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PLCG2 gene test for common variants

CPT 81320the billing code this page is about

Laboratory test on blood or bone marrow that checks the PLCG2 gene for a small set of frequently seen changes.

Hospitals typically charge $479 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 199 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $515. Most fall between $291 and $916 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
199
States
32
Filings dated
Oct 2025 – 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 199 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
$156$291$479$851$1,307

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($156 vs $1,307).

How the prices are spread

$59 – $83: 3 hospitals$59$83 – $118: 3 hospitals$118 – $166: 7 hospitals$118$166 – $235: 5 hospitals$235 – $331: 41 hospitals$235$331 – $468: 27 hospitals$468 – $660: 18 hospitals$468$660 – $931: 47 hospitals$931 – $1,315: 21 hospitals$931$1,315 – $1,856: 9 hospitals$1,315median $479price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (181 of 199 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$59$833
$83$1183
$118$1667
$166$2355
$235$33141
$331$46827
$468$66018
$660$93147
$931$1,31521
$1,315$1,8569

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $479.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 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 $673 across 10 hospitalsIL$673Wisconsin: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $291 across 18 hospitalsNY$291Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIAIndiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: median $972 across 24 hospitalsOH$972Pennsylvania: median $52 across 13 hospitalsPA$52New Jersey: median $321 across 30 hospitalsNJ$321Connecticut: 4 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 $666 across 20 hospitalsCA$666Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 1 hospital 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: median $204 across 11 hospitalsFL$204
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $479. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH24$972+103%$686 – $1,135
Illinois IL10$673+40%$673 – $673
California CA20$666+39%$666 – $666
New Jersey NJ30$321−33%$291 – $2,092
New York NY18$291−39%$291 – $752
Florida FL11$204−57%$156 – $291
Pennsylvania PA13$52−89%$44 – $501
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $479.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care181$479$291 – $905
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access9fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit9fewer than 20 hospitals
Government20$291$291 – $468
Non-profit170$567$291 – $972
System affiliation
Part of a system185$479$291 – $972
Independent14fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,190
Median cash price$479
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

109 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $666 and the average of the middle 60% is $671; most fall between $350 and $972.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 109 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
$61$435$666$972$1,307

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($61 vs $1,307).

Of the 119 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 109 gave a usable cash price; 6 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

199 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 208 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted199
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here5
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 — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code208

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 PLCG2 GENE 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, “PLCG2 gene test for common variants (CPT 81320) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81320-plcg2-gene-test-for-common-variants