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Unlisted pathology laboratory test

CPT 89240the billing code this page is about

A pathology or laboratory procedure that has no specific billing code of its own; the laboratory report describes what was done.

Hospitals typically charge $89 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 442 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $106. Most fall between $43 and $210 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
442
States
39
Filings dated
Dec 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 442 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
$31$59$89$173$248

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($31 vs $248).

How the prices are spread

$19 – $27: 12 hospitals$19$27 – $38: 35 hospitals$38 – $53: 30 hospitals$38$53 – $75: 72 hospitals$75 – $106: 84 hospitals$75$106 – $150: 45 hospitals$150 – $211: 61 hospitals$150$211 – $299: 43 hospitals$299 – $421: 13 hospitals$299$421 – $595: 3 hospitals$421median $89price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (398 of 442 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$19$2712
$27$3835
$38$5330
$53$7572
$75$10684
$106$15045
$150$21161
$211$29943
$299$42113
$421$5953

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$53
Median cash price$89
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.68×

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 $89.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $173 across 13 hospitalsIL$173Wisconsin: median $57 across 14 hospitalsWI$57Michigan: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $63 across 30 hospitalsNY$63Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 5 hospitals 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $75 across 32 hospitalsIN$75Ohio: median $240 across 50 hospitalsOH$240Pennsylvania: median $135 across 20 hospitalsPA$135New Jersey: median $59 across 15 hospitalsNJ$59Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $157 across 53 hospitalsCA$157Utah: median $210 across 24 hospitalsUT$210Colorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $82 across 11 hospitalsNC$82South Carolina: median $37 across 14 hospitalsSC$37Oklahoma: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $119 across 13 hospitalsGA$119Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $89 across 45 hospitalsTX$89Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $89. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH50$240+168%$38 – $975
Utah UT24$210+135%$210 – $248
Illinois IL13$173+94%$43 – $587
California CA53$157+76%$131 – $157
Pennsylvania PA20$135+51%$31 – $338
Georgia GA13$119+33%$18 – $119
Texas TX45$890%$68 – $89
North Carolina NC11$82−8%$82 – $98
Indiana IN32$75−16%$65 – $89
New York NY30$63−29%$31 – $106
New Jersey NJ15$59−34%$7 – $63
Wisconsin WI14$57−36%$31 – $86
South Carolina SC14$37−59%$31 – $37
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $89.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care372$89$48 – $210
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access62$86$38 – $192
Ownership
For-profit56$80$49 – $148
Government46$63$34 – $155
Non-profit340$89$40 – $210
System affiliation
Part of a system397$89$49 – $210
Independent45$67$31 – $138

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$166
Median cash price$89
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

309 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $119 and the average of the middle 60% is $127; most fall between $43 and $225.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 309 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
$31$69$119$210$299

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($31 vs $299).

Of the 337 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 309 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

442 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 484 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted442
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here27
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code484

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 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 UNLISTED MISC PATH TEST.

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, “Unlisted pathology laboratory test (CPT 89240) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-89240-unlisted-pathology-laboratory-test