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Lab tests CPT 88142 Connecticut Outpatient

Pap smear (lab reading) cost in Connecticut

In Connecticut, 13 hospitals publish a cash price for Pap test lab reading: liquid-based cervical sample, manual screening: from $33.00 to $169.00, with a median of $100.10. The lowest price is at UConn Health, Waterbury Hospital (Waterbury). The highest price is 5.1× the lowest.

  • The median here, $100.10, is 41% above the US median of $70.94.
  • That is 4.9× Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($20.26).
  • Connecticut ranks 39th of 50 states by median, cheapest first.
  • 6 of 13 hospitals list a cash price equal to their full list price, with no self-pay discount.

Connecticut law (C.G.S. §19a-673): if you are uninsured, your income is at or below 250% of the federal poverty level and Medicaid has turned you down, a hospital and the clinicians billing through it may collect no more than the cost of your care (its charges times its cost-to-charge ratio), which is usually well below its list price. Ask the billing office to apply it. Other states' laws.

Outpatient cash prices, one line per hospital — its lowest listed price for code 88142. Prices for both sides of the body and inpatient prices are not mixed in. Collected Sep 27, 2026. See them on a map

Lowest$33.00UConn Health, Waterbury Hospital
Median$100.10half of hospitals charge less
Highest$169.00in Connecticut
Lowest saves$67.10vs the median

Hospitals in Connecticut, cheapest first

HospitalCash priceList priceFile date
UConn Health, Waterbury Hospital lowest Waterbury · Waterbury, CT .Bill ThinPrep Screen $33.00 $66.00 May 13, 2026
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Hartford Hospital Hartford · Hartford, CT HC CYTP CERV/VAG AUTO THIN LAYER PREP MNL SCREEN VAG/CERV THIN PRE $33.77 $33.77 Apr 1, 2026
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Day Kimball Healthcare Putnam · Putnam, CT CYTO THINPREP DIAG $47.93 $125.80 Aug 1, 2026
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Connecticut Children's Hartford · Hartford, CT Cp Cerv/Vag; Atl; Manual Scrn - Thin Pre $64.80 $108.00 Jan 1, 2026
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Saint Marys Hospital Waterbury · Waterbury, CT HC Cytopathology Cervical/Vaginal Thin Layer Manual Screening $68.20 $124.00 Mar 31, 2026
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Manchester Memorial Hospital Manchester · Manchester, CT CYTO,GYN,TLP,DX, SCREEN $85.28 $85.28 Apr 1, 2026
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Johnson Memorial Hospital Stafford Springs · Stafford Springs, CT HC Cytopathology Cervical/Vaginal Thin Layer Manual Screening $100.10 $182.00 Mar 31, 2026
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Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center Hartford · Hartford, CT HC Cytopathology Cervical/Vaginal Thin Layer Manual Screening $100.10 $182.00 Mar 31, 2026
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John Dempsey Hospital of the University of Connecticut Farmington · Farmington, CT HC CYTOPATH THPR PAP SCREENING, MANUAL $111.60 $186.00 Jul 1, 2026
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Midstate Medical Center Meriden · Meriden, CT HC CYTP CERV/VAG AUTO THIN LAYER PREP MNL SCREEN VAG/CERV THIN PRE $168.83 $168.83 Apr 1, 2026
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The Hospital of Central Connecticut New Britain · New Britain, CT HC CYTP CERV/VAG AUTO THIN LAYER PREP MNL SCREEN VAG/CERV THIN PRE $168.83 $168.83 Apr 1, 2026
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Windham Community Memorial Hospital Willimantic · Willimantic, CT HC CYTP CERV/VAG AUTO THIN LAYER PREP MNL SCREEN VAG/CERV THIN PRE $168.83 $168.83 Apr 1, 2026
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The William W Backus Hospital Norwich · Norwich, CT HC CYTP CERV/VAG AUTO THIN LAYER PREP MNL SCREEN VAG/CERV THIN PRE $169.00 $169.00 Apr 1, 2026
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Hospital The hospital that published the price, its city and the line exactly as written in its price file.
Cash price The hospital's own price for a patient paying without insurance (“discounted cash” in its price file). Hospitals must publish it under federal law, 45 CFR 180.50. Call to confirm it before booking. More
List price The hospital's full chargemaster price (“gross charge”) before any discount. Almost nobody pays it; the gap to the cash price shows what the self-pay discount is worth. More
File date When the hospital last updated its price file, as the file says itself. A dash means the file gives no date.
No cash discount This line's cash price equals the hospital's full list price. Many hospitals still reduce bills for uninsured patients: ask the billing office for its self-pay discount in writing. More

By metro area

Each metro page compares every listing, including prices for both sides of the body.

Metro areaHospitalsLowestMedian
Hartford, CT 3 $33.77 $64.80
Waterbury, CT 2 $33.00 $50.60
Farmington, CT 1 $111.60 $111.60
Manchester, CT 1 $85.28 $85.28
Meriden, CT 1 $168.83 $168.83
New Britain, CT 1 $168.83 $168.83
Norwich, CT 1 $169.00 $169.00
Putnam, CT 1 $47.93 $47.93
Stafford Springs, CT 1 $100.10 $100.10
Willimantic, CT 1 $168.83 $168.83
Market A metro area (as the Census Bureau defines it) or, outside metro areas, a town. Each links to every hospital price there.
Hospitals How many hospitals publish a cash price for this code here. Each hospital counts once, at its lowest outpatient cash price.
Lowest The lowest cash price among those hospitals.
Median The middle cash price: half of the hospitals charge less, half charge more. One price per hospital. More

What Pap smear (lab reading) is, what the price covers and why prices differ: Pap smear (lab reading) explained.

Pap test lab reading: liquid-based cervical sample, manual screening in other states

Median cash price across the state's hospitals.