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Allergy IgE antibody test, each allergen

CPT 86003the billing code this page is about

Measures IgE allergy antibodies in blood against one specific allergen prepared from a crude extract, such as a single food or pollen; billed once per allergen.

Hospitals typically charge $20 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,286 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $21. Most fall between $8 and $43 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,286
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 3,286 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
$5$9$20$36$64

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($5 vs $64).

How the prices are spread

$3 – $5: 119 hospitals$3$5 – $7: 269 hospitals$7 – $9: 314 hospitals$7$9 – $13: 355 hospitals$13 – $18: 315 hospitals$13$18 – $25: 440 hospitals$25 – $35: 459 hospitals$25$35 – $49: 337 hospitals$49 – $69: 219 hospitals$49$69 – $97: 136 hospitals$69median $20price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,963 of 3,286 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$3$5119
$5$7269
$7$9314
$9$13355
$13$18315
$18$25440
$25$35459
$35$49337
$49$69219
$69$97136

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $20.

Alaska: median $32 across 19 hospitalsAK$32Maine: median $22 across 28 hospitalsME$22Vermont: median $43 across 14 hospitalsVT$43New Hampshire: median $30 across 25 hospitalsNH$30Washington: median $23 across 76 hospitalsWA$23Idaho: median $13 across 24 hospitalsID$13Montana: median $21 across 32 hospitalsMT$21North Dakota: median $28 across 32 hospitalsND$28Minnesota: median $26 across 101 hospitalsMN$26Illinois: median $27 across 144 hospitalsIL$27Wisconsin: median $25 across 105 hospitalsWI$25Michigan: median $7 across 100 hospitalsMI$7New York: median $13 across 119 hospitalsNY$13Massachusetts: median $45 across 54 hospitalsMA$45Oregon: median $13 across 48 hospitalsOR$13Nevada: median $32 across 21 hospitalsNV$32Wyoming: median $30 across 16 hospitalsWY$30South Dakota: median $37 across 36 hospitalsSD$37Iowa: median $30 across 84 hospitalsIA$30Indiana: median $13 across 95 hospitalsIN$13Ohio: median $23 across 139 hospitalsOH$23Pennsylvania: median $26 across 120 hospitalsPA$26New Jersey: median $6 across 57 hospitalsNJ$6Connecticut: median $22 across 16 hospitalsCT$22Rhode Island: median $46 across 10 hospitalsRI$46California: median $7 across 144 hospitalsCA$7Utah: median $27 across 41 hospitalsUT$27Colorado: median $22 across 65 hospitalsCO$22Nebraska: median $42 across 76 hospitalsNE$42Missouri: median $22 across 77 hospitalsMO$22Kentucky: median $9 across 69 hospitalsKY$9West Virginia: median $9 across 44 hospitalsWV$9Virginia: median $25 across 73 hospitalsVA$25Maryland: median $40 across 42 hospitalsMD$40Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $20 across 39 hospitalsAZ$20New Mexico: median $34 across 26 hospitalsNM$34Kansas: median $22 across 86 hospitalsKS$22Arkansas: median $8 across 37 hospitalsAR$8Tennessee: median $12 across 79 hospitalsTN$12North Carolina: median $19 across 89 hospitalsNC$19South Carolina: median $25 across 52 hospitalsSC$25Oklahoma: median $17 across 71 hospitalsOK$17Louisiana: median $10 across 51 hospitalsLA$10Mississippi: median $12 across 56 hospitalsMS$12Alabama: median $12 across 43 hospitalsAL$12Georgia: median $21 across 108 hospitalsGA$21Hawaii: median $26 across 18 hospitalsHI$26Texas: median $18 across 233 hospitalsTX$18Florida: median $8 across 145 hospitalsFL$8
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $20. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Rhode Island RI10$46+130%$15 – $83
Massachusetts MA54$45+125%$21 – $63
Vermont VT14$43+116%$10 – $84
Nebraska NE76$42+110%$16 – $63
Maryland MD42$40+98%$30 – $49
South Dakota SD36$37+85%$22 – $71
New Mexico NM26$34+68%$16 – $68
Alaska AK19$32+60%$6 – $68
Nevada NV21$32+58%$16 – $55
Iowa IA84$30+50%$19 – $49
New Hampshire NH25$30+50%$3 – $64
Wyoming WY16$30+48%$23 – $42
North Dakota ND32$28+40%$9 – $37
Utah UT41$27+37%$23 – $35
Illinois IL144$27+36%$11 – $55
Hawaii HI18$26+32%$13 – $54
Pennsylvania PA120$26+29%$7 – $61
Minnesota MN101$26+28%$11 – $40
Virginia VA73$25+26%$9 – $40
South Carolina SC52$25+25%$16 – $43
Wisconsin WI105$25+25%$12 – $29
Ohio OH139$23+17%$12 – $35
Washington WA76$23+14%$8 – $39
Maine ME28$22+12%$10 – $51
Kansas KS86$22+12%$15 – $37
Colorado CO65$22+10%$14 – $53
Connecticut CT16$22+10%$8 – $32
Missouri MO77$22+10%$13 – $34
Montana MT32$21+4%$8 – $42
Georgia GA108$21+3%$10 – $35
Arizona AZ39$20+1%$6 – $57
North Carolina NC89$19−7%$9 – $46
Texas TX233$18−12%$8 – $63
Oklahoma OK71$17−15%$9 – $40
Idaho ID24$13−34%$7 – $40
New York NY119$13−36%$5 – $34
Oregon OR48$13−36%$9 – $23
Indiana IN95$13−37%$8 – $30
Mississippi MS56$12−39%$6 – $19
Alabama AL43$12−39%$8 – $58
Tennessee TN79$12−41%$7 – $43
Louisiana LA51$10−49%$7 – $19
Kentucky KY69$9−53%$7 – $30
West Virginia WV44$9−55%$5 – $29
Arkansas AR37$8−61%$5 – $27
Florida FL145$8−61%$3 – $25
Michigan MI100$7−66%$3 – $24
California CA144$7−67%$3 – $28
New Jersey NJ57$6−70%$5 – $36
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 $20.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,266$18$6 – $41
Children’s67$23$8 – $45
Critical access944$24$11 – $45
Ownership
For-profit452$23$8 – $92
Government614$19$8 – $42
Non-profit2,211$20$8 – $40
System affiliation
Part of a system2,662$20$8 – $45
Independent624$18$8 – $39

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$33
Median cash price$20
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

2,213 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $20 and the average of the middle 60% is $21; most fall between $8 and $40.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,213 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
$5$9$20$35$57

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($5 vs $57).

Of the 2,439 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,213 gave a usable cash price; 117 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 109 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,286 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 3,577 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,286
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here158
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 — excluded132
Hospitals that filed this code3,577

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 Other Laboratory family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Stemphylium Herbarum/Botryosum Ige.

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 IgE antibody test, each allergen (CPT 86003) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86003-allergy-ige-antibody-test-each-allergen