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White blood cell phagocytosis test

CPT 86344the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that measures how well white blood cells engulf particles or organisms, a check of immune cell function.

Hospitals typically charge $65 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 308 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $64. Most fall between $12 and $172 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
308
States
34
Filings dated
Dec 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 308 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
$10$16$65$133$374

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 36× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $374).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $16: 63 hospitals$10$16 – $23: 42 hospitals$23 – $35: 14 hospitals$23$35 – $53: 17 hospitals$53 – $79: 20 hospitals$53$79 – $118: 61 hospitals$118 – $178: 18 hospitals$118$178 – $267: 21 hospitals$267 – $400: 10 hospitals$267$400 – $600: 14 hospitals$400median $65price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (280 of 308 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$1663
$16$2342
$23$3514
$35$5317
$53$7920
$79$11861
$118$17818
$178$26721
$267$40010
$400$60014

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: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $18 across 12 hospitalsIL$18Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $10 across 17 hospitalsNY$10Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $23 across 11 hospitalsIA$23Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $8 across 13 hospitalsPA$8New Jersey: median $11 across 34 hospitalsNJ$11Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $81 across 50 hospitalsCA$81Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $455 across 12 hospitalsNC$455South Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $18 across 16 hospitalsOK$18Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $218 across 16 hospitalsGA$218Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $95 across 44 hospitalsTX$95Florida: 4 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
North Carolina NC12$455+596%$165 – $490
Georgia GA16$218+234%$218 – $251
Texas TX44$95+45%$93 – $151
California CA50$81+23%$72 – $225
Iowa IA11$23−65%$23 – $23
Illinois IL12$18−72%$11 – $44
Oklahoma OK16$18−72%$18 – $311
New Jersey NJ34$11−83%$10 – $172
New York NY17$10−84%$10 – $19
Pennsylvania PA13$8−88%$7 – $12
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 care261$54$11 – $151
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access31$53$23 – $274
Ownership
For-profit39$93$16 – $218
Government37$28$10 – $218
Non-profit230$72$12 – $172
System affiliation
Part of a system267$72$11 – $172
Independent41$34$12 – $274

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$144
Median cash price$65
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

201 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $81 and the average of the middle 60% is $90; most fall between $22 and $218.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 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
$13$23$81$165$455

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 35× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $455).

Of the 210 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 201 gave a usable cash price; 6 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

308 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 323 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted308
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here12
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 — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code323

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 LEUKOCYTE PHAGOCYTOSIS.

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, “White blood cell phagocytosis test (CPT 86344) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86344-white-blood-cell-phagocytosis-test