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Procedure price report · Pathology

Cell sample exam using enhanced slide preparation

CPT 88112the billing code this page is about

Laboratory study of cells from a body site other than the cervix or vagina, using a concentrated or liquid-based slide preparation, with a pathologist's interpretation; billed per specimen.

Hospitals typically charge $135 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,992 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $139. Most fall between $70 and $243 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,992
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 2,992 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
$47$78$135$215$319

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($47 vs $319).

How the prices are spread

$35 – $45: 123 hospitals$35$45 – $57: 163 hospitals$57 – $74: 245 hospitals$57$74 – $95: 307 hospitals$95 – $121: 357 hospitals$95$121 – $156: 423 hospitals$156 – $200: 389 hospitals$156$200 – $258: 278 hospitals$258 – $331: 290 hospitals$258$331 – $425: 121 hospitals$331median $135price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,696 of 2,992 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$35$45123
$45$57163
$57$74245
$74$95307
$95$121357
$121$156423
$156$200389
$200$258278
$258$331290
$331$425121

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$53
Median cash price$135
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.5×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $135.

Alaska: median $150 across 15 hospitalsAK$150Maine: median $104 across 28 hospitalsME$104Vermont: median $149 across 13 hospitalsVT$149New Hampshire: median $175 across 25 hospitalsNH$175Washington: median $125 across 68 hospitalsWA$125Idaho: median $171 across 20 hospitalsID$171Montana: median $169 across 22 hospitalsMT$169North Dakota: median $119 across 33 hospitalsND$119Minnesota: median $140 across 100 hospitalsMN$140Illinois: median $173 across 128 hospitalsIL$173Wisconsin: median $168 across 103 hospitalsWI$168Michigan: median $110 across 99 hospitalsMI$110New York: median $126 across 105 hospitalsNY$126Massachusetts: median $184 across 49 hospitalsMA$184Oregon: median $138 across 44 hospitalsOR$138Nevada: median $146 across 17 hospitalsNV$146Wyoming: median $73 across 12 hospitalsWY$73South Dakota: median $163 across 27 hospitalsSD$163Iowa: median $122 across 75 hospitalsIA$122Indiana: median $109 across 91 hospitalsIN$109Ohio: median $179 across 133 hospitalsOH$179Pennsylvania: median $128 across 117 hospitalsPA$128New Jersey: median $71 across 54 hospitalsNJ$71Connecticut: median $155 across 22 hospitalsCT$155Rhode Island: median $147 across 10 hospitalsRI$147California: median $156 across 139 hospitalsCA$156Utah: median $168 across 38 hospitalsUT$168Colorado: median $217 across 59 hospitalsCO$217Nebraska: median $125 across 67 hospitalsNE$125Missouri: median $80 across 63 hospitalsMO$80Kentucky: median $98 across 63 hospitalsKY$98West Virginia: median $90 across 39 hospitalsWV$90Virginia: median $205 across 69 hospitalsVA$205Maryland: median $272 across 38 hospitalsMD$272Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $95 across 39 hospitalsAZ$95New Mexico: median $147 across 25 hospitalsNM$147Kansas: median $98 across 76 hospitalsKS$98Arkansas: median $117 across 34 hospitalsAR$117Tennessee: median $65 across 69 hospitalsTN$65North Carolina: median $161 across 86 hospitalsNC$161South Carolina: median $134 across 44 hospitalsSC$134Oklahoma: median $91 across 60 hospitalsOK$91Louisiana: median $76 across 50 hospitalsLA$76Mississippi: median $58 across 50 hospitalsMS$58Alabama: median $94 across 36 hospitalsAL$94Georgia: median $148 across 91 hospitalsGA$148Hawaii: median $235 across 15 hospitalsHI$235Texas: median $151 across 182 hospitalsTX$151Florida: median $97 across 143 hospitalsFL$97
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $135. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD38$272+101%$209 – $325
Hawaii HI15$235+74%$210 – $268
Colorado CO59$217+61%$114 – $324
Virginia VA69$205+51%$147 – $544
Massachusetts MA49$184+36%$131 – $271
Ohio OH133$179+32%$101 – $241
New Hampshire NH25$175+29%$94 – $350
Illinois IL128$173+28%$97 – $242
Idaho ID20$171+27%$110 – $237
Montana MT22$169+25%$104 – $265
Wisconsin WI103$168+24%$83 – $285
Utah UT38$168+24%$150 – $198
South Dakota SD27$163+21%$99 – $250
North Carolina NC86$161+19%$70 – $210
California CA139$156+15%$68 – $280
Connecticut CT22$155+15%$93 – $370
Texas TX182$151+12%$93 – $266
Alaska AK15$150+11%$84 – $290
Vermont VT13$149+10%$86 – $376
Georgia GA91$148+10%$73 – $381
Rhode Island RI10$147+9%$58 – $173
New Mexico NM25$147+9%$92 – $283
Nevada NV17$146+8%$31 – $289
Minnesota MN100$140+4%$82 – $281
Oregon OR44$138+2%$87 – $221
South Carolina SC44$134−1%$94 – $177
Pennsylvania PA117$128−5%$62 – $255
New York NY105$126−7%$63 – $265
Nebraska NE67$125−8%$74 – $174
Washington WA68$125−8%$63 – $244
Iowa IA75$122−10%$70 – $169
North Dakota ND33$119−12%$96 – $150
Arkansas AR34$117−14%$41 – $133
Michigan MI99$110−19%$61 – $234
Indiana IN91$109−20%$66 – $241
Maine ME28$104−23%$49 – $179
Kansas KS76$98−28%$72 – $149
Kentucky KY63$98−28%$68 – $214
Florida FL143$97−29%$44 – $268
Arizona AZ39$95−30%$49 – $372
Alabama AL36$94−30%$50 – $274
Oklahoma OK60$91−33%$48 – $161
West Virginia WV39$90−33%$69 – $153
Missouri MO63$80−41%$59 – $158
Louisiana LA50$76−44%$39 – $159
Wyoming WY12$73−46%$53 – $152
New Jersey NJ54$71−48%$59 – $149
Tennessee TN69$65−52%$38 – $109
Mississippi MS50$58−57%$28 – $89
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 $135.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,157$137$65 – $255
Children’s36$210$138 – $248
Critical access790$128$76 – $232
Ownership
For-profit406$145$57 – $319
Government504$115$58 – $193
Non-profit2,073$138$73 – $242
System affiliation
Part of a system2,478$138$71 – $256
Independent514$113$60 – $206

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$220
Median cash price$135
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

2,068 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $147 and the average of the middle 60% is $149; most fall between $74 and $255.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,068 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
$50$82$147$229$323

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($50 vs $323).

Of the 2,265 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,068 gave a usable cash price; 105 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 92 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,992 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (76%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,233 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,992
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here136
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 — excluded104
Hospitals that filed this code3,233

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 Pathology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Cytp Slctv Cell Enhancement Interpj Xcpt C/V|PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Cell sample exam using enhanced slide preparation (CPT 88112) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-88112-cell-sample-exam-using-enhanced-slide-preparation