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

Respiratory virus panel, 6 to 11 viruses tested

CPT 87632the billing code this page is about

A single laboratory test on one respiratory specimen that looks for the genetic material of six to eleven different respiratory viruses at once.

Hospitals typically charge $534 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,205 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $579. Most fall between $251 and $1,002 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,205
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 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 1,205 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
$200$298$534$943$1,336

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($200 vs $1,336).

How the prices are spread

$139 – $179: 41 hospitals$139$179 – $231: 85 hospitals$231 – $298: 117 hospitals$231$298 – $384: 152 hospitals$384 – $495: 109 hospitals$384$495 – $638: 114 hospitals$638 – $823: 114 hospitals$638$823 – $1,061: 222 hospitals$1,061 – $1,367: 75 hospitals$1,061$1,367 – $1,762: 57 hospitals$1,367median $534price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,086 of 1,205 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$139$17941
$179$23185
$231$298117
$298$384152
$384$495109
$495$638114
$638$823114
$823$1,061222
$1,061$1,36775
$1,367$1,76257

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $534.

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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $263 across 27 hospitalsWA$263Idaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $1,016 across 15 hospitalsND$1,016Minnesota: median $406 across 29 hospitalsMN$406Illinois: median $623 across 51 hospitalsIL$623Wisconsin: median $870 across 48 hospitalsWI$870Michigan: median $493 across 20 hospitalsMI$493New York: median $383 across 61 hospitalsNY$383Massachusetts: median $747 across 26 hospitalsMA$747Oregon: median $378 across 14 hospitalsOR$378Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: median $420 across 10 hospitalsWY$420South Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $209 across 22 hospitalsIA$209Indiana: median $463 across 18 hospitalsIN$463Ohio: median $532 across 63 hospitalsOH$532Pennsylvania: median $952 across 57 hospitalsPA$952New Jersey: median $240 across 33 hospitalsNJ$240Connecticut: 6 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 $799 across 69 hospitalsCA$799Utah: median $719 across 33 hospitalsUT$719Colorado: median $1,014 across 26 hospitalsCO$1,014Nebraska: median $450 across 13 hospitalsNE$450Missouri: median $571 across 16 hospitalsMO$571Kentucky: median $563 across 27 hospitalsKY$563West Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $859 across 35 hospitalsVA$859Maryland: median $291 across 17 hospitalsMD$291Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $487 across 20 hospitalsAZ$487New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $451 across 14 hospitalsKS$451Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $374 across 27 hospitalsTN$374North Carolina: median $621 across 34 hospitalsNC$621South Carolina: median $1,859 across 18 hospitalsSC$1,859Oklahoma: median $314 across 30 hospitalsOK$314Louisiana: median $230 across 26 hospitalsLA$230Mississippi: median $163 across 12 hospitalsMS$163Alabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $847 across 49 hospitalsGA$847Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $515 across 122 hospitalsTX$515Florida: median $430 across 45 hospitalsFL$430
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $534. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC18$1,859+248%$164 – $1,859
North Dakota ND15$1,016+90%$585 – $1,358
Colorado CO26$1,014+90%$662 – $2,815
Pennsylvania PA57$952+78%$463 – $1,380
Wisconsin WI48$870+63%$520 – $1,021
Virginia VA35$859+61%$466 – $1,056
Georgia GA49$847+59%$319 – $1,320
California CA69$799+50%$337 – $952
Massachusetts MA26$747+40%$503 – $1,247
Utah UT33$719+35%$600 – $846
Illinois IL51$623+17%$270 – $950
North Carolina NC34$621+16%$166 – $1,319
Missouri MO16$571+7%$328 – $833
Kentucky KY27$563+5%$269 – $654
Ohio OH63$5320%$304 – $1,442
Texas TX122$515−4%$245 – $1,006
Michigan MI20$493−8%$301 – $843
Arizona AZ20$487−9%$251 – $2,386
Indiana IN18$463−13%$362 – $654
Kansas KS14$451−16%$139 – $897
Nebraska NE13$450−16%$386 – $840
Florida FL45$430−20%$218 – $687
Wyoming WY10$420−21%$294 – $546
Minnesota MN29$406−24%$256 – $570
New York NY61$383−28%$218 – $863
Oregon OR14$378−29%$311 – $792
Tennessee TN27$374−30%$283 – $587
Oklahoma OK30$314−41%$232 – $436
Maryland MD17$291−45%$240 – $352
Washington WA27$263−51%$174 – $471
New Jersey NJ33$240−55%$218 – $251
Louisiana LA26$230−57%$127 – $589
Iowa IA22$209−61%$209 – $956
Mississippi MS12$163−70%$131 – $293
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not 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 $534.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care969$546$251 – $1,002
Children’s27$448$243 – $761
Critical access203$551$303 – $1,002
Ownership
For-profit149$685$298 – $1,014
Government141$450$234 – $840
Non-profit909$551$251 – $1,002
System affiliation
Part of a system1,054$551$251 – $1,006
Independent151$492$276 – $893

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$889
Median cash price$534
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

896 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $587 and the average of the middle 60% is $622; most fall between $275 and $1,014.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 896 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
$209$321$587$952$1,390

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($209 vs $1,390).

Of the 1,016 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 896 gave a usable cash price; 74 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 46 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,205 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (30%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,351 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,205
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here94
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 — excluded50
Hospitals that filed this code1,351

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 RESP VIRUS 6-11 TARGETS.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Respiratory virus panel, 6 to 11 viruses tested (CPT 87632) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87632-respiratory-virus-panel-6-to-11-viruses-tested