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

HIV drug resistance gene test, main two gene regions

CPT 87901the billing code this page is about

A genetic analysis of HIV-1 covering the reverse transcriptase and protease regions to identify mutations linked to drug resistance.

Hospitals typically charge $519 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,260 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $570. Most fall between $234 and $1,116 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,260
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 2,260 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
$127$268$519$970$1,638

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($127 vs $1,638).

How the prices are spread

$70 – $101: 56 hospitals$70$101 – $145: 98 hospitals$145 – $207: 130 hospitals$145$207 – $298: 280 hospitals$298 – $427: 271 hospitals$298$427 – $612: 322 hospitals$612 – $878: 344 hospitals$612$878 – $1,260: 264 hospitals$1,260 – $1,807: 184 hospitals$1,260$1,807 – $2,592: 90 hospitals$1,807median $519price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,039 of 2,260 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$70$10156
$101$14598
$145$207130
$207$298280
$298$427271
$427$612322
$612$878344
$878$1,260264
$1,260$1,807184
$1,807$2,59290

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $519.

Alaska: median $705 across 13 hospitalsAK$705Maine: median $480 across 23 hospitalsME$480Vermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $505 across 16 hospitalsNH$505Washington: median $666 across 44 hospitalsWA$666Idaho: median $565 across 16 hospitalsID$565Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $448 across 11 hospitalsND$448Minnesota: median $420 across 41 hospitalsMN$420Illinois: median $712 across 110 hospitalsIL$712Wisconsin: median $867 across 80 hospitalsWI$867Michigan: median $219 across 49 hospitalsMI$219New York: median $339 across 87 hospitalsNY$339Massachusetts: median $749 across 43 hospitalsMA$749Oregon: median $473 across 36 hospitalsOR$473Nevada: median $721 across 11 hospitalsNV$721Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $833 across 12 hospitalsSD$833Iowa: median $273 across 33 hospitalsIA$273Indiana: median $530 across 80 hospitalsIN$530Ohio: median $623 across 113 hospitalsOH$623Pennsylvania: median $753 across 110 hospitalsPA$753New Jersey: median $296 across 55 hospitalsNJ$296Connecticut: median $557 across 20 hospitalsCT$557Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $220 across 89 hospitalsCA$220Utah: median $1,538 across 33 hospitalsUT$1,538Colorado: median $798 across 44 hospitalsCO$798Nebraska: median $457 across 27 hospitalsNE$457Missouri: median $468 across 60 hospitalsMO$468Kentucky: median $685 across 41 hospitalsKY$685West Virginia: median $125 across 21 hospitalsWV$125Virginia: median $869 across 63 hospitalsVA$869Maryland: median $924 across 39 hospitalsMD$924Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $731 across 30 hospitalsAZ$731New Mexico: median $1,055 across 17 hospitalsNM$1,055Kansas: median $679 across 25 hospitalsKS$679Arkansas: median $381 across 23 hospitalsAR$381Tennessee: median $388 across 53 hospitalsTN$388North Carolina: median $445 across 70 hospitalsNC$445South Carolina: median $746 across 50 hospitalsSC$746Oklahoma: median $451 across 42 hospitalsOK$451Louisiana: median $450 across 38 hospitalsLA$450Mississippi: median $400 across 37 hospitalsMS$400Alabama: median $521 across 26 hospitalsAL$521Georgia: median $867 across 80 hospitalsGA$867Hawaii: median $1,084 across 13 hospitalsHI$1,084Texas: median $361 across 180 hospitalsTX$361Florida: median $232 across 120 hospitalsFL$232
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $519. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT33$1,538+196%$1,230 – $1,809
Hawaii HI13$1,084+109%$415 – $1,869
New Mexico NM17$1,055+103%$599 – $1,094
Maryland MD39$924+78%$681 – $1,106
Virginia VA63$869+67%$381 – $1,484
Georgia GA80$867+67%$268 – $1,184
Wisconsin WI80$867+67%$478 – $1,591
South Dakota SD12$833+60%$508 – $1,197
Colorado CO44$798+54%$274 – $1,425
Pennsylvania PA110$753+45%$296 – $2,612
Massachusetts MA43$749+44%$455 – $1,106
South Carolina SC50$746+44%$563 – $1,394
Arizona AZ30$731+41%$280 – $2,096
Nevada NV11$721+39%$202 – $840
Illinois IL110$712+37%$300 – $1,082
Alaska AK13$705+36%$294 – $1,359
Kentucky KY41$685+32%$213 – $1,810
Kansas KS25$679+31%$305 – $2,072
Washington WA44$666+28%$401 – $1,386
Ohio OH113$623+20%$350 – $973
Idaho ID16$565+9%$431 – $743
Connecticut CT20$557+7%$125 – $1,119
Indiana IN80$530+2%$268 – $1,027
Alabama AL26$5210%$146 – $2,070
New Hampshire NH16$505−3%$195 – $835
Maine ME23$480−8%$172 – $679
Oregon OR36$473−9%$304 – $783
Missouri MO60$468−10%$272 – $612
Nebraska NE27$457−12%$238 – $706
Oklahoma OK42$451−13%$227 – $568
Louisiana LA38$450−13%$191 – $726
North Dakota ND11$448−14%$402 – $700
North Carolina NC70$445−14%$221 – $650
Minnesota MN41$420−19%$284 – $971
Mississippi MS37$400−23%$152 – $653
Tennessee TN53$388−25%$227 – $790
Arkansas AR23$381−27%$198 – $690
Texas TX180$361−31%$119 – $1,152
New York NY87$339−35%$191 – $942
New Jersey NJ55$296−43%$257 – $613
Iowa IA33$273−47%$247 – $685
Florida FL120$232−55%$75 – $876
California CA89$220−58%$64 – $694
Michigan MI49$219−58%$34 – $952
West Virginia WV21$125−76%$125 – $297
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not 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 $519.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,824$490$221 – $1,106
Children’s43$553$266 – $1,325
Critical access384$596$296 – $1,171
Ownership
For-profit329$651$225 – $1,662
Government302$445$212 – $916
Non-profit1,620$524$241 – $1,106
System affiliation
Part of a system1,931$530$234 – $1,154
Independent329$482$235 – $942

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$939
Median cash price$519
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

1,631 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $552 and the average of the middle 60% is $586; most fall between $242 and $1,140.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,631 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
$138$288$552$973$1,591

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($138 vs $1,591).

Of the 1,807 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,631 gave a usable cash price; 98 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 77 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,260 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (57%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,481 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,260
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here130
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 — excluded89
Hospitals that filed this code2,481

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 Genotype Dna Hiv Reverse T.

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, “HIV drug resistance gene test, main two gene regions (CPT 87901) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87901-hiv-drug-resistance-gene-test-main-two-gene-regions