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Freezing and storage of cells, each cell line

CPT 88240the billing code this page is about

Laboratory freezing and long-term storage of cultured cells; one unit covers one cell line preserved.

Hospitals typically charge $59 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 926 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $64. Most fall between $23 and $135 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
926
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2024 – 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 926 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
$14$26$59$110$228

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $228).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $17: 83 hospitals$12$17 – $25: 88 hospitals$25 – $35: 111 hospitals$25$35 – $50: 90 hospitals$50 – $72: 99 hospitals$50$72 – $102: 169 hospitals$102 – $146: 74 hospitals$102$146 – $208: 62 hospitals$208 – $297: 28 hospitals$208$297 – $423: 30 hospitals$297median $59price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (834 of 926 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$1783
$17$2588
$25$35111
$35$5090
$50$7299
$72$102169
$102$14674
$146$20862
$208$29728
$297$42330

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $59.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $30 across 14 hospitalsWA$30Idaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $95 across 38 hospitalsMN$95Illinois: median $91 across 54 hospitalsIL$91Wisconsin: median $93 across 60 hospitalsWI$93Michigan: median $79 across 26 hospitalsMI$79New York: median $16 across 37 hospitalsNY$16Massachusetts: median $64 across 15 hospitalsMA$64Oregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 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 $56 across 21 hospitalsIA$56Indiana: median $30 across 25 hospitalsIN$30Ohio: median $59 across 64 hospitalsOH$59Pennsylvania: median $22 across 46 hospitalsPA$22New Jersey: median $14 across 25 hospitalsNJ$14Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $63 across 51 hospitalsCA$63Utah: median $76 across 23 hospitalsUT$76Colorado: median $163 across 16 hospitalsCO$163Nebraska: median $160 across 14 hospitalsNE$160Missouri: median $98 across 27 hospitalsMO$98Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $19 across 19 hospitalsWV$19Virginia: median $75 across 18 hospitalsVA$75Maryland: median $132 across 13 hospitalsMD$132Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $38 across 12 hospitalsAR$38Tennessee: median $17 across 20 hospitalsTN$17North Carolina: median $34 across 23 hospitalsNC$34South Carolina: median $163 across 19 hospitalsSC$163Oklahoma: median $78 across 26 hospitalsOK$78Louisiana: median $18 across 16 hospitalsLA$18Mississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $81 across 37 hospitalsGA$81Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $42 across 54 hospitalsTX$42Florida: median $29 across 29 hospitalsFL$29
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $59. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC19$163+179%$44 – $163
Colorado CO16$163+179%$60 – $2,318
Nebraska NE14$160+173%$31 – $473
Maryland MD13$132+126%$41 – $147
Missouri MO27$98+68%$80 – $179
Minnesota MN38$95+63%$23 – $348
Wisconsin WI60$93+59%$36 – $100
Illinois IL54$91+56%$30 – $161
Georgia GA37$81+39%$18 – $136
Michigan MI26$79+35%$14 – $135
Oklahoma OK26$78+33%$23 – $92
Utah UT23$76+30%$76 – $90
Virginia VA18$75+27%$25 – $482
Massachusetts MA15$64+9%$40 – $239
California CA51$63+7%$42 – $117
Ohio OH64$590%$27 – $163
Iowa IA21$56−4%$56 – $90
Texas TX54$42−28%$21 – $101
Arkansas AR12$38−36%$24 – $131
North Carolina NC23$34−41%$25 – $195
Indiana IN25$30−49%$19 – $1,554
Washington WA14$30−49%$24 – $202
Florida FL29$29−50%$28 – $123
Pennsylvania PA46$22−62%$13 – $134
West Virginia WV19$19−68%$19 – $25
Louisiana LA16$18−69%$14 – $27
Tennessee TN20$17−71%$7 – $1,099
New York NY37$16−73%$13 – $47
New Jersey NJ25$14−75%$13 – $14
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $59.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care756$59$21 – $134
Children’s37$62$31 – $200
Critical access131$76$23 – $135
Ownership
For-profit64$55$27 – $136
Government87$32$18 – $120
Non-profit773$62$23 – $135
System affiliation
Part of a system839$59$22 – $134
Independent87$53$23 – $179

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$112
Median cash price$59
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

695 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $63 and the average of the middle 60% is $70; most fall between $27 and $136.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 695 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
$20$30$63$117$299

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $299).

Of the 751 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 695 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 31 a list price only.

How complete is this

926 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (23%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 979 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted926
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here18
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded33
Hospitals that filed this code979

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 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 Other Laboratory family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Amniotic Fluid Cryo.

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, “Freezing and storage of cells, each cell line (CPT 88240) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-88240-freezing-and-storage-of-cells-each-cell-line