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Lymphocyte stimulation response blood test

CPT 86353the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that mixes white blood cells with a stimulating substance to measure how strongly the lymphocytes multiply in response.

Hospitals typically charge $208 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,523 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $217. Most fall between $84 and $424 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,523
States
50
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 1,523 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
$54$96$208$379$582

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($54 vs $582).

How the prices are spread

$44 – $60: 120 hospitals$44$60 – $81: 99 hospitals$81 – $108: 136 hospitals$81$108 – $146: 153 hospitals$146 – $196: 140 hospitals$146$196 – $264: 193 hospitals$264 – $356: 199 hospitals$264$356 – $479: 179 hospitals$479 – $645: 98 hospitals$479$645 – $868: 55 hospitals$645median $208price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,372 of 1,523 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$44$60120
$60$8199
$81$108136
$108$146153
$146$196140
$196$264193
$264$356199
$356$479179
$479$64598
$645$86855

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $208.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $127 across 31 hospitalsWA$127Idaho: median $145 across 13 hospitalsID$145Montana: median $329 across 10 hospitalsMT$329North Dakota: median $301 across 10 hospitalsND$301Minnesota: median $219 across 42 hospitalsMN$219Illinois: median $289 across 59 hospitalsIL$289Wisconsin: median $227 across 58 hospitalsWI$227Michigan: median $116 across 61 hospitalsMI$116New York: median $147 across 61 hospitalsNY$147Massachusetts: median $166 across 34 hospitalsMA$166Oregon: median $149 across 17 hospitalsOR$149Nevada: median $148 across 10 hospitalsNV$148Wyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $110 across 27 hospitalsIA$110Indiana: median $90 across 36 hospitalsIN$90Ohio: median $220 across 95 hospitalsOH$220Pennsylvania: median $272 across 79 hospitalsPA$272New Jersey: median $54 across 43 hospitalsNJ$54Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $380 across 61 hospitalsCA$380Utah: median $380 across 30 hospitalsUT$380Colorado: median $266 across 42 hospitalsCO$266Nebraska: median $137 across 19 hospitalsNE$137Missouri: median $208 across 31 hospitalsMO$208Kentucky: median $111 across 27 hospitalsKY$111West Virginia: median $233 across 22 hospitalsWV$233Virginia: median $213 across 25 hospitalsVA$213Maryland: median $209 across 18 hospitalsMD$209Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $200 across 22 hospitalsAZ$200New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $338 across 21 hospitalsKS$338Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $84 across 35 hospitalsTN$84North Carolina: median $272 across 53 hospitalsNC$272South Carolina: median $344 across 30 hospitalsSC$344Oklahoma: median $86 across 33 hospitalsOK$86Louisiana: median $106 across 32 hospitalsLA$106Mississippi: median $89 across 12 hospitalsMS$89Alabama: median $178 across 11 hospitalsAL$178Georgia: median $341 across 52 hospitalsGA$341Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $332 across 125 hospitalsTX$332Florida: median $149 across 62 hospitalsFL$149
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $208. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT30$380+83%$137 – $447
California CA61$380+83%$102 – $582
South Carolina SC30$344+66%$170 – $648
Georgia GA52$341+64%$136 – $441
Kansas KS21$338+63%$176 – $1,246
Texas TX125$332+60%$115 – $450
Montana MT10$329+59%$217 – $399
North Dakota ND10$301+45%$215 – $430
Illinois IL59$289+39%$147 – $609
Pennsylvania PA79$272+31%$56 – $552
North Carolina NC53$272+31%$238 – $297
Colorado CO42$266+28%$109 – $738
West Virginia WV22$233+12%$54 – $350
Wisconsin WI58$227+9%$89 – $357
Ohio OH95$220+6%$117 – $434
Minnesota MN42$219+5%$73 – $322
Virginia VA25$213+3%$84 – $435
Maryland MD18$209+1%$161 – $240
Missouri MO31$2080%$157 – $424
Arizona AZ22$200−4%$54 – $515
Alabama AL11$178−14%$57 – $375
Massachusetts MA34$166−20%$114 – $432
Florida FL62$149−28%$97 – $255
Oregon OR17$149−28%$92 – $294
Nevada NV10$148−29%$85 – $252
New York NY61$147−29%$49 – $284
Idaho ID13$145−30%$98 – $380
Nebraska NE19$137−34%$62 – $453
Washington WA31$127−39%$100 – $221
Michigan MI61$116−44%$67 – $255
Kentucky KY27$111−47%$51 – $515
Iowa IA27$110−47%$110 – $400
Louisiana LA32$106−49%$31 – $237
Indiana IN36$90−57%$58 – $172
Mississippi MS12$89−57%$45 – $339
Oklahoma OK33$86−59%$56 – $265
Tennessee TN35$84−60%$46 – $350
New Jersey NJ43$54−74%$49 – $123
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not 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 $208.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,220$199$76 – $426
Children’s47$232$86 – $479
Critical access252$229$110 – $380
Ownership
For-profit184$238$92 – $617
Government190$192$73 – $344
Non-profit1,145$206$83 – $400
System affiliation
Part of a system1,337$216$84 – $432
Independent186$173$74 – $359

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$357
Median cash price$208
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

1,109 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $215 and the average of the middle 60% is $227; most fall between $89 and $434.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,109 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
$59$106$215$380$582

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($59 vs $582).

Of the 1,228 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,109 gave a usable cash price; 64 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 55 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,523 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (38%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,667 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,523
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here80
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 — excluded63
Hospitals that filed this code1,667

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 4, 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 HC Lymphocyte Transform(Iknow).

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, “Lymphocyte stimulation response blood test (CPT 86353) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86353-lymphocyte-stimulation-response-blood-test