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Unlisted molecular genetic laboratory test

CPT 81479the billing code this page is about

A genetic or molecular laboratory test that has no specific billing code of its own; the report names the actual test performed.

Hospitals typically charge $154 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,313 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $188. Most fall between $34 and $520 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,313
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 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 2,313 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
$20$49$154$407$911

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 46× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $911).

How the prices are spread

$13 – $21: 143 hospitals$13$21 – $33: 197 hospitals$33 – $53: 182 hospitals$33$53 – $84: 182 hospitals$84 – $133: 268 hospitals$84$133 – $211: 261 hospitals$211 – $335: 262 hospitals$211$335 – $531: 250 hospitals$531 – $841: 173 hospitals$531$841 – $1,334: 165 hospitals$841median $154price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,083 of 2,313 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$13$21143
$21$33197
$33$53182
$53$84182
$84$133268
$133$211261
$211$335262
$335$531250
$531$841173
$841$1,334165

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $154.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $182 across 22 hospitalsME$182Vermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $177 across 18 hospitalsNH$177Washington: median $157 across 55 hospitalsWA$157Idaho: median $215 across 17 hospitalsID$215Montana: median $429 across 11 hospitalsMT$429North Dakota: median $122 across 12 hospitalsND$122Minnesota: median $122 across 57 hospitalsMN$122Illinois: median $130 across 106 hospitalsIL$130Wisconsin: median $103 across 72 hospitalsWI$103Michigan: median $119 across 62 hospitalsMI$119New York: median $366 across 71 hospitalsNY$366Massachusetts: median $197 across 47 hospitalsMA$197Oregon: median $157 across 31 hospitalsOR$157Nevada: median $349 across 12 hospitalsNV$349Wyoming: median $250 across 11 hospitalsWY$250South Dakota: median $65 across 20 hospitalsSD$65Iowa: median $128 across 61 hospitalsIA$128Indiana: median $183 across 71 hospitalsIN$183Ohio: median $172 across 125 hospitalsOH$172Pennsylvania: median $193 across 92 hospitalsPA$193New Jersey: median $264 across 34 hospitalsNJ$264Connecticut: median $37 across 15 hospitalsCT$37Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $35 across 82 hospitalsCA$35Utah: median $119 across 35 hospitalsUT$119Colorado: median $305 across 46 hospitalsCO$305Nebraska: median $57 across 55 hospitalsNE$57Missouri: median $40 across 63 hospitalsMO$40Kentucky: median $221 across 48 hospitalsKY$221West Virginia: median $25 across 31 hospitalsWV$25Virginia: median $350 across 62 hospitalsVA$350Maryland: median $274 across 35 hospitalsMD$274Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $463 across 31 hospitalsAZ$463New Mexico: median $221 across 19 hospitalsNM$221Kansas: median $251 across 49 hospitalsKS$251Arkansas: median $32 across 29 hospitalsAR$32Tennessee: median $121 across 49 hospitalsTN$121North Carolina: median $188 across 72 hospitalsNC$188South Carolina: median $66 across 43 hospitalsSC$66Oklahoma: median $32 across 48 hospitalsOK$32Louisiana: median $101 across 40 hospitalsLA$101Mississippi: median $45 across 39 hospitalsMS$45Alabama: median $164 across 31 hospitalsAL$164Georgia: median $232 across 82 hospitalsGA$232Hawaii: median $107 across 11 hospitalsHI$107Texas: median $170 across 168 hospitalsTX$170Florida: median $141 across 97 hospitalsFL$141
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $154. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ31$463+200%$114 – $999
Montana MT11$429+178%$256 – $1,245
New York NY71$366+137%$87 – $884
Virginia VA62$350+127%$87 – $948
Nevada NV12$349+126%$107 – $849
Colorado CO46$305+97%$67 – $641
Maryland MD35$274+78%$68 – $385
New Jersey NJ34$264+71%$60 – $428
Kansas KS49$251+63%$99 – $455
Wyoming WY11$250+62%$31 – $870
Georgia GA82$232+51%$67 – $884
Kentucky KY48$221+43%$63 – $423
New Mexico NM19$221+43%$34 – $542
Idaho ID17$215+39%$37 – $309
Massachusetts MA47$197+28%$108 – $490
Pennsylvania PA92$193+25%$42 – $589
North Carolina NC72$188+22%$59 – $445
Indiana IN71$183+19%$57 – $362
Maine ME22$182+18%$28 – $626
New Hampshire NH18$177+15%$20 – $996
Ohio OH125$172+11%$38 – $499
Texas TX168$170+10%$49 – $736
Alabama AL31$164+6%$55 – $1,129
Washington WA55$157+2%$59 – $415
Oregon OR31$157+2%$24 – $259
Florida FL97$141−9%$20 – $729
Illinois IL106$130−16%$25 – $434
Iowa IA61$128−17%$44 – $652
Minnesota MN57$122−21%$82 – $527
North Dakota ND12$122−21%$28 – $503
Tennessee TN49$121−22%$20 – $610
Utah UT35$119−23%$101 – $307
Michigan MI62$119−23%$35 – $248
Hawaii HI11$107−31%$107 – $692
Wisconsin WI72$103−33%$25 – $349
Louisiana LA40$101−35%$33 – $318
South Carolina SC43$66−57%$26 – $301
South Dakota SD20$65−58%$17 – $154
Nebraska NE55$57−63%$15 – $257
Mississippi MS39$45−71%$16 – $151
Missouri MO63$40−74%$9 – $297
Connecticut CT15$37−76%$26 – $979
California CA82$35−78%$20 – $185
Arkansas AR29$32−79%$21 – $149
Oklahoma OK48$32−79%$10 – $264
West Virginia WV31$25−84%$15 – $844
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not 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 $154.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,748$155$33 – $522
Children’s44$69$23 – $348
Critical access512$157$39 – $541
Ownership
For-profit295$232$49 – $998
Government353$170$45 – $556
Non-profit1,656$136$30 – $455
System affiliation
Part of a system1,924$140$32 – $512
Independent389$204$55 – $562

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$232
Median cash price$154
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

1,655 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $136 and the average of the middle 60% is $174; most fall between $33 and $512.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,655 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
$20$42$136$386$884

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 43× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $884).

Of the 1,929 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,655 gave a usable cash price; 184 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 89 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,313 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (58%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,699 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,313
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here241
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded142
Hospitals that filed this code2,699

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 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 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 HC Il28p Polymorph Single.

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, “Unlisted molecular genetic laboratory test (CPT 81479) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81479-unlisted-molecular-genetic-laboratory-test