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Laser removal of a targeted cell area from a tissue sample

CPT 88380the billing code this page is about

Preparation step in which a pathologist uses a laser to cut out and collect a specific microscopic area of tissue or cells for further testing.

Hospitals typically charge $480 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 823 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $536. Most fall between $184 and $1,026 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
823
States
49
Filings dated
Nov 2024 – 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 823 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
$99$224$480$944$1,321

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($99 vs $1,321).

How the prices are spread

$61 – $85: 28 hospitals$61$85 – $119: 54 hospitals$119 – $167: 35 hospitals$119$167 – $234: 54 hospitals$234 – $327: 88 hospitals$234$327 – $459: 105 hospitals$459 – $642: 88 hospitals$459$642 – $900: 102 hospitals$900 – $1,261: 140 hospitals$900$1,261 – $1,767: 48 hospitals$1,261median $480price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (742 of 823 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$61$8528
$85$11954
$119$16735
$167$23454
$234$32788
$327$459105
$459$64288
$642$900102
$900$1,261140
$1,261$1,76748

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $480.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $242 across 23 hospitalsWA$242Idaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $256 across 18 hospitalsMN$256Illinois: median $762 across 34 hospitalsIL$762Wisconsin: median $428 across 33 hospitalsWI$428Michigan: median $605 across 18 hospitalsMI$605New York: median $484 across 22 hospitalsNY$484Massachusetts: median $262 across 17 hospitalsMA$262Oregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $99 across 20 hospitalsIA$99Indiana: median $185 across 28 hospitalsIN$185Ohio: median $569 across 51 hospitalsOH$569Pennsylvania: median $200 across 33 hospitalsPA$200New Jersey: median $2,266 across 14 hospitalsNJ$2,266Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $381 across 29 hospitalsCA$381Utah: median $944 across 23 hospitalsUT$944Colorado: median $1,317 across 29 hospitalsCO$1,317Nebraska: median $127 across 10 hospitalsNE$127Missouri: median $724 across 23 hospitalsMO$724Kentucky: median $535 across 11 hospitalsKY$535West Virginia: median $1,050 across 22 hospitalsWV$1,050Virginia: median $301 across 19 hospitalsVA$301Maryland: median $1,017 across 20 hospitalsMD$1,017Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $482 across 17 hospitalsAZ$482New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $624 across 12 hospitalsAR$624Tennessee: median $265 across 11 hospitalsTN$265North Carolina: median $623 across 20 hospitalsNC$623South Carolina: median $286 across 23 hospitalsSC$286Oklahoma: median $390 across 32 hospitalsOK$390Louisiana: median $200 across 16 hospitalsLA$200Mississippi: median $139 across 19 hospitalsMS$139Alabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $386 across 41 hospitalsGA$386Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $845 across 53 hospitalsTX$845Florida: median $592 across 18 hospitalsFL$592
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $480. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ14$2,266+372%$188 – $2,606
Colorado CO29$1,317+174%$408 – $1,972
West Virginia WV22$1,050+119%$1,050 – $1,050
Maryland MD20$1,017+112%$256 – $1,195
Utah UT23$944+97%$944 – $1,111
Texas TX53$845+76%$433 – $1,026
Illinois IL34$762+59%$86 – $1,338
Missouri MO23$724+51%$258 – $1,931
Arkansas AR12$624+30%$257 – $725
North Carolina NC20$623+30%$194 – $623
Michigan MI18$605+26%$93 – $794
Florida FL18$592+23%$137 – $1,193
Ohio OH51$569+18%$330 – $1,707
Kentucky KY11$535+11%$365 – $535
New York NY22$484+1%$269 – $779
Arizona AZ17$4820%$120 – $1,604
Wisconsin WI33$428−11%$293 – $671
Oklahoma OK32$390−19%$27 – $888
Georgia GA41$386−19%$373 – $1,196
California CA29$381−21%$307 – $381
Virginia VA19$301−37%$60 – $470
South Carolina SC23$286−40%$286 – $844
Tennessee TN11$265−45%$72 – $265
Massachusetts MA17$262−45%$157 – $296
Minnesota MN18$256−47%$256 – $586
Washington WA23$242−50%$185 – $528
Louisiana LA16$200−58%$106 – $400
Pennsylvania PA33$200−58%$35 – $650
Indiana IN28$185−61%$105 – $307
Mississippi MS19$139−71%$72 – $171
Nebraska NE10$127−74%$58 – $268
Iowa IA20$99−79%$99 – $701
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $480.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care683$482$185 – $1,033
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access126$400$166 – $944
Ownership
For-profit70$433$185 – $1,196
Government92$623$265 – $996
Non-profit655$433$164 – $1,026
System affiliation
Part of a system753$482$184 – $1,026
Independent70$450$163 – $996

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$865
Median cash price$480
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

609 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $433 and the average of the middle 60% is $511; most fall between $171 and $1,010.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 609 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
$99$231$433$906$1,229

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($99 vs $1,229).

Of the 661 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 609 gave a usable cash price; 31 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 21 a list price only.

How complete is this

823 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (21%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 898 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted823
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here35
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded39
Hospitals that filed this code898

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 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 MICRODISSECTION LASER.

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, “Laser removal of a targeted cell area from a tissue sample (CPT 88380) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-88380-laser-removal-of-a-targeted-cell-area-from-a-tissue-sample