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Allergy IgE test for one purified allergen part, each

CPT 86008the billing code this page is about

Measures IgE allergy antibodies against a single purified or lab-made component of an allergen; billed once for each component tested.

Hospitals typically charge $34 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,461 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $37. Most fall between $15 and $68 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,461
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 2,461 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
$10$18$34$60$105

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $105).

How the prices are spread

$5 – $8: 83 hospitals$5$8 – $11: 85 hospitals$11 – $15: 169 hospitals$11$15 – $21: 270 hospitals$21 – $29: 300 hospitals$21$29 – $40: 397 hospitals$40 – $57: 335 hospitals$40$57 – $79: 323 hospitals$79 – $111: 149 hospitals$79$111 – $155: 114 hospitals$111median $34price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,225 of 2,461 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$5$883
$8$1185
$11$15169
$15$21270
$21$29300
$29$40397
$40$57335
$57$79323
$79$111149
$111$155114

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $34.

Alaska: median $33 across 13 hospitalsAK$33Maine: median $36 across 25 hospitalsME$36Vermont: median $69 across 11 hospitalsVT$69New Hampshire: median $40 across 22 hospitalsNH$40Washington: median $32 across 58 hospitalsWA$32Idaho: median $7 across 17 hospitalsID$7Montana: median $39 across 16 hospitalsMT$39North Dakota: median $46 across 23 hospitalsND$46Minnesota: median $32 across 82 hospitalsMN$32Illinois: median $50 across 111 hospitalsIL$50Wisconsin: median $53 across 91 hospitalsWI$53Michigan: median $25 across 77 hospitalsMI$25New York: median $23 across 90 hospitalsNY$23Massachusetts: median $62 across 47 hospitalsMA$62Oregon: median $21 across 34 hospitalsOR$21Nevada: median $39 across 12 hospitalsNV$39Wyoming: median $59 across 10 hospitalsWY$59South Dakota: median $52 across 11 hospitalsSD$52Iowa: median $48 across 56 hospitalsIA$48Indiana: median $37 across 94 hospitalsIN$37Ohio: median $35 across 123 hospitalsOH$35Pennsylvania: median $41 across 104 hospitalsPA$41New Jersey: median $20 across 49 hospitalsNJ$20Connecticut: median $67 across 12 hospitalsCT$67Rhode Island: median $39 across 10 hospitalsRI$39California: median $23 across 93 hospitalsCA$23Utah: median $66 across 35 hospitalsUT$66Colorado: median $34 across 39 hospitalsCO$34Nebraska: median $67 across 42 hospitalsNE$67Missouri: median $33 across 62 hospitalsMO$33Kentucky: median $47 across 63 hospitalsKY$47West Virginia: median $24 across 37 hospitalsWV$24Virginia: median $46 across 70 hospitalsVA$46Maryland: median $44 across 29 hospitalsMD$44Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $21 across 18 hospitalsAZ$21New Mexico: median $36 across 12 hospitalsNM$36Kansas: median $45 across 60 hospitalsKS$45Arkansas: median $14 across 32 hospitalsAR$14Tennessee: median $23 across 65 hospitalsTN$23North Carolina: median $40 across 77 hospitalsNC$40South Carolina: median $54 across 45 hospitalsSC$54Oklahoma: median $30 across 61 hospitalsOK$30Louisiana: median $27 across 44 hospitalsLA$27Mississippi: median $21 across 47 hospitalsMS$21Alabama: median $21 across 26 hospitalsAL$21Georgia: median $33 across 92 hospitalsGA$33Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $25 across 111 hospitalsTX$25Florida: median $14 across 88 hospitalsFL$14
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $34. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT11$69+102%$21 – $92
Nebraska NE42$67+97%$26 – $171
Connecticut CT12$67+95%$15 – $96
Utah UT35$66+94%$62 – $73
Massachusetts MA47$62+81%$33 – $106
Wyoming WY10$59+73%$27 – $95
South Carolina SC45$54+58%$29 – $59
Wisconsin WI91$53+55%$20 – $88
South Dakota SD11$52+52%$15 – $66
Illinois IL111$50+46%$25 – $112
Iowa IA56$48+41%$31 – $53
Kentucky KY63$47+38%$25 – $100
North Dakota ND23$46+35%$9 – $115
Virginia VA70$46+34%$24 – $81
Kansas KS60$45+32%$30 – $73
Maryland MD29$44+28%$13 – $59
Pennsylvania PA104$41+21%$21 – $110
North Carolina NC77$40+18%$21 – $65
New Hampshire NH22$40+16%$13 – $90
Montana MT16$39+15%$33 – $83
Nevada NV12$39+14%$17 – $88
Rhode Island RI10$39+14%$37 – $140
Indiana IN94$37+7%$22 – $60
Maine ME25$36+5%$15 – $95
New Mexico NM12$36+5%$17 – $68
Ohio OH123$35+2%$14 – $75
Colorado CO39$34−1%$21 – $62
Georgia GA92$33−3%$26 – $69
Missouri MO62$33−4%$18 – $58
Alaska AK13$33−5%$18 – $72
Minnesota MN82$32−5%$13 – $66
Washington WA58$32−6%$20 – $44
Oklahoma OK61$30−13%$20 – $60
Louisiana LA44$27−20%$15 – $52
Texas TX111$25−27%$14 – $91
Michigan MI77$25−28%$5 – $58
West Virginia WV37$24−30%$5 – $53
California CA93$23−34%$4 – $38
New York NY90$23−34%$11 – $59
Tennessee TN65$23−34%$13 – $31
Alabama AL26$21−37%$14 – $39
Mississippi MS47$21−37%$12 – $32
Oregon OR34$21−39%$9 – $43
Arizona AZ18$21−40%$14 – $35
New Jersey NJ49$20−42%$18 – $46
Florida FL88$14−58%$5 – $63
Arkansas AR32$14−60%$11 – $39
Idaho ID17$7−80%$6 – $62
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
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 $34.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,774$32$15 – $65
Children’s41$38$11 – $74
Critical access639$41$21 – $79
Ownership
For-profit274$31$14 – $83
Government421$34$17 – $62
Non-profit1,759$35$15 – $68
System affiliation
Part of a system2,048$34$15 – $68
Independent413$35$17 – $66

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$60
Median cash price$34
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

1,725 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $34 and the average of the middle 60% is $37; most fall between $15 and $68.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,725 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
$10$18$34$60$107

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $107).

Of the 1,883 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,725 gave a usable cash price; 85 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 73 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,461 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (62%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,665 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,461
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here113
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 — excluded90
Hospitals that filed this code2,665

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 Hazelnut Components Reflex.

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 test for one purified allergen part, each (CPT 86008) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86008-allergy-ige-test-for-one-purified-allergen-part-each