CPT 81223 · 1,018 hospitals reporting

Pancreatitis hereditary panel,

The same procedure costs $58.72 at one hospital and $15,040 at another — a 256× spread for what's billed under the same code. Median: $1,040.

Cheapest published

$58.72

6 entries below $50 already filtered. Remaining low values usually reflect partial-cost line items (professional fee only), not full bills.

Median across 1,018 hospitals

$1,040

The realistic middle of the cash-price distribution. Use this as your benchmark.

Most expensive

$15,040

Highest published price. Often a gross-charge "list price" rarely actually paid.

Price distribution

377 hospitals · log-scale x-axis

Each bar = number of hospitals charging in that price range. Emerald bar contains the median. Amber dots = entries we flagged as likely partial-cost line items (excluded from the table below).

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Why some prices look unrealistically low or high

Hospitals publish their machine-readable files (MRFs) the way they choose. A single procedure code can appear with very different prices depending on what's being charged:

Global price — facility + implant + anesthesia + surgeon. This is what you'd actually be billed.
Professional fee only — surgeon's portion. Often $500–$2,500 for a major procedure that costs $20K+ globally.
Facility fee only — operating room and recovery, no implant or surgeon.
Per-unit / per-minute charges — e.g. anesthesia time billed at $0.68/min appearing under a CPT code.
Rate multipliers — values like 0.85 meaning "85% of Medicare" rather than dollars.

We filter the most obvious artifacts (under $50, or 25× above the median), but rows in the $500–$2K range for a major procedure are typically professional-only and we can't always tell. Use the median and high-end as the realistic range; treat very low rows as partial-cost line items, not full bills.

500 hospitals reporting

Hospital	State	Gross	Cash price	Min negotiated	Max negotiated	Your insurer
BRISTOL HOSPITAL	CT	$6,931	$1,040	—	—	5 insurers
JOHNSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	IN	$6,931	$1,040	—	—	5 insurers
RUSSELL COUNTY HOSPITAL	KY	$6,931	$1,040	—	—	5 insurers
JOHNSTON HEALTH	NC	$6,931	$1,040	—	—	5 insurers
WELLMONT BRISTOL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER	TN	$6,931	$1,040	—	—	5 insurers
WELLMONT HOLSTON VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER	TN	$6,931	$1,040	—	—	5 insurers
SYCAMORE SHOALS HOSPITAL	TN	$6,931	$1,040	—	—	5 insurers
HAWKINS COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	TN	$6,931	$1,040	—	—	5 insurers
GREENEVILLE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL	TN	$6,931	$1,040	—	—	5 insurers
JOHNSON CITY MEDICAL CENTER	TN	$6,931	$1,040	—	—	5 insurers
INDIAN PATH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL	TN	$6,931	$1,040	—	—	5 insurers
FRANKLIN WOODS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL	TN	$6,931	$1,040	—	—	5 insurers
HANCOCK COUNTY HOSPITAL	TN	$6,931	$1,040	—	—	5 insurers
RUSSELL COUNTY HOSPITAL	VA	$6,931	$1,040	—	—	5 insurers
SMYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL	VA	$6,931	$1,040	—	—	5 insurers
JOHNSTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	VA	$6,931	$1,040	—	—	5 insurers
LONESOME PINE HOSPITAL	VA	$6,931	$1,040	—	—	5 insurers
YALE-NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL	CT	$1,773	$1,046	—	—	5 insurers
UCHEALTH GREELEY HOSPITAL	CO	$1,713	$1,028	—	—	5 insurers
ST JOSEPHS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL WEST BEND	WI	$1,868	$1,027	—	—	5 insurers
COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	WI	$1,924	$1,058	—	—	4 insurers
FROEDTERT MEMORIAL LUTHERAN HOSPITAL	WI	$1,924	$1,058	—	—	4 insurers
HANCOCK COUNTY HEALTH SYSTEM	IA	$4,436	$1,020	—	—	5 insurers
DICKENSON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL	VA	$4,436	$1,020	—	—	5 insurers
LEE COUNTY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL	VA	$4,436	$1,020	—	—	5 insurers
ADVOCATE SHERMAN HOSPITAL	IL	$2,120	$1,060	—	—	5 insurers
ADVOCATE TRINITY HOSPITAL	IL	$2,120	$1,060	—	—	5 insurers
ADVOCATE ILLINOIS MASONIC MEDICAL CENTER	IL	$2,120	$1,060	—	—	5 insurers
ADVOCATE CONDELL MEDICAL CENTER	IL	$2,120	$1,060	—	—	5 insurers
ADVOCATE CHRIST HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER	IL	$2,120	$1,060	—	—	5 insurers
ADVOCATE LUTHERAN GENERAL HOSPITAL	IL	$2,120	$1,060	—	—	5 insurers
ADVOCATE GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL	IL	$2,120	$1,060	—	—	5 insurers
ADVOCATE GOOD SHEPHERD HOSPITAL	IL	$2,120	$1,060	—	—	5 insurers
EMANUEL MEDICAL CENTER	GA	$2,669	$1,068	—	—	0 insurers
DLP SWAIN COUNTY HOSPITAL LLC	NC	$2,669	$1,068	—	—	0 insurers
LAKE CUMBERLAND REGIONAL HOSPITAL	KY	$2,525	$1,010	—	—	2 insurers
CHI SAINT JOSEPH BEREA NF	KY	$2,093	$1,009	$963	$1,905	5 insurers
CHI SAINT JOSEPH BEREA NF	KY	$2,093	$1,009	$499	$1,905	5 insurers
ST LUKES HOSPITAL	MN	$1,917	$1,074	—	—	5 insurers
TRINITY ROCK ISLAND	IL	$1,248	$998	—	—	1 insurers