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TERT gene test of selected regions

CPT 81345the billing code this page is about

Laboratory test that reads targeted parts of the TERT gene, such as its promoter region, to look for mutations reported in certain tumors and marrow disorders.

Hospitals typically charge $416 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 517 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $513. Most fall between $203 and $1,474 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
517
States
39
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 517 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
$158$213$416$1,107$1,710

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($158 vs $1,710).

How the prices are spread

$115 – $153: 18 hospitals$115$153 – $203: 60 hospitals$203 – $269: 72 hospitals$203$269 – $358: 71 hospitals$358 – $475: 52 hospitals$358$475 – $631: 44 hospitals$631 – $838: 27 hospitals$631$838 – $1,113: 19 hospitals$1,113 – $1,477: 26 hospitals$1,113$1,477 – $1,962: 78 hospitals$1,477median $416price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (467 of 517 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$115$15318
$153$20360
$203$26972
$269$35871
$358$47552
$475$63144
$631$83827
$838$1,11319
$1,113$1,47726
$1,477$1,96278

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $416.

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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $376 across 16 hospitalsWA$376Idaho: 1 hospital 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 $675 across 19 hospitalsMN$675Illinois: median $428 across 34 hospitalsIL$428Wisconsin: median $610 across 39 hospitalsWI$610Michigan: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $278 across 32 hospitalsNY$278Massachusetts: median $630 across 10 hospitalsMA$630Oregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $260 across 16 hospitalsIN$260Ohio: median $1,204 across 44 hospitalsOH$1,204Pennsylvania: median $213 across 28 hospitalsPA$213New Jersey: median $204 across 32 hospitalsNJ$204Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $426 across 22 hospitalsCA$426Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $105 across 10 hospitalsCO$105Nebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $1,923 across 12 hospitalsKY$1,923West Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $334 across 29 hospitalsVA$334Maryland: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $214 across 17 hospitalsNC$214South Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: median $187 across 10 hospitalsLA$187Mississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $305 across 11 hospitalsGA$305Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,650 across 47 hospitalsTX$1,650Florida: median $148 across 30 hospitalsFL$148
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $416. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY12$1,923+362%$176 – $1,923
Texas TX47$1,650+297%$369 – $1,650
Ohio OH44$1,204+190%$347 – $1,493
Minnesota MN19$675+62%$155 – $792
Massachusetts MA10$630+52%$564 – $903
Wisconsin WI39$610+47%$335 – $1,745
Illinois IL34$428+3%$297 – $1,203
California CA22$426+2%$426 – $426
Washington WA16$376−10%$260 – $541
Virginia VA29$334−20%$161 – $501
Georgia GA11$305−27%$305 – $305
New York NY32$278−33%$185 – $907
Indiana IN16$260−37%$237 – $1,440
North Carolina NC17$214−48%$158 – $214
Pennsylvania PA28$213−49%$44 – $1,684
New Jersey NJ32$204−51%$185 – $1,737
Louisiana LA10$187−55%$102 – $289
Florida FL30$148−64%$147 – $285
Colorado CO10$105−75%$105 – $257
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $416.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care446$347$186 – $1,493
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access52$590$337 – $1,371
Ownership
For-profit38$556$237 – $1,650
Government49$214$157 – $547
Non-profit426$421$204 – $1,484
System affiliation
Part of a system482$421$196 – $1,493
Independent35$320$209 – $992

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$758
Median cash price$416
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

394 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $426 and the average of the middle 60% is $724; most fall between $214 and $1,650.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 394 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
$161$276$426$1,493$1,745

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($161 vs $1,745).

Of the 436 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 394 gave a usable cash price; 26 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

517 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 555 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted517
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here21
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 — excluded16
Hospitals that filed this code555

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 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 TERT GENE TARGETED SEQ ALYS.

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, “TERT gene test of selected regions (CPT 81345) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81345-tert-gene-test-of-selected-regions