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Urine bladder cancer marker test (NMP22), yes or no result

CPT 86386the billing code this page is about

A laboratory test that checks a urine sample for nuclear matrix protein 22 and reports only whether it is present, without a numeric level.

Hospitals typically charge $44 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 205 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $58. Most fall between $22 and $137 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
205
States
31
Filings dated
Jun 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 205 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
$20$24$44$105$163

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $163).

How the prices are spread

$15 – $18: 11 hospitals$15$18 – $24: 24 hospitals$24 – $30: 24 hospitals$24$30 – $38: 21 hospitals$38 – $49: 28 hospitals$38$49 – $62: 9 hospitals$62 – $79: 11 hospitals$62$79 – $100: 2 hospitals$100 – $128: 19 hospitals$100$128 – $163: 38 hospitals$128median $44price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (187 of 205 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$15$1811
$18$2424
$24$3024
$30$3821
$38$4928
$49$629
$62$7911
$79$1002
$100$12819
$128$16338

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $44.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $43 across 13 hospitalsWA$43Idaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: median $105 across 12 hospitalsWI$105Michigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $22 across 17 hospitalsNY$22Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $44 across 13 hospitalsOR$44Nevada: 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 $44 across 11 hospitalsIA$44Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $17 across 15 hospitalsPA$17New Jersey: median $24 across 22 hospitalsNJ$24Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $163 across 32 hospitalsCA$163Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceTXFlorida: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $44. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA32$163+270%$137 – $163
Wisconsin WI12$105+138%$105 – $105
Iowa IA11$440%$44 – $44
Oregon OR13$440%$42 – $58
Washington WA13$43−3%$35 – $56
New Jersey NJ22$24−46%$22 – $24
New York NY17$22−50%$22 – $64
Pennsylvania PA15$17−61%$15 – $33
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $44.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care171$42$22 – $137
Children’s2fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access32$76$43 – $105
Ownership
For-profit9fewer than 20 hospitals
Government18fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit178$44$24 – $137
System affiliation
Part of a system187$44$22 – $137
Independent18fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$98
Median cash price$44
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

110 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $105 and the average of the middle 60% is $106; most fall between $44 and $163.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 110 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
$22$44$105$137$163

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $163).

Of the 115 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 110 gave a usable cash price; 1 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

205 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 212 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted205
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here3
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 — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code212

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 Protein test for diagnosis and monitoring of bladder cancer.

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, “Urine bladder cancer marker test (NMP22), yes or no result (CPT 86386) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86386-urine-bladder-cancer-marker-test-nmp22-yes-or-no-result