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Procedure price report · Pathology

MECP2 gene test, full gene sequencing

CPT 81302the billing code this page is about

A test that reads the full coding sequence of the MECP2 gene, which is associated with Rett syndrome and related neurologic conditions.

Hospitals typically charge $815 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 521 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $855. Most fall between $528 and $1,343 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
521
States
43
Filings dated
Feb 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 521 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
$375$531$815$1,264$1,779

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($375 vs $1,779).

How the prices are spread

$191 – $246: 6 hospitals$191$246 – $317: 6 hospitals$317 – $407: 19 hospitals$317$407 – $523: 37 hospitals$523 – $673: 124 hospitals$523$673 – $866: 51 hospitals$866 – $1,113: 81 hospitals$866$1,113 – $1,432: 77 hospitals$1,432 – $1,841: 50 hospitals$1,432$1,841 – $2,367: 20 hospitals$1,841median $815price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (471 of 521 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$191$2466
$246$3176
$317$40719
$407$52337
$523$673124
$673$86651
$866$1,11381
$1,113$1,43277
$1,432$1,84150
$1,841$2,36720

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $815.

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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $509 across 15 hospitalsWA$509Idaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $880 across 12 hospitalsMN$880Illinois: median $956 across 26 hospitalsIL$956Wisconsin: median $900 across 20 hospitalsWI$900Michigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $528 across 33 hospitalsNY$528Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $664 across 10 hospitalsOR$664Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $507 across 13 hospitalsIA$507Indiana: median $896 across 17 hospitalsIN$896Ohio: median $593 across 23 hospitalsOH$593Pennsylvania: median $524 across 21 hospitalsPA$524New Jersey: median $581 across 28 hospitalsNJ$581Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,210 across 25 hospitalsCA$1,210Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,046 across 14 hospitalsMO$1,046Kentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,080 across 23 hospitalsVA$1,080Maryland: median $568 across 15 hospitalsMD$568Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,309 across 15 hospitalsTN$1,309North Carolina: median $944 across 14 hospitalsNC$944South Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: median $624 across 14 hospitalsLA$624Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,575 across 23 hospitalsGA$1,575Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,156 across 46 hospitalsTX$1,156Florida: median $555 across 30 hospitalsFL$555
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $815. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA23$1,575+93%$788 – $1,679
Tennessee TN15$1,309+61%$176 – $1,309
California CA25$1,210+48%$1,096 – $1,210
Texas TX46$1,156+42%$781 – $1,779
Virginia VA23$1,080+32%$531 – $3,109
Missouri MO14$1,046+28%$793 – $1,675
Illinois IL26$956+17%$910 – $1,292
North Carolina NC14$944+16%$658 – $998
Wisconsin WI20$900+10%$900 – $1,150
Indiana IN17$896+10%$760 – $1,027
Minnesota MN12$880+8%$750 – $880
Oregon OR10$664−19%$664 – $1,606
Louisiana LA14$624−23%$342 – $901
Ohio OH23$593−27%$593 – $1,366
New Jersey NJ28$581−29%$528 – $581
Maryland MD15$568−30%$511 – $815
Florida FL30$555−32%$375 – $665
New York NY33$528−35%$410 – $836
Pennsylvania PA21$524−36%$123 – $1,082
Washington WA15$509−38%$454 – $800
Iowa IA13$507−38%$507 – $507
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $815.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care421$792$528 – $1,317
Children’s33$600$176 – $1,524
Critical access67$900$638 – $1,368
Ownership
For-profit37$1,096$593 – $2,300
Government55$924$528 – $1,414
Non-profit429$788$524 – $1,309
System affiliation
Part of a system465$800$528 – $1,309
Independent56$862$335 – $1,998

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,683
Median cash price$815
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

374 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $990 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,007; most fall between $593 and $1,575.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 374 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
$375$633$990$1,368$2,024

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($375 vs $2,024).

Of the 426 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 374 gave a usable cash price; 48 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

521 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 570 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted521
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here44
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code570

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 MECP2 GENE FULL SEQ.

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, “MECP2 gene test, full gene sequencing (CPT 81302) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81302-mecp2-gene-test-full-gene-sequencing