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Prenatal blood screen, five markers

CPT 81512the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $139 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 211 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $135. Most fall between $70 and $287 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
211
States
27
Filings dated
Jan 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 211 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
$54$76$139$216$415

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($54 vs $415).

How the prices are spread

$51 – $68: 17 hospitals$51$68 – $92: 48 hospitals$92 – $123: 27 hospitals$92$123 – $164: 41 hospitals$164 – $220: 17 hospitals$164$220 – $295: 14 hospitals$295 – $395: 13 hospitals$295$395 – $530: 6 hospitals$530 – $710: 4 hospitals$530$710 – $951: 4 hospitals$710median $139price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (191 of 211 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$51$6817
$68$9248
$92$12327
$123$16441
$164$22017
$220$29514
$295$39513
$395$5306
$530$7104
$710$9514

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $139.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 3 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $361 across 17 hospitalsIL$361Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $70 across 19 hospitalsNY$70Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $139 across 11 hospitalsIA$139Indiana: median $60 across 14 hospitalsIN$60Ohio: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $203 across 12 hospitalsPA$203New Jersey: median $76 across 25 hospitalsNJ$76Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $159 across 19 hospitalsCA$159Utah: 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: median $155 across 10 hospitalsMO$155Kentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $193 across 13 hospitalsOK$193Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 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: median $51 across 19 hospitalsFL$51
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $139. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Illinois IL17$361+159%$83 – $961
Pennsylvania PA12$203+46%$74 – $374
Oklahoma OK13$193+39%$149 – $209
California CA19$159+14%$159 – $159
Missouri MO10$155+11%$155 – $573
Iowa IA11$1390%$139 – $139
New Jersey NJ25$76−45%$70 – $76
New York NY19$70−50%$70 – $122
Indiana IN14$60−57%$49 – $443
Florida FL19$51−63%$51 – $287
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not 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
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $139.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care185$132$70 – $228
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access25$244$77 – $573
Ownership
For-profit11fewer than 20 hospitals
Government26$102$70 – $287
Non-profit174$139$70 – $287
System affiliation
Part of a system192$139$70 – $281
Independent19fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$282
Median cash price$139
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.

The same procedure, inpatient

136 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $139 and the average of the middle 60% is $144; most fall between $80 and $240.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 136 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
$51$102$139$193$404

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($51 vs $404).

Of the 146 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 136 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

211 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 216 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted211
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here3
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 — excluded1
Hospitals that filed this code216

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 23, 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 FIVE 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, “Prenatal blood screen, five markers (CPT 81512) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81512-prenatal-blood-screen-five-markers