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Doctor's review of a Pap test, in addition to screening

CPT 88141the billing code this page is about

Interpretation of a cervical or vaginal cell sample by a physician; billed in addition to the charge for the laboratory screening of the same slide.

Hospitals typically charge $60 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 965 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $62. Most fall between $29 and $101 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
965
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 965 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
$22$34$60$93$133

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $133).

How the prices are spread

$17 – $21: 37 hospitals$17$21 – $27: 79 hospitals$27 – $34: 85 hospitals$27$34 – $44: 100 hospitals$44 – $56: 113 hospitals$44$56 – $72: 91 hospitals$72 – $92: 122 hospitals$72$92 – $117: 147 hospitals$117 – $149: 59 hospitals$117$149 – $191: 38 hospitals$149median $60price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (871 of 965 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$17$2137
$21$2779
$27$3485
$34$44100
$44$56113
$56$7291
$72$92122
$92$117147
$117$14959
$149$19138

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $60.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $45 across 22 hospitalsWA$45Idaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $80 across 33 hospitalsMN$80Illinois: median $67 across 52 hospitalsIL$67Wisconsin: median $110 across 34 hospitalsWI$110Michigan: median $39 across 38 hospitalsMI$39New York: median $63 across 62 hospitalsNY$63Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $72 across 19 hospitalsOR$72Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $55 across 30 hospitalsIA$55Indiana: median $61 across 47 hospitalsIN$61Ohio: median $51 across 27 hospitalsOH$51Pennsylvania: median $67 across 39 hospitalsPA$67New Jersey: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $92 across 51 hospitalsCA$92Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $86 across 13 hospitalsCO$86Nebraska: median $81 across 26 hospitalsNE$81Missouri: median $54 across 21 hospitalsMO$54Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $36 across 18 hospitalsWV$36Virginia: median $22 across 15 hospitalsVA$22Maryland: median $60 across 20 hospitalsMD$60Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $76 across 13 hospitalsAZ$76New Mexico: median $28 across 11 hospitalsNM$28Kansas: median $90 across 23 hospitalsKS$90Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $24 across 25 hospitalsNC$24South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $39 across 28 hospitalsOK$39Louisiana: median $36 across 17 hospitalsLA$36Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $46 across 35 hospitalsGA$46Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $92 across 76 hospitalsTX$92Florida: median $53 across 41 hospitalsFL$53
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $60. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI34$110+83%$97 – $131
Texas TX76$92+54%$16 – $93
California CA51$92+54%$52 – $92
Kansas KS23$90+51%$31 – $242
Colorado CO13$86+44%$58 – $1,956
Nebraska NE26$81+35%$51 – $98
Minnesota MN33$80+33%$44 – $105
Arizona AZ13$76+27%$35 – $92
Oregon OR19$72+20%$66 – $91
Illinois IL52$67+12%$26 – $117
Pennsylvania PA39$67+11%$17 – $117
New York NY62$63+5%$28 – $129
Indiana IN47$61+1%$26 – $98
Maryland MD20$60−1%$36 – $75
Iowa IA30$55−8%$55 – $70
Missouri MO21$54−10%$39 – $72
Florida FL41$53−12%$29 – $170
Ohio OH27$51−15%$28 – $74
Georgia GA35$46−23%$37 – $112
Washington WA22$45−25%$28 – $105
Oklahoma OK28$39−35%$24 – $59
Michigan MI38$39−35%$30 – $56
Louisiana LA17$36−40%$21 – $74
West Virginia WV18$36−40%$25 – $100
New Mexico NM11$28−53%$28 – $79
North Carolina NC25$24−60%$17 – $67
Virginia VA15$22−64%$22 – $44
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $60.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care702$56$29 – $98
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access247$64$34 – $105
Ownership
For-profit102$53$26 – $107
Government137$54$31 – $86
Non-profit724$63$30 – $104
System affiliation
Part of a system769$61$29 – $104
Independent196$59$34 – $91

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$96
Median cash price$60
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

700 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $63 and the average of the middle 60% is $65; most fall between $30 and $109.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 700 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
$23$35$63$96$152

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $152).

Of the 766 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 700 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 35 a list price only.

How complete is this

965 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (24%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,075 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted965
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here45
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 — excluded63
Hospitals that filed this code1,075

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 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 Cervical/Vaginal Req Interp Physician.

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, “Doctor's review of a Pap test, in addition to screening (CPT 88141) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-88141-doctor-s-review-of-a-pap-test-in-addition-to-screening