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Hepatitis C virus genotype test

CPT 87902the billing code this page is about

A genetic test that identifies which strain, or genotype, of hepatitis C virus is present in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $497 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,028 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $529. Most fall between $227 and $984 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,028
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 3,028 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
$121$267$497$859$1,431

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($121 vs $1,431).

How the prices are spread

$81 – $113: 130 hospitals$81$113 – $156: 142 hospitals$156 – $217: 157 hospitals$156$217 – $301: 317 hospitals$301 – $418: 348 hospitals$301$418 – $581: 501 hospitals$581 – $807: 458 hospitals$581$807 – $1,120: 350 hospitals$1,120 – $1,555: 222 hospitals$1,120$1,555 – $2,159: 101 hospitals$1,555median $497price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,726 of 3,028 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$81$113130
$113$156142
$156$217157
$217$301317
$301$418348
$418$581501
$581$807458
$807$1,120350
$1,120$1,555222
$1,555$2,159101

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $497.

Alaska: median $426 across 17 hospitalsAK$426Maine: median $308 across 27 hospitalsME$308Vermont: median $428 across 13 hospitalsVT$428New Hampshire: median $600 across 24 hospitalsNH$600Washington: median $785 across 71 hospitalsWA$785Idaho: median $390 across 21 hospitalsID$390Montana: median $519 across 28 hospitalsMT$519North Dakota: median $788 across 25 hospitalsND$788Minnesota: median $576 across 87 hospitalsMN$576Illinois: median $688 across 135 hospitalsIL$688Wisconsin: median $892 across 101 hospitalsWI$892Michigan: median $255 across 70 hospitalsMI$255New York: median $512 across 104 hospitalsNY$512Massachusetts: median $671 across 46 hospitalsMA$671Oregon: median $491 across 46 hospitalsOR$491Nevada: median $698 across 18 hospitalsNV$698Wyoming: median $543 across 16 hospitalsWY$543South Dakota: median $603 across 20 hospitalsSD$603Iowa: median $367 across 70 hospitalsIA$367Indiana: median $553 across 94 hospitalsIN$553Ohio: median $527 across 137 hospitalsOH$527Pennsylvania: median $962 across 119 hospitalsPA$962New Jersey: median $296 across 56 hospitalsNJ$296Connecticut: median $858 across 17 hospitalsCT$858Rhode Island: median $597 across 10 hospitalsRI$597California: median $136 across 120 hospitalsCA$136Utah: median $770 across 40 hospitalsUT$770Colorado: median $502 across 60 hospitalsCO$502Nebraska: median $481 across 56 hospitalsNE$481Missouri: median $573 across 71 hospitalsMO$573Kentucky: median $694 across 66 hospitalsKY$694West Virginia: median $534 across 44 hospitalsWV$534Virginia: median $722 across 69 hospitalsVA$722Maryland: median $924 across 41 hospitalsMD$924Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $551 across 36 hospitalsAZ$551New Mexico: median $717 across 24 hospitalsNM$717Kansas: median $590 across 77 hospitalsKS$590Arkansas: median $312 across 35 hospitalsAR$312Tennessee: median $346 across 76 hospitalsTN$346North Carolina: median $404 across 85 hospitalsNC$404South Carolina: median $660 across 50 hospitalsSC$660Oklahoma: median $458 across 71 hospitalsOK$458Louisiana: median $310 across 48 hospitalsLA$310Mississippi: median $313 across 50 hospitalsMS$313Alabama: median $407 across 42 hospitalsAL$407Georgia: median $424 across 104 hospitalsGA$424Hawaii: median $1,296 across 16 hospitalsHI$1,296Texas: median $480 across 225 hospitalsTX$480Florida: median $133 across 143 hospitalsFL$133
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $497. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Hawaii HI16$1,296+161%$481 – $2,417
Pennsylvania PA119$962+93%$296 – $1,928
Maryland MD41$924+86%$681 – $1,106
Wisconsin WI101$892+79%$516 – $1,544
Connecticut CT17$858+73%$503 – $1,210
North Dakota ND25$788+58%$433 – $1,604
Washington WA71$785+58%$331 – $1,197
Utah UT40$770+55%$517 – $906
Virginia VA69$722+45%$104 – $1,714
New Mexico NM24$717+44%$472 – $1,148
Nevada NV18$698+40%$287 – $947
Kentucky KY66$694+40%$316 – $994
Illinois IL135$688+38%$267 – $942
Massachusetts MA46$671+35%$405 – $1,081
South Carolina SC50$660+33%$476 – $1,380
South Dakota SD20$603+21%$279 – $828
New Hampshire NH24$600+21%$172 – $1,353
Rhode Island RI10$597+20%$590 – $735
Kansas KS77$590+19%$300 – $866
Minnesota MN87$576+16%$198 – $918
Missouri MO71$573+15%$359 – $737
Indiana IN94$553+11%$282 – $785
Arizona AZ36$551+11%$296 – $2,096
Wyoming WY16$543+9%$289 – $831
West Virginia WV44$534+7%$310 – $994
Ohio OH137$527+6%$278 – $945
Montana MT28$519+4%$286 – $782
New York NY104$512+3%$257 – $1,098
Colorado CO60$502+1%$274 – $1,503
Oregon OR46$491−1%$310 – $725
Nebraska NE56$481−3%$329 – $750
Texas TX225$480−3%$135 – $1,309
Oklahoma OK71$458−8%$289 – $631
Vermont VT13$428−14%$160 – $721
Alaska AK17$426−14%$158 – $942
Georgia GA104$424−15%$296 – $644
Alabama AL42$407−18%$257 – $1,702
North Carolina NC85$404−19%$175 – $579
Idaho ID21$390−22%$88 – $619
Iowa IA70$367−26%$247 – $769
Tennessee TN76$346−30%$186 – $562
Mississippi MS50$313−37%$130 – $520
Arkansas AR35$312−37%$258 – $762
Louisiana LA48$310−38%$135 – $646
Maine ME27$308−38%$212 – $563
New Jersey NJ56$296−40%$257 – $422
Michigan MI70$255−49%$59 – $795
California CA120$136−73%$56 – $661
Florida FL143$133−73%$81 – $556
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 $497.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,142$475$194 – $1,027
Children’s45$390$260 – $755
Critical access831$568$290 – $925
Ownership
For-profit424$517$170 – $1,489
Government563$449$206 – $803
Non-profit2,031$516$247 – $995
System affiliation
Part of a system2,466$508$226 – $1,040
Independent562$474$230 – $847

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$848
Median cash price$497
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

2,077 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $502 and the average of the middle 60% is $535; most fall between $221 and $994.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,077 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
$125$269$502$880$1,432

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($125 vs $1,432).

Of the 2,293 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,077 gave a usable cash price; 114 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 102 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,028 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (77%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,300 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,028
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here153
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded118
Hospitals that filed this code3,300

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 July 20, 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 Hep C Virus (Hcv) Ns3 Drug Resist Genotype 1b.

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, “Hepatitis C virus genotype test (CPT 87902) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87902-hepatitis-c-virus-genotype-test