,141
Children’s22$500$274 – $945
Critical access187$514$316 – $987
Ownership
For-profit138$531$288 – $1,596
Government155$395$255 – $820
Non-profit1,038$510$302 – $1,103
System affiliation
Part of a system1,205$495$285 – $1,148
Independent134$443$283 – $918

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$988
Median cash price$495
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

1,008 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $511 and the average of the middle 60% is $615; most fall between $282 and $1,159.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,008 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
$226$316$511$1,024$1,822

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($226 vs $1,822).

Of the 1,133 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,008 gave a usable cash price; 89 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 36 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,339 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (34%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,479 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,339
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here94
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 — excluded45
Hospitals that filed this code1,479

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 Kit 81272 (Msngs).

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, “KIT gene test for mutations in tumor or blood (CPT 81272) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81272-kit-gene-test-for-mutations-in-tumor-or-blood