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Procedure price report · Microscopic examination (bacterial smear, culture, toxicology)

Chromosome analysis, 15 to 20 cells with two karyotypes

CPT 88262the billing code this page is about

Laboratory study of a sample's chromosomes using banding, counting 15 to 20 cells and preparing two chromosome maps.

Hospitals typically charge $391 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,712 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $417. Most fall between $170 and $816 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,712
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 2,712 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
$125$200$391$691$1,203

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($125 vs $1,203).

How the prices are spread

$96 – $128: 196 hospitals$96$128 – $171: 214 hospitals$171 – $227: 233 hospitals$171$227 – $302: 291 hospitals$302 – $402: 325 hospitals$302$402 – $535: 320 hospitals$535 – $712: 350 hospitals$535$712 – $947: 213 hospitals$947 – $1,260: 182 hospitals$947$1,260 – $1,677: 118 hospitals$1,260median $391price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,442 of 2,712 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$96$128196
$128$171214
$171$227233
$227$302291
$302$402325
$402$535320
$535$712350
$712$947213
$947$1,260182
$1,260$1,677118

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $391.

Alaska: median $471 across 11 hospitalsAK$471Maine: median $329 across 25 hospitalsME$329Vermont: median $627 across 13 hospitalsVT$627New Hampshire: median $517 across 21 hospitalsNH$517Washington: median $535 across 56 hospitalsWA$535Idaho: median $219 across 18 hospitalsID$219Montana: median $290 across 14 hospitalsMT$290North Dakota: median $306 across 19 hospitalsND$306Minnesota: median $436 across 77 hospitalsMN$436Illinois: median $519 across 121 hospitalsIL$519Wisconsin: median $640 across 94 hospitalsWI$640Michigan: median $235 across 91 hospitalsMI$235New York: median $353 across 98 hospitalsNY$353Massachusetts: median $501 across 45 hospitalsMA$501Oregon: median $272 across 39 hospitalsOR$272Nevada: median $439 across 17 hospitalsNV$439Wyoming: median $425 across 11 hospitalsWY$425South Dakota: median $306 across 16 hospitalsSD$306Iowa: median $306 across 45 hospitalsIA$306Indiana: median $391 across 87 hospitalsIN$391Ohio: median $375 across 131 hospitalsOH$375Pennsylvania: median $419 across 119 hospitalsPA$419New Jersey: median $138 across 53 hospitalsNJ$138Connecticut: median $502 across 15 hospitalsCT$502Rhode Island: median $400 across 10 hospitalsRI$400California: median $185 across 118 hospitalsCA$185Utah: median $980 across 38 hospitalsUT$980Colorado: median $485 across 59 hospitalsCO$485Nebraska: median $570 across 40 hospitalsNE$570Missouri: median $394 across 69 hospitalsMO$394Kentucky: median $376 across 52 hospitalsKY$376West Virginia: median $110 across 26 hospitalsWV$110Virginia: median $687 across 65 hospitalsVA$687Maryland: median $800 across 40 hospitalsMD$800Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $442 across 33 hospitalsAZ$442New Mexico: median $604 across 17 hospitalsNM$604Kansas: median $540 across 56 hospitalsKS$540Arkansas: median $258 across 30 hospitalsAR$258Tennessee: median $345 across 69 hospitalsTN$345North Carolina: median $530 across 77 hospitalsNC$530South Carolina: median $767 across 48 hospitalsSC$767Oklahoma: median $274 across 57 hospitalsOK$274Louisiana: median $254 across 43 hospitalsLA$254Mississippi: median $191 across 43 hospitalsMS$191Alabama: median $228 across 32 hospitalsAL$228Georgia: median $400 across 97 hospitalsGA$400Hawaii: median $469 across 15 hospitalsHI$469Texas: median $353 across 204 hospitalsTX$353Florida: median $186 across 132 hospitalsFL$186
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $391. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT38$980+151%$768 – $1,153
Maryland MD40$800+105%$641 – $1,025
South Carolina SC48$767+96%$280 – $1,174
Virginia VA65$687+76%$372 – $1,011
Wisconsin WI94$640+64%$347 – $1,340
Vermont VT13$627+61%$254 – $1,098
New Mexico NM17$604+55%$386 – $963
Nebraska NE40$570+46%$301 – $815
Kansas KS56$540+38%$244 – $823
Washington WA56$535+37%$306 – $782
North Carolina NC77$530+36%$208 – $759
Illinois IL121$519+33%$220 – $864
New Hampshire NH21$517+32%$125 – $1,039
Connecticut CT15$502+29%$300 – $667
Massachusetts MA45$501+28%$307 – $900
Colorado CO59$485+24%$192 – $1,484
Alaska AK11$471+21%$311 – $725
Hawaii HI15$469+20%$197 – $755
Arizona AZ33$442+13%$148 – $1,971
Nevada NV17$439+12%$125 – $1,278
Minnesota MN77$436+12%$268 – $899
Wyoming WY11$425+9%$234 – $527
Pennsylvania PA119$419+7%$144 – $1,017
Georgia GA97$400+3%$248 – $611
Rhode Island RI10$400+2%$289 – $995
Missouri MO69$394+1%$290 – $614
Indiana IN87$3910%$200 – $901
Kentucky KY52$376−4%$206 – $1,308
Ohio OH131$375−4%$213 – $563
Texas TX204$353−10%$233 – $1,078
New York NY98$353−10%$125 – $714
Tennessee TN69$345−12%$163 – $657
Maine ME25$329−16%$160 – $486
Iowa IA45$306−22%$128 – $774
North Dakota ND19$306−22%$211 – $571
South Dakota SD16$306−22%$145 – $1,065
Montana MT14$290−26%$181 – $484
Oklahoma OK57$274−30%$212 – $430
Oregon OR39$272−30%$161 – $413
Arkansas AR30$258−34%$160 – $343
Louisiana LA43$254−35%$161 – $523
Michigan MI91$235−40%$122 – $805
Alabama AL32$228−42%$137 – $838
Idaho ID18$219−44%$181 – $613
Mississippi MS43$191−51%$90 – $372
Florida FL132$186−52%$88 – $492
California CA118$185−53%$111 – $362
New Jersey NJ53$138−65%$125 – $422
West Virginia WV26$110−72%$110 – $392
Delaware DE6not 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 $391.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,063$382$161 – $809
Children’s50$446$224 – $958
Critical access589$397$214 – $825
Ownership
For-profit386$446$223 – $1,422
Government414$362$150 – $647
Non-profit1,902$382$167 – $805
System affiliation
Part of a system2,268$392$169 – $875
Independent444$374$174 – $679

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$661
Median cash price$391
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

1,904 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $405 and the average of the middle 60% is $436; most fall between $183 and $826.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,904 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
$128$218$405$714$1,174

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($128 vs $1,174).

Of the 2,096 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,904 gave a usable cash price; 103 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 89 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,712 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (69%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,953 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,712
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here139
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 — excluded101
Hospitals that filed this code2,953

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 Microscopic examination (bacterial smear, culture, toxicology) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Count 15-20 Cells/Karyotype 2.

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, “Chromosome analysis, 15 to 20 cells with two karyotypes (CPT 88262) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-88262-chromosome-analysis-15-to-20-cells-with-two-karyotypes