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Liquid-based Pap test with automated screening

CPT 88175the billing code this page is about

Cervical or vaginal cell sample prepared as a thin layer on a slide and screened by an automated system, with rescreening and interpretation under physician supervision.

Hospitals typically charge $81 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,086 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $83. Most fall between $41 and $142 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,086
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 2,086 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
$28$46$81$124$204

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($28 vs $204).

How the prices are spread

$23 – $30: 140 hospitals$23$30 – $37: 121 hospitals$37 – $47: 170 hospitals$37$47 – $59: 193 hospitals$59 – $75: 222 hospitals$59$75 – $94: 278 hospitals$94 – $119: 299 hospitals$94$119 – $150: 202 hospitals$150 – $189: 127 hospitals$150$189 – $239: 140 hospitals$189median $81price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,892 of 2,086 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$23$30140
$30$37121
$37$47170
$47$59193
$59$75222
$75$94278
$94$119299
$119$150202
$150$189127
$189$239140

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $81.

Alaska: median $87 across 14 hospitalsAK$87Maine: median $59 across 25 hospitalsME$59Vermont: median $89 across 12 hospitalsVT$89New Hampshire: median $112 across 21 hospitalsNH$112Washington: median $85 across 60 hospitalsWA$85Idaho: median $99 across 20 hospitalsID$99Montana: median $94 across 19 hospitalsMT$94North Dakota: median $140 across 23 hospitalsND$140Minnesota: median $85 across 61 hospitalsMN$85Illinois: median $121 across 112 hospitalsIL$121Wisconsin: median $108 across 67 hospitalsWI$108Michigan: median $64 across 81 hospitalsMI$64New York: median $65 across 84 hospitalsNY$65Massachusetts: median $119 across 40 hospitalsMA$119Oregon: median $91 across 30 hospitalsOR$91Nevada: median $80 across 10 hospitalsNV$80Wyoming: median $103 across 11 hospitalsWY$103South Dakota: median $103 across 20 hospitalsSD$103Iowa: median $78 across 44 hospitalsIA$78Indiana: median $57 across 72 hospitalsIN$57Ohio: median $91 across 128 hospitalsOH$91Pennsylvania: median $78 across 104 hospitalsPA$78New Jersey: median $29 across 42 hospitalsNJ$29Connecticut: median $118 across 20 hospitalsCT$118Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $82 across 75 hospitalsCA$82Utah: median $204 across 31 hospitalsUT$204Colorado: median $104 across 39 hospitalsCO$104Nebraska: median $85 across 40 hospitalsNE$85Missouri: median $62 across 56 hospitalsMO$62Kentucky: median $63 across 36 hospitalsKY$63West Virginia: median $84 across 37 hospitalsWV$84Virginia: median $98 across 50 hospitalsVA$98Maryland: median $57 across 14 hospitalsMD$57Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $101 across 27 hospitalsAZ$101New Mexico: median $95 across 18 hospitalsNM$95Kansas: median $92 across 28 hospitalsKS$92Arkansas: median $42 across 22 hospitalsAR$42Tennessee: median $32 across 34 hospitalsTN$32North Carolina: median $117 across 62 hospitalsNC$117South Carolina: median $112 across 41 hospitalsSC$112Oklahoma: median $52 across 49 hospitalsOK$52Louisiana: median $43 across 38 hospitalsLA$43Mississippi: median $30 across 24 hospitalsMS$30Alabama: median $39 across 18 hospitalsAL$39Georgia: median $44 across 52 hospitalsGA$44Hawaii: median $134 across 14 hospitalsHI$134Texas: median $77 across 115 hospitalsTX$77Florida: median $41 across 34 hospitalsFL$41
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $81. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT31$204+152%$122 – $240
North Dakota ND23$140+72%$101 – $182
Hawaii HI14$134+66%$82 – $228
Illinois IL112$121+50%$59 – $183
Massachusetts MA40$119+47%$67 – $227
Connecticut CT20$118+46%$94 – $221
North Carolina NC62$117+44%$44 – $152
New Hampshire NH21$112+38%$65 – $141
South Carolina SC41$112+38%$70 – $150
Wisconsin WI67$108+33%$95 – $163
Colorado CO39$104+28%$43 – $264
South Dakota SD20$103+27%$68 – $117
Wyoming WY11$103+27%$68 – $140
Arizona AZ27$101+24%$42 – $239
Idaho ID20$99+22%$67 – $118
Virginia VA50$98+21%$16 – $142
New Mexico NM18$95+17%$84 – $136
Montana MT19$94+16%$56 – $125
Kansas KS28$92+14%$50 – $176
Oregon OR30$91+12%$54 – $102
Ohio OH128$91+12%$57 – $146
Vermont VT12$89+10%$76 – $191
Alaska AK14$87+7%$35 – $151
Minnesota MN61$85+5%$48 – $117
Nebraska NE40$85+5%$70 – $140
Washington WA60$85+5%$41 – $149
West Virginia WV37$84+4%$52 – $147
California CA75$82+1%$34 – $92
Nevada NV10$80−1%$29 – $121
Iowa IA44$78−4%$55 – $120
Pennsylvania PA104$78−4%$31 – $187
Texas TX115$77−6%$35 – $109
New York NY84$65−19%$32 – $109
Michigan MI81$64−21%$37 – $114
Kentucky KY36$63−22%$39 – $212
Missouri MO56$62−23%$47 – $83
Maine ME25$59−28%$27 – $103
Indiana IN72$57−29%$39 – $108
Maryland MD14$57−30%$25 – $165
Oklahoma OK49$52−36%$38 – $80
Georgia GA52$44−45%$27 – $78
Louisiana LA38$43−47%$28 – $92
Arkansas AR22$42−48%$31 – $67
Florida FL34$41−49%$30 – $124
Alabama AL18$39−52%$28 – $106
Tennessee TN34$32−60%$23 – $57
Mississippi MS24$30−63%$24 – $63
New Jersey NJ42$29−64%$27 – $144
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $81.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,493$77$37 – $142
Children’s23$85$54 – $168
Critical access563$92$54 – $142
Ownership
For-profit219$73$34 – $163
Government340$79$40 – $130
Non-profit1,520$84$42 – $145
System affiliation
Part of a system1,735$82$40 – $147
Independent351$80$43 – $125

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$141
Median cash price$81
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

1,472 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $85 and the average of the middle 60% is $87; most fall between $42 and $149.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,472 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
$30$51$85$130$204

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($30 vs $204).

Of the 1,588 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,472 gave a usable cash price; 48 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 67 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,086 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (53%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,227 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,086
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here70
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded3
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded67
Hospitals that filed this code2,227

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.

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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, “Liquid-based Pap test with automated screening (CPT 88175) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-88175-liquid-based-pap-test-with-automated-screening