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Procedure price report · Pathology

Review and selection of stored tissue for gene testing

CPT 88363the billing code this page is about

A pathologist examines previously diagnosed, archived tissue and selects the portion to be used for molecular testing; billed per specimen.

Hospitals typically charge $49 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,009 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $55. Most fall between $28 and $108 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,009
States
47
Filings dated
Jul 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 1,009 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
$20$30$49$93$138

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $138).

How the prices are spread

$15 – $19: 43 hospitals$15$19 – $25: 62 hospitals$25 – $32: 149 hospitals$25$32 – $41: 108 hospitals$41 – $53: 133 hospitals$41$53 – $68: 109 hospitals$68 – $88: 96 hospitals$68$88 – $113: 92 hospitals$113 – $146: 83 hospitals$113$146 – $188: 36 hospitals$146median $49price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (911 of 1,009 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$15$1943
$19$2562
$25$32149
$32$41108
$41$53133
$53$68109
$68$8896
$88$11392
$113$14683
$146$18836

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$30
Median cash price$49
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.65×

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 $49.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $71 across 27 hospitalsWA$71Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: median $52 across 11 hospitalsMN$52Illinois: median $49 across 54 hospitalsIL$49Wisconsin: median $112 across 24 hospitalsWI$112Michigan: median $53 across 37 hospitalsMI$53New York: median $36 across 38 hospitalsNY$36Massachusetts: median $41 across 21 hospitalsMA$41Oregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $70 across 22 hospitalsIA$70Indiana: median $46 across 31 hospitalsIN$46Ohio: median $43 across 50 hospitalsOH$43Pennsylvania: median $51 across 65 hospitalsPA$51New Jersey: median $31 across 29 hospitalsNJ$31Connecticut: median $91 across 10 hospitalsCT$91Rhode Island: median $41 across 10 hospitalsRI$41California: median $62 across 62 hospitalsCA$62Utah: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $117 across 21 hospitalsCO$117Nebraska: median $85 across 13 hospitalsNE$85Missouri: median $47 across 29 hospitalsMO$47Kentucky: median $43 across 13 hospitalsKY$43West Virginia: median $19 across 11 hospitalsWV$19Virginia: median $62 across 19 hospitalsVA$62Maryland: median $54 across 10 hospitalsMD$54Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $46 across 20 hospitalsAZ$46New Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: median $26 across 12 hospitalsKS$26Arkansas: median $44 across 10 hospitalsAR$44Tennessee: median $27 across 15 hospitalsTN$27North Carolina: median $48 across 40 hospitalsNC$48South Carolina: median $33 across 16 hospitalsSC$33Oklahoma: median $32 across 20 hospitalsOK$32Louisiana: median $53 across 15 hospitalsLA$53Mississippi: median $16 across 13 hospitalsMS$16Alabama: median $42 across 13 hospitalsAL$42Georgia: median $39 across 43 hospitalsGA$39Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $42 across 76 hospitalsTX$42Florida: median $33 across 58 hospitalsFL$33
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $49. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO21$117+140%$54 – $323
Wisconsin WI24$112+129%$37 – $112
Connecticut CT10$91+87%$42 – $154
Nebraska NE13$85+75%$28 – $138
Washington WA27$71+46%$42 – $114
Iowa IA22$70+44%$70 – $93
Virginia VA19$62+27%$27 – $70
California CA62$62+26%$62 – $123
Maryland MD10$54+11%$40 – $79
Michigan MI37$53+9%$28 – $107
Louisiana LA15$53+8%$20 – $77
Minnesota MN11$52+6%$42 – $136
Pennsylvania PA65$51+5%$14 – $109
Illinois IL54$490%$31 – $135
North Carolina NC40$48−1%$22 – $121
Missouri MO29$47−4%$29 – $69
Indiana IN31$46−5%$26 – $98
Arizona AZ20$46−5%$34 – $116
Arkansas AR10$44−11%$28 – $50
Ohio OH50$43−11%$31 – $77
Kentucky KY13$43−13%$20 – $98
Alabama AL13$42−13%$19 – $75
Texas TX76$42−15%$30 – $147
Massachusetts MA21$41−16%$27 – $75
Rhode Island RI10$41−16%$21 – $106
Georgia GA43$39−20%$20 – $69
New York NY38$36−26%$29 – $94
Florida FL58$33−31%$23 – $115
South Carolina SC16$33−32%$24 – $37
Oklahoma OK20$32−35%$16 – $68
New Jersey NJ29$31−36%$27 – $50
Tennessee TN15$27−45%$16 – $27
Kansas KS12$26−47%$26 – $86
West Virginia WV11$19−61%$18 – $28
Mississippi MS13$16−68%$9 – $19
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not 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 $49.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care874$48$28 – $106
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access116$55$26 – $112
Ownership
For-profit136$52$28 – $112
Government118$48$29 – $100
Non-profit751$50$27 – $107
System affiliation
Part of a system895$49$28 – $108
Independent114$47$31 – $107

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$91
Median cash price$49
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

730 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $55 and the average of the middle 60% is $58; most fall between $30 and $107.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 730 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
$21$32$55$91$136

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($21 vs $136).

Of the 803 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 730 gave a usable cash price; 39 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 33 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,009 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (26%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,099 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,009
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here47
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 — excluded40
Hospitals that filed this code1,099

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 Exam & Select Archive Tissue Molecular Analysi.

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, “Review and selection of stored tissue for gene testing (CPT 88363) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-88363-review-and-selection-of-stored-tissue-for-gene-testing