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Frozen tissue exam during surgery, each extra block

CPT 88332the billing code this page is about

Add-on for each additional tissue block frozen and read from the same specimen during an operation; billed per extra block beyond the first.

Hospitals typically charge $95 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,647 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $98. Most fall between $41 and $181 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,647
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 2,647 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
$25$50$95$157$287

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($25 vs $287).

How the prices are spread

$16 – $23: 96 hospitals$16$23 – $32: 142 hospitals$32 – $44: 219 hospitals$32$44 – $61: 265 hospitals$61 – $85: 336 hospitals$61$85 – $118: 456 hospitals$118 – $164: 401 hospitals$118$164 – $229: 233 hospitals$229 – $318: 147 hospitals$229$318 – $442: 88 hospitals$318median $95price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,383 of 2,647 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$16$2396
$23$32142
$32$44219
$44$61265
$61$85336
$85$118456
$118$164401
$164$229233
$229$318147
$318$44288

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $95.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $48 across 21 hospitalsME$48Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $102 across 20 hospitalsNH$102Washington: median $69 across 50 hospitalsWA$69Idaho: median $119 across 17 hospitalsID$119Montana: median $66 across 14 hospitalsMT$66North Dakota: median $60 across 14 hospitalsND$60Minnesota: median $88 across 69 hospitalsMN$88Illinois: median $141 across 116 hospitalsIL$141Wisconsin: median $125 across 88 hospitalsWI$125Michigan: median $61 across 88 hospitalsMI$61New York: median $102 across 87 hospitalsNY$102Massachusetts: median $94 across 46 hospitalsMA$94Oregon: median $95 across 42 hospitalsOR$95Nevada: median $105 across 12 hospitalsNV$105Wyoming: median $46 across 12 hospitalsWY$46South Dakota: median $62 across 15 hospitalsSD$62Iowa: median $97 across 64 hospitalsIA$97Indiana: median $95 across 80 hospitalsIN$95Ohio: median $119 across 128 hospitalsOH$119Pennsylvania: median $99 across 103 hospitalsPA$99New Jersey: median $56 across 43 hospitalsNJ$56Connecticut: median $69 across 20 hospitalsCT$69Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $97 across 156 hospitalsCA$97Utah: median $167 across 37 hospitalsUT$167Colorado: median $75 across 54 hospitalsCO$75Nebraska: median $89 across 35 hospitalsNE$89Missouri: median $82 across 64 hospitalsMO$82Kentucky: median $74 across 52 hospitalsKY$74West Virginia: median $56 across 30 hospitalsWV$56Virginia: median $64 across 64 hospitalsVA$64Maryland: median $14 across 40 hospitalsMD$14Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $102 across 32 hospitalsAZ$102New Mexico: median $104 across 15 hospitalsNM$104Kansas: median $143 across 57 hospitalsKS$143Arkansas: median $69 across 24 hospitalsAR$69Tennessee: median $31 across 70 hospitalsTN$31North Carolina: median $106 across 78 hospitalsNC$106South Carolina: median $118 across 48 hospitalsSC$118Oklahoma: median $82 across 51 hospitalsOK$82Louisiana: median $24 across 43 hospitalsLA$24Mississippi: median $35 across 45 hospitalsMS$35Alabama: median $71 across 35 hospitalsAL$71Georgia: median $115 across 85 hospitalsGA$115Hawaii: median $109 across 16 hospitalsHI$109Texas: median $153 across 206 hospitalsTX$153Florida: median $255 across 129 hospitalsFL$255
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $95. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL129$255+169%$65 – $799
Utah UT37$167+76%$141 – $197
Texas TX206$153+61%$72 – $377
Kansas KS57$143+51%$91 – $265
Illinois IL116$141+49%$65 – $266
Wisconsin WI88$125+32%$75 – $160
Idaho ID17$119+26%$50 – $206
Ohio OH128$119+25%$65 – $164
South Carolina SC48$118+25%$72 – $182
Georgia GA85$115+21%$53 – $133
Hawaii HI16$109+14%$62 – $191
North Carolina NC78$106+11%$46 – $138
Nevada NV12$105+11%$62 – $159
New Mexico NM15$104+10%$59 – $183
New Hampshire NH20$102+8%$20 – $288
Arizona AZ32$102+8%$42 – $211
New York NY87$102+8%$45 – $188
Pennsylvania PA103$99+4%$22 – $213
California CA156$97+3%$52 – $146
Iowa IA64$97+2%$39 – $137
Oregon OR42$95+1%$49 – $124
Indiana IN80$950%$48 – $168
Massachusetts MA46$94−1%$52 – $173
Nebraska NE35$89−6%$41 – $140
Minnesota MN69$88−7%$56 – $136
Oklahoma OK51$82−13%$36 – $164
Missouri MO64$82−14%$47 – $108
Colorado CO54$75−21%$60 – $254
Kentucky KY52$74−22%$30 – $122
Alabama AL35$71−25%$39 – $184
Connecticut CT20$69−27%$51 – $106
Washington WA50$69−27%$37 – $101
Arkansas AR24$69−27%$24 – $92
Montana MT14$66−30%$45 – $98
Virginia VA64$64−33%$37 – $157
South Dakota SD15$62−34%$22 – $77
Michigan MI88$61−36%$33 – $103
North Dakota ND14$60−37%$46 – $89
New Jersey NJ43$56−41%$36 – $244
West Virginia WV30$56−41%$32 – $109
Maine ME21$48−50%$26 – $136
Wyoming WY12$46−52%$35 – $92
Mississippi MS45$35−64%$16 – $68
Tennessee TN70$31−67%$14 – $87
Louisiana LA43$24−74%$15 – $67
Maryland MD40$14−86%$11 – $16
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
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 $95.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,088$95$39 – $185
Children’s61$119$94 – $249
Critical access488$89$43 – $157
Ownership
For-profit409$124$51 – $478
Government365$81$35 – $148
Non-profit1,863$94$40 – $164
System affiliation
Part of a system2,223$97$42 – $182
Independent424$82$35 – $161

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$155
Median cash price$95
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. 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

1,902 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $97 and the average of the middle 60% is $99; most fall between $44 and $172.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,902 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
$28$53$97$157$255

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($28 vs $255).

Of the 2,112 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,902 gave a usable cash price; 114 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 96 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,647 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (67%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,941 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,647
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here136
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 — excluded156
Hospitals that filed this code2,941

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 Pathology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Path Consltj Surg Ea Addl Blk Frozen Section|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, “Frozen tissue exam during surgery, each extra block (CPT 88332) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-88332-frozen-tissue-exam-during-surgery-each-extra-block