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Modulating acetylcholine receptor antibody blood test

CPT 86043the billing code this page is about

Blood test that measures antibodies which alter acetylcholine receptors at the nerve-muscle junction, used in evaluating muscle weakness disorders.

Hospitals typically charge $60 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,009 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $66. Most fall between $23 and $140 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,009
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 2,009 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
$14$31$60$112$242

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $242).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $17: 150 hospitals$12$17 – $24: 180 hospitals$24 – $34: 115 hospitals$24$34 – $49: 230 hospitals$49 – $70: 361 hospitals$49$70 – $99: 296 hospitals$99 – $141: 186 hospitals$99$141 – $201: 157 hospitals$201 – $285: 75 hospitals$201$285 – $406: 67 hospitals$285median $60price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,817 of 2,009 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$17150
$17$24180
$24$34115
$34$49230
$49$70361
$70$99296
$99$141186
$141$201157
$201$28575
$285$40667

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $60.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $31 across 19 hospitalsME$31Vermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $83 across 21 hospitalsNH$83Washington: median $46 across 48 hospitalsWA$46Idaho: median $65 across 17 hospitalsID$65Montana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $75 across 12 hospitalsND$75Minnesota: median $62 across 48 hospitalsMN$62Illinois: median $68 across 81 hospitalsIL$68Wisconsin: median $63 across 83 hospitalsWI$63Michigan: median $32 across 46 hospitalsMI$32New York: median $25 across 64 hospitalsNY$25Massachusetts: median $47 across 37 hospitalsMA$47Oregon: median $65 across 31 hospitalsOR$65Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $118 across 12 hospitalsSD$118Iowa: median $82 across 43 hospitalsIA$82Indiana: median $34 across 62 hospitalsIN$34Ohio: median $62 across 111 hospitalsOH$62Pennsylvania: median $76 across 89 hospitalsPA$76New Jersey: median $13 across 43 hospitalsNJ$13Connecticut: median $50 across 14 hospitalsCT$50Rhode Island: median $63 across 10 hospitalsRI$63California: median $23 across 51 hospitalsCA$23Utah: median $397 across 34 hospitalsUT$397Colorado: median $71 across 41 hospitalsCO$71Nebraska: median $101 across 38 hospitalsNE$101Missouri: median $97 across 53 hospitalsMO$97Kentucky: median $58 across 47 hospitalsKY$58West Virginia: median $60 across 17 hospitalsWV$60Virginia: median $40 across 68 hospitalsVA$40Maryland: median $54 across 34 hospitalsMD$54Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $48 across 26 hospitalsAZ$48New Mexico: median $41 across 11 hospitalsNM$41Kansas: median $89 across 39 hospitalsKS$89Arkansas: median $12 across 24 hospitalsAR$12Tennessee: median $40 across 56 hospitalsTN$40North Carolina: median $81 across 67 hospitalsNC$81South Carolina: median $158 across 37 hospitalsSC$158Oklahoma: median $88 across 46 hospitalsOK$88Louisiana: median $15 across 35 hospitalsLA$15Mississippi: median $15 across 37 hospitalsMS$15Alabama: median $45 across 22 hospitalsAL$45Georgia: median $81 across 56 hospitalsGA$81Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $59 across 138 hospitalsTX$59Florida: median $63 across 97 hospitalsFL$63
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $60. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT34$397+561%$71 – $467
South Carolina SC37$158+163%$37 – $163
South Dakota SD12$118+97%$94 – $253
Nebraska NE38$101+68%$50 – $178
Missouri MO53$97+62%$47 – $186
Kansas KS39$89+48%$30 – $161
Oklahoma OK46$88+47%$59 – $125
New Hampshire NH21$83+38%$60 – $173
Iowa IA43$82+37%$49 – $127
North Carolina NC67$81+35%$42 – $147
Georgia GA56$81+35%$58 – $110
Pennsylvania PA89$76+27%$21 – $275
North Dakota ND12$75+25%$55 – $111
Colorado CO41$71+18%$14 – $136
Illinois IL81$68+13%$35 – $155
Idaho ID17$65+8%$54 – $140
Oregon OR31$65+7%$40 – $117
Florida FL97$63+5%$42 – $118
Rhode Island RI10$63+5%$18 – $104
Wisconsin WI83$63+4%$50 – $97
Ohio OH111$62+3%$50 – $320
Minnesota MN48$62+3%$20 – $120
West Virginia WV17$600%$50 – $146
Texas TX138$59−3%$39 – $250
Kentucky KY47$58−4%$14 – $982
Maryland MD34$54−10%$41 – $104
Connecticut CT14$50−17%$26 – $54
Arizona AZ26$48−20%$14 – $79
Massachusetts MA37$47−22%$36 – $86
Washington WA48$46−23%$18 – $167
Alabama AL22$45−25%$14 – $83
New Mexico NM11$41−31%$28 – $41
Virginia VA68$40−33%$19 – $107
Tennessee TN56$40−33%$18 – $57
Indiana IN62$34−44%$15 – $99
Michigan MI46$32−46%$19 – $64
Maine ME19$31−48%$11 – $251
New York NY64$25−59%$12 – $110
California CA51$23−62%$14 – $35
Louisiana LA35$15−74%$9 – $80
Mississippi MS37$15−75%$9 – $58
New Jersey NJ43$13−78%$12 – $16
Arkansas AR24$12−80%$12 – $203
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $60.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,566$58$21 – $125
Children’s31$84$47 – $186
Critical access406$83$39 – $169
Ownership
For-profit265$66$34 – $312
Government273$67$25 – $144
Non-profit1,465$59$23 – $126
System affiliation
Part of a system1,757$60$23 – $136
Independent252$66$27 – $144

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$100
Median cash price$60
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

1,427 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $60 and the average of the middle 60% is $66; most fall between $23 and $125.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,427 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
$16$33$60$107$197

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($16 vs $197).

Of the 1,559 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,427 gave a usable cash price; 76 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 56 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,009 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (51%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,174 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,009
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here105
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 — excluded59
Hospitals that filed this code2,174

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 Acetylch Rec Modula Ab.

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, “Modulating acetylcholine receptor antibody blood test (CPT 86043) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86043-modulating-acetylcholine-receptor-antibody-blood-test