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Virus neutralization blood test

CPT 86382the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that measures whether antibodies in a sample can block a virus from infecting cells in culture.

Hospitals typically charge $93 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,001 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $94. Most fall between $40 and $170 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,001
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 2,001 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
$27$49$93$146$261

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($27 vs $261).

How the prices are spread

$19 – $26: 90 hospitals$19$26 – $35: 124 hospitals$35 – $47: 169 hospitals$35$47 – $64: 193 hospitals$64 – $86: 228 hospitals$64$86 – $117: 407 hospitals$117 – $158: 242 hospitals$117$158 – $214: 186 hospitals$214 – $290: 114 hospitals$214$290 – $393: 49 hospitals$290median $93price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,802 of 2,001 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$19$2690
$26$35124
$35$47169
$47$64193
$64$86228
$86$117407
$117$158242
$158$214186
$214$290114
$290$39349

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $93.

Alaska: median $122 across 11 hospitalsAK$122Maine: median $75 across 27 hospitalsME$75Vermont: median $152 across 13 hospitalsVT$152New Hampshire: median $90 across 22 hospitalsNH$90Washington: median $58 across 39 hospitalsWA$58Idaho: median $89 across 17 hospitalsID$89Montana: median $137 across 13 hospitalsMT$137North Dakota: median $92 across 18 hospitalsND$92Minnesota: median $106 across 66 hospitalsMN$106Illinois: median $123 across 81 hospitalsIL$123Wisconsin: median $107 across 72 hospitalsWI$107Michigan: median $56 across 52 hospitalsMI$56New York: median $61 across 92 hospitalsNY$61Massachusetts: median $104 across 49 hospitalsMA$104Oregon: median $81 across 23 hospitalsOR$81Nevada: median $69 across 11 hospitalsNV$69Wyoming: median $82 across 10 hospitalsWY$82South Dakota: median $254 across 11 hospitalsSD$254Iowa: median $94 across 59 hospitalsIA$94Indiana: median $61 across 66 hospitalsIN$61Ohio: median $153 across 98 hospitalsOH$153Pennsylvania: median $71 across 99 hospitalsPA$71New Jersey: median $19 across 53 hospitalsNJ$19Connecticut: median $75 across 17 hospitalsCT$75Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $87 across 73 hospitalsCA$87Utah: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $103 across 49 hospitalsCO$103Nebraska: median $145 across 34 hospitalsNE$145Missouri: median $97 across 47 hospitalsMO$97Kentucky: median $135 across 39 hospitalsKY$135West Virginia: median $72 across 26 hospitalsWV$72Virginia: median $53 across 65 hospitalsVA$53Maryland: median $109 across 24 hospitalsMD$109Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $85 across 21 hospitalsAZ$85New Mexico: median $109 across 11 hospitalsNM$109Kansas: median $99 across 39 hospitalsKS$99Arkansas: median $105 across 19 hospitalsAR$105Tennessee: median $53 across 39 hospitalsTN$53North Carolina: median $107 across 55 hospitalsNC$107South Carolina: median $112 across 25 hospitalsSC$112Oklahoma: median $104 across 37 hospitalsOK$104Louisiana: median $40 across 32 hospitalsLA$40Mississippi: median $43 across 37 hospitalsMS$43Alabama: median $44 across 20 hospitalsAL$44Georgia: median $110 across 69 hospitalsGA$110Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $116 across 133 hospitalsTX$116Florida: median $80 across 62 hospitalsFL$80
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $93. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD11$254+174%$122 – $417
Ohio OH98$153+65%$66 – $248
Vermont VT13$152+64%$124 – $263
Nebraska NE34$145+56%$53 – $225
Montana MT13$137+48%$85 – $270
Kentucky KY39$135+45%$51 – $232
Illinois IL81$123+32%$49 – $216
Alaska AK11$122+32%$105 – $166
Texas TX133$116+24%$65 – $270
South Carolina SC25$112+20%$28 – $119
Georgia GA69$110+19%$51 – $175
New Mexico NM11$109+18%$59 – $199
Maryland MD24$109+18%$89 – $156
Wisconsin WI72$107+16%$69 – $181
North Carolina NC55$107+15%$48 – $122
Minnesota MN66$106+14%$79 – $129
Arkansas AR19$105+13%$48 – $125
Oklahoma OK37$104+12%$30 – $169
Massachusetts MA49$104+12%$53 – $171
Colorado CO49$103+11%$80 – $207
Kansas KS39$99+7%$51 – $163
Missouri MO47$97+4%$72 – $151
Iowa IA59$94+1%$49 – $182
North Dakota ND18$92−1%$61 – $129
New Hampshire NH22$90−3%$71 – $236
Idaho ID17$89−4%$59 – $99
California CA73$87−6%$49 – $137
Arizona AZ21$85−9%$53 – $177
Wyoming WY10$82−12%$48 – $146
Oregon OR23$81−13%$63 – $99
Florida FL62$80−14%$26 – $311
Maine ME27$75−19%$43 – $153
Connecticut CT17$75−19%$70 – $109
West Virginia WV26$72−22%$53 – $113
Pennsylvania PA99$71−23%$19 – $199
Nevada NV11$69−26%$40 – $91
New York NY92$61−34%$24 – $169
Indiana IN66$61−34%$33 – $112
Washington WA39$58−38%$30 – $105
Michigan MI52$56−40%$23 – $111
Virginia VA65$53−42%$29 – $145
Tennessee TN39$53−43%$28 – $119
Alabama AL20$44−53%$20 – $102
Mississippi MS37$43−54%$16 – $71
Louisiana LA32$40−57%$22 – $152
New Jersey NJ53$19−79%$19 – $182
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not 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 $93.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,488$89$37 – $168
Children’s33$136$58 – $268
Critical access472$102$54 – $182
Ownership
For-profit218$100$36 – $254
Government310$92$45 – $163
Non-profit1,465$92$40 – $165
System affiliation
Part of a system1,687$93$40 – $174
Independent314$91$44 – $166

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$155
Median cash price$93
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

1,401 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $94 and the average of the middle 60% is $95; most fall between $43 and $167.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,401 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$49$94$141$248

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($29 vs $248).

Of the 1,531 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,401 gave a usable cash price; 62 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 68 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,001 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (51%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,155 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,001
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here85
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 — excluded67
Hospitals that filed this code2,155

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 PR Occ Hlth Lab - Poliovirus Ab, Neutralization.

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, “Virus neutralization blood test (CPT 86382) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86382-virus-neutralization-blood-test