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RSV test by DNA amplification

CPT 87634the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that looks for the genetic material of respiratory syncytial virus in a respiratory specimen. Covers one test on one specimen.

Hospitals typically charge $142 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,815 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $149. Most fall between $78 and $254 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,815
States
49
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 1,815 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
$63$87$142$221$344

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($63 vs $344).

How the prices are spread

$50 – $62: 82 hospitals$50$62 – $78: 190 hospitals$78 – $97: 155 hospitals$78$97 – $122: 204 hospitals$122 – $152: 258 hospitals$122$152 – $189: 245 hospitals$189 – $236: 181 hospitals$189$236 – $295: 151 hospitals$295 – $368: 123 hospitals$295$368 – $460: 48 hospitals$368median $142price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,637 of 1,815 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$50$6282
$62$78190
$78$97155
$97$122204
$122$152258
$152$189245
$189$236181
$236$295151
$295$368123
$368$46048

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $142.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $166 across 14 hospitalsME$166Vermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: median $211 across 11 hospitalsNH$211Washington: median $125 across 39 hospitalsWA$125Idaho: median $176 across 15 hospitalsID$176Montana: median $143 across 21 hospitalsMT$143North Dakota: median $201 across 12 hospitalsND$201Minnesota: median $161 across 76 hospitalsMN$161Illinois: median $156 across 65 hospitalsIL$156Wisconsin: median $157 across 66 hospitalsWI$157Michigan: median $98 across 69 hospitalsMI$98New York: median $125 across 75 hospitalsNY$125Massachusetts: median $218 across 32 hospitalsMA$218Oregon: median $160 across 15 hospitalsOR$160Nevada: median $112 across 10 hospitalsNV$112Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $178 across 29 hospitalsSD$178Iowa: median $108 across 56 hospitalsIA$108Indiana: median $145 across 72 hospitalsIN$145Ohio: median $133 across 88 hospitalsOH$133Pennsylvania: median $132 across 61 hospitalsPA$132New Jersey: median $77 across 29 hospitalsNJ$77Connecticut: median $181 across 12 hospitalsCT$181Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $259 across 89 hospitalsCA$259Utah: median $236 across 12 hospitalsUT$236Colorado: median $166 across 51 hospitalsCO$166Nebraska: median $147 across 36 hospitalsNE$147Missouri: median $111 across 48 hospitalsMO$111Kentucky: median $92 across 44 hospitalsKY$92West Virginia: median $114 across 23 hospitalsWV$114Virginia: median $169 across 41 hospitalsVA$169Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $146 across 26 hospitalsAZ$146New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $137 across 37 hospitalsKS$137Arkansas: median $152 across 19 hospitalsAR$152Tennessee: median $91 across 50 hospitalsTN$91North Carolina: median $182 across 54 hospitalsNC$182South Carolina: median $137 across 16 hospitalsSC$137Oklahoma: median $115 across 49 hospitalsOK$115Louisiana: median $82 across 28 hospitalsLA$82Mississippi: median $73 across 31 hospitalsMS$73Alabama: median $118 across 13 hospitalsAL$118Georgia: median $169 across 34 hospitalsGA$169Hawaii: median $241 across 18 hospitalsHI$241Texas: median $129 across 129 hospitalsTX$129Florida: median $172 across 68 hospitalsFL$172
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $142. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA89$259+82%$81 – $328
Hawaii HI18$241+70%$52 – $508
Utah UT12$236+66%$172 – $311
Massachusetts MA32$218+54%$120 – $366
New Hampshire NH11$211+49%$145 – $596
North Dakota ND12$201+41%$171 – $356
North Carolina NC54$182+28%$109 – $417
Connecticut CT12$181+27%$72 – $261
South Dakota SD29$178+26%$157 – $241
Idaho ID15$176+24%$98 – $312
Florida FL68$172+21%$79 – $258
Georgia GA34$169+19%$129 – $241
Virginia VA41$169+19%$111 – $208
Maine ME14$166+17%$88 – $254
Colorado CO51$166+17%$116 – $215
Minnesota MN76$161+13%$113 – $238
Oregon OR15$160+13%$118 – $196
Wisconsin WI66$157+10%$146 – $282
Illinois IL65$156+10%$84 – $292
Arkansas AR19$152+7%$98 – $184
Nebraska NE36$147+4%$103 – $233
Arizona AZ26$146+3%$77 – $211
Indiana IN72$145+2%$84 – $208
Montana MT21$143+1%$105 – $162
Kansas KS37$137−3%$76 – $216
South Carolina SC16$137−3%$127 – $137
Ohio OH88$133−6%$76 – $274
Pennsylvania PA61$132−7%$88 – $634
Texas TX129$129−9%$67 – $368
New York NY75$125−12%$70 – $271
Washington WA39$125−12%$68 – $313
Alabama AL13$118−17%$57 – $149
Oklahoma OK49$115−19%$67 – $159
West Virginia WV23$114−20%$101 – $126
Nevada NV10$112−21%$33 – $198
Missouri MO48$111−22%$69 – $137
Iowa IA56$108−24%$67 – $162
Michigan MI69$98−31%$68 – $152
Kentucky KY44$92−35%$79 – $232
Tennessee TN50$91−36%$44 – $131
Louisiana LA28$82−42%$42 – $152
New Jersey NJ29$77−46%$70 – $143
Mississippi MS31$73−49%$52 – $94
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $142.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,279$133$74 – $269
Children’s25$138$76 – $225
Critical access506$153$99 – $230
Ownership
For-profit211$159$76 – $328
Government302$129$81 – $201
Non-profit1,297$145$79 – $261
System affiliation
Part of a system1,547$141$77 – $261
Independent268$143$84 – $229

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$228
Median cash price$142
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

1,273 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $149 and the average of the middle 60% is $159; most fall between $84 and $271.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,273 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$96$149$233$349

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($67 vs $349).

Of the 1,414 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,273 gave a usable cash price; 82 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 59 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,815 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (46%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,977 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,815
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here101
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 — excluded60
Hospitals that filed this code1,977

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 Other Laboratory family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as RSV DNA/RNA AMP PROBE.

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, “RSV test by DNA amplification (CPT 87634) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87634-rsv-test-by-dna-amplification