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Gene panel for inherited heart muscle and rhythm disease

CPT 81439the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that reads the DNA sequence of a panel of genes linked to inherited heart conditions such as cardiomyopathy and rhythm disorders; billed once for the panel.

Hospitals typically charge $1,474 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 482 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,443. Most fall between $585 and $2,786 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
482
States
45
Filings dated
Apr 2025 – 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 482 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
$512$643$1,474$2,485$4,425

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($512 vs $4,425).

How the prices are spread

$368 – $482: 10 hospitals$368$482 – $633: 77 hospitals$633 – $830: 49 hospitals$633$830 – $1,089: 25 hospitals$1,089 – $1,428: 52 hospitals$1,089$1,428 – $1,874: 79 hospitals$1,874 – $2,458: 39 hospitals$1,874$2,458 – $3,224: 56 hospitals$3,224 – $4,229: 13 hospitals$3,224$4,229 – $5,548: 36 hospitals$4,229median $1,474price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (436 of 482 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$368$48210
$482$63377
$633$83049
$830$1,08925
$1,089$1,42852
$1,428$1,87479
$1,874$2,45839
$2,458$3,22456
$3,224$4,22913
$4,229$5,54836

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,474.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,691 across 24 hospitalsMN$1,691Illinois: median $1,229 across 22 hospitalsIL$1,229Wisconsin: median $1,710 across 14 hospitalsWI$1,710Michigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $585 across 20 hospitalsNY$585Massachusetts: median $1,817 across 13 hospitalsMA$1,817Oregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $562 across 11 hospitalsIA$562Indiana: median $1,272 across 23 hospitalsIN$1,272Ohio: median $2,461 across 42 hospitalsOH$2,461Pennsylvania: median $1,260 across 21 hospitalsPA$1,260New Jersey: median $643 across 31 hospitalsNJ$643Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,702 across 25 hospitalsCA$1,702Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,222 across 17 hospitalsCO$1,222Nebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $3,065 across 11 hospitalsKY$3,065West Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $512 across 12 hospitalsVA$512Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: median $3,214 across 10 hospitalsKS$3,214Arkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $512 across 15 hospitalsTN$512North Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $674 across 60 hospitalsTX$674Florida: median $2,000 across 17 hospitalsFL$2,000
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,474. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kansas KS10$3,214+118%$1,032 – $5,496
Kentucky KY11$3,065+108%$1,778 – $3,065
Ohio OH42$2,461+67%$1,548 – $5,548
Florida FL17$2,000+36%$665 – $2,000
Massachusetts MA13$1,817+23%$600 – $2,371
Wisconsin WI14$1,710+16%$1,710 – $2,527
California CA25$1,702+15%$1,200 – $1,702
Minnesota MN24$1,691+15%$1,672 – $2,616
Indiana IN23$1,272−14%$1,005 – $3,339
Pennsylvania PA21$1,260−15%$75 – $9,382
Illinois IL22$1,229−17%$1,204 – $2,636
Colorado CO17$1,222−17%$509 – $1,414
Texas TX60$674−54%$170 – $4,425
New Jersey NJ31$643−56%$585 – $683
New York NY20$585−60%$585 – $2,347
Iowa IA11$562−62%$562 – $562
Tennessee TN15$512−65%$368 – $512
Virginia VA12$512−65%$502 – $878
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $1,474.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care395$1,414$585 – $2,753
Children’s24$968$532 – $2,417
Critical access59$1,710$1,229 – $3,214
Ownership
For-profit25$1,235$170 – $3,481
Government61$1,257$585 – $2,778
Non-profit392$1,516$585 – $2,655
System affiliation
Part of a system424$1,425$585 – $2,764
Independent58$1,686$750 – $2,881

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,850
Median cash price$1,474
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

348 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,702 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,748; most fall between $575 and $4,301.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 348 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
$512$702$1,702$2,872$5,496

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($512 vs $5,496).

Of the 400 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 348 gave a usable cash price; 37 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 15 a list price only.

How complete is this

482 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 544 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted482
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here44
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 — excluded16
Hospitals that filed this code544

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 23, 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 HRDTRY CARDMYPY GENE PANEL.

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, “Gene panel for inherited heart muscle and rhythm disease (CPT 81439) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81439-gene-panel-for-inherited-heart-muscle-and-rhythm-disease