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Procedure price report · Pathology

Autopsy with microscopic exam, including the brain

CPT 88025the billing code this page is about

A full after-death examination of the body with tissue samples studied under a microscope, including examination of the brain.

Hospitals typically charge $1,464 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 153 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,574. Most fall between $794 and $2,551 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
153
States
28
Filings dated
Apr 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 153 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
$463$828$1,464$2,400$3,247

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($463 vs $3,247).

How the prices are spread

$356 – $459: 8 hospitals$356$459 – $593: 3 hospitals$593 – $765: 9 hospitals$593$765 – $987: 20 hospitals$987 – $1,274: 26 hospitals$987$1,274 – $1,644: 6 hospitals$1,644 – $2,122: 28 hospitals$1,644$2,122 – $2,739: 25 hospitals$2,739 – $3,534: 7 hospitals$2,739$3,534 – $4,561: 7 hospitals$3,534median $1,464price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (139 of 153 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$356$4598
$459$5933
$593$7659
$765$98720
$987$1,27426
$1,274$1,6446
$1,644$2,12228
$2,122$2,73925
$2,739$3,5347
$3,534$4,5617

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,464.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $861 across 10 hospitalsIL$861Wisconsin: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceOHPennsylvania: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,008 across 24 hospitalsCA$1,008Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceTNNorth Carolina: median $2,000 across 14 hospitalsNC$2,000South Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $794 across 12 hospitalsOK$794Louisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: median $2,551 across 13 hospitalsGA$2,551Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,464. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA13$2,551+74%$849 – $2,551
North Carolina NC14$2,000+37%$1,999 – $2,400
California CA24$1,008−31%$1,008 – $1,008
Illinois IL10$861−41%$259 – $2,944
Oklahoma OK12$794−46%$794 – $794
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $1,464.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care140$1,265$794 – $2,423
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access8fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit25$1,265$446 – $2,551
Government23$1,031$500 – $2,551
Non-profit104$1,464$794 – $2,400
System affiliation
Part of a system132$1,706$794 – $2,551
Independent21$909$463 – $1,650

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,800
Median cash price$1,464
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

115 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,031 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,360; most fall between $794 and $2,500.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 115 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
$601$794$1,031$2,423$2,872

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($601 vs $2,872).

Of the 132 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 115 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

153 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 187 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted153
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here18
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 — excluded15
Hospitals that filed this code187

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 5, 2026 and September 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Pathology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC VA Hospital Autopsy.

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, “Autopsy with microscopic exam, including the brain (CPT 88025) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-88025-autopsy-with-microscopic-exam-including-the-brain