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Triple prenatal blood screen, three markers

CPT 81510the billing code this page is about

Blood test during pregnancy measuring three substances in the mother's blood and reporting a risk estimate for certain fetal conditions.

Hospitals typically charge $127 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 209 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $124. Most fall between $61 and $263 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
209
States
31
Filings dated
Dec 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 209 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
$56$64$127$196$411

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($56 vs $411).

How the prices are spread

$50 – $64: 45 hospitals$50$64 – $82: 12 hospitals$82 – $105: 18 hospitals$82$105 – $134: 40 hospitals$134 – $172: 23 hospitals$134$172 – $219: 18 hospitals$219 – $280: 13 hospitals$219$280 – $358: 3 hospitals$358 – $457: 9 hospitals$358$457 – $585: 14 hospitals$457median $127price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (195 of 209 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$50$6445
$64$8212
$82$10518
$105$13440
$134$17223
$172$21918
$219$28013
$280$3583
$358$4579
$457$58514

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $127.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 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: 2 hospitals 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $585 across 16 hospitalsIL$585Wisconsin: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $56 across 18 hospitalsNY$56Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $111 across 11 hospitalsIA$111Indiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $153 across 26 hospitalsOH$153Pennsylvania: median $80 across 10 hospitalsPA$80New Jersey: median $61 across 24 hospitalsNJ$61Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $127 across 20 hospitalsCA$127Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $155 across 16 hospitalsOK$155Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceTXFlorida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $127. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Illinois IL16$585+362%$400 – $585
Oklahoma OK16$155+22%$96 – $180
Ohio OH26$153+21%$149 – $312
California CA20$1270%$127 – $127
Iowa IA11$111−12%$111 – $111
Pennsylvania PA10$80−37%$50 – $162
New Jersey NJ24$61−52%$56 – $61
New York NY18$56−56%$56 – $67
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not 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 $127.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care187$119$61 – $219
Children’s2fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access18fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit11fewer than 20 hospitals
Government22$56$56 – $267
Non-profit174$122$61 – $224
System affiliation
Part of a system186$127$61 – $227
Independent23$115$64 – $280

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$226
Median cash price$127
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

139 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $127 and the average of the middle 60% is $150; most fall between $93 and $267.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 139 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
$64$100$127$196$400

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($64 vs $400).

Of the 157 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 139 gave a usable cash price; 6 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

209 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 236 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted209
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here7
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 — excluded19
Hospitals that filed this code236

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 FTL CGEN ABNOR THREE ANAL.

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, “Triple prenatal blood screen, three markers (CPT 81510) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81510-triple-prenatal-blood-screen-three-markers