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

Cytomegalovirus genotype test

CPT 87910the billing code this page is about

A genetic test that analyzes cytomegalovirus from a specimen to identify its strain or resistance-related mutations.

Hospitals typically charge $665 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 864 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $730. Most fall between $367 and $1,326 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
864
States
48
Filings dated
Nov 2024 – 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 864 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
$278$389$665$1,217$1,790

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($278 vs $1,790).

How the prices are spread

$247 – $311: 94 hospitals$247$311 – $392: 90 hospitals$392 – $493: 59 hospitals$392$493 – $621: 111 hospitals$621 – $782: 140 hospitals$621$782 – $984: 60 hospitals$984 – $1,239: 75 hospitals$984$1,239 – $1,560: 87 hospitals$1,560 – $1,964: 33 hospitals$1,560$1,964 – $2,472: 32 hospitals$1,964median $665price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (781 of 864 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$247$31194
$311$39290
$392$49359
$493$621111
$621$782140
$782$98460
$984$1,23975
$1,239$1,56087
$1,560$1,96433
$1,964$2,47232

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $665.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $590 across 16 hospitalsWA$590Idaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $603 across 12 hospitalsMN$603Illinois: median $695 across 29 hospitalsIL$695Wisconsin: median $745 across 22 hospitalsWI$745Michigan: median $689 across 28 hospitalsMI$689New York: median $450 across 32 hospitalsNY$450Massachusetts: median $974 across 13 hospitalsMA$974Oregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $247 across 17 hospitalsIA$247Indiana: median $388 across 35 hospitalsIN$388Ohio: median $1,154 across 58 hospitalsOH$1,154Pennsylvania: median $1,484 across 46 hospitalsPA$1,484New Jersey: median $283 across 33 hospitalsNJ$283Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $700 across 26 hospitalsCA$700Utah: median $605 across 25 hospitalsUT$605Colorado: median $703 across 25 hospitalsCO$703Nebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $766 across 14 hospitalsMO$766Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $772 across 28 hospitalsVA$772Maryland: median $980 across 16 hospitalsMD$980Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $433 across 19 hospitalsAZ$433New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $858 across 10 hospitalsKS$858Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $389 across 36 hospitalsTN$389North Carolina: median $542 across 41 hospitalsNC$542South Carolina: median $632 across 19 hospitalsSC$632Oklahoma: median $551 across 15 hospitalsOK$551Louisiana: median $300 across 18 hospitalsLA$300Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,333 across 32 hospitalsGA$1,333Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $619 across 84 hospitalsTX$619Florida: median $639 across 39 hospitalsFL$639
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $665. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA46$1,484+123%$296 – $2,366
Georgia GA32$1,333+100%$1,333 – $1,468
Ohio OH58$1,154+73%$665 – $2,209
Maryland MD16$980+47%$437 – $2,437
Massachusetts MA13$974+46%$799 – $2,576
Kansas KS10$858+29%$414 – $4,296
Virginia VA28$772+16%$389 – $1,285
Missouri MO14$766+15%$697 – $4,025
Wisconsin WI22$745+12%$695 – $1,049
Colorado CO25$703+6%$76 – $913
California CA26$700+5%$462 – $700
Illinois IL29$695+4%$326 – $1,247
Michigan MI28$689+4%$311 – $944
Florida FL39$639−4%$337 – $1,238
South Carolina SC19$632−5%$632 – $772
Texas TX84$619−7%$381 – $810
Utah UT25$605−9%$605 – $712
Minnesota MN12$603−9%$339 – $639
Washington WA16$590−11%$480 – $1,158
Oklahoma OK15$551−17%$308 – $1,385
North Carolina NC41$542−18%$472 – $1,230
New York NY32$450−32%$257 – $861
Arizona AZ19$433−35%$253 – $2,096
Tennessee TN36$389−42%$292 – $762
Indiana IN35$388−42%$362 – $546
Louisiana LA18$300−55%$116 – $935
New Jersey NJ33$283−57%$257 – $644
Iowa IA17$247−63%$247 – $1,217
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not 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
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $665.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care737$676$348 – $1,326
Children’s25$944$456 – $1,912
Critical access96$586$376 – $1,154
Ownership
For-profit87$624$326 – $1,444
Government112$542$339 – $1,124
Non-profit659$689$371 – $1,308
System affiliation
Part of a system794$665$366 – $1,326
Independent70$634$370 – $1,120

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,250
Median cash price$665
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

665 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $689 and the average of the middle 60% is $728; most fall between $386 and $1,326.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 665 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
$296$450$689$1,194$1,749

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($296 vs $1,749).

Of the 740 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 665 gave a usable cash price; 45 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 30 a list price only.

How complete is this

864 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (22%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 950 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted864
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here54
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 — excluded31
Hospitals that filed this code950

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 Cmvar Single.

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, “Cytomegalovirus genotype test (CPT 87910) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87910-cytomegalovirus-genotype-test