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Merkel cell cancer virus antibody test with a number result

CPT 0058Uthe billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures the amount of antibodies to the Merkel cell polyomavirus oncoprotein, used in patients with Merkel cell skin cancer.

Hospitals typically charge $485 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 289 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $463. Most fall between $249 and $692 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
289
States
39
Filings dated
Nov 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 289 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
$205$259$485$666$1,008

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($205 vs $1,008).

How the prices are spread

$195 – $240: 39 hospitals$195$240 – $295: 28 hospitals$295 – $363: 35 hospitals$295$363 – $446: 23 hospitals$446 – $549: 49 hospitals$446$549 – $675: 35 hospitals$675 – $831: 29 hospitals$675$831 – $1,022: 10 hospitals$1,022 – $1,257: 6 hospitals$1,022$1,257 – $1,547: 10 hospitals$1,257median $485price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (264 of 289 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$195$24039
$240$29528
$295$36335
$363$44623
$446$54949
$549$67535
$675$83129
$831$1,02210
$1,022$1,2576
$1,257$1,54710

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $485.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $695 across 12 hospitalsIL$695Wisconsin: median $536 across 13 hospitalsWI$536Michigan: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIAIndiana: median $414 across 12 hospitalsIN$414Ohio: median $692 across 21 hospitalsOH$692Pennsylvania: median $769 across 24 hospitalsPA$769New Jersey: median $355 across 21 hospitalsNJ$355Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $358 across 14 hospitalsCO$358Nebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $666 across 14 hospitalsSC$666Oklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: median $205 across 21 hospitalsGA$205Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $497 across 36 hospitalsTX$497Florida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $485. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA24$769+59%$223 – $2,937
Illinois IL12$695+43%$485 – $1,292
Ohio OH21$692+43%$665 – $917
South Carolina SC14$666+37%$666 – $666
Wisconsin WI13$536+10%$327 – $536
Texas TX36$497+2%$497 – $512
Indiana IN12$414−15%$364 – $559
Colorado CO14$358−26%$207 – $616
New Jersey NJ21$355−27%$355 – $371
Georgia GA21$205−58%$205 – $205
Michigan MI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $485.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care250$412$232 – $692
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access31$562$512 – $669
Ownership
For-profit35$482$221 – $683
Government23$317$205 – $662
Non-profit228$497$250 – $692
System affiliation
Part of a system266$454$249 – $692
Independent23$645$382 – $827

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$887
Median cash price$485
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

199 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $497 and the average of the middle 60% is $467; most fall between $244 and $692.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 199 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
$205$250$497$669$1,255

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($205 vs $1,255).

Of the 209 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 199 gave a usable cash price; 0 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

289 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 301 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted289
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here1
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code301

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 Other Laboratory family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as ONC MERKEL CLL CARC SRM QUAN.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Merkel cell cancer virus antibody test with a number result (CPT 0058U) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-0058u-merkel-cell-cancer-virus-antibody-test-with-a-number-result