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COVID-19 neutralizing antibody screen

CPT 86408the billing code this page is about

A blood test that checks whether antibodies capable of blocking the virus that causes COVID-19 are present, reported as a screening result.

Hospitals typically charge $63 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 174 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $67. Most fall between $42 and $109 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
174
States
25
Filings dated
May 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 174 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
$39$42$63$109$149

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($39 vs $149).

How the prices are spread

$23 – $28: 5 hospitals$23$28 – $35: 3 hospitals$35 – $43: 36 hospitals$35$43 – $53: 24 hospitals$53 – $66: 12 hospitals$53$66 – $81: 23 hospitals$81 – $100: 20 hospitals$81$100 – $123: 20 hospitals$123 – $151: 7 hospitals$123$151 – $186: 13 hospitals$151median $63price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (163 of 174 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$23$285
$28$353
$35$4336
$43$5324
$53$6612
$66$8123
$81$10020
$100$12320
$123$1517
$151$18613

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $63.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $42 across 17 hospitalsNY$42Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 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 $85 across 11 hospitalsIA$85Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceOHPennsylvania: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $46 across 22 hospitalsNJ$46Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $109 across 19 hospitalsCA$109Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 5 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $45 across 10 hospitalsMS$45Alabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: median $68 across 26 hospitalsGA$68Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $63. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA19$109+72%$109 – $109
Iowa IA11$85+34%$85 – $85
Georgia GA26$68+8%$68 – $186
New Jersey NJ22$46−27%$42 – $46
Mississippi MS10$45−29%$39 – $82
New York NY17$42−33%$42 – $97
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not 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 $63.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care164$58$42 – $109
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access9fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit16fewer than 20 hospitals
Government19fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit139$60$42 – $109
System affiliation
Part of a system164$68$42 – $109
Independent10fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$194
Median cash price$63
Cash as a share of list, median hospital39%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 61%. 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

113 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $74 and the average of the middle 60% is $79; most fall between $43 and $109.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 113 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
$39$51$74$109$186

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($39 vs $186).

Of the 116 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 113 gave a usable cash price; 2 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 0 a list price only.

How complete is this

174 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 178 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted174
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here2
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded0
Hospitals that filed this code178

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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 NEUTRLZG ANTB SARSCOV2 SCR.

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, “COVID-19 neutralizing antibody screen (CPT 86408) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86408-covid-19-neutralizing-antibody-screen