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Bacterial vaginosis and vaginitis DNA test on vaginal fluid

CPT 81514the billing code this page is about

Laboratory test on a vaginal fluid sample that measures bacterial DNA markers for bacterial vaginosis and also checks for yeast or trichomonas when included.

Hospitals typically charge $400 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 476 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $401. Most fall between $221 and $789 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
476
States
47
Filings dated
Jun 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 476 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
$163$262$400$599$1,052

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($163 vs $1,052).

How the prices are spread

$131 – $165: 25 hospitals$131$165 – $207: 39 hospitals$207 – $261: 24 hospitals$207$261 – $328: 78 hospitals$328 – $412: 62 hospitals$328$412 – $517: 94 hospitals$517 – $650: 22 hospitals$517$650 – $817: 28 hospitals$817 – $1,027: 32 hospitals$817$1,027 – $1,290: 26 hospitals$1,027median $400price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (430 of 476 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$131$16525
$165$20739
$207$26124
$261$32878
$328$41262
$412$51794
$517$65022
$650$81728
$817$1,02732
$1,027$1,29026

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $400.

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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $823 across 10 hospitalsID$823Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $304 across 23 hospitalsMN$304Illinois: median $400 across 21 hospitalsIL$400Wisconsin: median $434 across 27 hospitalsWI$434Michigan: median $363 across 23 hospitalsMI$363New York: median $316 across 23 hospitalsNY$316Massachusetts: median $817 across 14 hospitalsMA$817Oregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $227 across 11 hospitalsIN$227Ohio: median $435 across 19 hospitalsOH$435Pennsylvania: median $394 across 29 hospitalsPA$394New Jersey: median $289 across 31 hospitalsNJ$289Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $454 across 34 hospitalsCA$454Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $587 across 10 hospitalsCO$587Nebraska: median $221 across 19 hospitalsNE$221Missouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $437 across 13 hospitalsWV$437Virginia: median $258 across 15 hospitalsVA$258Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: median $393 across 10 hospitalsNM$393Kansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $159 across 15 hospitalsTN$159North Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: median $202 across 12 hospitalsLA$202Mississippi: median $214 across 11 hospitalsMS$214Alabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $171 across 11 hospitalsTX$171Florida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $400. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID10$823+106%$382 – $1,170
Massachusetts MA14$817+104%$389 – $1,112
Colorado CO10$587+47%$156 – $1,552
California CA34$454+13%$454 – $916
West Virginia WV13$437+9%$395 – $657
Ohio OH19$435+9%$298 – $435
Wisconsin WI27$434+8%$434 – $458
Illinois IL21$4000%$328 – $428
Pennsylvania PA29$394−1%$181 – $2,724
New Mexico NM10$393−2%$342 – $501
Michigan MI23$363−9%$329 – $406
New York NY23$316−21%$263 – $879
Minnesota MN23$304−24%$262 – $358
New Jersey NJ31$289−28%$263 – $455
Virginia VA15$258−36%$159 – $1,223
Indiana IN11$227−43%$186 – $307
Nebraska NE19$221−45%$65 – $461
Mississippi MS11$214−47%$179 – $371
Louisiana LA12$202−49%$171 – $297
Texas TX11$171−57%$98 – $329
Tennessee TN15$159−60%$159 – $179
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $400.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care380$400$215 – $789
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access93$359$227 – $631
Ownership
For-profit28$434$131 – $823
Government54$263$175 – $789
Non-profit394$400$258 – $789
System affiliation
Part of a system422$400$215 – $789
Independent54$395$289 – $821

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$789
Median cash price$400
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

366 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $434 and the average of the middle 60% is $420; most fall between $221 and $789.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 366 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
$166$262$434$625$1,084

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($166 vs $1,084).

Of the 383 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 366 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

476 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 501 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted476
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here15
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 — excluded9
Hospitals that filed this code501

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 MEASUREMENT OF DNA OF BACTERIA IN VAGINAL FLUID SPECIMEN.

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, “Bacterial vaginosis and vaginitis DNA test on vaginal fluid (CPT 81514) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-81514-bacterial-vaginosis-and-vaginitis-dna-test-on-vaginal-fluid