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Cell counting with immune selection in a fluid sample

CPT 86152the billing code this page is about

Laboratory test that selects and counts specific cells, such as tumor cells circulating in blood or another fluid; covers the laboratory work only.

Hospitals typically charge $575 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 488 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $591. Most fall between $288 and $1,002 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
488
States
43
Filings dated
Sep 2024 – 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 488 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
$215$341$575$821$1,440

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($215 vs $1,440).

How the prices are spread

$167 – $215: 28 hospitals$167$215 – $276: 38 hospitals$276 – $355: 42 hospitals$276$355 – $457: 38 hospitals$457 – $588: 81 hospitals$457$588 – $756: 88 hospitals$756 – $972: 44 hospitals$756$972 – $1,249: 45 hospitals$1,249 – $1,607: 20 hospitals$1,249$1,607 – $2,066: 17 hospitals$1,607median $575price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (441 of 488 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$167$21528
$215$27638
$276$35542
$355$45738
$457$58881
$588$75688
$756$97244
$972$1,24945
$1,249$1,60720
$1,607$2,06617

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $575.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $528 across 23 hospitalsWA$528Idaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $611 across 25 hospitalsIL$611Wisconsin: median $515 across 21 hospitalsWI$515Michigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $251 across 23 hospitalsNY$251Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals 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 $542 across 11 hospitalsIA$542Indiana: median $432 across 15 hospitalsIN$432Ohio: median $771 across 34 hospitalsOH$771Pennsylvania: median $506 across 26 hospitalsPA$506New Jersey: median $276 across 25 hospitalsNJ$276Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $672 across 29 hospitalsCA$672Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $1,707 across 12 hospitalsKY$1,707West Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: median $667 across 11 hospitalsMD$667Delaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $1,167 across 13 hospitalsAZ$1,167New Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $556 across 32 hospitalsNC$556South Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceLAMississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $623 across 12 hospitalsGA$623Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $341 across 35 hospitalsTX$341Florida: median $677 across 36 hospitalsFL$677
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $575. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY12$1,707+197%$426 – $1,707
Arizona AZ13$1,167+103%$1,167 – $1,181
Ohio OH34$771+34%$637 – $1,233
Florida FL36$677+18%$215 – $1,094
California CA29$672+17%$325 – $672
Maryland MD11$667+16%$503 – $685
Georgia GA12$623+8%$487 – $623
Illinois IL25$611+6%$575 – $798
North Carolina NC32$556−3%$556 – $2,755
Iowa IA11$542−6%$542 – $542
Washington WA23$528−8%$280 – $954
Wisconsin WI21$515−10%$515 – $1,002
Pennsylvania PA26$506−12%$288 – $2,551
Indiana IN15$432−25%$346 – $559
Texas TX35$341−41%$110 – $693
New Jersey NJ25$276−52%$251 – $276
New York NY23$251−56%$251 – $667
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $575.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care433$556$280 – $954
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access51$727$426 – $1,181
Ownership
For-profit43$532$215 – $1,199
Government59$487$251 – $763
Non-profit383$623$288 – $1,002
System affiliation
Part of a system444$575$286 – $1,030
Independent44$466$288 – $890

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,058
Median cash price$575
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

306 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $575 and the average of the middle 60% is $595; most fall between $325 and $1,030.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 306 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
$203$364$575$800$1,274

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($203 vs $1,274).

Of the 342 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 306 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 17 a list price only.

How complete is this

488 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 531 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted488
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here26
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 — excluded16
Hospitals that filed this code531

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 Other Laboratory family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as CELL ENUMERATION & ID.

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, “Cell counting with immune selection in a fluid sample (CPT 86152) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86152-cell-counting-with-immune-selection-in-a-fluid-sample