BRCA1 and breast carcinoma: For example, Medicare currently pays $1117.98 for a hereditary breast cancer panel (CPT code 81432) while reimbursing $1824.88 for BRCA1/2 gene analyses alone (CPT code 81162), which might be combined with $584.23 under code 81164, a test for structural BRCA1/2 rearrangements.38