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Allergy IgG antibody test, each allergen

CPT 86001the billing code this page is about

Measures IgG antibodies in blood against one specific allergen such as a mold, food, or pollen; billed once for each allergen tested.

Hospitals typically charge $27 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,147 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $30. Most fall between $13 and $60 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,147
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 2,147 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
$8$15$27$52$101

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($8 vs $101).

How the prices are spread

$7 – $9: 167 hospitals$7$9 – $12: 136 hospitals$12 – $17: 233 hospitals$12$17 – $23: 261 hospitals$23 – $31: 308 hospitals$23$31 – $43: 257 hospitals$43 – $58: 236 hospitals$43$58 – $79: 131 hospitals$79 – $107: 118 hospitals$79$107 – $146: 87 hospitals$107median $27price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,934 of 2,147 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$7$9167
$9$12136
$12$17233
$17$23261
$23$31308
$31$43257
$43$58236
$58$79131
$79$107118
$107$14687

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $27.

Alaska: median $28 across 12 hospitalsAK$28Maine: median $25 across 22 hospitalsME$25Vermont: median $63 across 12 hospitalsVT$63New Hampshire: median $30 across 13 hospitalsNH$30Washington: median $25 across 58 hospitalsWA$25Idaho: median $32 across 14 hospitalsID$32Montana: median $24 across 14 hospitalsMT$24North Dakota: median $29 across 25 hospitalsND$29Minnesota: median $37 across 60 hospitalsMN$37Illinois: median $36 across 95 hospitalsIL$36Wisconsin: median $40 across 52 hospitalsWI$40Michigan: median $11 across 56 hospitalsMI$11New York: median $22 across 67 hospitalsNY$22Massachusetts: median $35 across 42 hospitalsMA$35Oregon: median $22 across 30 hospitalsOR$22Nevada: median $47 across 13 hospitalsNV$47Wyoming: median $53 across 12 hospitalsWY$53South Dakota: median $54 across 14 hospitalsSD$54Iowa: median $49 across 53 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $18 across 79 hospitalsIN$18Ohio: median $34 across 121 hospitalsOH$34Pennsylvania: median $33 across 107 hospitalsPA$33New Jersey: median $9 across 50 hospitalsNJ$9Connecticut: median $32 across 17 hospitalsCT$32Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $18 across 83 hospitalsCA$18Utah: median $95 across 36 hospitalsUT$95Colorado: median $61 across 51 hospitalsCO$61Nebraska: median $50 across 23 hospitalsNE$50Missouri: median $23 across 60 hospitalsMO$23Kentucky: median $24 across 51 hospitalsKY$24West Virginia: median $37 across 28 hospitalsWV$37Virginia: median $26 across 48 hospitalsVA$26Maryland: median $44 across 25 hospitalsMD$44Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $28 across 32 hospitalsAZ$28New Mexico: median $32 across 17 hospitalsNM$32Kansas: median $55 across 44 hospitalsKS$55Arkansas: median $23 across 23 hospitalsAR$23Tennessee: median $18 across 54 hospitalsTN$18North Carolina: median $17 across 65 hospitalsNC$17South Carolina: median $53 across 35 hospitalsSC$53Oklahoma: median $23 across 47 hospitalsOK$23Louisiana: median $15 across 31 hospitalsLA$15Mississippi: median $17 across 35 hospitalsMS$17Alabama: median $28 across 31 hospitalsAL$28Georgia: median $28 across 70 hospitalsGA$28Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $27 across 118 hospitalsTX$27Florida: median $10 across 83 hospitalsFL$10
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $27. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT36$95+248%$52 – $112
Vermont VT12$63+132%$40 – $78
Colorado CO51$61+123%$30 – $83
Kansas KS44$55+101%$16 – $145
South Dakota SD14$54+99%$20 – $105
South Carolina SC35$53+93%$17 – $56
Wyoming WY12$53+92%$21 – $76
Nebraska NE23$50+83%$32 – $121
Iowa IA53$49+78%$29 – $96
Nevada NV13$47+72%$24 – $67
Maryland MD25$44+60%$28 – $54
Wisconsin WI52$40+47%$18 – $62
Minnesota MN60$37+36%$16 – $77
West Virginia WV28$37+36%$26 – $38
Illinois IL95$36+32%$19 – $80
Massachusetts MA42$35+29%$16 – $57
Ohio OH121$34+23%$16 – $69
Pennsylvania PA107$33+20%$9 – $79
Idaho ID14$32+19%$16 – $95
New Mexico NM17$32+18%$23 – $42
Connecticut CT17$32+17%$19 – $56
New Hampshire NH13$30+8%$5 – $93
North Dakota ND25$29+5%$14 – $54
Alabama AL31$28+3%$9 – $71
Georgia GA70$28+3%$18 – $39
Arizona AZ32$28+2%$9 – $57
Alaska AK12$28+1%$11 – $106
Texas TX118$27−2%$18 – $55
Virginia VA48$26−5%$14 – $33
Washington WA58$25−8%$16 – $32
Maine ME22$25−10%$14 – $49
Kentucky KY51$24−13%$13 – $41
Montana MT14$24−13%$15 – $57
Arkansas AR23$23−14%$13 – $41
Missouri MO60$23−17%$16 – $57
Oklahoma OK47$23−17%$14 – $28
Oregon OR30$22−18%$19 – $43
New York NY67$22−19%$9 – $33
California CA83$18−32%$4 – $43
Indiana IN79$18−34%$12 – $37
Tennessee TN54$18−35%$7 – $41
North Carolina NC65$17−36%$15 – $41
Mississippi MS35$17−39%$9 – $32
Louisiana LA31$15−45%$8 – $36
Michigan MI56$11−60%$2 – $21
Florida FL83$10−63%$6 – $52
New Jersey NJ50$9−67%$8 – $25
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not 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 $27.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,603$25$11 – $54
Children’s30$23$10 – $62
Critical access505$36$17 – $79
Ownership
For-profit244$27$12 – $66
Government346$26$15 – $60
Non-profit1,548$27$13 – $59
System affiliation
Part of a system1,797$27$13 – $59
Independent350$29$14 – $62

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$47
Median cash price$27
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

1,527 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $28 and the average of the middle 60% is $30; most fall between $14 and $56.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,527 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
$9$16$28$52$93

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $93).

Of the 1,680 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,527 gave a usable cash price; 81 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 72 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,147 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (54%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,332 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,147
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here111
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 — excluded74
Hospitals that filed this code2,332

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 Thermoactomy Vulgaris (Hpneu).

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, “Allergy IgG antibody test, each allergen (CPT 86001) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86001-allergy-igg-antibody-test-each-allergen