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Procedure price report · Pathology

Genetic test, moderate complexity (level 6)

CPT 81405the billing code this page is about

A gene or DNA analysis billed at molecular pathology level 6, a tier that groups tests of similar analytic complexity; one unit is one such test on one specimen.

Hospitals typically charge $519 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,653 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $577. Most fall between $212 and $1,205 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,653
States
49
Filings dated
Jan 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 1,653 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
$122$255$519$1,004$1,831

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($122 vs $1,831).

How the prices are spread

$78 – $112: 66 hospitals$78$112 – $161: 85 hospitals$161 – $231: 121 hospitals$161$231 – $332: 197 hospitals$332 – $477: 249 hospitals$332$477 – $686: 208 hospitals$686 – $986: 211 hospitals$686$986 – $1,416: 194 hospitals$1,416 – $2,034: 107 hospitals$1,416$2,034 – $2,923: 51 hospitals$2,034median $519price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,489 of 1,653 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$78$11266
$112$16185
$161$231121
$231$332197
$332$477249
$477$686208
$686$986211
$986$1,416194
$1,416$2,034107
$2,034$2,92351

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $519.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $374 across 18 hospitalsME$374Vermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $476 across 10 hospitalsNH$476Washington: median $686 across 36 hospitalsWA$686Idaho: median $827 across 16 hospitalsID$827Montana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $916 across 10 hospitalsND$916Minnesota: median $741 across 25 hospitalsMN$741Illinois: median $645 across 84 hospitalsIL$645Wisconsin: median $851 across 69 hospitalsWI$851Michigan: median $556 across 50 hospitalsMI$556New York: median $529 across 75 hospitalsNY$529Massachusetts: median $506 across 37 hospitalsMA$506Oregon: median $242 across 20 hospitalsOR$242Nevada: median $349 across 12 hospitalsNV$349Wyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $289 across 22 hospitalsIA$289Indiana: median $382 across 57 hospitalsIN$382Ohio: median $1,135 across 114 hospitalsOH$1,135Pennsylvania: median $468 across 72 hospitalsPA$468New Jersey: median $347 across 41 hospitalsNJ$347Connecticut: median $442 across 12 hospitalsCT$442Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $474 across 50 hospitalsCA$474Utah: median $3,574 across 32 hospitalsUT$3,574Colorado: median $376 across 31 hospitalsCO$376Nebraska: median $325 across 14 hospitalsNE$325Missouri: median $506 across 49 hospitalsMO$506Kentucky: median $258 across 35 hospitalsKY$258West Virginia: median $126 across 22 hospitalsWV$126Virginia: median $645 across 47 hospitalsVA$645Maryland: median $390 across 27 hospitalsMD$390Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $926 across 15 hospitalsAZ$926New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,103 across 25 hospitalsKS$1,103Arkansas: median $269 across 19 hospitalsAR$269Tennessee: median $255 across 32 hospitalsTN$255North Carolina: median $210 across 44 hospitalsNC$210South Carolina: median $861 across 33 hospitalsSC$861Oklahoma: median $722 across 41 hospitalsOK$722Louisiana: median $253 across 33 hospitalsLA$253Mississippi: median $376 across 24 hospitalsMS$376Alabama: median $486 across 12 hospitalsAL$486Georgia: median $431 across 57 hospitalsGA$431Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $314 across 124 hospitalsTX$314Florida: median $268 across 61 hospitalsFL$268
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $519. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT32$3,574+589%$640 – $4,204
Ohio OH114$1,135+119%$380 – $1,406
Kansas KS25$1,103+112%$394 – $1,746
Arizona AZ15$926+78%$323 – $2,342
North Dakota ND10$916+76%$532 – $1,114
South Carolina SC33$861+66%$569 – $1,847
Wisconsin WI69$851+64%$183 – $1,379
Idaho ID16$827+59%$665 – $833
Minnesota MN25$741+43%$230 – $991
Oklahoma OK41$722+39%$336 – $904
Washington WA36$686+32%$394 – $889
Illinois IL84$645+24%$250 – $1,738
Virginia VA47$645+24%$396 – $1,546
Michigan MI50$556+7%$301 – $884
New York NY75$529+2%$301 – $1,305
Massachusetts MA37$506−2%$230 – $1,254
Missouri MO49$506−3%$276 – $1,189
Alabama AL12$486−6%$288 – $862
New Hampshire NH10$476−8%$359 – $1,477
California CA50$474−9%$125 – $627
Pennsylvania PA72$468−10%$235 – $1,122
Connecticut CT12$442−15%$161 – $596
Georgia GA57$431−17%$360 – $1,112
Maryland MD27$390−25%$281 – $1,142
Indiana IN57$382−26%$116 – $878
Mississippi MS24$376−28%$121 – $836
Colorado CO31$376−28%$98 – $770
Maine ME18$374−28%$202 – $880
Nevada NV12$349−33%$274 – $844
New Jersey NJ41$347−33%$331 – $547
Nebraska NE14$325−37%$245 – $723
Texas TX124$314−39%$68 – $1,334
Iowa IA22$289−44%$289 – $840
Arkansas AR19$269−48%$54 – $748
Florida FL61$268−48%$91 – $807
Kentucky KY35$258−50%$193 – $1,323
Tennessee TN32$255−51%$110 – $637
Louisiana LA33$253−51%$90 – $659
Oregon OR20$242−53%$199 – $846
North Carolina NC44$210−60%$156 – $599
West Virginia WV22$126−76%$126 – $660
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not 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 $519.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,311$458$207 – $1,155
Children’s38$313$68 – $685
Critical access298$784$307 – $1,405
Ownership
For-profit190$576$229 – $1,427
Government213$400$178 – $1,049
Non-profit1,244$530$215 – $1,243
System affiliation
Part of a system1,410$530$211 – $1,265
Independent243$427$212 – $1,000

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$981
Median cash price$519
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

1,193 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $565 and the average of the middle 60% is $616; most fall between $243 and $1,305.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,193 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
$117$284$565$1,103$1,823

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($117 vs $1,823).

Of the 1,392 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,193 gave a usable cash price; 137 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 62 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,653 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (42%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,887 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,653
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here174
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 — excluded59
Hospitals that filed this code1,887

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 6.

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, moderate complexity (level 6) (CPT 81405) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81405-genetic-test-moderate-complexity-level-6