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Fever-related agglutinin antibody test, each antigen

CPT 86000the billing code this page is about

Blood test looking for clumping antibodies against a bacterial or other antigen linked to febrile illness; billed once for each antigen tested.

Hospitals typically charge $45 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,431 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $49. Most fall between $18 and $98 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,431
States
49
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 1,431 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
$11$22$45$81$174

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $174).

How the prices are spread

$7 – $10: 61 hospitals$7$10 – $15: 86 hospitals$15 – $21: 130 hospitals$15$21 – $30: 121 hospitals$30 – $43: 229 hospitals$30$43 – $62: 209 hospitals$62 – $89: 206 hospitals$62$89 – $127: 105 hospitals$127 – $181: 77 hospitals$127$181 – $258: 65 hospitals$181median $45price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,289 of 1,431 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$7$1061
$10$1586
$15$21130
$21$30121
$30$43229
$43$62209
$62$89206
$89$127105
$127$18177
$181$25865

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $45.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $48 across 19 hospitalsWA$48Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $32 across 10 hospitalsMN$32Illinois: median $83 across 64 hospitalsIL$83Wisconsin: median $36 across 35 hospitalsWI$36Michigan: median $24 across 23 hospitalsMI$24New York: median $31 across 67 hospitalsNY$31Massachusetts: median $26 across 26 hospitalsMA$26Oregon: median $39 across 21 hospitalsOR$39Nevada: median $48 across 14 hospitalsNV$48Wyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $49 across 27 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $40 across 47 hospitalsIN$40Ohio: median $49 across 73 hospitalsOH$49Pennsylvania: median $51 across 53 hospitalsPA$51New Jersey: median $8 across 40 hospitalsNJ$8Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $39 across 64 hospitalsCA$39Utah: median $69 across 31 hospitalsUT$69Colorado: median $49 across 39 hospitalsCO$49Nebraska: median $64 across 30 hospitalsNE$64Missouri: median $70 across 53 hospitalsMO$70Kentucky: median $33 across 32 hospitalsKY$33West Virginia: median $35 across 10 hospitalsWV$35Virginia: median $36 across 35 hospitalsVA$36Maryland: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $49 across 22 hospitalsAZ$49New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $65 across 40 hospitalsKS$65Arkansas: median $53 across 21 hospitalsAR$53Tennessee: median $55 across 34 hospitalsTN$55North Carolina: median $35 across 18 hospitalsNC$35South Carolina: median $59 across 11 hospitalsSC$59Oklahoma: median $50 across 40 hospitalsOK$50Louisiana: median $24 across 29 hospitalsLA$24Mississippi: median $26 across 33 hospitalsMS$26Alabama: median $39 across 28 hospitalsAL$39Georgia: median $39 across 52 hospitalsGA$39Hawaii: median $55 across 10 hospitalsHI$55Texas: median $53 across 135 hospitalsTX$53Florida: median $18 across 62 hospitalsFL$18
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $45. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Illinois IL64$83+84%$29 – $216
Missouri MO53$70+56%$50 – $152
Utah UT31$69+53%$69 – $81
Kansas KS40$65+45%$42 – $146
Nebraska NE30$64+41%$38 – $108
South Carolina SC11$59+30%$37 – $97
Hawaii HI10$55+23%$22 – $80
Tennessee TN34$55+21%$18 – $85
Texas TX135$53+19%$19 – $125
Arkansas AR21$53+17%$10 – $83
Pennsylvania PA53$51+14%$6 – $199
Oklahoma OK40$50+10%$14 – $59
Ohio OH73$49+10%$31 – $77
Colorado CO39$49+9%$34 – $113
Arizona AZ22$49+8%$15 – $76
Iowa IA27$49+8%$48 – $79
Washington WA19$48+8%$15 – $138
Nevada NV14$48+6%$21 – $123
Indiana IN47$40−12%$15 – $113
Oregon OR21$39−13%$32 – $182
Georgia GA52$39−13%$27 – $90
Alabama AL28$39−14%$9 – $238
California CA64$39−14%$16 – $57
Virginia VA35$36−19%$27 – $77
Wisconsin WI35$36−21%$36 – $61
North Carolina NC18$35−21%$12 – $77
West Virginia WV10$35−23%$22 – $94
Kentucky KY32$33−27%$21 – $93
Minnesota MN10$32−29%$19 – $75
New York NY67$31−31%$8 – $98
Mississippi MS33$26−41%$14 – $46
Massachusetts MA26$26−42%$18 – $72
Louisiana LA29$24−48%$14 – $42
Michigan MI23$24−48%$8 – $36
Florida FL62$18−60%$14 – $81
New Jersey NJ40$8−83%$7 – $58
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $45.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,105$40$16 – $83
Children’s30$90$24 – $210
Critical access290$53$28 – $127
Ownership
For-profit229$53$19 – $166
Government214$48$18 – $117
Non-profit982$42$18 – $83
System affiliation
Part of a system1,175$42$18 – $93
Independent256$50$20 – $112

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$83
Median cash price$45
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

958 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $44 and the average of the middle 60% is $48; most fall between $22 and $83.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 958 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
$15$27$44$77$157

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $157).

Of the 1,079 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 958 gave a usable cash price; 58 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 63 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,431 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (36%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,576 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,431
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here77
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded68
Hospitals that filed this code1,576

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 Other Laboratory family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Francisella Tularensis Ab by Agglutination.

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, “Fever-related agglutinin antibody test, each antigen (CPT 86000) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86000-fever-related-agglutinin-antibody-test-each-antigen