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Procedure price report · Pathology

Tissue exam under microscope, high complexity

CPT 88307the billing code this page is about

Visual and microscopic study of a more complex specimen, such as an organ removed for tumor or a joint resection. Billed once per specimen submitted.

Hospitals typically charge $397 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,181 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $412. Most fall between $228 and $682 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,181
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 3,181 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
$156$250$397$604$994

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($156 vs $994).

How the prices are spread

$109 – $142: 112 hospitals$109$142 – $186: 193 hospitals$186 – $242: 289 hospitals$186$242 – $315: 350 hospitals$315 – $411: 554 hospitals$315$411 – $535: 535 hospitals$535 – $697: 386 hospitals$535$697 – $909: 234 hospitals$909 – $1,185: 136 hospitals$909$1,185 – $1,544: 79 hospitals$1,185median $397price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,868 of 3,181 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$109$142112
$142$186193
$186$242289
$242$315350
$315$411554
$411$535535
$535$697386
$697$909234
$909$1,185136
$1,185$1,54479

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$366
Median cash price$397
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.08×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $397.

Alaska: median $529 across 13 hospitalsAK$529Maine: median $304 across 28 hospitalsME$304Vermont: median $504 across 13 hospitalsVT$504New Hampshire: median $542 across 24 hospitalsNH$542Washington: median $387 across 69 hospitalsWA$387Idaho: median $367 across 21 hospitalsID$367Montana: median $381 across 21 hospitalsMT$381North Dakota: median $549 across 26 hospitalsND$549Minnesota: median $424 across 102 hospitalsMN$424Illinois: median $471 across 136 hospitalsIL$471Wisconsin: median $480 across 105 hospitalsWI$480Michigan: median $328 across 100 hospitalsMI$328New York: median $447 across 119 hospitalsNY$447Massachusetts: median $677 across 50 hospitalsMA$677Oregon: median $402 across 49 hospitalsOR$402Nevada: median $389 across 17 hospitalsNV$389Wyoming: median $363 across 14 hospitalsWY$363South Dakota: median $558 across 27 hospitalsSD$558Iowa: median $329 across 81 hospitalsIA$329Indiana: median $449 across 95 hospitalsIN$449Ohio: median $402 across 141 hospitalsOH$402Pennsylvania: median $401 across 122 hospitalsPA$401New Jersey: median $399 across 56 hospitalsNJ$399Connecticut: median $410 across 22 hospitalsCT$410Rhode Island: median $387 across 10 hospitalsRI$387California: median $520 across 155 hospitalsCA$520Utah: median $340 across 40 hospitalsUT$340Colorado: median $543 across 67 hospitalsCO$543Nebraska: median $396 across 76 hospitalsNE$396Missouri: median $373 across 73 hospitalsMO$373Kentucky: median $371 across 61 hospitalsKY$371West Virginia: median $184 across 36 hospitalsWV$184Virginia: median $353 across 72 hospitalsVA$353Maryland: median $265 across 40 hospitalsMD$265Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $426 across 36 hospitalsAZ$426New Mexico: median $342 across 27 hospitalsNM$342Kansas: median $346 across 75 hospitalsKS$346Arkansas: median $307 across 36 hospitalsAR$307Tennessee: median $212 across 78 hospitalsTN$212North Carolina: median $356 across 90 hospitalsNC$356South Carolina: median $450 across 51 hospitalsSC$450Oklahoma: median $341 across 61 hospitalsOK$341Louisiana: median $202 across 52 hospitalsLA$202Mississippi: median $184 across 54 hospitalsMS$184Alabama: median $336 across 38 hospitalsAL$336Georgia: median $240 across 99 hospitalsGA$240Hawaii: median $356 across 17 hospitalsHI$356Texas: median $461 across 230 hospitalsTX$461Florida: median $683 across 149 hospitalsFL$683
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $397. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL149$683+72%$129 – $1,644
Massachusetts MA50$677+71%$397 – $930
South Dakota SD27$558+41%$306 – $680
North Dakota ND26$549+38%$430 – $643
Colorado CO67$543+37%$359 – $904
New Hampshire NH24$542+37%$236 – $973
Alaska AK13$529+33%$355 – $918
California CA155$520+31%$274 – $790
Vermont VT13$504+27%$301 – $867
Wisconsin WI105$480+21%$289 – $617
Illinois IL136$471+19%$250 – $685
Texas TX230$461+16%$253 – $896
South Carolina SC51$450+14%$300 – $740
Indiana IN95$449+13%$289 – $611
New York NY119$447+13%$243 – $865
Arizona AZ36$426+7%$259 – $1,072
Minnesota MN102$424+7%$237 – $558
Connecticut CT22$410+3%$346 – $1,159
Ohio OH141$402+1%$238 – $630
Oregon OR49$402+1%$307 – $685
Pennsylvania PA122$401+1%$212 – $707
New Jersey NJ56$399+1%$287 – $480
Nebraska NE76$3960%$239 – $523
Nevada NV17$389−2%$186 – $994
Rhode Island RI10$387−2%$311 – $415
Washington WA69$387−3%$264 – $569
Montana MT21$381−4%$173 – $574
Missouri MO73$373−6%$263 – $636
Kentucky KY61$371−7%$190 – $932
Idaho ID21$367−7%$307 – $1,587
Wyoming WY14$363−8%$278 – $574
Hawaii HI17$356−10%$304 – $796
North Carolina NC90$356−10%$239 – $503
Virginia VA72$353−11%$249 – $481
Kansas KS75$346−13%$234 – $548
New Mexico NM27$342−14%$182 – $697
Oklahoma OK61$341−14%$144 – $576
Utah UT40$340−14%$280 – $586
Alabama AL38$336−15%$200 – $674
Iowa IA81$329−17%$251 – $465
Michigan MI100$328−17%$124 – $475
Arkansas AR36$307−23%$172 – $389
Maine ME28$304−23%$235 – $429
Maryland MD40$265−33%$209 – $320
Georgia GA99$240−40%$220 – $740
Tennessee TN78$212−47%$130 – $412
Louisiana LA52$202−49%$129 – $433
Mississippi MS54$184−54%$118 – $327
West Virginia WV36$184−54%$57 – $468
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 $397.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,305$398$219 – $721
Children’s61$475$314 – $747
Critical access805$389$231 – $598
Ownership
For-profit465$477$229 – $1,327
Government540$365$209 – $574
Non-profit2,166$392$228 – $636
System affiliation
Part of a system2,605$400$231 – $690
Independent576$367$205 – $633

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$680
Median cash price$397
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

2,176 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $403 and the average of the middle 60% is $418; most fall between $232 and $685.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,176 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
$163$250$403$604$935

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($163 vs $935).

Of the 2,407 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,176 gave a usable cash price; 132 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 97 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,181 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (80%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,462 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,181
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here164
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded114
Hospitals that filed this code3,462

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 July 20, 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 Pathology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Level V Surg Pathology Gross&Microscopic Exam|PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT.

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, “Tissue exam under microscope, high complexity (CPT 88307) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-88307-tissue-exam-under-microscope-high-complexity