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Immunofixation protein test on blood serum

CPT 86334the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that separates serum proteins by electric current and then fixes them with antibodies to identify abnormal proteins.

Hospitals typically charge $100 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,230 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $102. Most fall between $39 and $177 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,230
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 3,230 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$46$100$161$258

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $258).

How the prices are spread

$17 – $24: 148 hospitals$17$24 – $32: 215 hospitals$32 – $44: 212 hospitals$32$44 – $59: 307 hospitals$59 – $81: 309 hospitals$59$81 – $109: 381 hospitals$109 – $149: 545 hospitals$109$149 – $202: 454 hospitals$202 – $274: 212 hospitals$202$274 – $373: 125 hospitals$274median $100price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,908 of 3,230 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$17$24148
$24$32215
$32$44212
$44$59307
$59$81309
$81$109381
$109$149545
$149$202454
$202$274212
$274$373125

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $100.

Alaska: median $126 across 18 hospitalsAK$126Maine: median $68 across 27 hospitalsME$68Vermont: median $115 across 13 hospitalsVT$115New Hampshire: median $124 across 25 hospitalsNH$124Washington: median $117 across 75 hospitalsWA$117Idaho: median $93 across 21 hospitalsID$93Montana: median $108 across 26 hospitalsMT$108North Dakota: median $128 across 30 hospitalsND$128Minnesota: median $129 across 99 hospitalsMN$129Illinois: median $137 across 136 hospitalsIL$137Wisconsin: median $143 across 104 hospitalsWI$143Michigan: median $50 across 97 hospitalsMI$50New York: median $59 across 119 hospitalsNY$59Massachusetts: median $120 across 49 hospitalsMA$120Oregon: median $59 across 49 hospitalsOR$59Nevada: median $111 across 19 hospitalsNV$111Wyoming: median $107 across 16 hospitalsWY$107South Dakota: median $199 across 40 hospitalsSD$199Iowa: median $103 across 89 hospitalsIA$103Indiana: median $100 across 93 hospitalsIN$100Ohio: median $95 across 137 hospitalsOH$95Pennsylvania: median $82 across 120 hospitalsPA$82New Jersey: median $26 across 52 hospitalsNJ$26Connecticut: median $95 across 22 hospitalsCT$95Rhode Island: median $60 across 10 hospitalsRI$60California: median $35 across 124 hospitalsCA$35Utah: median $161 across 41 hospitalsUT$161Colorado: median $110 across 66 hospitalsCO$110Nebraska: median $161 across 80 hospitalsNE$161Missouri: median $95 across 71 hospitalsMO$95Kentucky: median $78 across 69 hospitalsKY$78West Virginia: median $72 across 43 hospitalsWV$72Virginia: median $114 across 72 hospitalsVA$114Maryland: median $100 across 40 hospitalsMD$100Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $106 across 39 hospitalsAZ$106New Mexico: median $139 across 28 hospitalsNM$139Kansas: median $124 across 89 hospitalsKS$124Arkansas: median $47 across 38 hospitalsAR$47Tennessee: median $45 across 81 hospitalsTN$45North Carolina: median $98 across 86 hospitalsNC$98South Carolina: median $149 across 52 hospitalsSC$149Oklahoma: median $93 across 71 hospitalsOK$93Louisiana: median $71 across 51 hospitalsLA$71Mississippi: median $55 across 57 hospitalsMS$55Alabama: median $89 across 42 hospitalsAL$89Georgia: median $98 across 106 hospitalsGA$98Hawaii: median $112 across 17 hospitalsHI$112Texas: median $134 across 231 hospitalsTX$134Florida: median $45 across 143 hospitalsFL$45
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $100. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD40$199+99%$120 – $269
Nebraska NE80$161+61%$66 – $228
Utah UT41$161+61%$69 – $190
South Carolina SC52$149+49%$46 – $311
Wisconsin WI104$143+42%$97 – $170
New Mexico NM28$139+38%$63 – $228
Illinois IL136$137+37%$73 – $243
Texas TX231$134+34%$61 – $329
Minnesota MN99$129+29%$55 – $182
North Dakota ND30$128+27%$40 – $174
Alaska AK18$126+26%$27 – $193
New Hampshire NH25$124+24%$69 – $262
Kansas KS89$124+24%$67 – $179
Massachusetts MA49$120+20%$71 – $206
Washington WA75$117+17%$77 – $163
Vermont VT13$115+15%$62 – $195
Virginia VA72$114+14%$39 – $193
Hawaii HI17$112+12%$44 – $206
Nevada NV19$111+11%$39 – $210
Colorado CO66$110+10%$40 – $181
Montana MT26$108+8%$51 – $155
Wyoming WY16$107+7%$51 – $173
Arizona AZ39$106+6%$27 – $135
Iowa IA89$103+3%$49 – $166
Maryland MD40$1000%$84 – $128
Indiana IN93$1000%$44 – $160
Georgia GA106$98−2%$38 – $173
North Carolina NC86$98−2%$19 – $133
Connecticut CT22$95−5%$70 – $186
Missouri MO71$95−5%$52 – $163
Ohio OH137$95−6%$53 – $142
Idaho ID21$93−7%$24 – $161
Oklahoma OK71$93−7%$48 – $167
Alabama AL42$89−11%$33 – $344
Pennsylvania PA120$82−18%$28 – $220
Kentucky KY69$78−22%$37 – $279
West Virginia WV43$72−28%$44 – $147
Louisiana LA51$71−29%$40 – $131
Maine ME27$68−32%$40 – $130
Rhode Island RI10$60−40%$22 – $69
New York NY119$59−41%$27 – $172
Oregon OR49$59−42%$36 – $115
Mississippi MS57$55−45%$28 – $147
Michigan MI97$50−50%$26 – $135
Arkansas AR38$47−53%$26 – $107
Florida FL143$45−55%$18 – $123
Tennessee TN81$45−55%$21 – $113
California CA124$35−65%$10 – $134
New Jersey NJ52$26−74%$24 – $76
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 $100.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,245$92$33 – $170
Children’s46$102$34 – $225
Critical access929$120$55 – $186
Ownership
For-profit431$112$39 – $330
Government615$100$37 – $168
Non-profit2,174$100$40 – $171
System affiliation
Part of a system2,636$102$39 – $183
Independent594$93$42 – $165

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$157
Median cash price$100
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

2,201 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $102 and the average of the middle 60% is $103; most fall between $41 and $173.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,201 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
$26$47$102$161$246

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($26 vs $246).

Of the 2,439 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,201 gave a usable cash price; 134 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 104 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,230 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 3,537 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,230
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here180
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 — excluded126
Hospitals that filed this code3,537

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 Immunofixj Electrophoresis 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, “Immunofixation protein test on blood serum (CPT 86334) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86334-immunofixation-protein-test-on-blood-serum