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Procedure price report · Other Laboratory

Genetic probe used in chromosome testing, each probe

CPT 88271the billing code this page is about

Preparation and use of one DNA probe that attaches to a specific part of a chromosome; billed once for each probe used in the test.

Hospitals typically charge $83 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,620 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $93. Most fall between $33 and $185 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,620
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 2,620 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
$23$39$83$165$284

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $284).

How the prices are spread

$16 – $23: 147 hospitals$16$23 – $32: 226 hospitals$32 – $44: 246 hospitals$32$44 – $61: 246 hospitals$61 – $84: 342 hospitals$61$84 – $117: 287 hospitals$117 – $162: 321 hospitals$117$162 – $225: 312 hospitals$225 – $313: 154 hospitals$225$313 – $434: 91 hospitals$313median $83price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,372 of 2,620 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$16$23147
$23$32226
$32$44246
$44$61246
$61$84342
$84$117287
$117$162321
$162$225312
$225$313154
$313$43491

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $83.

Alaska: median $55 across 13 hospitalsAK$55Maine: median $122 across 22 hospitalsME$122Vermont: median $113 across 11 hospitalsVT$113New Hampshire: median $106 across 22 hospitalsNH$106Washington: median $109 across 57 hospitalsWA$109Idaho: median $78 across 16 hospitalsID$78Montana: median $68 across 15 hospitalsMT$68North Dakota: median $64 across 23 hospitalsND$64Minnesota: median $66 across 88 hospitalsMN$66Illinois: median $112 across 126 hospitalsIL$112Wisconsin: median $138 across 92 hospitalsWI$138Michigan: median $38 across 84 hospitalsMI$38New York: median $56 across 104 hospitalsNY$56Massachusetts: median $116 across 44 hospitalsMA$116Oregon: median $65 across 32 hospitalsOR$65Nevada: median $105 across 17 hospitalsNV$105Wyoming: median $84 across 13 hospitalsWY$84South Dakota: median $58 across 13 hospitalsSD$58Iowa: median $112 across 55 hospitalsIA$112Indiana: median $66 across 91 hospitalsIN$66Ohio: median $87 across 125 hospitalsOH$87Pennsylvania: median $85 across 109 hospitalsPA$85New Jersey: median $25 across 51 hospitalsNJ$25Connecticut: median $114 across 19 hospitalsCT$114Rhode Island: median $79 across 10 hospitalsRI$79California: median $65 across 100 hospitalsCA$65Utah: median $43 across 38 hospitalsUT$43Colorado: median $120 across 58 hospitalsCO$120Nebraska: median $116 across 50 hospitalsNE$116Missouri: median $81 across 65 hospitalsMO$81Kentucky: median $84 across 54 hospitalsKY$84West Virginia: median $57 across 34 hospitalsWV$57Virginia: median $110 across 57 hospitalsVA$110Maryland: median $132 across 40 hospitalsMD$132Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $148 across 37 hospitalsAZ$148New Mexico: median $116 across 10 hospitalsNM$116Kansas: median $143 across 51 hospitalsKS$143Arkansas: median $60 across 26 hospitalsAR$60Tennessee: median $41 across 52 hospitalsTN$41North Carolina: median $79 across 79 hospitalsNC$79South Carolina: median $238 across 48 hospitalsSC$238Oklahoma: median $59 across 54 hospitalsOK$59Louisiana: median $53 across 41 hospitalsLA$53Mississippi: median $51 across 40 hospitalsMS$51Alabama: median $102 across 36 hospitalsAL$102Georgia: median $129 across 85 hospitalsGA$129Hawaii: median $58 across 14 hospitalsHI$58Texas: median $75 across 181 hospitalsTX$75Florida: median $65 across 111 hospitalsFL$65
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $83. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC48$238+186%$104 – $434
Arizona AZ37$148+78%$32 – $310
Kansas KS51$143+72%$72 – $237
Wisconsin WI92$138+65%$76 – $163
Maryland MD40$132+59%$104 – $163
Georgia GA85$129+55%$50 – $212
Maine ME22$122+46%$62 – $271
Colorado CO58$120+44%$42 – $219
Nebraska NE50$116+39%$56 – $327
New Mexico NM10$116+39%$38 – $200
Massachusetts MA44$116+39%$53 – $259
Connecticut CT19$114+37%$79 – $181
Vermont VT11$113+35%$98 – $175
Illinois IL126$112+35%$52 – $212
Iowa IA55$112+34%$53 – $149
Virginia VA57$110+32%$57 – $172
Washington WA57$109+31%$49 – $173
New Hampshire NH22$106+27%$23 – $277
Nevada NV17$105+26%$22 – $211
Alabama AL36$102+23%$35 – $224
Ohio OH125$87+5%$64 – $168
Pennsylvania PA109$85+2%$25 – $252
Kentucky KY54$84+1%$34 – $281
Wyoming WY13$84+1%$28 – $120
Missouri MO65$81−2%$52 – $190
Rhode Island RI10$79−5%$59 – $172
North Carolina NC79$79−5%$36 – $222
Idaho ID16$78−6%$59 – $100
Texas TX181$75−11%$21 – $295
Montana MT15$68−19%$38 – $102
Indiana IN91$66−21%$30 – $133
Minnesota MN88$66−21%$26 – $141
Florida FL111$65−21%$25 – $198
Oregon OR32$65−22%$30 – $117
California CA100$65−22%$32 – $167
North Dakota ND23$64−23%$36 – $153
Arkansas AR26$60−28%$28 – $88
Oklahoma OK54$59−29%$13 – $127
South Dakota SD13$58−30%$23 – $244
Hawaii HI14$58−31%$40 – $181
West Virginia WV34$57−31%$28 – $129
New York NY104$56−33%$33 – $121
Alaska AK13$55−34%$33 – $149
Louisiana LA41$53−36%$18 – $100
Mississippi MS40$51−39%$17 – $126
Utah UT38$43−48%$37 – $276
Tennessee TN52$41−51%$21 – $117
Michigan MI84$38−54%$17 – $132
New Jersey NJ51$25−70%$24 – $68
Delaware DE7not 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 $83.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,975$80$30 – $181
Children’s47$70$37 – $162
Critical access588$98$42 – $195
Ownership
For-profit334$102$39 – $317
Government402$104$35 – $210
Non-profit1,874$78$32 – $171
System affiliation
Part of a system2,204$81$32 – $181
Independent416$91$42 – $210

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$143
Median cash price$83
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

1,835 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $82 and the average of the middle 60% is $92; most fall between $35 and $176.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,835 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
$23$41$82$161$256

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $256).

Of the 2,026 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,835 gave a usable cash price; 104 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 87 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,620 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (66%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,870 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,620
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here150
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded98
Hospitals that filed this code2,870

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 Fish Dna Probes Each.

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, “Genetic probe used in chromosome testing, each probe (CPT 88271) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-88271-genetic-probe-used-in-chromosome-testing-each-probe