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

Chromosome analysis of amniotic fluid or placental tissue

CPT 88267the billing code this page is about

Laboratory study of chromosomes from amniotic fluid or a chorionic villus (placental) sample, counting 15 cells with one chromosome map.

Hospitals typically charge $499 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 981 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $536. Most fall between $217 and $1,079 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
981
States
48
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 981 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
$148$256$499$881$1,680

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($148 vs $1,680).

How the prices are spread

$125 – $167: 59 hospitals$125$167 – $223: 96 hospitals$223 – $298: 108 hospitals$223$298 – $398: 114 hospitals$398 – $532: 81 hospitals$398$532 – $712: 115 hospitals$712 – $952: 132 hospitals$712$952 – $1,273: 61 hospitals$1,273 – $1,702: 79 hospitals$1,273$1,702 – $2,276: 39 hospitals$1,702median $499price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (884 of 981 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$125$16759
$167$22396
$223$298108
$298$398114
$398$53281
$532$712115
$712$952132
$952$1,27361
$1,273$1,70279
$1,702$2,27639

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $499.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 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 $459 across 30 hospitalsWA$459Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $121 across 14 hospitalsMN$121Illinois: median $402 across 55 hospitalsIL$402Wisconsin: median $611 across 26 hospitalsWI$611Michigan: median $339 across 52 hospitalsMI$339New York: median $446 across 42 hospitalsNY$446Massachusetts: median $840 across 17 hospitalsMA$840Oregon: 7 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $181 across 15 hospitalsIA$181Indiana: median $454 across 35 hospitalsIN$454Ohio: median $686 across 81 hospitalsOH$686Pennsylvania: median $573 across 43 hospitalsPA$573New Jersey: median $207 across 35 hospitalsNJ$207Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,680 across 42 hospitalsCA$1,680Utah: median $376 across 26 hospitalsUT$376Colorado: median $1,015 across 20 hospitalsCO$1,015Nebraska: median $551 across 13 hospitalsNE$551Missouri: median $700 across 30 hospitalsMO$700Kentucky: median $269 across 10 hospitalsKY$269West Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $145 across 23 hospitalsVA$145Maryland: median $815 across 20 hospitalsMD$815Delaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $399 across 23 hospitalsAZ$399New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $148 across 23 hospitalsTN$148North Carolina: median $339 across 54 hospitalsNC$339South Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $330 across 18 hospitalsOK$330Louisiana: median $262 across 15 hospitalsLA$262Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $881 across 14 hospitalsGA$881Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $857 across 67 hospitalsTX$857Florida: median $106 across 41 hospitalsFL$106
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $499. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA42$1,680+236%$204 – $1,680
Colorado CO20$1,015+103%$988 – $2,819
Georgia GA14$881+76%$567 – $1,563
Texas TX67$857+72%$266 – $1,619
Massachusetts MA17$840+68%$382 – $1,558
Maryland MD20$815+63%$626 – $936
Missouri MO30$700+40%$490 – $1,086
Ohio OH81$686+37%$528 – $1,139
Wisconsin WI26$611+22%$377 – $720
Pennsylvania PA43$573+15%$153 – $2,216
Nebraska NE13$551+10%$265 – $644
Washington WA30$459−8%$340 – $805
Indiana IN35$454−9%$288 – $988
New York NY42$446−11%$189 – $884
Illinois IL55$402−20%$300 – $1,144
Arizona AZ23$399−20%$202 – $2,843
Utah UT26$376−25%$342 – $402
Michigan MI52$339−32%$143 – $660
North Carolina NC54$339−32%$253 – $817
Oklahoma OK18$330−34%$330 – $404
Kentucky KY10$269−46%$173 – $1,505
Louisiana LA15$262−48%$211 – $502
New Jersey NJ35$207−58%$189 – $217
Iowa IA15$181−64%$181 – $181
Tennessee TN23$148−70%$148 – $628
Virginia VA23$145−71%$133 – $2,071
Minnesota MN14$121−76%$114 – $361
Florida FL41$106−79%$75 – $794
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $499.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care850$491$207 – $1,079
Children’s22$608$281 – $741
Critical access104$416$269 – $974
Ownership
For-profit120$720$264 – $1,934
Government95$454$189 – $803
Non-profit761$442$207 – $988
System affiliation
Part of a system881$484$217 – $1,032
Independent100$525$217 – $1,086

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$880
Median cash price$499
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

735 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $547 and the average of the middle 60% is $560; most fall between $237 and $1,015.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 735 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
$148$269$547$879$1,680

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($148 vs $1,680).

Of the 821 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 735 gave a usable cash price; 54 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 32 a list price only.

How complete is this

981 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (25%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,078 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted981
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here56
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 — excluded40
Hospitals that filed this code1,078

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

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as CHROMOSOME ANALYS PLACENTA.

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 of amniotic fluid or placental tissue (CPT 88267) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-88267-chromosome-analysis-of-amniotic-fluid-or-placental-tissue