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Procedure price report · Pathology

Tumor gene panel from a blood sample

CPT 81462the billing code this page is about

Sequencing of tumor genetic material circulating freely in blood or other fluid, testing for gene variants together with copy number changes or gene rearrangements in a solid tumor.

Hospitals typically charge $1,196 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 115 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,412. Most fall between $823 and $2,243 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
115
States
18
Filings dated
Dec 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 115 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
$823$1,194$1,196$1,658$2,243

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 2.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($823 vs $2,243).

How the prices are spread

$216 – $275: 3 hospitals$216$275 – $351: 0 hospitals$351 – $446: 0 hospitals$351$446 – $568: 1 hospitals$568 – $723: 1 hospitals$568$723 – $921: 14 hospitals$921 – $1,172: 0 hospitals$921$1,172 – $1,492: 43 hospitals$1,492 – $1,900: 22 hospitals$1,492$1,900 – $2,418: 21 hospitals$1,900median $1,196price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (105 of 115 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$216$2753
$275$3510
$351$4460
$446$5681
$568$7231
$723$92114
$921$1,1720
$1,172$1,49243
$1,492$1,90022
$1,900$2,41821

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,196.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $1,196 across 12 hospitalsNY$1,196Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIAIndiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: median $2,243 across 13 hospitalsOH$2,243Pennsylvania: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $1,196 across 10 hospitalsNJ$1,196Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,194 across 19 hospitalsCA$1,194Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $823 across 12 hospitalsCO$823Nebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: median $1,658 across 17 hospitalsGA$1,658Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceTXFlorida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,196. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH13$2,243+88%$2,243 – $2,243
Georgia GA17$1,658+39%$1,658 – $1,658
New Jersey NJ10$1,1960%$1,196 – $1,196
New York NY12$1,1960%$1,196 – $1,196
California CA19$1,1940%$1,194 – $1,194
Colorado CO12$823−31%$823 – $823
Pennsylvania PA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $1,196.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care104$1,196$823 – $1,658
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access4fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit11fewer than 20 hospitals
Government13fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit90$1,196$823 – $2,243
System affiliation
Part of a system107$1,196$823 – $1,969
Independent8fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,132
Median cash price$1,196
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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.

How complete is this

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

What the 120 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted115
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here1
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 — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code120

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 5, 2026 and September 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 14, 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 SO GSAP CLL FR DNA/DNA&RNA.

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, “Tumor gene panel from a blood sample (CPT 81462) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81462-tumor-gene-panel-from-a-blood-sample