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Procedure price report · Other Laboratory

Fluorescent antibody screen, each antibody

CPT 86255the billing code this page is about

Screening test using fluorescent staining to look for a non-infection antibody, such as antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody; charged once for each antibody screened.

Hospitals typically charge $52 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,253 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $57. Most fall between $20 and $120 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,253
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 3,253 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$24$52$101$191

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $191).

How the prices are spread

$8 – $12: 153 hospitals$8$12 – $16: 242 hospitals$16 – $23: 245 hospitals$16$23 – $33: 314 hospitals$33 – $47: 391 hospitals$33$47 – $67: 463 hospitals$67 – $95: 379 hospitals$67$95 – $135: 376 hospitals$135 – $192: 213 hospitals$135$192 – $273: 157 hospitals$192median $52price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,933 of 3,253 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$8$12153
$12$16242
$16$23245
$23$33314
$33$47391
$47$67463
$67$95379
$95$135376
$135$192213
$192$273157

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $52.

Alaska: median $83 across 15 hospitalsAK$83Maine: median $56 across 28 hospitalsME$56Vermont: median $88 across 14 hospitalsVT$88New Hampshire: median $56 across 24 hospitalsNH$56Washington: median $63 across 74 hospitalsWA$63Idaho: median $63 across 23 hospitalsID$63Montana: median $66 across 30 hospitalsMT$66North Dakota: median $71 across 31 hospitalsND$71Minnesota: median $63 across 102 hospitalsMN$63Illinois: median $63 across 143 hospitalsIL$63Wisconsin: median $60 across 104 hospitalsWI$60Michigan: median $31 across 100 hospitalsMI$31New York: median $32 across 106 hospitalsNY$32Massachusetts: median $59 across 52 hospitalsMA$59Oregon: median $59 across 48 hospitalsOR$59Nevada: median $59 across 20 hospitalsNV$59Wyoming: median $45 across 16 hospitalsWY$45South Dakota: median $97 across 38 hospitalsSD$97Iowa: median $57 across 84 hospitalsIA$57Indiana: median $43 across 98 hospitalsIN$43Ohio: median $60 across 139 hospitalsOH$60Pennsylvania: median $55 across 120 hospitalsPA$55New Jersey: median $14 across 56 hospitalsNJ$14Connecticut: median $40 across 23 hospitalsCT$40Rhode Island: median $49 across 10 hospitalsRI$49California: median $21 across 128 hospitalsCA$21Utah: median $109 across 41 hospitalsUT$109Colorado: median $59 across 68 hospitalsCO$59Nebraska: median $77 across 76 hospitalsNE$77Missouri: median $64 across 74 hospitalsMO$64Kentucky: median $64 across 65 hospitalsKY$64West Virginia: median $36 across 42 hospitalsWV$36Virginia: median $82 across 73 hospitalsVA$82Maryland: median $41 across 41 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $86 across 39 hospitalsAZ$86New Mexico: median $99 across 28 hospitalsNM$99Kansas: median $77 across 84 hospitalsKS$77Arkansas: median $27 across 38 hospitalsAR$27Tennessee: median $36 across 79 hospitalsTN$36North Carolina: median $42 across 89 hospitalsNC$42South Carolina: median $98 across 53 hospitalsSC$98Oklahoma: median $35 across 73 hospitalsOK$35Louisiana: median $26 across 50 hospitalsLA$26Mississippi: median $17 across 57 hospitalsMS$17Alabama: median $40 across 44 hospitalsAL$40Georgia: median $39 across 103 hospitalsGA$39Hawaii: median $71 across 18 hospitalsHI$71Texas: median $63 across 234 hospitalsTX$63Florida: median $15 across 151 hospitalsFL$15
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $52. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT41$109+111%$82 – $128
New Mexico NM28$99+93%$50 – $161
South Carolina SC53$98+90%$47 – $222
South Dakota SD38$97+88%$47 – $259
Vermont VT14$88+71%$34 – $122
Arizona AZ39$86+67%$24 – $315
Alaska AK15$83+61%$39 – $150
Virginia VA73$82+59%$21 – $331
Kansas KS84$77+49%$47 – $132
Nebraska NE76$77+48%$31 – $203
Hawaii HI18$71+39%$24 – $113
North Dakota ND31$71+38%$22 – $112
Montana MT30$66+28%$21 – $96
Missouri MO74$64+25%$22 – $140
Kentucky KY65$64+24%$25 – $130
Washington WA74$63+23%$41 – $141
Illinois IL143$63+23%$33 – $150
Idaho ID23$63+22%$20 – $195
Texas TX234$63+22%$24 – $145
Minnesota MN102$63+22%$22 – $118
Ohio OH139$60+16%$38 – $120
Wisconsin WI104$60+16%$40 – $101
Colorado CO68$59+15%$29 – $89
Nevada NV20$59+14%$21 – $98
Massachusetts MA52$59+14%$29 – $110
Oregon OR48$59+14%$19 – $85
Iowa IA84$57+11%$36 – $111
New Hampshire NH24$56+9%$26 – $171
Maine ME28$56+8%$20 – $119
Pennsylvania PA120$55+6%$17 – $132
Rhode Island RI10$49−6%$16 – $180
Wyoming WY16$45−13%$28 – $77
Indiana IN98$43−17%$20 – $93
North Carolina NC89$42−18%$23 – $174
Maryland MD41$41−21%$31 – $49
Alabama AL44$40−22%$14 – $355
Connecticut CT23$40−22%$24 – $85
Georgia GA103$39−24%$23 – $90
Tennessee TN79$36−29%$11 – $98
West Virginia WV42$36−30%$17 – $96
Oklahoma OK73$35−32%$13 – $98
New York NY106$32−38%$14 – $91
Michigan MI100$31−40%$7 – $67
Arkansas AR38$27−48%$13 – $43
Louisiana LA50$26−49%$9 – $54
California CA128$21−59%$8 – $52
Mississippi MS57$17−67%$8 – $70
Florida FL151$15−72%$10 – $52
New Jersey NJ56$14−73%$13 – $69
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 $52.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,254$45$15 – $112
Children’s63$55$17 – $113
Critical access926$69$31 – $130
Ownership
For-profit449$52$18 – $160
Government609$58$23 – $126
Non-profit2,185$51$19 – $112
System affiliation
Part of a system2,641$51$18 – $119
Independent612$56$23 – $124

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$83
Median cash price$52
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

2,211 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $52 and the average of the middle 60% is $57; most fall between $20 and $116.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,211 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$25$52$99$186

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $186).

Of the 2,453 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,211 gave a usable cash price; 137 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 105 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,253 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (82%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,563 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,253
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here181
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 — excluded128
Hospitals that filed this code3,563

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 Dppx Ab Cba, 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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Fluorescent antibody screen, each antibody (CPT 86255) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86255-fluorescent-antibody-screen-each-antibody