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Hormone evaluation added to a Pap test

CPT 88155the billing code this page is about

Detailed hormonal assessment of cervical or vaginal cells, such as a maturation index; billed in addition to the charge for the Pap slide screening.

Hospitals typically charge $30 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 484 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $33. Most fall between $15 and $62 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
484
States
43
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 484 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
$11$16$30$47$83

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $83).

How the prices are spread

$8 – $11: 27 hospitals$8$11 – $14: 34 hospitals$14 – $19: 71 hospitals$14$19 – $24: 31 hospitals$24 – $32: 68 hospitals$24$32 – $42: 67 hospitals$42 – $54: 53 hospitals$42$54 – $71: 49 hospitals$71 – $93: 17 hospitals$71$93 – $121: 20 hospitals$93median $30price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (437 of 484 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$8$1127
$11$1434
$14$1971
$19$2431
$24$3268
$32$4267
$42$5453
$54$7149
$71$9317
$93$12120

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $30.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital 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 $37 across 11 hospitalsWA$37Idaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $14 across 12 hospitalsIL$14Wisconsin: median $67 across 19 hospitalsWI$67Michigan: median $20 across 18 hospitalsMI$20New York: median $18 across 32 hospitalsNY$18Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $30 across 15 hospitalsIA$30Indiana: median $34 across 12 hospitalsIN$34Ohio: median $38 across 17 hospitalsOH$38Pennsylvania: median $22 across 40 hospitalsPA$22New Jersey: median $16 across 28 hospitalsNJ$16Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $62 across 53 hospitalsCA$62Utah: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $34 across 11 hospitalsCO$34Nebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $15 across 13 hospitalsMO$15Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $29 across 10 hospitalsVA$29Maryland: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $10 across 16 hospitalsTN$10North Carolina: median $24 across 11 hospitalsNC$24South Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $26 across 13 hospitalsOK$26Louisiana: median $8 across 10 hospitalsLA$8Mississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $36 across 31 hospitalsTX$36Florida: median $25 across 33 hospitalsFL$25
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $30. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI19$67+128%$43 – $67
California CA53$62+108%$47 – $62
Ohio OH17$38+28%$31 – $57
Washington WA11$37+26%$28 – $46
Texas TX31$36+20%$36 – $57
Colorado CO11$34+16%$31 – $34
Indiana IN12$34+14%$30 – $65
Iowa IA15$300%$30 – $30
Virginia VA10$29−2%$25 – $44
Oklahoma OK13$26−13%$26 – $41
Florida FL33$25−14%$17 – $116
North Carolina NC11$24−21%$7 – $50
Pennsylvania PA40$22−26%$11 – $34
Michigan MI18$20−32%$14 – $35
New York NY32$18−41%$15 – $68
New Jersey NJ28$16−46%$15 – $17
Missouri MO13$15−48%$15 – $34
Illinois IL12$14−53%$11 – $29
Tennessee TN16$10−65%$8 – $25
Louisiana LA10$8−72%$7 – $14
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $30.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care431$30$15 – $60
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access48$34$11 – $61
Ownership
For-profit73$38$14 – $108
Government46$18$13 – $46
Non-profit365$30$15 – $57
System affiliation
Part of a system424$30$15 – $62
Independent60$28$16 – $45

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$60
Median cash price$30
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

319 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $34 and the average of the middle 60% is $38; most fall between $18 and $62.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 319 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
$11$23$34$52$75

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $75).

Of the 344 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 319 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

484 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 512 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted484
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here19
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 — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code512

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 24, 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 CYTOPATH C/V INDEX ADD-ON.

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, “Hormone evaluation added to a Pap test (CPT 88155) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-88155-hormone-evaluation-added-to-a-pap-test