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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Oligoclonal band testing on spinal fluid or blood

CPT 83916the billing code this page is about

Separates immune proteins in a sample, usually spinal fluid, to look for oligoclonal bands; one unit is one specimen tested.

Hospitals typically charge $82 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,701 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $89. Most fall between $35 and $176 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,701
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 2,701 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
$24$42$82$147$259

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $259).

How the prices are spread

$16 – $22: 101 hospitals$16$22 – $31: 195 hospitals$31 – $42: 244 hospitals$31$42 – $58: 301 hospitals$58 – $79: 302 hospitals$58$79 – $109: 374 hospitals$109 – $149: 384 hospitals$109$149 – $204: 233 hospitals$204 – $280: 200 hospitals$204$280 – $385: 98 hospitals$280median $82price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,432 of 2,701 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$16$22101
$22$31195
$31$42244
$42$58301
$58$79302
$79$109374
$109$149384
$149$204233
$204$280200
$280$38598

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $82.

Alaska: median $116 across 15 hospitalsAK$116Maine: median $65 across 24 hospitalsME$65Vermont: median $100 across 10 hospitalsVT$100New Hampshire: median $92 across 23 hospitalsNH$92Washington: median $81 across 58 hospitalsWA$81Idaho: median $60 across 19 hospitalsID$60Montana: median $98 across 13 hospitalsMT$98North Dakota: median $56 across 16 hospitalsND$56Minnesota: median $98 across 69 hospitalsMN$98Illinois: median $111 across 120 hospitalsIL$111Wisconsin: median $117 across 93 hospitalsWI$117Michigan: median $44 across 80 hospitalsMI$44New York: median $60 across 96 hospitalsNY$60Massachusetts: median $102 across 48 hospitalsMA$102Oregon: median $66 across 34 hospitalsOR$66Nevada: median $110 across 15 hospitalsNV$110Wyoming: median $103 across 14 hospitalsWY$103South Dakota: median $107 across 13 hospitalsSD$107Iowa: median $86 across 51 hospitalsIA$86Indiana: median $72 across 90 hospitalsIN$72Ohio: median $95 across 130 hospitalsOH$95Pennsylvania: median $114 across 118 hospitalsPA$114New Jersey: median $30 across 54 hospitalsNJ$30Connecticut: median $108 across 23 hospitalsCT$108Rhode Island: median $67 across 10 hospitalsRI$67California: median $24 across 117 hospitalsCA$24Utah: median $156 across 38 hospitalsUT$156Colorado: median $115 across 54 hospitalsCO$115Nebraska: median $131 across 45 hospitalsNE$131Missouri: median $72 across 62 hospitalsMO$72Kentucky: median $112 across 51 hospitalsKY$112West Virginia: median $54 across 23 hospitalsWV$54Virginia: median $103 across 66 hospitalsVA$103Maryland: median $66 across 38 hospitalsMD$66Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $142 across 36 hospitalsAZ$142New Mexico: median $116 across 24 hospitalsNM$116Kansas: median $125 across 46 hospitalsKS$125Arkansas: median $59 across 30 hospitalsAR$59Tennessee: median $46 across 72 hospitalsTN$46North Carolina: median $89 across 83 hospitalsNC$89South Carolina: median $141 across 50 hospitalsSC$141Oklahoma: median $78 across 41 hospitalsOK$78Louisiana: median $47 across 44 hospitalsLA$47Mississippi: median $44 across 48 hospitalsMS$44Alabama: median $59 across 34 hospitalsAL$59Georgia: median $121 across 87 hospitalsGA$121Hawaii: median $135 across 14 hospitalsHI$135Texas: median $130 across 207 hospitalsTX$130Florida: median $30 across 148 hospitalsFL$30
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $82. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT38$156+90%$133 – $225
Arizona AZ36$142+72%$39 – $206
South Carolina SC50$141+72%$60 – $244
Hawaii HI14$135+64%$56 – $189
Nebraska NE45$131+59%$51 – $252
Texas TX207$130+59%$64 – $385
Kansas KS46$125+53%$55 – $225
Georgia GA87$121+47%$40 – $197
Wisconsin WI93$117+43%$82 – $209
New Mexico NM24$116+41%$69 – $155
Alaska AK15$116+41%$30 – $192
Colorado CO54$115+40%$43 – $238
Pennsylvania PA118$114+39%$41 – $267
Kentucky KY51$112+36%$47 – $253
Illinois IL120$111+35%$57 – $207
Nevada NV15$110+34%$27 – $176
Connecticut CT23$108+31%$55 – $205
South Dakota SD13$107+30%$54 – $210
Virginia VA66$103+26%$35 – $270
Wyoming WY14$103+25%$53 – $152
Massachusetts MA48$102+25%$61 – $191
Vermont VT10$100+21%$56 – $178
Minnesota MN69$98+19%$43 – $161
Montana MT13$98+19%$86 – $112
Ohio OH130$95+15%$50 – $123
New Hampshire NH23$92+12%$70 – $260
North Carolina NC83$89+9%$34 – $202
Iowa IA51$86+5%$56 – $127
Washington WA58$81−2%$42 – $134
Oklahoma OK41$78−5%$53 – $144
Missouri MO62$72−12%$46 – $158
Indiana IN90$72−13%$41 – $132
Rhode Island RI10$67−18%$33 – $160
Maryland MD38$66−20%$52 – $80
Oregon OR34$66−20%$34 – $110
Maine ME24$65−21%$27 – $153
Idaho ID19$60−27%$24 – $133
New York NY96$60−27%$27 – $152
Alabama AL34$59−28%$29 – $202
Arkansas AR30$59−29%$44 – $72
North Dakota ND16$56−32%$48 – $117
West Virginia WV23$54−35%$12 – $143
Louisiana LA44$47−43%$20 – $88
Tennessee TN72$46−44%$19 – $147
Michigan MI80$44−46%$20 – $58
Mississippi MS48$44−46%$26 – $68
New Jersey NJ54$30−63%$27 – $68
Florida FL148$30−64%$15 – $133
California CA117$24−71%$13 – $67
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 $82.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,119$80$33 – $181
Children’s47$92$32 – $199
Critical access525$92$47 – $172
Ownership
For-profit412$106$38 – $414
Government398$74$35 – $161
Non-profit1,881$81$35 – $161
System affiliation
Part of a system2,261$82$35 – $180
Independent440$81$39 – $166

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$143
Median cash price$82
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

1,880 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $85 and the average of the middle 60% is $91; most fall between $39 and $168.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,880 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
$24$45$85$141$238

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $238).

Of the 2,086 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,880 gave a usable cash price; 114 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 92 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,701 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (68%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,958 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,701
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here151
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 — excluded105
Hospitals that filed this code2,958

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 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 Serum Bands.

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, “Oligoclonal band testing on spinal fluid or blood (CPT 83916) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-83916-oligoclonal-band-testing-on-spinal-fluid-or-blood