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Rapid COVID-19 antibody blood test

CPT 86328the billing code this page is about

A single-step laboratory test that detects antibodies to the virus that causes COVID-19, reported as present or absent.

Hospitals typically charge $65 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 529 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $73. Most fall between $45 and $119 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
529
States
47
Filings dated
Dec 2022 – 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 529 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
$28$45$65$116$165

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($28 vs $165).

How the prices are spread

$21 – $27: 25 hospitals$21$27 – $33: 9 hospitals$33 – $42: 35 hospitals$33$42 – $53: 108 hospitals$53 – $66: 69 hospitals$53$66 – $83: 52 hospitals$83 – $104: 52 hospitals$83$104 – $131: 73 hospitals$131 – $165: 25 hospitals$131$165 – $207: 29 hospitals$165median $65price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (477 of 529 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$21$2725
$27$339
$33$4235
$42$53108
$53$6669
$66$8352
$83$10452
$104$13173
$131$16525
$165$20729

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $65.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $80 across 15 hospitalsIL$80Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $124 across 13 hospitalsMI$124New York: median $68 across 32 hospitalsNY$68Massachusetts: median $91 across 10 hospitalsMA$91Oregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $49 across 17 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $52 across 22 hospitalsIN$52Ohio: median $73 across 11 hospitalsOH$73Pennsylvania: median $52 across 17 hospitalsPA$52New Jersey: median $50 across 29 hospitalsNJ$50Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $104 across 53 hospitalsCA$104Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $91 across 21 hospitalsKY$91West Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $23 across 21 hospitalsVA$23Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $129 across 18 hospitalsAZ$129New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $38 across 23 hospitalsTN$38North Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: median $25 across 14 hospitalsLA$25Mississippi: median $45 across 13 hospitalsMS$45Alabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $68 across 34 hospitalsGA$68Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $64 across 66 hospitalsTX$64Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $65. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ18$129+99%$58 – $200
Michigan MI13$124+90%$62 – $133
California CA53$104+60%$62 – $117
Kentucky KY21$91+40%$41 – $119
Massachusetts MA10$91+40%$39 – $164
Illinois IL15$80+23%$49 – $117
Ohio OH11$73+12%$73 – $73
Georgia GA34$68+5%$65 – $186
New York NY32$68+5%$45 – $168
Texas TX66$64−2%$38 – $96
Indiana IN22$52−20%$36 – $64
Pennsylvania PA17$52−20%$52 – $165
New Jersey NJ29$50−23%$45 – $52
Iowa IA17$49−25%$49 – $71
Mississippi MS13$45−31%$37 – $82
Tennessee TN23$38−42%$13 – $56
Louisiana LA14$25−62%$16 – $54
Virginia VA21$23−65%$23 – $45
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $65.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care450$64$45 – $119
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access74$75$48 – $116
Ownership
For-profit95$87$49 – $146
Government69$61$36 – $106
Non-profit364$62$43 – $117
System affiliation
Part of a system465$64$45 – $117
Independent64$79$43 – $202

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$144
Median cash price$65
Cash as a share of list, median hospital52%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 48%. 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

367 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $73 and the average of the middle 60% is $78; most fall between $41 and $124.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 367 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
$24$45$73$117$168

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $168).

Of the 414 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 367 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 22 a list price only.

How complete is this

529 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 594 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted529
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here39
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded25
Hospitals that filed this code594

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 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 Hc Ia Infectious Agt Antibody Sars-Cov-2 Covid-19.

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, “Rapid COVID-19 antibody blood test (CPT 86328) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86328-rapid-covid-19-antibody-blood-test