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

Simple sperm washing and preparation from semen

CPT 89260the billing code this page is about

Basic laboratory processing of a semen sample to separate and concentrate sperm, such as a simple wash before insemination.

Hospitals typically charge $138 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 322 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $174. Most fall between $65 and $297 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
322
States
42
Filings dated
Jun 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 322 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
$59$75$138$292$496

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($59 vs $496).

How the prices are spread

$33 – $45: 8 hospitals$33$45 – $61: 12 hospitals$61 – $82: 49 hospitals$61$82 – $110: 40 hospitals$110 – $149: 39 hospitals$110$149 – $201: 23 hospitals$201 – $271: 44 hospitals$201$271 – $365: 42 hospitals$365 – $493: 10 hospitals$365$493 – $665: 25 hospitals$493median $138price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (292 of 322 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$33$458
$45$6112
$61$8249
$82$11040
$110$14939
$149$20123
$201$27144
$271$36542
$365$49310
$493$66525

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$53
Median cash price$138
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.6×

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 $138.

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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $110 across 18 hospitalsMN$110Illinois: median $64 across 12 hospitalsIL$64Wisconsin: median $269 across 33 hospitalsWI$269Michigan: median $72 across 11 hospitalsMI$72New York: median $63 across 17 hospitalsNY$63Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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 $105 across 15 hospitalsIA$105Indiana: median $75 across 13 hospitalsIN$75Ohio: median $174 across 10 hospitalsOH$174Pennsylvania: median $30 across 17 hospitalsPA$30New Jersey: median $59 across 11 hospitalsNJ$59Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $297 across 22 hospitalsCA$297Utah: median $665 across 23 hospitalsUT$665Colorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 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: 9 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $126 across 10 hospitalsNC$126South Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $189 across 23 hospitalsTX$189Florida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $138. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT23$665+380%$665 – $782
California CA22$297+114%$297 – $297
Wisconsin WI33$269+94%$121 – $496
Texas TX23$189+36%$181 – $239
Ohio OH10$174+26%$63 – $276
North Carolina NC10$126−9%$126 – $126
Minnesota MN18$110−20%$110 – $342
Iowa IA15$105−24%$105 – $105
Indiana IN13$75−46%$66 – $107
Michigan MI11$72−48%$72 – $269
Illinois IL12$64−53%$41 – $127
New York NY17$63−54%$63 – $65
New Jersey NJ11$59−57%$59 – $63
Pennsylvania PA17$30−79%$24 – $112
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $138.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care253$138$63 – $297
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access63$172$110 – $318
Ownership
For-profit26$145$64 – $269
Government35$110$63 – $126
Non-profit261$181$72 – $314
System affiliation
Part of a system291$138$71 – $297
Independent31$150$64 – $278

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$276
Median cash price$138
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

202 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $235 and the average of the middle 60% is $208; most fall between $105 and $362.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 202 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
$86$110$235$297$665

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($86 vs $665).

Of the 218 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 202 gave a usable cash price; 2 carried a plausibility flag, 0 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

322 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 336 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted322
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here2
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 — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code336

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 24, 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 Sprm Isol Smpl Prep Insemination/Dx Semen Alys.

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, “Simple sperm washing and preparation from semen (CPT 89260) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-89260-simple-sperm-washing-and-preparation-from-semen