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Acetylcholine receptor binding antibody test

CPT 86041the billing code this page is about

Blood test for antibodies that bind to the acetylcholine receptor at the nerve-muscle junction; covers one test on one specimen.

Hospitals typically charge $58 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,267 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $65. Most fall between $25 and $139 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,267
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 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 2,267 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
$18$30$58$118$209

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $209).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $19: 146 hospitals$14$19 – $26: 231 hospitals$26 – $36: 202 hospitals$26$36 – $49: 295 hospitals$49 – $68: 304 hospitals$49$68 – $93: 255 hospitals$93 – $128: 219 hospitals$93$128 – $177: 172 hospitals$177 – $243: 158 hospitals$177$243 – $335: 60 hospitals$243median $58price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,042 of 2,267 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$19146
$19$26231
$26$36202
$36$49295
$49$68304
$68$93255
$93$128219
$128$177172
$177$243158
$243$33560

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $58.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $39 across 23 hospitalsME$39Vermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $57 across 23 hospitalsNH$57Washington: median $54 across 52 hospitalsWA$54Idaho: median $48 across 18 hospitalsID$48Montana: median $67 across 20 hospitalsMT$67North Dakota: median $49 across 18 hospitalsND$49Minnesota: median $62 across 75 hospitalsMN$62Illinois: median $83 across 85 hospitalsIL$83Wisconsin: median $118 across 91 hospitalsWI$118Michigan: median $52 across 58 hospitalsMI$52New York: median $36 across 77 hospitalsNY$36Massachusetts: median $63 across 40 hospitalsMA$63Oregon: median $62 across 32 hospitalsOR$62Nevada: median $40 across 10 hospitalsNV$40Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $136 across 19 hospitalsSD$136Iowa: median $86 across 63 hospitalsIA$86Indiana: median $38 across 65 hospitalsIN$38Ohio: median $73 across 101 hospitalsOH$73Pennsylvania: median $83 across 90 hospitalsPA$83New Jersey: median $20 across 45 hospitalsNJ$20Connecticut: median $49 across 18 hospitalsCT$49Rhode Island: median $28 across 10 hospitalsRI$28California: median $32 across 64 hospitalsCA$32Utah: median $184 across 34 hospitalsUT$184Colorado: median $87 across 50 hospitalsCO$87Nebraska: median $130 across 51 hospitalsNE$130Missouri: median $117 across 59 hospitalsMO$117Kentucky: median $30 across 49 hospitalsKY$30West Virginia: median $40 across 20 hospitalsWV$40Virginia: median $40 across 68 hospitalsVA$40Maryland: median $42 across 35 hospitalsMD$42Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $41 across 28 hospitalsAZ$41New Mexico: median $63 across 13 hospitalsNM$63Kansas: median $103 across 50 hospitalsKS$103Arkansas: median $39 across 25 hospitalsAR$39Tennessee: median $37 across 59 hospitalsTN$37North Carolina: median $41 across 72 hospitalsNC$41South Carolina: median $49 across 42 hospitalsSC$49Oklahoma: median $94 across 50 hospitalsOK$94Louisiana: median $23 across 38 hospitalsLA$23Mississippi: median $25 across 41 hospitalsMS$25Alabama: median $65 across 23 hospitalsAL$65Georgia: median $90 across 73 hospitalsGA$90Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $56 across 145 hospitalsTX$56Florida: median $35 across 108 hospitalsFL$35
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $58. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT34$184+219%$80 – $216
South Dakota SD19$136+136%$75 – $219
Nebraska NE51$130+126%$69 – $226
Wisconsin WI91$118+104%$35 – $199
Missouri MO59$117+103%$56 – $192
Kansas KS50$103+79%$50 – $209
Oklahoma OK50$94+63%$30 – $148
Georgia GA73$90+56%$58 – $119
Colorado CO50$87+51%$22 – $209
Iowa IA63$86+50%$49 – $124
Pennsylvania PA90$83+45%$40 – $169
Illinois IL85$83+44%$41 – $168
Ohio OH101$73+26%$46 – $139
Montana MT20$67+17%$26 – $171
Alabama AL23$65+14%$22 – $83
Massachusetts MA40$63+9%$41 – $118
New Mexico NM13$63+9%$43 – $103
Minnesota MN75$62+8%$33 – $178
Oregon OR32$62+7%$26 – $94
New Hampshire NH23$570%$28 – $119
Texas TX145$56−4%$37 – $192
Washington WA52$54−7%$21 – $129
Michigan MI58$52−9%$22 – $83
South Carolina SC42$49−14%$38 – $197
Connecticut CT18$49−14%$46 – $77
North Dakota ND18$49−15%$32 – $70
Idaho ID18$48−17%$42 – $68
Maryland MD35$42−27%$17 – $66
North Carolina NC72$41−28%$21 – $128
Arizona AZ28$41−28%$19 – $79
Nevada NV10$40−30%$18 – $90
Virginia VA68$40−31%$18 – $195
West Virginia WV20$40−31%$23 – $70
Maine ME23$39−32%$18 – $93
Arkansas AR25$39−33%$20 – $196
Indiana IN65$38−33%$16 – $98
Tennessee TN59$37−35%$17 – $58
New York NY77$36−38%$18 – $103
Florida FL108$35−40%$23 – $74
California CA64$32−45%$15 – $40
Kentucky KY49$30−48%$21 – $175
Rhode Island RI10$28−52%$17 – $109
Mississippi MS41$25−56%$14 – $33
Louisiana LA38$23−60%$14 – $67
New Jersey NJ45$20−65%$18 – $21
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not 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 $58.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,680$52$22 – $122
Children’s34$65$41 – $146
Critical access546$79$36 – $184
Ownership
For-profit303$57$22 – $209
Government350$68$30 – $150
Non-profit1,607$55$25 – $130
System affiliation
Part of a system1,953$56$24 – $138
Independent314$65$32 – $147

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$90
Median cash price$58
Cash as a share of list, median hospital63%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

1,577 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $57 and the average of the middle 60% is $63; most fall between $25 and $122.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,577 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
$18$30$57$110$184

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $184).

Of the 1,721 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,577 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 63 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,267 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (57%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,443 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,267
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here109
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 — excluded66
Hospitals that filed this code2,443

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 Mg Eval W/ Musk Reflex,S.

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, “Acetylcholine receptor binding antibody test (CPT 86041) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86041-acetylcholine-receptor-binding-antibody-test