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Mononucleosis screening blood test

CPT 86308the billing code this page is about

Blood test that screens for heterophile antibodies, which are produced during infectious mononucleosis.

Hospitals typically charge $50 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,303 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $53. Most fall between $21 and $105 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,303
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 3,303 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$50$92$164

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $164).

How the prices are spread

$7 – $10: 125 hospitals$7$10 – $15: 134 hospitals$15 – $22: 295 hospitals$15$22 – $32: 343 hospitals$32 – $46: 470 hospitals$32$46 – $67: 608 hospitals$67 – $98: 420 hospitals$67$98 – $143: 339 hospitals$143 – $209: 164 hospitals$143$209 – $304: 76 hospitals$209median $50price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,974 of 3,303 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$7$10125
$10$15134
$15$22295
$22$32343
$32$46470
$46$67608
$67$98420
$98$143339
$143$209164
$209$30476

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $50.

Alaska: median $77 across 19 hospitalsAK$77Maine: median $34 across 28 hospitalsME$34Vermont: median $42 across 14 hospitalsVT$42New Hampshire: median $48 across 25 hospitalsNH$48Washington: median $45 across 76 hospitalsWA$45Idaho: median $39 across 25 hospitalsID$39Montana: median $50 across 33 hospitalsMT$50North Dakota: median $41 across 34 hospitalsND$41Minnesota: median $45 across 103 hospitalsMN$45Illinois: median $78 across 141 hospitalsIL$78Wisconsin: median $55 across 108 hospitalsWI$55Michigan: median $39 across 92 hospitalsMI$39New York: median $26 across 107 hospitalsNY$26Massachusetts: median $48 across 51 hospitalsMA$48Oregon: median $48 across 51 hospitalsOR$48Nevada: median $56 across 21 hospitalsNV$56Wyoming: median $55 across 16 hospitalsWY$55South Dakota: median $61 across 17 hospitalsSD$61Iowa: median $49 across 82 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $40 across 94 hospitalsIN$40Ohio: median $53 across 141 hospitalsOH$53Pennsylvania: median $29 across 120 hospitalsPA$29New Jersey: median $6 across 57 hospitalsNJ$6Connecticut: median $30 across 23 hospitalsCT$30Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $105 across 155 hospitalsCA$105Utah: median $50 across 42 hospitalsUT$50Colorado: median $76 across 71 hospitalsCO$76Nebraska: median $68 across 81 hospitalsNE$68Missouri: median $40 across 76 hospitalsMO$40Kentucky: median $45 across 68 hospitalsKY$45West Virginia: median $35 across 43 hospitalsWV$35Virginia: median $82 across 73 hospitalsVA$82Maryland: median $22 across 40 hospitalsMD$22Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $16 across 42 hospitalsAZ$16New Mexico: median $81 across 24 hospitalsNM$81Kansas: median $36 across 89 hospitalsKS$36Arkansas: median $18 across 40 hospitalsAR$18Tennessee: median $31 across 80 hospitalsTN$31North Carolina: median $62 across 86 hospitalsNC$62South Carolina: median $74 across 53 hospitalsSC$74Oklahoma: median $44 across 70 hospitalsOK$44Louisiana: median $33 across 50 hospitalsLA$33Mississippi: median $28 across 55 hospitalsMS$28Alabama: median $57 across 44 hospitalsAL$57Georgia: median $56 across 108 hospitalsGA$56Hawaii: median $48 across 21 hospitalsHI$48Texas: median $81 across 244 hospitalsTX$81Florida: median $171 across 154 hospitalsFL$171
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $50. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL154$171+242%$25 – $919
California CA155$105+109%$24 – $193
Virginia VA73$82+64%$33 – $148
Texas TX244$81+62%$32 – $236
New Mexico NM24$81+61%$26 – $124
Illinois IL141$78+55%$37 – $133
Alaska AK19$77+54%$22 – $140
Colorado CO71$76+51%$34 – $129
South Carolina SC53$74+47%$29 – $115
Nebraska NE81$68+36%$28 – $93
North Carolina NC86$62+23%$31 – $117
South Dakota SD17$61+21%$48 – $100
Alabama AL44$57+15%$20 – $126
Nevada NV21$56+12%$27 – $137
Georgia GA108$56+11%$22 – $128
Wyoming WY16$55+10%$12 – $66
Wisconsin WI108$55+10%$29 – $69
Ohio OH141$53+6%$23 – $80
Montana MT33$500%$25 – $74
Utah UT42$50−1%$42 – $88
Iowa IA82$49−3%$34 – $60
New Hampshire NH25$48−3%$20 – $86
Massachusetts MA51$48−3%$20 – $89
Oregon OR51$48−3%$35 – $66
Hawaii HI21$48−3%$26 – $63
Kentucky KY68$45−10%$16 – $99
Washington WA76$45−10%$25 – $88
Minnesota MN103$45−10%$27 – $67
Oklahoma OK70$44−12%$21 – $71
Vermont VT14$42−15%$22 – $112
North Dakota ND34$41−18%$34 – $59
Indiana IN94$40−20%$12 – $106
Missouri MO76$40−20%$13 – $90
Michigan MI92$39−22%$18 – $57
Idaho ID25$39−23%$22 – $59
Kansas KS89$36−28%$23 – $60
West Virginia WV43$35−30%$18 – $56
Maine ME28$34−32%$23 – $93
Louisiana LA50$33−34%$12 – $66
Tennessee TN80$31−37%$9 – $85
Connecticut CT23$30−39%$21 – $58
Pennsylvania PA120$29−41%$8 – $91
Mississippi MS55$28−45%$16 – $50
New York NY107$26−48%$8 – $97
Maryland MD40$22−57%$17 – $26
Arkansas AR40$18−63%$16 – $62
Arizona AZ42$16−68%$8 – $90
New Jersey NJ57$6−88%$6 – $25
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
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 $50.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,274$53$18 – $122
Children’s65$52$32 – $110
Critical access955$49$26 – $80
Ownership
For-profit458$96$25 – $429
Government631$48$21 – $84
Non-profit2,205$48$20 – $97
System affiliation
Part of a system2,673$53$21 – $111
Independent630$45$20 – $85

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$83
Median cash price$50
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

2,222 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $52 and the average of the middle 60% is $54; most fall between $22 and $105.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,222 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$94$150

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $150).

Of the 2,462 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,222 gave a usable cash price; 128 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 111 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,303 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (83%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,609 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,303
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here174
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded130
Hospitals that filed this code3,609

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 Heterophile Antibodies Screen.

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, “Mononucleosis screening blood test (CPT 86308) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86308-mononucleosis-screening-blood-test