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Immunofixation protein test on another body fluid

CPT 86335the billing code this page is about

The same immunofixation protein test performed on a concentrated fluid other than blood, such as spinal or nasal fluid.

Hospitals typically charge $109 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,162 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $110. Most fall between $44 and $202 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,162
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 3,162 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
$29$51$109$175$287

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($29 vs $287).

How the prices are spread

$21 – $28: 133 hospitals$21$28 – $38: 229 hospitals$38 – $50: 242 hospitals$38$50 – $67: 271 hospitals$67 – $89: 303 hospitals$67$89 – $119: 398 hospitals$119 – $158: 480 hospitals$119$158 – $210: 383 hospitals$210 – $279: 237 hospitals$210$279 – $372: 170 hospitals$279median $109price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,846 of 3,162 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$21$28133
$28$38229
$38$50242
$50$67271
$67$89303
$89$119398
$119$158480
$158$210383
$210$279237
$279$372170

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $109.

Alaska: median $142 across 15 hospitalsAK$142Maine: median $68 across 28 hospitalsME$68Vermont: median $116 across 13 hospitalsVT$116New Hampshire: median $109 across 23 hospitalsNH$109Washington: median $120 across 70 hospitalsWA$120Idaho: median $122 across 21 hospitalsID$122Montana: median $123 across 21 hospitalsMT$123North Dakota: median $172 across 33 hospitalsND$172Minnesota: median $121 across 98 hospitalsMN$121Illinois: median $146 across 135 hospitalsIL$146Wisconsin: median $154 across 100 hospitalsWI$154Michigan: median $80 across 98 hospitalsMI$80New York: median $105 across 105 hospitalsNY$105Massachusetts: median $139 across 47 hospitalsMA$139Oregon: median $109 across 45 hospitalsOR$109Nevada: median $106 across 18 hospitalsNV$106Wyoming: median $114 across 15 hospitalsWY$114South Dakota: median $197 across 38 hospitalsSD$197Iowa: median $118 across 78 hospitalsIA$118Indiana: median $98 across 94 hospitalsIN$98Ohio: median $128 across 139 hospitalsOH$128Pennsylvania: median $108 across 120 hospitalsPA$108New Jersey: median $34 across 57 hospitalsNJ$34Connecticut: median $94 across 23 hospitalsCT$94Rhode Island: median $68 across 10 hospitalsRI$68California: median $38 across 132 hospitalsCA$38Utah: median $183 across 40 hospitalsUT$183Colorado: median $86 across 64 hospitalsCO$86Nebraska: median $163 across 74 hospitalsNE$163Missouri: median $112 across 69 hospitalsMO$112Kentucky: median $95 across 67 hospitalsKY$95West Virginia: median $98 across 40 hospitalsWV$98Virginia: median $134 across 72 hospitalsVA$134Maryland: median $110 across 40 hospitalsMD$110Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $109 across 38 hospitalsAZ$109New Mexico: median $101 across 24 hospitalsNM$101Kansas: median $112 across 83 hospitalsKS$112Arkansas: median $51 across 37 hospitalsAR$51Tennessee: median $60 across 79 hospitalsTN$60North Carolina: median $110 across 85 hospitalsNC$110South Carolina: median $176 across 48 hospitalsSC$176Oklahoma: median $88 across 68 hospitalsOK$88Louisiana: median $65 across 49 hospitalsLA$65Mississippi: median $40 across 53 hospitalsMS$40Alabama: median $82 across 40 hospitalsAL$82Georgia: median $109 across 104 hospitalsGA$109Hawaii: median $181 across 17 hospitalsHI$181Texas: median $101 across 238 hospitalsTX$101Florida: median $39 across 150 hospitalsFL$39
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $109. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD38$197+81%$128 – $302
Utah UT40$183+69%$84 – $216
Hawaii HI17$181+66%$148 – $242
South Carolina SC48$176+62%$47 – $221
North Dakota ND33$172+58%$55 – $214
Nebraska NE74$163+50%$68 – $245
Wisconsin WI100$154+42%$113 – $234
Illinois IL135$146+34%$69 – $257
Alaska AK15$142+31%$37 – $295
Massachusetts MA47$139+28%$85 – $243
Virginia VA72$134+23%$51 – $204
Ohio OH139$128+18%$70 – $209
Montana MT21$123+13%$72 – $205
Idaho ID21$122+13%$36 – $155
Minnesota MN98$121+11%$82 – $199
Washington WA70$120+11%$55 – $176
Iowa IA78$118+8%$72 – $202
Vermont VT13$116+7%$64 – $156
Wyoming WY15$114+5%$62 – $141
Kansas KS83$112+3%$70 – $198
Missouri MO69$112+3%$67 – $174
North Carolina NC85$110+1%$49 – $160
Maryland MD40$110+1%$92 – $141
New Hampshire NH23$109+1%$44 – $367
Georgia GA104$1090%$60 – $287
Oregon OR45$1090%$43 – $154
Arizona AZ38$1090%$31 – $156
Pennsylvania PA120$108−1%$34 – $263
Nevada NV18$106−2%$31 – $223
New York NY105$105−3%$30 – $179
New Mexico NM24$101−7%$71 – $253
Texas TX238$101−7%$37 – $270
Indiana IN94$98−10%$48 – $161
West Virginia WV40$98−10%$38 – $166
Kentucky KY67$95−13%$59 – $209
Connecticut CT23$94−13%$49 – $130
Oklahoma OK68$88−19%$45 – $188
Colorado CO64$86−21%$36 – $164
Alabama AL40$82−24%$44 – $222
Michigan MI98$80−26%$41 – $138
Maine ME28$68−37%$36 – $134
Rhode Island RI10$68−37%$57 – $69
Louisiana LA49$65−40%$33 – $118
Tennessee TN79$60−45%$38 – $132
Arkansas AR37$51−53%$30 – $177
Mississippi MS53$40−64%$22 – $107
Florida FL150$39−64%$24 – $146
California CA132$38−65%$13 – $161
New Jersey NJ57$34−69%$29 – $106
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 $109.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,227$100$39 – $190
Children’s48$151$64 – $314
Critical access877$122$58 – $209
Ownership
For-profit437$109$39 – $325
Government563$102$43 – $172
Non-profit2,152$110$44 – $198
System affiliation
Part of a system2,597$110$42 – $204
Independent565$98$47 – $181

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$173
Median cash price$109
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

2,164 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $110 and the average of the middle 60% is $113; most fall between $45 and $202.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,164 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
$33$53$110$179$271

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($33 vs $271).

Of the 2,382 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,164 gave a usable cash price; 120 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 98 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,162 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (80%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,440 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,162
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here158
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded118
Hospitals that filed this code3,440

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 Other Fluids.

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 another body fluid (CPT 86335) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86335-immunofixation-protein-test-on-another-body-fluid