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Flow cytometry study of cell DNA and cell cycle

CPT 88182the billing code this page is about

Laboratory test that passes cells through a flow cytometer to measure DNA content or where cells are in their growth cycle.

Hospitals typically charge $179 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,600 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $197. Most fall between $82 and $399 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,600
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 1,600 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
$60$94$179$321$635

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($60 vs $635).

How the prices are spread

$43 – $60: 80 hospitals$43$60 – $82: 158 hospitals$82 – $112: 176 hospitals$82$112 – $154: 207 hospitals$154 – $212: 204 hospitals$154$212 – $291: 192 hospitals$291 – $400: 188 hospitals$291$400 – $549: 116 hospitals$549 – $753: 78 hospitals$549$753 – $1,034: 46 hospitals$753median $179price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,445 of 1,600 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$43$6080
$60$82158
$82$112176
$112$154207
$154$212204
$212$291192
$291$400188
$400$549116
$549$75378
$753$1,03446

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$53
Median cash price$179
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.4×

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 $179.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $137 across 22 hospitalsME$137Vermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $142 across 21 hospitalsWA$142Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $308 across 35 hospitalsMN$308Illinois: median $213 across 81 hospitalsIL$213Wisconsin: median $179 across 67 hospitalsWI$179Michigan: median $139 across 47 hospitalsMI$139New York: median $124 across 58 hospitalsNY$124Massachusetts: median $213 across 28 hospitalsMA$213Oregon: median $222 across 15 hospitalsOR$222Nevada: median $150 across 10 hospitalsNV$150Wyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $70 across 26 hospitalsIA$70Indiana: median $113 across 53 hospitalsIN$113Ohio: median $220 across 83 hospitalsOH$220Pennsylvania: median $116 across 70 hospitalsPA$116New Jersey: median $101 across 38 hospitalsNJ$101Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $307 across 75 hospitalsCA$307Utah: median $174 across 33 hospitalsUT$174Colorado: median $344 across 32 hospitalsCO$344Nebraska: median $171 across 21 hospitalsNE$171Missouri: median $172 across 40 hospitalsMO$172Kentucky: median $235 across 27 hospitalsKY$235West Virginia: median $185 across 19 hospitalsWV$185Virginia: median $213 across 32 hospitalsVA$213Maryland: median $375 across 34 hospitalsMD$375Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $324 across 23 hospitalsAZ$324New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $264 across 28 hospitalsKS$264Arkansas: median $85 across 24 hospitalsAR$85Tennessee: median $106 across 36 hospitalsTN$106North Carolina: median $111 across 38 hospitalsNC$111South Carolina: median $181 across 25 hospitalsSC$181Oklahoma: median $141 across 42 hospitalsOK$141Louisiana: median $91 across 26 hospitalsLA$91Mississippi: median $73 across 28 hospitalsMS$73Alabama: median $157 across 14 hospitalsAL$157Georgia: median $176 across 64 hospitalsGA$176Hawaii: median $268 across 13 hospitalsHI$268Texas: median $294 across 130 hospitalsTX$294Florida: median $112 across 80 hospitalsFL$112
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $179. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD34$375+109%$268 – $480
Colorado CO32$344+92%$203 – $1,180
Arizona AZ23$324+81%$138 – $324
Minnesota MN35$308+72%$147 – $439
California CA75$307+71%$70 – $320
Texas TX130$294+64%$99 – $567
Hawaii HI13$268+49%$119 – $384
Kansas KS28$264+47%$127 – $717
Kentucky KY27$235+31%$108 – $319
Oregon OR15$222+23%$127 – $667
Ohio OH83$220+23%$108 – $919
Massachusetts MA28$213+19%$148 – $625
Virginia VA32$213+19%$84 – $236
Illinois IL81$213+18%$96 – $508
West Virginia WV19$185+3%$39 – $495
South Carolina SC25$181+1%$107 – $464
Wisconsin WI67$1790%$134 – $297
Georgia GA64$176−2%$97 – $259
Utah UT33$174−3%$148 – $574
Missouri MO40$172−4%$116 – $295
Nebraska NE21$171−5%$68 – $314
Alabama AL14$157−13%$37 – $349
Nevada NV10$150−16%$61 – $695
Washington WA21$142−21%$90 – $229
Oklahoma OK42$141−21%$86 – $215
Michigan MI47$139−22%$72 – $238
Maine ME22$137−23%$82 – $362
New York NY58$124−31%$63 – $412
Pennsylvania PA70$116−35%$53 – $382
Indiana IN53$113−37%$75 – $473
Florida FL80$112−38%$48 – $479
North Carolina NC38$111−38%$87 – $611
Tennessee TN36$106−41%$84 – $164
New Jersey NJ38$101−44%$59 – $372
Louisiana LA26$91−49%$62 – $149
Arkansas AR24$85−53%$55 – $223
Mississippi MS28$73−60%$37 – $150
Iowa IA26$70−61%$70 – $384
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not 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 $179.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,279$179$78 – $413
Children’s31$289$142 – $578
Critical access284$171$89 – $342
Ownership
For-profit235$219$90 – $734
Government196$123$63 – $306
Non-profit1,163$181$84 – $384
System affiliation
Part of a system1,376$179$84 – $399
Independent224$172$70 – $396

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$337
Median cash price$179
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

1,124 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $187 and the average of the middle 60% is $210; most fall between $96 and $401.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,124 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
$70$114$187$331$572

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($70 vs $572).

Of the 1,246 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,124 gave a usable cash price; 74 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 48 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,600 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (40%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,737 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,600
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here88
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 — excluded48
Hospitals that filed this code1,737

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 September 4, 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 Flow Cytometry Cell Cycle/Dna Analysis|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, “Flow cytometry study of cell DNA and cell cycle (CPT 88182) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-88182-flow-cytometry-study-of-cell-dna-and-cell-cycle