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Procedure price report · Other Laboratory

Chromosome probe study on resting cells, 25 to 99 cells

CPT 88274the billing code this page is about

Microscope study of non-dividing cells labeled with genetic probes, with 25 to 99 cells scored; billed separately from the probes themselves.

Hospitals typically charge $148 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,700 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $159. Most fall between $63 and $315 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,700
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 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 1,700 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
$42$72$148$271$427

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($42 vs $427).

How the prices are spread

$34 – $45: 113 hospitals$34$45 – $60: 113 hospitals$60 – $79: 153 hospitals$60$79 – $106: 176 hospitals$106 – $140: 161 hospitals$106$140 – $187: 209 hospitals$187 – $249: 202 hospitals$187$249 – $331: 180 hospitals$331 – $441: 148 hospitals$331$441 – $587: 80 hospitals$441median $148price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,535 of 1,700 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$34$45113
$45$60113
$60$79153
$79$106176
$106$140161
$140$187209
$187$249202
$249$331180
$331$441148
$441$58780

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $148.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $184 across 15 hospitalsME$184Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $178 across 13 hospitalsNH$178Washington: median $192 across 37 hospitalsWA$192Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 6 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 $167 across 65 hospitalsMN$167Illinois: median $200 across 87 hospitalsIL$200Wisconsin: median $260 across 76 hospitalsWI$260Michigan: median $114 across 61 hospitalsMI$114New York: median $106 across 62 hospitalsNY$106Massachusetts: median $151 across 32 hospitalsMA$151Oregon: median $200 across 10 hospitalsOR$200Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $128 across 24 hospitalsIA$128Indiana: median $106 across 58 hospitalsIN$106Ohio: median $130 across 116 hospitalsOH$130Pennsylvania: median $137 across 82 hospitalsPA$137New Jersey: median $47 across 40 hospitalsNJ$47Connecticut: median $116 across 13 hospitalsCT$116Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $233 across 66 hospitalsCA$233Utah: median $86 across 30 hospitalsUT$86Colorado: median $182 across 44 hospitalsCO$182Nebraska: median $72 across 10 hospitalsNE$72Missouri: median $148 across 46 hospitalsMO$148Kentucky: median $120 across 26 hospitalsKY$120West Virginia: median $90 across 25 hospitalsWV$90Virginia: median $215 across 30 hospitalsVA$215Maryland: median $529 across 26 hospitalsMD$529Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $343 across 25 hospitalsAZ$343New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $183 across 24 hospitalsKS$183Arkansas: median $98 across 13 hospitalsAR$98Tennessee: median $72 across 34 hospitalsTN$72North Carolina: median $271 across 59 hospitalsNC$271South Carolina: median $195 across 21 hospitalsSC$195Oklahoma: median $116 across 34 hospitalsOK$116Louisiana: median $58 across 30 hospitalsLA$58Mississippi: median $82 across 31 hospitalsMS$82Alabama: median $88 across 16 hospitalsAL$88Georgia: median $142 across 50 hospitalsGA$142Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $247 across 121 hospitalsTX$247Florida: median $119 across 64 hospitalsFL$119
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $148. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD26$529+258%$357 – $624
Arizona AZ25$343+132%$42 – $551
North Carolina NC59$271+83%$81 – $331
Wisconsin WI76$260+76%$139 – $289
Texas TX121$247+67%$83 – $338
California CA66$233+57%$98 – $347
Virginia VA30$215+45%$90 – $317
Illinois IL87$200+35%$80 – $310
Oregon OR10$200+35%$200 – $244
South Carolina SC21$195+32%$80 – $427
Washington WA37$192+29%$80 – $282
Maine ME15$184+24%$43 – $310
Kansas KS24$183+24%$99 – $557
Colorado CO44$182+23%$69 – $505
New Hampshire NH13$178+20%$23 – $373
Minnesota MN65$167+13%$67 – $207
Massachusetts MA32$151+2%$82 – $275
Missouri MO46$1480%$108 – $361
Georgia GA50$142−4%$48 – $184
Pennsylvania PA82$137−8%$42 – $421
Ohio OH116$130−12%$72 – $190
Iowa IA24$128−14%$112 – $128
Kentucky KY26$120−19%$75 – $587
Florida FL64$119−20%$55 – $300
Connecticut CT13$116−22%$67 – $318
Oklahoma OK34$116−22%$86 – $218
Michigan MI61$114−23%$42 – $369
New York NY62$106−28%$43 – $188
Indiana IN58$106−28%$62 – $275
Arkansas AR13$98−34%$88 – $136
West Virginia WV25$90−39%$45 – $221
Alabama AL16$88−41%$51 – $179
Utah UT30$86−42%$73 – $118
Mississippi MS31$82−44%$48 – $163
Nebraska NE10$72−51%$49 – $129
Tennessee TN34$72−51%$34 – $398
Louisiana LA30$58−61%$11 – $165
New Jersey NJ40$47−68%$42 – $162
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not 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 $148.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,357$148$60 – $318
Children’s35$141$65 – $214
Critical access300$153$81 – $289
Ownership
For-profit197$182$80 – $419
Government209$118$48 – $261
Non-profit1,286$149$64 – $316
System affiliation
Part of a system1,494$150$63 – $316
Independent206$136$65 – $278

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$248
Median cash price$148
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

1,228 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $155 and the average of the middle 60% is $169; most fall between $72 and $317.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,228 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
$47$83$155$275$427

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($47 vs $427).

Of the 1,344 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,228 gave a usable cash price; 58 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 58 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,700 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (43%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,827 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,700
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here60
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 — excluded66
Hospitals that filed this code1,827

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 25-99 Interphase Nuclei.

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 probe study on resting cells, 25 to 99 cells (CPT 88274) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-88274-chromosome-probe-study-on-resting-cells-25-to-99-cells