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

HPV test for low-risk types

CPT 87623the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that looks for the genetic material of low-risk human papillomavirus types in a cervical or other specimen. Covers one test on one specimen.

Hospitals typically charge $96 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 480 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $107. Most fall between $42 and $212 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
480
States
48
Filings dated
Jan 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 480 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
$35$51$96$184$254

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($35 vs $254).

How the prices are spread

$28 – $36: 47 hospitals$28$36 – $47: 34 hospitals$47 – $61: 33 hospitals$47$61 – $79: 61 hospitals$79 – $103: 61 hospitals$79$103 – $134: 52 hospitals$134 – $174: 31 hospitals$134$174 – $226: 61 hospitals$226 – $294: 38 hospitals$226$294 – $383: 15 hospitals$294median $96price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (433 of 480 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$28$3647
$36$4734
$47$6133
$61$7961
$79$10361
$103$13452
$134$17431
$174$22661
$226$29438
$294$38315

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $96.

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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $148 across 10 hospitalsWA$148Idaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $184 across 24 hospitalsIL$184Wisconsin: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $74 across 13 hospitalsMI$74New York: median $35 across 27 hospitalsNY$35Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $78 across 14 hospitalsIA$78Indiana: median $62 across 15 hospitalsIN$62Ohio: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $40 across 26 hospitalsPA$40New Jersey: median $39 across 33 hospitalsNJ$39Connecticut: 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 $96 across 32 hospitalsCA$96Utah: median $213 across 26 hospitalsUT$213Colorado: median $182 across 14 hospitalsCO$182Nebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $161 across 10 hospitalsKS$161Arkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $41 across 13 hospitalsTN$41North Carolina: median $104 across 21 hospitalsNC$104South Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $88 across 24 hospitalsGA$88Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $87 across 58 hospitalsTX$87Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $96. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT26$213+121%$213 – $250
Illinois IL24$184+91%$73 – $237
Colorado CO14$182+89%$96 – $184
Kansas KS10$161+67%$52 – $171
Washington WA10$148+54%$78 – $237
North Carolina NC21$104+8%$51 – $212
California CA32$960%$47 – $96
Georgia GA24$88−9%$88 – $161
Texas TX58$87−9%$51 – $121
Iowa IA14$78−19%$78 – $96
Michigan MI13$74−23%$48 – $74
Indiana IN15$62−35%$50 – $89
Tennessee TN13$41−58%$29 – $55
Pennsylvania PA26$40−58%$24 – $535
New Jersey NJ33$39−60%$35 – $51
New York NY27$35−64%$35 – $101
Oklahoma OK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $96.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care395$95$39 – $207
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access77$151$76 – $214
Ownership
For-profit59$106$41 – $214
Government63$102$40 – $186
Non-profit357$96$42 – $213
System affiliation
Part of a system405$96$40 – $213
Independent75$106$63 – $190

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$200
Median cash price$96
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

294 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $105 and the average of the middle 60% is $121; most fall between $65 and $237.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 294 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
$41$74$105$213$300

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($41 vs $300).

Of the 312 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 294 gave a usable cash price; 5 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

480 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 508 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted480
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here14
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded12
Hospitals that filed this code508

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 24, 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 Hpv Low-Risk Types.

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, “HPV test for low-risk types (CPT 87623) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87623-hpv-test-for-low-risk-types