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Procedure price report · Microscopic examination (bacterial smear, culture, toxicology)

Laboratory culture of eggs and embryos, under 4 days

CPT 89250the billing code this page is about

Growing retrieved eggs or fertilized embryos in the laboratory for up to three days, not including any added fertilization techniques.

Hospitals typically charge $667 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 168 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,040. Most fall between $213 and $2,094 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
168
States
29
Filings dated
Sep 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 168 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
$202$234$667$2,094$2,114

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($202 vs $2,114).

How the prices are spread

$187 – $250: 36 hospitals$187$250 – $333: 10 hospitals$333 – $445: 8 hospitals$333$445 – $593: 18 hospitals$593 – $792: 10 hospitals$593$792 – $1,056: 4 hospitals$1,056 – $1,409: 14 hospitals$1,056$1,409 – $1,881: 13 hospitals$1,881 – $2,509: 34 hospitals$1,881$2,509 – $3,348: 6 hospitals$2,509median $667price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (153 of 168 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$187$25036
$250$33310
$333$4458
$445$59318
$593$79210
$792$1,0564
$1,056$1,40914
$1,409$1,88113
$1,881$2,50934
$2,509$3,3486

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$174
Median cash price$667
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.8×

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 $667.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 3 hospitals 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $203 across 16 hospitalsNY$203Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $2,114 across 13 hospitalsIA$2,114Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $576 across 18 hospitalsPA$576New Jersey: median $190 across 11 hospitalsNJ$190Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,094 across 20 hospitalsCA$2,094Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $1,291 across 10 hospitalsNC$1,291South Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,729 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,729Louisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 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 $504 across 17 hospitalsTX$504Florida: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $667. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Iowa IA13$2,114+217%$2,114 – $2,114
California CA20$2,094+214%$2,094 – $2,094
Oklahoma OK12$1,729+159%$1,729 – $1,729
North Carolina NC10$1,291+94%$1,291 – $1,291
Pennsylvania PA18$576−14%$351 – $1,765
Texas TX17$504−24%$326 – $504
New York NY16$203−70%$203 – $203
New Jersey NJ11$190−72%$190 – $202
Illinois IL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $667.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care161$667$209 – $2,094
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access4fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit10fewer than 20 hospitals
Government25$381$203 – $1,291
Non-profit133$809$234 – $2,094
System affiliation
Part of a system153$728$213 – $2,094
Independent15fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,583
Median cash price$667
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

110 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,729 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,527; most fall between $414 and $2,114.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 110 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
$326$504$1,729$2,094$2,844

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($326 vs $2,844).

Of the 116 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 110 gave a usable cash price; 1 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

168 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 173 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted168
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here1
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 — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code173

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Microscopic examination (bacterial smear, culture, toxicology) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Cul Oocyte/Embryo <4 Days.

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, “Laboratory culture of eggs and embryos, under 4 days (CPT 89250) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-89250-laboratory-culture-of-eggs-and-embryos-under-4-days