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Growth hormone antibody blood test

CPT 86277the billing code this page is about

Blood test detecting antibodies directed against human growth hormone.

Hospitals typically charge $54 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 341 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $65. Most fall between $19 and $149 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
341
States
43
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 341 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$22$54$140$193

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($16 vs $193).

How the prices are spread

$15 – $20: 57 hospitals$15$20 – $26: 27 hospitals$26 – $34: 22 hospitals$26$34 – $44: 24 hospitals$44 – $58: 30 hospitals$44$58 – $76: 33 hospitals$76 – $99: 21 hospitals$76$99 – $130: 20 hospitals$130 – $170: 34 hospitals$130$170 – $223: 40 hospitals$170median $54price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (308 of 341 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$15$2057
$20$2627
$26$3422
$34$4424
$44$5830
$58$7633
$76$9921
$99$13020
$130$17034
$170$22340

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $54.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $74 across 11 hospitalsWA$74Idaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $28 across 11 hospitalsIL$28Wisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: median $22 across 11 hospitalsMI$22New York: median $16 across 22 hospitalsNY$16Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $40 across 14 hospitalsIA$40Indiana: median $21 across 16 hospitalsIN$21Ohio: median $166 across 19 hospitalsOH$166Pennsylvania: median $15 across 20 hospitalsPA$15New Jersey: median $17 across 23 hospitalsNJ$17Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $140 across 38 hospitalsCA$140Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $54 across 14 hospitalsNC$54South Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $28 across 12 hospitalsOK$28Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $73 across 34 hospitalsTX$73Florida: median $44 across 15 hospitalsFL$44
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $54. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH19$166+209%$122 – $193
California CA38$140+160%$140 – $193
Washington WA11$74+38%$71 – $85
Texas TX34$73+35%$73 – $154
North Carolina NC14$540%$26 – $73
Florida FL15$44−18%$44 – $212
Iowa IA14$40−26%$40 – $53
Illinois IL11$28−48%$22 – $61
Oklahoma OK12$28−48%$28 – $28
Michigan MI11$22−60%$19 – $42
Indiana IN16$21−61%$19 – $26
New Jersey NJ23$17−68%$16 – $17
New York NY22$16−71%$16 – $39
Pennsylvania PA20$15−72%$11 – $24
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $54.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care282$49$17 – $141
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access48$66$27 – $155
Ownership
For-profit45$55$22 – $221
Government33$53$16 – $104
Non-profit263$58$18 – $146
System affiliation
Part of a system294$54$18 – $160
Independent47$55$21 – $120

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$112
Median cash price$54
Cash as a share of list, median hospital59%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 41%. 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

208 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $77 and the average of the middle 60% is $92; most fall between $39 and $175.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 208 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
$22$40$77$154$193

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $193).

Of the 230 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 208 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

341 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 368 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted341
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here20
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code368

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 5, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 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 GROWTH HORMONE ANTIBODY.

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, “Growth hormone antibody blood test (CPT 86277) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86277-growth-hormone-antibody-blood-test