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Procedure price report · Pathology

Genetic test, level 3 complexity

CPT 81402the billing code this page is about

A molecular genetic test at the third complexity tier, covering analyses such as small mutation panels or marker sets; the specific target depends on the order.

Hospitals typically charge $347 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,422 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $369. Most fall between $182 and $665 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,422
States
50
Filings dated
Jun 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 1,422 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
$135$213$347$560$1,171

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($135 vs $1,171).

How the prices are spread

$92 – $124: 52 hospitals$92$124 – $167: 116 hospitals$167 – $225: 147 hospitals$167$225 – $304: 208 hospitals$304 – $410: 217 hospitals$304$410 – $553: 240 hospitals$553 – $745: 147 hospitals$553$745 – $1,005: 49 hospitals$1,005 – $1,356: 61 hospitals$1,005$1,356 – $1,828: 43 hospitals$1,356median $347price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,280 of 1,422 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$92$12452
$124$167116
$167$225147
$225$304208
$304$410217
$410$553240
$553$745147
$745$1,00549
$1,005$1,35661
$1,356$1,82843

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $347.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $284 across 41 hospitalsWA$284Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 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 $313 across 35 hospitalsMN$313Illinois: median $486 across 56 hospitalsIL$486Wisconsin: median $555 across 59 hospitalsWI$555Michigan: median $299 across 37 hospitalsMI$299New York: median $275 across 71 hospitalsNY$275Massachusetts: median $305 across 32 hospitalsMA$305Oregon: median $416 across 14 hospitalsOR$416Nevada: median $161 across 10 hospitalsNV$161Wyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $277 across 24 hospitalsIA$277Indiana: median $288 across 60 hospitalsIN$288Ohio: median $481 across 73 hospitalsOH$481Pennsylvania: median $401 across 85 hospitalsPA$401New Jersey: median $165 across 43 hospitalsNJ$165Connecticut: median $396 across 12 hospitalsCT$396Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $347 across 54 hospitalsCA$347Utah: median $3,971 across 25 hospitalsUT$3,971Colorado: median $227 across 19 hospitalsCO$227Nebraska: median $539 across 13 hospitalsNE$539Missouri: median $385 across 39 hospitalsMO$385Kentucky: median $428 across 20 hospitalsKY$428West Virginia: median $542 across 13 hospitalsWV$542Virginia: median $410 across 40 hospitalsVA$410Maryland: median $360 across 21 hospitalsMD$360Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $418 across 26 hospitalsAZ$418New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $405 across 14 hospitalsKS$405Arkansas: median $100 across 10 hospitalsAR$100Tennessee: median $191 across 27 hospitalsTN$191North Carolina: median $357 across 42 hospitalsNC$357South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $218 across 34 hospitalsOK$218Louisiana: median $329 across 15 hospitalsLA$329Mississippi: median $169 across 21 hospitalsMS$169Alabama: median $297 across 20 hospitalsAL$297Georgia: median $301 across 62 hospitalsGA$301Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $318 across 120 hospitalsTX$318Florida: median $300 across 58 hospitalsFL$300
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $347. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT25$3,971+1044%$3,971 – $4,671
Wisconsin WI59$555+60%$413 – $725
West Virginia WV13$542+56%$238 – $758
Nebraska NE13$539+55%$332 – $812
Illinois IL56$486+40%$344 – $719
Ohio OH73$481+39%$251 – $946
Kentucky KY20$428+23%$232 – $456
Arizona AZ26$418+20%$223 – $1,171
Oregon OR14$416+20%$307 – $518
Virginia VA40$410+18%$169 – $444
Kansas KS14$405+17%$133 – $1,431
Pennsylvania PA85$401+16%$173 – $1,228
Connecticut CT12$396+14%$258 – $449
Missouri MO39$385+11%$255 – $1,509
Maryland MD21$360+4%$208 – $493
North Carolina NC42$357+3%$335 – $980
California CA54$3470%$192 – $347
Louisiana LA15$329−5%$92 – $775
Texas TX120$318−8%$213 – $713
Minnesota MN35$313−10%$267 – $665
Massachusetts MA32$305−12%$135 – $559
Georgia GA62$301−13%$251 – $624
Florida FL58$300−14%$105 – $720
Michigan MI37$299−14%$207 – $438
Alabama AL20$297−14%$121 – $1,737
Indiana IN60$288−17%$197 – $445
Washington WA41$284−18%$138 – $467
Iowa IA24$277−20%$154 – $603
New York NY71$275−21%$150 – $520
Colorado CO19$227−35%$195 – $1,793
Oklahoma OK34$218−37%$167 – $485
Tennessee TN27$191−45%$132 – $208
Mississippi MS21$169−51%$92 – $237
New Jersey NJ43$165−52%$150 – $356
Nevada NV10$161−54%$48 – $451
Arkansas AR10$100−71%$28 – $325
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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 $347.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,166$340$173 – $617
Children’s30$416$121 – $696
Critical access219$434$251 – $725
Ownership
For-profit175$375$198 – $1,130
Government182$341$180 – $593
Non-profit1,058$353$181 – $634
System affiliation
Part of a system1,233$347$182 – $675
Independent189$362$185 – $605

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$667
Median cash price$347
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

1,028 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $357 and the average of the middle 60% is $386; most fall between $198 and $679.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,028 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
$142$231$357$590$1,204

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($142 vs $1,204).

Of the 1,165 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,028 gave a usable cash price; 74 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 63 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,422 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (36%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,585 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,422
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) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded67
Hospitals that filed this code1,585

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 MOPATH PROCEDURE LEVEL 3.

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 3 complexity (CPT 81402) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81402-genetic-test-level-3-complexity