In several blogs we've gone past the median price discounts in various lab services. We've actually profiled the range of reported PAMA raw price information - the shape of the marketplace.
We showed that some codes, which have a right-sided isolated peak of high prices, can have as much as half of profit coming from those sky-high outliers. Here.
Here, we do price profiles for six additional genetic tests. These are:
- 81162, BRCA 1-2
- 81432, BRCA Panel
- 81241, Factor V (one of the most common genes)
- 81412, Ashkenazi Carrier Panel
- 81419, Epilepsy panel, a recent boom-code in FL, TX
- 81443, Pan-ethnic carrier panel
Profiles are based on actual observed PAMA medians, that is, what would be fully-phased in prices.
Figures, click to enlarge.
I don't know why the profiles vary so much, but it's like snowflakes, no two alike.
