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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

IgE antibody blood test

CPT 82785the billing code this page is about

Measures the total amount of immunoglobulin E, the antibody class linked to allergic responses, in a blood sample.

Hospitals typically charge $66 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,276 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $70. Most fall between $24 and $136 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,276
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 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 3,276 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
$14$30$66$118$190

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $190).

How the prices are spread

$8 – $11: 113 hospitals$8$11 – $16: 141 hospitals$16 – $23: 240 hospitals$16$23 – $33: 254 hospitals$33 – $47: 300 hospitals$33$47 – $68: 444 hospitals$68 – $97: 534 hospitals$68$97 – $138: 457 hospitals$138 – $197: 344 hospitals$138$197 – $281: 135 hospitals$197median $66price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,962 of 3,276 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$8$11113
$11$16141
$16$23240
$23$33254
$33$47300
$47$68444
$68$97534
$97$138457
$138$197344
$197$281135

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $66.

Alaska: median $73 across 19 hospitalsAK$73Maine: median $58 across 26 hospitalsME$58Vermont: median $77 across 14 hospitalsVT$77New Hampshire: median $72 across 25 hospitalsNH$72Washington: median $83 across 75 hospitalsWA$83Idaho: median $71 across 24 hospitalsID$71Montana: median $62 across 29 hospitalsMT$62North Dakota: median $87 across 33 hospitalsND$87Minnesota: median $70 across 102 hospitalsMN$70Illinois: median $85 across 141 hospitalsIL$85Wisconsin: median $102 across 105 hospitalsWI$102Michigan: median $26 across 94 hospitalsMI$26New York: median $60 across 105 hospitalsNY$60Massachusetts: median $102 across 51 hospitalsMA$102Oregon: median $57 across 48 hospitalsOR$57Nevada: median $81 across 20 hospitalsNV$81Wyoming: median $60 across 16 hospitalsWY$60South Dakota: median $114 across 38 hospitalsSD$114Iowa: median $71 across 88 hospitalsIA$71Indiana: median $60 across 97 hospitalsIN$60Ohio: median $59 across 140 hospitalsOH$59Pennsylvania: median $80 across 121 hospitalsPA$80New Jersey: median $19 across 57 hospitalsNJ$19Connecticut: median $70 across 19 hospitalsCT$70Rhode Island: median $70 across 10 hospitalsRI$70California: median $34 across 134 hospitalsCA$34Utah: median $76 across 41 hospitalsUT$76Colorado: median $68 across 69 hospitalsCO$68Nebraska: median $105 across 80 hospitalsNE$105Missouri: median $66 across 74 hospitalsMO$66Kentucky: median $92 across 69 hospitalsKY$92West Virginia: median $20 across 44 hospitalsWV$20Virginia: median $89 across 73 hospitalsVA$89Maryland: median $41 across 41 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $73 across 39 hospitalsAZ$73New Mexico: median $105 across 26 hospitalsNM$105Kansas: median $82 across 88 hospitalsKS$82Arkansas: median $28 across 39 hospitalsAR$28Tennessee: median $59 across 80 hospitalsTN$59North Carolina: median $60 across 89 hospitalsNC$60South Carolina: median $132 across 51 hospitalsSC$132Oklahoma: median $49 across 73 hospitalsOK$49Louisiana: median $45 across 50 hospitalsLA$45Mississippi: median $46 across 55 hospitalsMS$46Alabama: median $56 across 45 hospitalsAL$56Georgia: median $51 across 109 hospitalsGA$51Hawaii: median $73 across 19 hospitalsHI$73Texas: median $79 across 241 hospitalsTX$79Florida: median $22 across 143 hospitalsFL$22
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $66. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC51$132+99%$47 – $186
South Dakota SD38$114+72%$80 – $222
Nebraska NE80$105+58%$43 – $148
New Mexico NM26$105+58%$66 – $126
Wisconsin WI105$102+54%$62 – $134
Massachusetts MA51$102+54%$51 – $160
Kentucky KY69$92+38%$30 – $228
Virginia VA73$89+34%$29 – $202
North Dakota ND33$87+31%$10 – $126
Illinois IL141$85+28%$38 – $176
Washington WA75$83+25%$35 – $135
Kansas KS88$82+23%$47 – $129
Nevada NV20$81+21%$28 – $139
Pennsylvania PA121$80+21%$25 – $193
Texas TX241$79+19%$12 – $227
Vermont VT14$77+16%$36 – $146
Utah UT41$76+14%$55 – $113
Hawaii HI19$73+11%$26 – $154
Arizona AZ39$73+11%$17 – $202
Alaska AK19$73+10%$18 – $173
New Hampshire NH25$72+8%$51 – $144
Idaho ID24$71+7%$7 – $150
Iowa IA88$71+7%$58 – $122
Connecticut CT19$70+6%$49 – $137
Rhode Island RI10$70+5%$39 – $132
Minnesota MN102$70+5%$22 – $112
Colorado CO69$68+2%$19 – $134
Missouri MO74$66−1%$33 – $127
Montana MT29$62−7%$23 – $119
Indiana IN97$60−9%$28 – $104
North Carolina NC89$60−10%$34 – $118
Wyoming WY16$60−10%$36 – $109
New York NY105$60−10%$19 – $145
Ohio OH140$59−11%$29 – $120
Tennessee TN80$59−11%$29 – $164
Maine ME26$58−12%$33 – $107
Oregon OR48$57−13%$23 – $72
Alabama AL45$56−16%$22 – $126
Georgia GA109$51−23%$33 – $172
Oklahoma OK73$49−26%$24 – $86
Mississippi MS55$46−31%$22 – $77
Louisiana LA50$45−33%$26 – $84
Maryland MD41$41−38%$31 – $49
California CA134$34−49%$6 – $164
Arkansas AR39$28−57%$21 – $97
Michigan MI94$26−60%$8 – $62
Florida FL143$22−67%$10 – $92
West Virginia WV44$20−70%$15 – $99
New Jersey NJ57$19−71%$16 – $65
Delaware DE7not 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 $66.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,260$62$20 – $138
Children’s64$95$19 – $158
Critical access943$79$36 – $129
Ownership
For-profit455$79$20 – $259
Government621$68$27 – $123
Non-profit2,191$65$23 – $127
System affiliation
Part of a system2,655$68$24 – $139
Independent621$62$24 – $118

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$110
Median cash price$66
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

2,217 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $66 and the average of the middle 60% is $70; most fall between $24 and $132.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,217 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
$12$30$66$114$183

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $183).

Of the 2,463 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,217 gave a usable cash price; 135 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 111 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,276 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (83%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,588 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,276
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here181
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 — excluded130
Hospitals that filed this code3,588

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 July 20, 2026 and September 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Ige (Immunoglobulin-E).

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “IgE antibody blood test (CPT 82785) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-82785-ige-antibody-blood-test