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Rheumatoid factor blood test, positive or negative

CPT 86430the billing code this page is about

Blood test that checks whether rheumatoid factor, an antibody linked to rheumatoid arthritis and some other conditions, is present.

Hospitals typically charge $49 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,827 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $52. Most fall between $19 and $97 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,827
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2022 – 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 1,827 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
$10$25$49$82$147

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $147).

How the prices are spread

$7 – $10: 80 hospitals$7$10 – $14: 120 hospitals$14 – $20: 100 hospitals$14$20 – $29: 157 hospitals$29 – $41: 231 hospitals$29$41 – $59: 280 hospitals$59 – $85: 339 hospitals$59$85 – $122: 171 hospitals$122 – $175: 136 hospitals$122$175 – $251: 38 hospitals$175median $49price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,652 of 1,827 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$7$1080
$10$14120
$14$20100
$20$29157
$29$41231
$41$59280
$59$85339
$85$122171
$122$175136
$175$25138

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $49.

Alaska: median $90 across 10 hospitalsAK$90Maine: median $26 across 14 hospitalsME$26Vermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $52 across 36 hospitalsWA$52Idaho: median $32 across 11 hospitalsID$32Montana: median $65 across 13 hospitalsMT$65North Dakota: median $46 across 18 hospitalsND$46Minnesota: median $62 across 27 hospitalsMN$62Illinois: median $86 across 70 hospitalsIL$86Wisconsin: median $42 across 31 hospitalsWI$42Michigan: median $29 across 36 hospitalsMI$29New York: median $21 across 73 hospitalsNY$21Massachusetts: median $39 across 31 hospitalsMA$39Oregon: median $45 across 26 hospitalsOR$45Nevada: median $64 across 11 hospitalsNV$64Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $65 across 21 hospitalsSD$65Iowa: median $49 across 54 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $59 across 60 hospitalsIN$59Ohio: median $47 across 66 hospitalsOH$47Pennsylvania: median $34 across 88 hospitalsPA$34New Jersey: median $7 across 40 hospitalsNJ$7Connecticut: median $30 across 10 hospitalsCT$30Rhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $68 across 108 hospitalsCA$68Utah: median $139 across 31 hospitalsUT$139Colorado: median $53 across 33 hospitalsCO$53Nebraska: median $64 across 25 hospitalsNE$64Missouri: median $58 across 38 hospitalsMO$58Kentucky: median $40 across 50 hospitalsKY$40West Virginia: median $38 across 22 hospitalsWV$38Virginia: median $27 across 36 hospitalsVA$27Maryland: median $22 across 18 hospitalsMD$22Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $66 across 32 hospitalsAZ$66New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $57 across 42 hospitalsKS$57Arkansas: median $19 across 31 hospitalsAR$19Tennessee: median $33 across 39 hospitalsTN$33North Carolina: median $57 across 59 hospitalsNC$57South Carolina: median $71 across 22 hospitalsSC$71Oklahoma: median $37 across 39 hospitalsOK$37Louisiana: median $27 across 30 hospitalsLA$27Mississippi: median $34 across 42 hospitalsMS$34Alabama: median $33 across 26 hospitalsAL$33Georgia: median $66 across 76 hospitalsGA$66Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $80 across 139 hospitalsTX$80Florida: median $85 across 102 hospitalsFL$85
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $49. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT31$139+180%$139 – $163
Alaska AK10$90+82%$58 – $125
Illinois IL70$86+73%$40 – $129
Florida FL102$85+72%$13 – $315
Texas TX139$80+62%$33 – $216
South Carolina SC22$71+44%$33 – $107
California CA108$68+37%$23 – $126
Georgia GA76$66+34%$28 – $126
Arizona AZ32$66+33%$24 – $298
South Dakota SD21$65+32%$49 – $98
Montana MT13$65+31%$38 – $74
Nebraska NE25$64+30%$17 – $73
Nevada NV11$64+29%$40 – $79
Minnesota MN27$62+26%$38 – $82
Indiana IN60$59+18%$13 – $99
Missouri MO38$58+18%$19 – $91
Kansas KS42$57+15%$35 – $84
North Carolina NC59$57+14%$28 – $95
Colorado CO33$53+7%$33 – $90
Washington WA36$52+5%$26 – $71
Iowa IA54$49−2%$26 – $55
Ohio OH66$47−5%$23 – $77
North Dakota ND18$46−8%$32 – $64
Oregon OR26$45−8%$31 – $67
Wisconsin WI31$42−14%$38 – $70
Kentucky KY50$40−20%$29 – $70
Massachusetts MA31$39−21%$20 – $67
West Virginia WV22$38−23%$20 – $64
Oklahoma OK39$37−25%$17 – $86
Mississippi MS42$34−32%$20 – $71
Pennsylvania PA88$34−32%$7 – $75
Alabama AL26$33−33%$13 – $57
Tennessee TN39$33−34%$10 – $60
Idaho ID11$32−35%$19 – $93
Connecticut CT10$30−39%$20 – $38
Michigan MI36$29−41%$14 – $45
Virginia VA36$27−45%$25 – $52
Louisiana LA30$27−46%$14 – $56
Maine ME14$26−47%$23 – $54
Maryland MD18$22−56%$13 – $26
New York NY73$21−58%$6 – $68
Arkansas AR31$19−61%$11 – $57
New Jersey NJ40$7−86%$6 – $7
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not 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 $49.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,325$49$14 – $102
Children’s32$63$47 – $145
Critical access463$50$30 – $77
Ownership
For-profit283$68$19 – $257
Government304$50$25 – $82
Non-profit1,233$48$18 – $90
System affiliation
Part of a system1,484$50$18 – $99
Independent343$49$22 – $84

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$84
Median cash price$49
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

1,248 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $49 and the average of the middle 60% is $54; most fall between $22 and $99.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,248 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
$12$26$49$86$139

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $139).

Of the 1,382 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,248 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 72 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,827 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (46%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,997 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,827
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here92
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded77
Hospitals that filed this code1,997

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 July 20, 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 Hc Rheumatoid Factor Test.

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, “Rheumatoid factor blood test, positive or negative (CPT 86430) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86430-rheumatoid-factor-blood-test-positive-or-negative