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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Smooth muscle actin antibody blood test

CPT 86015the billing code this page is about

Blood test for antibodies against actin, a smooth muscle protein, often used in evaluating liver disease; billed once per antibody tested.

Hospitals typically charge $41 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,446 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $47. Most fall between $16 and $100 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,446
States
50
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 2,446 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$19$41$89$146

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $146).

How the prices are spread

$8 – $11: 119 hospitals$8$11 – $15: 244 hospitals$15 – $22: 253 hospitals$15$22 – $31: 241 hospitals$31 – $44: 319 hospitals$31$44 – $63: 275 hospitals$63 – $90: 266 hospitals$63$90 – $128: 258 hospitals$128 – $182: 169 hospitals$128$182 – $260: 58 hospitals$182median $41price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,202 of 2,446 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$8$11119
$11$15244
$15$22253
$22$31241
$31$44319
$44$63275
$63$90266
$90$128258
$128$182169
$182$26058

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $41.

Alaska: median $20 across 12 hospitalsAK$20Maine: median $37 across 22 hospitalsME$37Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $37 across 22 hospitalsNH$37Washington: median $36 across 56 hospitalsWA$36Idaho: median $19 across 19 hospitalsID$19Montana: median $60 across 15 hospitalsMT$60North Dakota: median $45 across 27 hospitalsND$45Minnesota: median $41 across 94 hospitalsMN$41Illinois: median $70 across 103 hospitalsIL$70Wisconsin: median $91 across 87 hospitalsWI$91Michigan: median $24 across 53 hospitalsMI$24New York: median $27 across 74 hospitalsNY$27Massachusetts: median $54 across 50 hospitalsMA$54Oregon: median $36 across 38 hospitalsOR$36Nevada: median $32 across 12 hospitalsNV$32Wyoming: median $48 across 11 hospitalsWY$48South Dakota: median $87 across 26 hospitalsSD$87Iowa: median $71 across 65 hospitalsIA$71Indiana: median $42 across 72 hospitalsIN$42Ohio: median $49 across 112 hospitalsOH$49Pennsylvania: median $60 across 103 hospitalsPA$60New Jersey: median $14 across 46 hospitalsNJ$14Connecticut: median $21 across 17 hospitalsCT$21Rhode Island: median $26 across 10 hospitalsRI$26California: median $12 across 79 hospitalsCA$12Utah: median $38 across 36 hospitalsUT$38Colorado: median $76 across 45 hospitalsCO$76Nebraska: median $76 across 60 hospitalsNE$76Missouri: median $70 across 58 hospitalsMO$70Kentucky: median $18 across 52 hospitalsKY$18West Virginia: median $6 across 28 hospitalsWV$6Virginia: median $22 across 68 hospitalsVA$22Maryland: median $49 across 34 hospitalsMD$49Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $74 across 30 hospitalsAZ$74New Mexico: median $35 across 22 hospitalsNM$35Kansas: median $62 across 54 hospitalsKS$62Arkansas: median $9 across 31 hospitalsAR$9Tennessee: median $30 across 58 hospitalsTN$30North Carolina: median $27 across 70 hospitalsNC$27South Carolina: median $60 across 38 hospitalsSC$60Oklahoma: median $92 across 35 hospitalsOK$92Louisiana: median $20 across 40 hospitalsLA$20Mississippi: median $17 across 41 hospitalsMS$17Alabama: median $35 across 23 hospitalsAL$35Georgia: median $45 across 79 hospitalsGA$45Hawaii: median $34 across 10 hospitalsHI$34Texas: median $50 across 159 hospitalsTX$50Florida: median $19 across 136 hospitalsFL$19
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $41. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Oklahoma OK35$92+125%$53 – $166
Wisconsin WI87$91+123%$33 – $123
South Dakota SD26$87+114%$45 – $157
Nebraska NE60$76+87%$52 – $150
Colorado CO45$76+85%$25 – $162
Arizona AZ30$74+81%$19 – $93
Iowa IA65$71+74%$41 – $116
Missouri MO58$70+72%$30 – $107
Illinois IL103$70+71%$25 – $172
Kansas KS54$62+53%$28 – $102
Pennsylvania PA103$60+47%$23 – $115
South Carolina SC38$60+47%$12 – $109
Montana MT15$60+46%$23 – $87
Massachusetts MA50$54+32%$20 – $84
Texas TX159$50+22%$19 – $245
Maryland MD34$49+20%$22 – $72
Ohio OH112$49+19%$29 – $100
Wyoming WY11$48+18%$25 – $85
Georgia GA79$45+10%$27 – $91
North Dakota ND27$45+10%$21 – $72
Indiana IN72$42+4%$16 – $121
Minnesota MN94$410%$17 – $95
Utah UT36$38−8%$38 – $50
New Hampshire NH22$37−9%$20 – $120
Maine ME22$37−9%$14 – $105
Oregon OR38$36−11%$19 – $58
Washington WA56$36−13%$18 – $81
Alabama AL23$35−14%$12 – $86
New Mexico NM22$35−15%$21 – $100
Hawaii HI10$34−17%$32 – $97
Nevada NV12$32−21%$11 – $59
Tennessee TN58$30−26%$9 – $132
North Carolina NC70$27−34%$19 – $117
New York NY74$27−34%$12 – $42
Rhode Island RI10$26−37%$17 – $83
Michigan MI53$24−42%$13 – $41
Virginia VA68$22−47%$12 – $120
Connecticut CT17$21−49%$9 – $36
Alaska AK12$20−50%$18 – $42
Louisiana LA40$20−50%$9 – $42
Idaho ID19$19−54%$13 – $38
Florida FL136$19−54%$7 – $66
Kentucky KY52$18−57%$13 – $76
Mississippi MS41$17−59%$9 – $43
New Jersey NJ46$14−66%$12 – $35
California CA79$12−72%$5 – $22
Arkansas AR31$9−77%$8 – $113
West Virginia WV28$6−85%$6 – $38
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $41.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,778$38$14 – $98
Children’s37$38$9 – $135
Critical access621$53$22 – $113
Ownership
For-profit355$51$12 – $276
Government393$48$20 – $100
Non-profit1,688$39$15 – $91
System affiliation
Part of a system2,081$41$15 – $104
Independent365$40$18 – $83

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$63
Median cash price$41
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

1,646 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $41 and the average of the middle 60% is $47; most fall between $18 and $100.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,646 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
$12$21$41$85$135

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $135).

Of the 1,815 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,646 gave a usable cash price; 101 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 68 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,446 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 2,653 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,446
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here136
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded68
Hospitals that filed this code2,653

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 Anti-Smooth Muscle , Quan.

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, “Smooth muscle actin antibody blood test (CPT 86015) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86015-smooth-muscle-actin-antibody-blood-test