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Procedure price report · Pathology

Reading of real-time microscope images of tissue

CPT 88375the billing code this page is about

A pathologist's interpretation and written report on magnified images of tissue taken during a procedure; billed once for each specimen reviewed.

Hospitals typically charge $83 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 100 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $91. Most fall between $31 and $132 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
100
States
20
Filings dated
May 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 100 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
$19$44$83$132$164

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $164).

How the prices are spread

$19 – $24: 14 hospitals$19$24 – $32: 8 hospitals$32 – $42: 0 hospitals$32$42 – $55: 5 hospitals$55 – $72: 10 hospitals$55$72 – $94: 26 hospitals$94 – $123: 5 hospitals$94$123 – $161: 20 hospitals$161 – $210: 2 hospitals$161$210 – $275: 9 hospitals$210median $83price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (99 of 100 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$19$2414
$24$328
$32$420
$42$555
$55$7210
$72$9426
$94$1235
$123$16120
$161$2102
$210$2759

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $83.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $86 across 11 hospitalsIA$86Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $132 across 21 hospitalsCA$132Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $78 across 10 hospitalsOK$78Louisiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $19 across 16 hospitalsTX$19Florida: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $83. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA21$132+59%$132 – $132
Iowa IA11$86+4%$86 – $86
Oklahoma OK10$78−6%$78 – $78
Texas TX16$19−78%$19 – $19
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $83.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care95$86$31 – $132
Critical access5fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit13fewer than 20 hospitals
Government4fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit83$86$31 – $132
System affiliation
Part of a system92$78$28 – $132
Independent8fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$112
Median cash price$83
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.

How complete is this

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

What the 103 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted100
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here3
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded0
Hospitals that filed this code103

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 5, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 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 OPTICAL ENDOMICROSCPY INTERP.

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, “Reading of real-time microscope images of tissue (CPT 88375) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-88375-reading-of-real-time-microscope-images-of-tissue