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Count of one cell-surface marker on blood cells

CPT 86356the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that measures mononuclear blood cells carrying one specific surface marker; the code is billed once for each marker tested.

Hospitals typically charge $81 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,183 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $89. Most fall between $34 and $179 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,183
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 2,183 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$41$81$151$240

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $240).

How the prices are spread

$17 – $23: 102 hospitals$17$23 – $30: 158 hospitals$30 – $40: 182 hospitals$30$40 – $54: 233 hospitals$54 – $72: 224 hospitals$54$72 – $97: 222 hospitals$97 – $130: 283 hospitals$97$130 – $173: 220 hospitals$173 – $232: 233 hospitals$173$232 – $311: 118 hospitals$232median $81price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,975 of 2,183 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$17$23102
$23$30158
$30$40182
$40$54233
$54$72224
$72$97222
$97$130283
$130$173220
$173$232233
$232$311118

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $81.

Alaska: median $122 across 10 hospitalsAK$122Maine: median $63 across 22 hospitalsME$63Vermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $69 across 19 hospitalsNH$69Washington: median $83 across 45 hospitalsWA$83Idaho: median $105 across 17 hospitalsID$105Montana: median $95 across 20 hospitalsMT$95North Dakota: median $87 across 15 hospitalsND$87Minnesota: median $161 across 65 hospitalsMN$161Illinois: median $118 across 94 hospitalsIL$118Wisconsin: median $118 across 93 hospitalsWI$118Michigan: median $59 across 74 hospitalsMI$59New York: median $54 across 73 hospitalsNY$54Massachusetts: median $78 across 44 hospitalsMA$78Oregon: median $82 across 34 hospitalsOR$82Nevada: median $83 across 13 hospitalsNV$83Wyoming: median $138 across 15 hospitalsWY$138South Dakota: median $152 across 11 hospitalsSD$152Iowa: median $110 across 50 hospitalsIA$110Indiana: median $60 across 66 hospitalsIN$60Ohio: median $90 across 111 hospitalsOH$90Pennsylvania: median $107 across 75 hospitalsPA$107New Jersey: median $29 across 46 hospitalsNJ$29Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $100 across 80 hospitalsCA$100Utah: median $240 across 39 hospitalsUT$240Colorado: median $93 across 46 hospitalsCO$93Nebraska: median $104 across 49 hospitalsNE$104Missouri: median $66 across 58 hospitalsMO$66Kentucky: median $88 across 43 hospitalsKY$88West Virginia: median $77 across 29 hospitalsWV$77Virginia: median $73 across 54 hospitalsVA$73Maryland: median $132 across 34 hospitalsMD$132Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $78 across 32 hospitalsAZ$78New Mexico: median $80 across 11 hospitalsNM$80Kansas: median $78 across 33 hospitalsKS$78Arkansas: median $27 across 28 hospitalsAR$27Tennessee: median $56 across 49 hospitalsTN$56North Carolina: median $60 across 73 hospitalsNC$60South Carolina: median $128 across 41 hospitalsSC$128Oklahoma: median $48 across 48 hospitalsOK$48Louisiana: median $42 across 35 hospitalsLA$42Mississippi: median $51 across 33 hospitalsMS$51Alabama: median $54 across 18 hospitalsAL$54Georgia: median $56 across 75 hospitalsGA$56Hawaii: median $64 across 10 hospitalsHI$64Texas: median $46 across 149 hospitalsTX$46Florida: median $56 across 82 hospitalsFL$56
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $81. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT39$240+194%$124 – $282
Minnesota MN65$161+98%$66 – $204
South Dakota SD11$152+87%$134 – $196
Wyoming WY15$138+70%$65 – $184
Maryland MD34$132+62%$100 – $163
South Carolina SC41$128+58%$42 – $205
Alaska AK10$122+49%$29 – $196
Illinois IL94$118+44%$37 – $252
Wisconsin WI93$118+44%$82 – $165
Iowa IA50$110+35%$82 – $201
Pennsylvania PA75$107+32%$31 – $351
Idaho ID17$105+29%$15 – $142
Nebraska NE49$104+27%$64 – $248
California CA80$100+23%$22 – $160
Montana MT20$95+17%$21 – $181
Colorado CO46$93+14%$66 – $260
Ohio OH111$90+10%$41 – $142
Kentucky KY43$88+8%$49 – $130
North Dakota ND15$87+7%$45 – $164
Washington WA45$83+2%$55 – $120
Nevada NV13$83+1%$26 – $142
Oregon OR34$820%$22 – $133
New Mexico NM11$80−2%$53 – $128
Arizona AZ32$78−4%$29 – $189
Kansas KS33$78−4%$47 – $282
Massachusetts MA44$78−4%$46 – $126
West Virginia WV29$77−6%$51 – $115
Virginia VA54$73−10%$20 – $135
New Hampshire NH19$69−15%$15 – $180
Missouri MO58$66−19%$28 – $147
Hawaii HI10$64−22%$64 – $219
Maine ME22$63−22%$35 – $125
Indiana IN66$60−26%$38 – $198
North Carolina NC73$60−26%$40 – $134
Michigan MI74$59−28%$28 – $132
Florida FL82$56−31%$14 – $179
Georgia GA75$56−32%$40 – $212
Tennessee TN49$56−32%$37 – $80
New York NY73$54−33%$27 – $174
Alabama AL18$54−34%$27 – $247
Mississippi MS33$51−38%$23 – $89
Oklahoma OK48$48−41%$34 – $92
Texas TX149$46−44%$17 – $195
Louisiana LA35$42−48%$18 – $82
New Jersey NJ46$29−64%$27 – $92
Arkansas AR28$27−66%$27 – $44
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not 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 $81.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,630$75$31 – $167
Children’s41$97$43 – $247
Critical access503$102$48 – $194
Ownership
For-profit240$72$34 – $188
Government337$82$42 – $164
Non-profit1,597$83$34 – $180
System affiliation
Part of a system1,850$80$34 – $179
Independent333$92$38 – $176

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$142
Median cash price$81
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

1,545 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $82 and the average of the middle 60% is $91; most fall between $36 and $181.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,545 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
$23$42$82$158$240

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $240).

Of the 1,709 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,545 gave a usable cash price; 87 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 77 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,183 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (55%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,380 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,183
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here113
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded82
Hospitals that filed this code2,380

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 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 MONONUCLEAR CELL ANTIGEN.

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, “Count of one cell-surface marker on blood cells (CPT 86356) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86356-count-of-one-cell-surface-marker-on-blood-cells