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Procedure price report · Pathology

Special tissue stain for cell structures

CPT 88313the billing code this page is about

An added chemical stain applied to tissue slides to highlight tissue components other than germs or enzymes, with interpretation. Billed once per stain per specimen.

Hospitals typically charge $115 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,193 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $118. Most fall between $54 and $206 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,193
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 3,193 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
$33$62$115$179$274

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($33 vs $274).

How the prices are spread

$22 – $29: 104 hospitals$22$29 – $39: 138 hospitals$39 – $53: 216 hospitals$39$53 – $71: 330 hospitals$71 – $95: 378 hospitals$71$95 – $127: 405 hospitals$127 – $171: 557 hospitals$127$171 – $229: 413 hospitals$229 – $307: 214 hospitals$229$307 – $412: 120 hospitals$307median $115price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,875 of 3,193 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$22$29104
$29$39138
$39$53216
$53$71330
$71$95378
$95$127405
$127$171557
$171$229413
$229$307214
$307$412120

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$115
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.85×

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 $115.

Alaska: median $112 across 14 hospitalsAK$112Maine: median $83 across 28 hospitalsME$83Vermont: median $133 across 14 hospitalsVT$133New Hampshire: median $166 across 24 hospitalsNH$166Washington: median $122 across 70 hospitalsWA$122Idaho: median $141 across 22 hospitalsID$141Montana: median $161 across 23 hospitalsMT$161North Dakota: median $178 across 28 hospitalsND$178Minnesota: median $141 across 100 hospitalsMN$141Illinois: median $142 across 141 hospitalsIL$142Wisconsin: median $135 across 105 hospitalsWI$135Michigan: median $67 across 99 hospitalsMI$67New York: median $153 across 120 hospitalsNY$153Massachusetts: median $143 across 51 hospitalsMA$143Oregon: median $158 across 49 hospitalsOR$158Nevada: median $144 across 16 hospitalsNV$144Wyoming: median $144 across 13 hospitalsWY$144South Dakota: median $171 across 27 hospitalsSD$171Iowa: median $119 across 80 hospitalsIA$119Indiana: median $118 across 97 hospitalsIN$118Ohio: median $109 across 142 hospitalsOH$109Pennsylvania: median $113 across 122 hospitalsPA$113New Jersey: median $143 across 55 hospitalsNJ$143Connecticut: median $103 across 22 hospitalsCT$103Rhode Island: median $74 across 10 hospitalsRI$74California: median $93 across 159 hospitalsCA$93Utah: median $215 across 40 hospitalsUT$215Colorado: median $174 across 67 hospitalsCO$174Nebraska: median $154 across 77 hospitalsNE$154Missouri: median $93 across 74 hospitalsMO$93Kentucky: median $123 across 62 hospitalsKY$123West Virginia: median $58 across 38 hospitalsWV$58Virginia: median $168 across 61 hospitalsVA$168Maryland: median $25 across 40 hospitalsMD$25Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $139 across 36 hospitalsAZ$139New Mexico: median $119 across 27 hospitalsNM$119Kansas: median $83 across 76 hospitalsKS$83Arkansas: median $51 across 36 hospitalsAR$51Tennessee: median $71 across 78 hospitalsTN$71North Carolina: median $117 across 88 hospitalsNC$117South Carolina: median $161 across 52 hospitalsSC$161Oklahoma: median $82 across 62 hospitalsOK$82Louisiana: median $65 across 51 hospitalsLA$65Mississippi: median $47 across 53 hospitalsMS$47Alabama: median $80 across 39 hospitalsAL$80Georgia: median $78 across 101 hospitalsGA$78Hawaii: median $140 across 19 hospitalsHI$140Texas: median $154 across 228 hospitalsTX$154Florida: median $59 across 150 hospitalsFL$59
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $115. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT40$215+87%$95 – $253
North Dakota ND28$178+55%$121 – $230
Colorado CO67$174+52%$95 – $220
South Dakota SD27$171+49%$131 – $294
Virginia VA61$168+46%$99 – $238
New Hampshire NH24$166+44%$86 – $417
South Carolina SC52$161+40%$84 – $218
Montana MT23$161+40%$92 – $235
Oregon OR49$158+37%$88 – $236
Nebraska NE77$154+34%$96 – $225
Texas TX228$154+34%$67 – $257
New York NY120$153+33%$60 – $237
Wyoming WY13$144+26%$97 – $221
Nevada NV16$144+25%$41 – $541
Massachusetts MA51$143+24%$98 – $224
New Jersey NJ55$143+24%$81 – $177
Illinois IL141$142+23%$67 – $214
Idaho ID22$141+23%$104 – $573
Minnesota MN100$141+23%$49 – $193
Hawaii HI19$140+22%$110 – $203
Arizona AZ36$139+21%$83 – $286
Wisconsin WI105$135+17%$65 – $240
Vermont VT14$133+15%$58 – $223
Kentucky KY62$123+7%$56 – $239
Washington WA70$122+6%$84 – $168
Iowa IA80$119+4%$82 – $180
New Mexico NM27$119+3%$58 – $176
Indiana IN97$118+2%$60 – $215
North Carolina NC88$117+1%$57 – $171
Pennsylvania PA122$113−2%$50 – $171
Alaska AK14$112−3%$66 – $264
Ohio OH142$109−5%$80 – $162
Connecticut CT22$103−10%$88 – $202
California CA159$93−19%$37 – $268
Missouri MO74$93−19%$69 – $161
Kansas KS76$83−28%$62 – $142
Maine ME28$83−28%$65 – $181
Oklahoma OK62$82−29%$54 – $137
Alabama AL39$80−31%$39 – $217
Georgia GA101$78−32%$46 – $194
Rhode Island RI10$74−36%$62 – $130
Tennessee TN78$71−39%$31 – $97
Michigan MI99$67−42%$35 – $129
Louisiana LA51$65−44%$39 – $121
Florida FL150$59−49%$21 – $334
West Virginia WV38$58−50%$44 – $179
Arkansas AR36$51−56%$44 – $91
Mississippi MS53$47−59%$25 – $77
Maryland MD40$25−78%$21 – $33
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 $115.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,295$112$49 – $211
Children’s63$107$64 – $170
Critical access825$129$64 – $202
Ownership
For-profit464$125$51 – $318
Government553$112$48 – $176
Non-profit2,166$115$55 – $201
System affiliation
Part of a system2,611$120$55 – $215
Independent582$100$45 – $170

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$190
Median cash price$115
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

2,180 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $119 and the average of the middle 60% is $122; most fall between $56 and $211.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,180 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
$33$64$119$181$269

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($33 vs $269).

Of the 2,410 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,180 gave a usable cash price; 133 carried a plausibility flag, 0 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

3,193 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (81%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,477 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,193
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here168
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 — excluded115
Hospitals that filed this code3,477

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 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 Pathology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Spcl Stn 2 I&R Excpt Microorg/Enzyme/Imcyt|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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Special tissue stain for cell structures (CPT 88313) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-88313-special-tissue-stain-for-cell-structures