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Manual counting of one tumor marker stain

CPT 88360the billing code this page is about

Hand-performed measurement of how strongly and how widely a tumor sample takes up one antibody stain; billed once for each single antibody stain per specimen.

Hospitals typically charge $219 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,017 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $228. Most fall between $108 and $390 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,017
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 3,017 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
$67$128$219$347$559

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($67 vs $559).

How the prices are spread

$45 – $60: 92 hospitals$45$60 – $79: 136 hospitals$79 – $104: 204 hospitals$79$104 – $138: 253 hospitals$138 – $183: 355 hospitals$138$183 – $242: 493 hospitals$242 – $320: 457 hospitals$242$320 – $424: 339 hospitals$424 – $561: 246 hospitals$424$561 – $743: 143 hospitals$561median $219price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,718 of 3,017 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$45$6092
$60$79136
$79$104204
$104$138253
$138$183355
$183$242493
$242$320457
$320$424339
$424$561246
$561$743143

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$174
Median cash price$219
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.26×

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 $219.

Alaska: median $285 across 12 hospitalsAK$285Maine: median $148 across 28 hospitalsME$148Vermont: median $200 across 12 hospitalsVT$200New Hampshire: median $364 across 25 hospitalsNH$364Washington: median $199 across 66 hospitalsWA$199Idaho: median $189 across 21 hospitalsID$189Montana: median $213 across 20 hospitalsMT$213North Dakota: median $242 across 20 hospitalsND$242Minnesota: median $206 across 101 hospitalsMN$206Illinois: median $302 across 121 hospitalsIL$302Wisconsin: median $356 across 105 hospitalsWI$356Michigan: median $176 across 95 hospitalsMI$176New York: median $244 across 113 hospitalsNY$244Massachusetts: median $315 across 50 hospitalsMA$315Oregon: median $210 across 49 hospitalsOR$210Nevada: median $185 across 13 hospitalsNV$185Wyoming: median $213 across 12 hospitalsWY$213South Dakota: median $270 across 20 hospitalsSD$270Iowa: median $197 across 76 hospitalsIA$197Indiana: median $281 across 94 hospitalsIN$281Ohio: median $298 across 137 hospitalsOH$298Pennsylvania: median $253 across 120 hospitalsPA$253New Jersey: median $187 across 53 hospitalsNJ$187Connecticut: median $257 across 23 hospitalsCT$257Rhode Island: median $239 across 10 hospitalsRI$239California: median $218 across 152 hospitalsCA$218Utah: median $196 across 37 hospitalsUT$196Colorado: median $301 across 64 hospitalsCO$301Nebraska: median $213 across 65 hospitalsNE$213Missouri: median $173 across 72 hospitalsMO$173Kentucky: median $208 across 61 hospitalsKY$208West Virginia: median $155 across 35 hospitalsWV$155Virginia: median $310 across 69 hospitalsVA$310Maryland: median $198 across 40 hospitalsMD$198Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $266 across 34 hospitalsAZ$266New Mexico: median $156 across 23 hospitalsNM$156Kansas: median $184 across 62 hospitalsKS$184Arkansas: median $114 across 32 hospitalsAR$114Tennessee: median $102 across 76 hospitalsTN$102North Carolina: median $247 across 86 hospitalsNC$247South Carolina: median $264 across 51 hospitalsSC$264Oklahoma: median $162 across 62 hospitalsOK$162Louisiana: median $107 across 48 hospitalsLA$107Mississippi: median $113 across 52 hospitalsMS$113Alabama: median $193 across 36 hospitalsAL$193Georgia: median $187 across 87 hospitalsGA$187Hawaii: median $235 across 16 hospitalsHI$235Texas: median $239 across 209 hospitalsTX$239Florida: median $159 across 145 hospitalsFL$159
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $219. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Hampshire NH25$364+67%$183 – $639
Wisconsin WI105$356+63%$160 – $463
Massachusetts MA50$315+44%$219 – $516
Virginia VA69$310+42%$166 – $420
Illinois IL121$302+38%$141 – $496
Colorado CO64$301+38%$184 – $828
Ohio OH137$298+36%$174 – $462
Alaska AK12$285+30%$128 – $643
Indiana IN94$281+29%$118 – $452
South Dakota SD20$270+23%$176 – $392
Arizona AZ34$266+22%$131 – $505
South Carolina SC51$264+21%$171 – $429
Connecticut CT23$257+18%$217 – $562
Pennsylvania PA120$253+16%$144 – $482
North Carolina NC86$247+13%$94 – $332
New York NY113$244+12%$138 – $561
North Dakota ND20$242+11%$201 – $282
Rhode Island RI10$239+9%$181 – $324
Texas TX209$239+9%$98 – $518
Hawaii HI16$235+7%$109 – $642
California CA152$2180%$57 – $347
Nebraska NE65$213−2%$139 – $411
Montana MT20$213−3%$65 – $342
Wyoming WY12$213−3%$144 – $299
Oregon OR49$210−4%$122 – $338
Kentucky KY61$208−5%$112 – $324
Minnesota MN101$206−6%$99 – $308
Vermont VT12$200−9%$104 – $302
Washington WA66$199−9%$126 – $339
Maryland MD40$198−9%$157 – $240
Iowa IA76$197−10%$139 – $292
Utah UT37$196−10%$158 – $231
Alabama AL36$193−12%$106 – $382
Idaho ID21$189−13%$142 – $298
New Jersey NJ53$187−14%$88 – $235
Georgia GA87$187−15%$164 – $434
Nevada NV13$185−15%$62 – $720
Kansas KS62$184−16%$140 – $362
Michigan MI95$176−20%$44 – $240
Missouri MO72$173−21%$118 – $292
Oklahoma OK62$162−26%$86 – $284
Florida FL145$159−27%$52 – $448
New Mexico NM23$156−29%$109 – $362
West Virginia WV35$155−29%$35 – $265
Maine ME28$148−32%$108 – $229
Arkansas AR32$114−48%$86 – $187
Mississippi MS52$113−48%$68 – $176
Louisiana LA48$107−51%$60 – $228
Tennessee TN76$102−53%$74 – $264
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 $219.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,251$220$101 – $400
Children’s51$219$161 – $371
Critical access705$216$119 – $382
Ownership
For-profit437$239$116 – $504
Government485$199$92 – $348
Non-profit2,085$221$109 – $380
System affiliation
Part of a system2,509$221$109 – $405
Independent508$208$98 – $361

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$373
Median cash price$219
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

2,088 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $232 and the average of the middle 60% is $241; most fall between $113 and $413.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,088 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
$72$136$232$361$561

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($72 vs $561).

Of the 2,298 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,088 gave a usable cash price; 119 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 91 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,017 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (76%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,270 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,017
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here147
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 — excluded105
Hospitals that filed this code3,270

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 M/Phmtrc Alys Tumor Imhchem Ea Antibody Manual|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, “Manual counting of one tumor marker stain (CPT 88360) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-88360-manual-counting-of-one-tumor-marker-stain