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Procedure price report · Other Laboratory

Complement protein level, each component tested

CPT 86160the billing code this page is about

Blood test measuring one component of the complement immune protein system, such as C3; billed once for each component measured.

Hospitals typically charge $57 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,323 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $60. Most fall between $21 and $111 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,323
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 3,323 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$26$57$99$166

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $166).

How the prices are spread

$9 – $12: 175 hospitals$9$12 – $17: 208 hospitals$17 – $24: 206 hospitals$17$24 – $33: 240 hospitals$33 – $45: 336 hospitals$33$45 – $63: 463 hospitals$63 – $87: 504 hospitals$63$87 – $121: 445 hospitals$121 – $167: 252 hospitals$121$167 – $232: 165 hospitals$167median $57price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,994 of 3,323 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$9$12175
$12$17208
$17$24206
$24$33240
$33$45336
$45$63463
$63$87504
$87$121445
$121$167252
$167$232165

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $57.

Alaska: median $79 across 19 hospitalsAK$79Maine: median $46 across 28 hospitalsME$46Vermont: median $104 across 14 hospitalsVT$104New Hampshire: median $79 across 25 hospitalsNH$79Washington: median $75 across 77 hospitalsWA$75Idaho: median $66 across 23 hospitalsID$66Montana: median $80 across 30 hospitalsMT$80North Dakota: median $76 across 33 hospitalsND$76Minnesota: median $70 across 106 hospitalsMN$70Illinois: median $86 across 143 hospitalsIL$86Wisconsin: median $80 across 106 hospitalsWI$80Michigan: median $21 across 96 hospitalsMI$21New York: median $43 across 105 hospitalsNY$43Massachusetts: median $62 across 53 hospitalsMA$62Oregon: median $53 across 49 hospitalsOR$53Nevada: median $59 across 20 hospitalsNV$59Wyoming: median $48 across 16 hospitalsWY$48South Dakota: median $103 across 38 hospitalsSD$103Iowa: median $72 across 88 hospitalsIA$72Indiana: median $64 across 97 hospitalsIN$64Ohio: median $54 across 141 hospitalsOH$54Pennsylvania: median $51 across 122 hospitalsPA$51New Jersey: median $14 across 57 hospitalsNJ$14Connecticut: median $61 across 23 hospitalsCT$61Rhode Island: median $69 across 10 hospitalsRI$69California: median $19 across 139 hospitalsCA$19Utah: median $64 across 42 hospitalsUT$64Colorado: median $67 across 70 hospitalsCO$67Nebraska: median $92 across 78 hospitalsNE$92Missouri: median $58 across 76 hospitalsMO$58Kentucky: median $49 across 69 hospitalsKY$49West Virginia: median $36 across 43 hospitalsWV$36Virginia: median $71 across 73 hospitalsVA$71Maryland: median $69 across 41 hospitalsMD$69Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $56 across 42 hospitalsAZ$56New Mexico: median $91 across 29 hospitalsNM$91Kansas: median $77 across 87 hospitalsKS$77Arkansas: median $16 across 38 hospitalsAR$16Tennessee: median $42 across 80 hospitalsTN$42North Carolina: median $56 across 89 hospitalsNC$56South Carolina: median $97 across 53 hospitalsSC$97Oklahoma: median $44 across 74 hospitalsOK$44Louisiana: median $29 across 50 hospitalsLA$29Mississippi: median $28 across 57 hospitalsMS$28Alabama: median $62 across 44 hospitalsAL$62Georgia: median $56 across 110 hospitalsGA$56Hawaii: median $74 across 21 hospitalsHI$74Texas: median $77 across 245 hospitalsTX$77Florida: median $17 across 147 hospitalsFL$17
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $57. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT14$104+84%$34 – $206
South Dakota SD38$103+82%$60 – $155
South Carolina SC53$97+72%$43 – $143
Nebraska NE78$92+63%$32 – $149
New Mexico NM29$91+61%$39 – $144
Illinois IL143$86+53%$38 – $168
Montana MT30$80+42%$32 – $100
Wisconsin WI106$80+41%$38 – $111
New Hampshire NH25$79+40%$38 – $151
Alaska AK19$79+39%$14 – $196
Kansas KS87$77+37%$52 – $102
Texas TX245$77+37%$14 – $188
North Dakota ND33$76+34%$22 – $98
Washington WA77$75+33%$38 – $109
Hawaii HI21$74+31%$31 – $119
Iowa IA88$72+27%$49 – $100
Virginia VA73$71+26%$21 – $181
Minnesota MN106$70+24%$25 – $89
Rhode Island RI10$69+22%$44 – $105
Maryland MD41$69+21%$52 – $81
Colorado CO70$67+19%$44 – $139
Idaho ID23$66+17%$12 – $89
Indiana IN97$64+14%$24 – $106
Utah UT42$64+13%$54 – $109
Alabama AL44$62+10%$19 – $152
Massachusetts MA53$62+10%$34 – $116
Connecticut CT23$61+9%$43 – $100
Nevada NV20$59+4%$21 – $107
Missouri MO76$58+3%$39 – $111
North Carolina NC89$560%$18 – $131
Georgia GA110$56−1%$28 – $179
Arizona AZ42$56−1%$15 – $280
Ohio OH141$54−5%$36 – $87
Oregon OR49$53−7%$32 – $82
Pennsylvania PA122$51−10%$19 – $141
Kentucky KY69$49−13%$22 – $114
Wyoming WY16$48−15%$33 – $74
Maine ME28$46−18%$23 – $104
Oklahoma OK74$44−22%$14 – $97
New York NY105$43−23%$13 – $142
Tennessee TN80$42−26%$21 – $73
West Virginia WV43$36−37%$12 – $102
Louisiana LA50$29−49%$15 – $53
Mississippi MS57$28−50%$12 – $68
Michigan MI96$21−62%$8 – $79
California CA139$19−67%$6 – $69
Florida FL147$17−70%$10 – $47
Arkansas AR38$16−71%$11 – $62
New Jersey NJ57$14−76%$13 – $57
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 $57.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,275$51$17 – $109
Children’s66$80$27 – $112
Critical access972$71$34 – $114
Ownership
For-profit461$66$15 – $192
Government634$63$26 – $107
Non-profit2,218$55$20 – $106
System affiliation
Part of a system2,690$56$20 – $111
Independent633$60$26 – $108

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$91
Median cash price$57
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

2,242 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $56 and the average of the middle 60% is $60; most fall between $21 and $110.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,242 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
$13$28$56$96$164

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $164).

Of the 2,482 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,242 gave a usable cash price; 127 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 113 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,323 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (84%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,631 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,323
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here172
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 — excluded135
Hospitals that filed this code3,631

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 Complement C1q, Serum.

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, “Complement protein level, each component tested (CPT 86160) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86160-complement-protein-level-each-component-tested