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Procedure price report · Pathology

Genetic test, level 2 complexity

CPT 81401the billing code this page is about

A molecular genetic test at the second complexity tier, such as detecting a specific chromosome translocation or a small set of known DNA changes; the gene or rearrangement tested depends on the order.

Hospitals typically charge $276 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,302 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $290. Most fall between $135 and $549 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,302
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 2,302 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
$94$151$276$476$857

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($94 vs $857).

How the prices are spread

$72 – $96: 124 hospitals$72$96 – $128: 184 hospitals$128 – $172: 267 hospitals$128$172 – $230: 297 hospitals$230 – $308: 280 hospitals$230$308 – $413: 337 hospitals$413 – $553: 240 hospitals$413$553 – $740: 186 hospitals$740 – $991: 82 hospitals$740$991 – $1,326: 75 hospitals$991median $276price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,072 of 2,302 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$72$96124
$96$128184
$128$172267
$172$230297
$230$308280
$308$413337
$413$553240
$553$740186
$740$99182
$991$1,32675

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $276.

Alaska: median $246 across 11 hospitalsAK$246Maine: median $248 across 22 hospitalsME$248Vermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $226 across 19 hospitalsNH$226Washington: median $265 across 51 hospitalsWA$265Idaho: median $334 across 18 hospitalsID$334Montana: median $281 across 13 hospitalsMT$281North Dakota: median $279 across 10 hospitalsND$279Minnesota: median $188 across 41 hospitalsMN$188Illinois: median $346 across 110 hospitalsIL$346Wisconsin: median $396 across 83 hospitalsWI$396Michigan: median $189 across 70 hospitalsMI$189New York: median $267 across 89 hospitalsNY$267Massachusetts: median $239 across 42 hospitalsMA$239Oregon: median $206 across 28 hospitalsOR$206Nevada: median $330 across 17 hospitalsNV$330Wyoming: median $290 across 12 hospitalsWY$290South Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $332 across 45 hospitalsIA$332Indiana: median $268 across 75 hospitalsIN$268Ohio: median $281 across 121 hospitalsOH$281Pennsylvania: median $293 across 96 hospitalsPA$293New Jersey: median $158 across 55 hospitalsNJ$158Connecticut: median $269 across 12 hospitalsCT$269Rhode Island: median $227 across 10 hospitalsRI$227California: median $281 across 83 hospitalsCA$281Utah: median $1,453 across 35 hospitalsUT$1,453Colorado: median $188 across 51 hospitalsCO$188Nebraska: median $264 across 33 hospitalsNE$264Missouri: median $417 across 62 hospitalsMO$417Kentucky: median $123 across 41 hospitalsKY$123West Virginia: median $117 across 31 hospitalsWV$117Virginia: median $175 across 61 hospitalsVA$175Maryland: median $289 across 33 hospitalsMD$289Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $407 across 34 hospitalsAZ$407New Mexico: median $343 across 17 hospitalsNM$343Kansas: median $405 across 38 hospitalsKS$405Arkansas: median $284 across 21 hospitalsAR$284Tennessee: median $174 across 48 hospitalsTN$174North Carolina: median $391 across 76 hospitalsNC$391South Carolina: median $625 across 42 hospitalsSC$625Oklahoma: median $247 across 47 hospitalsOK$247Louisiana: median $251 across 39 hospitalsLA$251Mississippi: median $108 across 43 hospitalsMS$108Alabama: median $330 across 29 hospitalsAL$330Georgia: median $305 across 84 hospitalsGA$305Hawaii: median $453 across 10 hospitalsHI$453Texas: median $251 across 171 hospitalsTX$251Florida: median $158 across 105 hospitalsFL$158
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $276. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT35$1,453+426%$269 – $1,709
South Carolina SC42$625+126%$262 – $774
Hawaii HI10$453+64%$133 – $481
Missouri MO62$417+51%$221 – $850
Arizona AZ34$407+47%$148 – $714
Kansas KS38$405+47%$190 – $714
Wisconsin WI83$396+43%$120 – $411
North Carolina NC76$391+42%$206 – $682
Illinois IL110$346+25%$182 – $783
New Mexico NM17$343+24%$232 – $598
Idaho ID18$334+21%$228 – $659
Iowa IA45$332+20%$154 – $515
Alabama AL29$330+20%$155 – $1,124
Nevada NV17$330+20%$54 – $480
Georgia GA84$305+10%$135 – $630
Pennsylvania PA96$293+6%$158 – $733
Wyoming WY12$290+5%$248 – $423
Maryland MD33$289+5%$115 – $551
Arkansas AR21$284+3%$65 – $396
Montana MT13$281+2%$202 – $311
Ohio OH121$281+2%$168 – $486
California CA83$281+2%$75 – $314
North Dakota ND10$279+1%$98 – $437
Connecticut CT12$269−3%$235 – $411
Indiana IN75$268−3%$168 – $485
New York NY89$267−3%$137 – $628
Washington WA51$265−4%$197 – $490
Nebraska NE33$264−4%$69 – $541
Louisiana LA39$251−9%$106 – $481
Texas TX171$251−9%$128 – $554
Maine ME22$248−10%$151 – $539
Oklahoma OK47$247−11%$90 – $497
Alaska AK11$246−11%$151 – $437
Massachusetts MA42$239−13%$135 – $638
Rhode Island RI10$227−18%$69 – $360
New Hampshire NH19$226−18%$101 – $628
Oregon OR28$206−25%$128 – $339
Michigan MI70$189−32%$82 – $411
Minnesota MN41$188−32%$172 – $441
Colorado CO51$188−32%$82 – $368
Virginia VA61$175−37%$147 – $411
Tennessee TN48$174−37%$122 – $337
New Jersey NJ55$158−43%$150 – $213
Florida FL105$158−43%$80 – $411
Kentucky KY41$123−55%$121 – $411
West Virginia WV31$117−58%$110 – $473
Mississippi MS43$108−61%$83 – $192
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not 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 $276.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,770$263$128 – $541
Children’s46$311$88 – $514
Critical access476$330$177 – $571
Ownership
For-profit298$325$133 – $826
Government351$275$137 – $522
Non-profit1,643$269$135 – $533
System affiliation
Part of a system1,934$277$135 – $562
Independent368$275$140 – $487

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$472
Median cash price$276
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

1,619 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $277 and the average of the middle 60% is $295; most fall between $145 and $550.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,619 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
$98$158$277$481$855

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($98 vs $855).

Of the 1,827 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,619 gave a usable cash price; 131 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 76 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,302 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (58%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,554 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,302
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here159
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded3
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded89
Hospitals that filed this code2,554

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 Cbfb-Myh11 Inversion(16) Mrd Quant.

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, “Genetic test, level 2 complexity (CPT 81401) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81401-genetic-test-level-2-complexity