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Procedure price report · Microscopic examination (bacterial smear, culture, toxicology)

Cytomegalovirus DNA test with viral amount measured

CPT 87497the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that detects cytomegalovirus genetic material in a specimen and measures how much virus is present, often used to follow an infection over time.

Hospitals typically charge $207 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,119 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $219. Most fall between $90 and $414 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,119
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 3,119 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
$60$104$207$360$586

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($60 vs $586).

How the prices are spread

$46 – $61: 166 hospitals$46$61 – $82: 232 hospitals$82 – $110: 299 hospitals$82$110 – $148: 302 hospitals$148 – $198: 363 hospitals$148$198 – $266: 402 hospitals$266 – $357: 403 hospitals$266$357 – $479: 316 hospitals$479 – $644: 213 hospitals$479$644 – $864: 114 hospitals$644median $207price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,810 of 3,119 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$46$61166
$61$82232
$82$110299
$110$148302
$148$198363
$198$266402
$266$357403
$357$479316
$479$644213
$644$864114

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $207.

Alaska: median $514 across 18 hospitalsAK$514Maine: median $169 across 27 hospitalsME$169Vermont: median $235 across 14 hospitalsVT$235New Hampshire: median $281 across 23 hospitalsNH$281Washington: median $360 across 73 hospitalsWA$360Idaho: median $132 across 21 hospitalsID$132Montana: median $261 across 29 hospitalsMT$261North Dakota: median $216 across 27 hospitalsND$216Minnesota: median $112 across 104 hospitalsMN$112Illinois: median $291 across 132 hospitalsIL$291Wisconsin: median $290 across 103 hospitalsWI$290Michigan: median $112 across 81 hospitalsMI$112New York: median $128 across 104 hospitalsNY$128Massachusetts: median $195 across 53 hospitalsMA$195Oregon: median $130 across 48 hospitalsOR$130Nevada: median $258 across 18 hospitalsNV$258Wyoming: median $236 across 14 hospitalsWY$236South Dakota: median $347 across 33 hospitalsSD$347Iowa: median $229 across 84 hospitalsIA$229Indiana: median $174 across 98 hospitalsIN$174Ohio: median $201 across 129 hospitalsOH$201Pennsylvania: median $203 across 120 hospitalsPA$203New Jersey: median $49 across 53 hospitalsNJ$49Connecticut: median $192 across 17 hospitalsCT$192Rhode Island: median $159 across 10 hospitalsRI$159California: median $95 across 135 hospitalsCA$95Utah: median $926 across 40 hospitalsUT$926Colorado: median $240 across 66 hospitalsCO$240Nebraska: median $345 across 74 hospitalsNE$345Missouri: median $208 across 70 hospitalsMO$208Kentucky: median $235 across 66 hospitalsKY$235West Virginia: median $214 across 39 hospitalsWV$214Virginia: median $189 across 72 hospitalsVA$189Maryland: median $400 across 41 hospitalsMD$400Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $216 across 37 hospitalsAZ$216New Mexico: median $214 across 24 hospitalsNM$214Kansas: median $234 across 81 hospitalsKS$234Arkansas: median $124 across 37 hospitalsAR$124Tennessee: median $135 across 80 hospitalsTN$135North Carolina: median $165 across 86 hospitalsNC$165South Carolina: median $359 across 51 hospitalsSC$359Oklahoma: median $190 across 64 hospitalsOK$190Louisiana: median $102 across 46 hospitalsLA$102Mississippi: median $135 across 55 hospitalsMS$135Alabama: median $162 across 34 hospitalsAL$162Georgia: median $219 across 105 hospitalsGA$219Hawaii: median $282 across 15 hospitalsHI$282Texas: median $231 across 224 hospitalsTX$231Florida: median $102 across 137 hospitalsFL$102
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $207. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT40$926+348%$267 – $1,090
Alaska AK18$514+149%$337 – $687
Maryland MD41$400+94%$285 – $512
Washington WA73$360+74%$161 – $515
South Carolina SC51$359+74%$193 – $510
South Dakota SD33$347+68%$105 – $771
Nebraska NE74$345+67%$168 – $523
Illinois IL132$291+41%$162 – $545
Wisconsin WI103$290+40%$175 – $431
Hawaii HI15$282+37%$185 – $739
New Hampshire NH23$281+36%$138 – $557
Montana MT29$261+27%$198 – $424
Nevada NV18$258+25%$46 – $686
Colorado CO66$240+16%$169 – $369
Wyoming WY14$236+14%$91 – $442
Kentucky KY66$235+14%$129 – $332
Vermont VT14$235+14%$174 – $582
Kansas KS81$234+13%$125 – $396
Texas TX224$231+12%$116 – $761
Iowa IA84$229+11%$85 – $328
Georgia GA105$219+6%$85 – $536
Arizona AZ37$216+5%$65 – $585
North Dakota ND27$216+5%$75 – $342
West Virginia WV39$214+4%$116 – $458
New Mexico NM24$214+3%$120 – $340
Missouri MO70$208+1%$153 – $350
Pennsylvania PA120$203−2%$64 – $464
Ohio OH129$201−3%$126 – $401
Massachusetts MA53$195−6%$90 – $462
Connecticut CT17$192−7%$130 – $357
Oklahoma OK64$190−8%$97 – $363
Virginia VA72$189−9%$167 – $309
Indiana IN98$174−16%$92 – $411
Maine ME27$169−18%$86 – $378
North Carolina NC86$165−20%$91 – $414
Alabama AL34$162−22%$79 – $475
Rhode Island RI10$159−23%$99 – $342
Tennessee TN80$135−34%$75 – $226
Mississippi MS55$135−35%$52 – $271
Idaho ID21$132−36%$69 – $256
Oregon OR48$130−37%$93 – $245
New York NY104$128−38%$57 – $299
Arkansas AR37$124−40%$38 – $231
Minnesota MN104$112−46%$65 – $351
Michigan MI81$112−46%$46 – $351
Louisiana LA46$102−51%$47 – $177
Florida FL137$102−51%$62 – $303
California CA135$95−54%$60 – $251
New Jersey NJ53$49−76%$43 – $145
Delaware DE7not 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 $207.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,168$189$80 – $397
Children’s64$282$133 – $441
Critical access877$245$112 – $436
Ownership
For-profit419$225$92 – $694
Government571$222$94 – $404
Non-profit2,119$197$87 – $394
System affiliation
Part of a system2,533$202$87 – $419
Independent586$212$104 – $399

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$351
Median cash price$207
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

2,141 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $214 and the average of the middle 60% is $223; most fall between $95 and $408.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,141 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
$67$108$214$359$567

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($67 vs $567).

Of the 2,352 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,141 gave a usable cash price; 112 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 99 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,119 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (79%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,393 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,119
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here156
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded116
Hospitals that filed this code3,393

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 Microscopic examination (bacterial smear, culture, toxicology) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Cmv Quant Urine (Cmvu).

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, “Cytomegalovirus DNA test with viral amount measured (CPT 87497) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87497-cytomegalovirus-dna-test-with-viral-amount-measured