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Procedure price report · Pathology

Genetic test, higher complexity (level 7)

CPT 81406the billing code this page is about

A gene or DNA analysis billed at molecular pathology level 7, a tier that groups tests of similar analytic complexity; one unit is one such test on one specimen.

Hospitals typically charge $644 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,617 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $714. Most fall between $221 and $1,500 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,617
States
50
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 1,617 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
$125$282$644$1,296$2,273

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($125 vs $2,273).

How the prices are spread

$79 – $113: 69 hospitals$79$113 – $163: 85 hospitals$163 – $235: 105 hospitals$163$235 – $338: 182 hospitals$338 – $486: 156 hospitals$338$486 – $700: 160 hospitals$700 – $1,008: 232 hospitals$700$1,008 – $1,451: 211 hospitals$1,451 – $2,089: 121 hospitals$1,451$2,089 – $3,008: 136 hospitals$2,089median $644price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,457 of 1,617 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$79$11369
$113$16385
$163$235105
$235$338182
$338$486156
$486$700160
$700$1,008232
$1,008$1,451211
$1,451$2,089121
$2,089$3,008136

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $644.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $707 across 11 hospitalsME$707Vermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $498 across 12 hospitalsNH$498Washington: median $620 across 42 hospitalsWA$620Idaho: median $908 across 12 hospitalsID$908Montana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,692 across 25 hospitalsMN$1,692Illinois: median $950 across 88 hospitalsIL$950Wisconsin: median $1,016 across 62 hospitalsWI$1,016Michigan: median $463 across 36 hospitalsMI$463New York: median $493 across 67 hospitalsNY$493Massachusetts: median $806 across 43 hospitalsMA$806Oregon: median $829 across 20 hospitalsOR$829Nevada: median $413 across 11 hospitalsNV$413Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $272 across 21 hospitalsIA$272Indiana: median $389 across 48 hospitalsIN$389Ohio: median $982 across 104 hospitalsOH$982Pennsylvania: median $325 across 74 hospitalsPA$325New Jersey: median $325 across 38 hospitalsNJ$325Connecticut: median $521 across 12 hospitalsCT$521Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $474 across 47 hospitalsCA$474Utah: median $1,326 across 31 hospitalsUT$1,326Colorado: median $891 across 30 hospitalsCO$891Nebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,118 across 50 hospitalsMO$1,118Kentucky: median $575 across 31 hospitalsKY$575West Virginia: median $126 across 25 hospitalsWV$126Virginia: median $865 across 55 hospitalsVA$865Maryland: median $340 across 23 hospitalsMD$340Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $864 across 19 hospitalsAZ$864New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,008 across 23 hospitalsKS$1,008Arkansas: median $726 across 14 hospitalsAR$726Tennessee: median $280 across 31 hospitalsTN$280North Carolina: median $291 across 50 hospitalsNC$291South Carolina: median $1,903 across 36 hospitalsSC$1,903Oklahoma: median $606 across 40 hospitalsOK$606Louisiana: median $362 across 33 hospitalsLA$362Mississippi: median $311 across 32 hospitalsMS$311Alabama: median $550 across 14 hospitalsAL$550Georgia: median $1,156 across 60 hospitalsGA$1,156Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $440 across 129 hospitalsTX$440Florida: median $741 across 52 hospitalsFL$741
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $644. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC36$1,903+196%$493 – $2,861
Minnesota MN25$1,692+163%$667 – $2,558
Utah UT31$1,326+106%$1,068 – $1,560
Georgia GA60$1,156+80%$644 – $2,076
Missouri MO50$1,118+74%$306 – $1,739
Wisconsin WI62$1,016+58%$355 – $1,604
Kansas KS23$1,008+57%$405 – $1,377
Ohio OH104$982+53%$496 – $2,259
Illinois IL88$950+48%$256 – $1,993
Idaho ID12$908+41%$226 – $989
Colorado CO30$891+38%$376 – $1,444
Virginia VA55$865+34%$280 – $1,466
Arizona AZ19$864+34%$325 – $3,497
Oregon OR20$829+29%$226 – $1,032
Massachusetts MA43$806+25%$335 – $1,228
Florida FL52$741+15%$141 – $2,161
Arkansas AR14$726+13%$142 – $1,108
Maine ME11$707+10%$301 – $826
Washington WA42$620−4%$365 – $1,000
Oklahoma OK40$606−6%$318 – $1,214
Kentucky KY31$575−11%$221 – $1,588
Alabama AL14$550−15%$282 – $1,395
Connecticut CT12$521−19%$105 – $993
New Hampshire NH12$498−23%$298 – $2,971
New York NY67$493−23%$250 – $863
California CA47$474−26%$282 – $874
Michigan MI36$463−28%$216 – $1,284
Texas TX129$440−32%$68 – $1,258
Nevada NV11$413−36%$198 – $792
Indiana IN48$389−40%$99 – $624
Louisiana LA33$362−44%$84 – $2,272
Maryland MD23$340−47%$229 – $1,235
New Jersey NJ38$325−49%$311 – $569
Pennsylvania PA74$325−49%$99 – $1,072
Mississippi MS32$311−52%$138 – $1,373
North Carolina NC50$291−55%$156 – $562
Tennessee TN31$280−56%$139 – $488
Iowa IA21$272−58%$272 – $902
West Virginia WV25$126−80%$126 – $865
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not 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 $644.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,293$591$221 – $1,499
Children’s37$416$75 – $1,092
Critical access280$865$275 – $1,549
Ownership
For-profit186$736$226 – $1,972
Government212$496$195 – $1,397
Non-profit1,212$667$230 – $1,465
System affiliation
Part of a system1,385$680$221 – $1,549
Independent232$531$239 – $1,400

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,144
Median cash price$644
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

1,171 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $716 and the average of the middle 60% is $753; most fall between $272 and $1,560.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,171 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
$125$308$716$1,326$2,273

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($125 vs $2,273).

Of the 1,362 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,171 gave a usable cash price; 128 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

1,617 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (41%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,849 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,617
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here163
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 — excluded68
Hospitals that filed this code1,849

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 7.

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, higher complexity (level 7) (CPT 81406) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81406-genetic-test-higher-complexity-level-7