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Tuberculosis blood test (interferon release)

CPT 86480the billing code this page is about

Blood test for tuberculosis infection that measures the gamma interferon released when immune cells are exposed to tuberculosis proteins; used instead of a skin test.

Hospitals typically charge $164 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,241 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $167. Most fall between $75 and $291 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,241
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2022 – 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 3,241 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
$54$91$164$257$412

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($54 vs $412).

How the prices are spread

$38 – $50: 124 hospitals$38$50 – $66: 222 hospitals$66 – $88: 292 hospitals$66$88 – $117: 394 hospitals$117 – $156: 370 hospitals$117$156 – $207: 494 hospitals$207 – $275: 456 hospitals$207$275 – $365: 326 hospitals$365 – $486: 160 hospitals$365$486 – $645: 83 hospitals$486median $164price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,921 of 3,241 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$38$50124
$50$66222
$66$88292
$88$117394
$117$156370
$156$207494
$207$275456
$275$365326
$365$486160
$486$64583

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $164.

Alaska: median $176 across 19 hospitalsAK$176Maine: median $104 across 28 hospitalsME$104Vermont: median $208 across 13 hospitalsVT$208New Hampshire: median $204 across 24 hospitalsNH$204Washington: median $191 across 77 hospitalsWA$191Idaho: median $171 across 25 hospitalsID$171Montana: median $196 across 33 hospitalsMT$196North Dakota: median $200 across 30 hospitalsND$200Minnesota: median $119 across 92 hospitalsMN$119Illinois: median $221 across 141 hospitalsIL$221Wisconsin: median $232 across 103 hospitalsWI$232Michigan: median $109 across 91 hospitalsMI$109New York: median $152 across 116 hospitalsNY$152Massachusetts: median $213 across 48 hospitalsMA$213Oregon: median $169 across 50 hospitalsOR$169Nevada: median $260 across 19 hospitalsNV$260Wyoming: median $143 across 16 hospitalsWY$143South Dakota: median $270 across 40 hospitalsSD$270Iowa: median $151 across 88 hospitalsIA$151Indiana: median $132 across 85 hospitalsIN$132Ohio: median $111 across 120 hospitalsOH$111Pennsylvania: median $209 across 121 hospitalsPA$209New Jersey: median $71 across 57 hospitalsNJ$71Connecticut: median $207 across 23 hospitalsCT$207Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $97 across 143 hospitalsCA$97Utah: median $136 across 42 hospitalsUT$136Colorado: median $192 across 69 hospitalsCO$192Nebraska: median $210 across 81 hospitalsNE$210Missouri: median $154 across 73 hospitalsMO$154Kentucky: median $140 across 69 hospitalsKY$140West Virginia: median $198 across 39 hospitalsWV$198Virginia: median $269 across 72 hospitalsVA$269Maryland: median $93 across 40 hospitalsMD$93Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $135 across 39 hospitalsAZ$135New Mexico: median $219 across 28 hospitalsNM$219Kansas: median $175 across 89 hospitalsKS$175Arkansas: median $77 across 37 hospitalsAR$77Tennessee: median $112 across 80 hospitalsTN$112North Carolina: median $125 across 90 hospitalsNC$125South Carolina: median $228 across 49 hospitalsSC$228Oklahoma: median $143 across 71 hospitalsOK$143Louisiana: median $137 across 48 hospitalsLA$137Mississippi: median $79 across 51 hospitalsMS$79Alabama: median $112 across 42 hospitalsAL$112Georgia: median $166 across 109 hospitalsGA$166Hawaii: median $277 across 19 hospitalsHI$277Texas: median $192 across 239 hospitalsTX$192Florida: median $63 across 148 hospitalsFL$63
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $164. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Hawaii HI19$277+69%$226 – $422
South Dakota SD40$270+64%$195 – $314
Virginia VA72$269+63%$106 – $389
Nevada NV19$260+58%$62 – $391
Wisconsin WI103$232+41%$146 – $318
South Carolina SC49$228+38%$154 – $287
Illinois IL141$221+34%$124 – $310
New Mexico NM28$219+33%$149 – $361
Massachusetts MA48$213+30%$153 – $354
Nebraska NE81$210+28%$128 – $302
Pennsylvania PA121$209+27%$71 – $547
Vermont VT13$208+26%$152 – $340
Connecticut CT23$207+26%$173 – $309
New Hampshire NH24$204+24%$101 – $313
North Dakota ND30$200+22%$53 – $438
West Virginia WV39$198+20%$121 – $347
Montana MT33$196+19%$126 – $283
Texas TX239$192+17%$79 – $486
Colorado CO69$192+16%$102 – $358
Washington WA77$191+16%$109 – $282
Alaska AK19$176+7%$87 – $223
Kansas KS89$175+6%$116 – $267
Idaho ID25$171+4%$111 – $276
Oregon OR50$169+3%$77 – $242
Georgia GA109$166+1%$65 – $285
Missouri MO73$154−6%$102 – $281
New York NY116$152−7%$62 – $289
Iowa IA88$151−8%$110 – $234
Oklahoma OK71$143−13%$93 – $215
Wyoming WY16$143−13%$111 – $329
Kentucky KY69$140−15%$101 – $227
Louisiana LA48$137−17%$71 – $232
Utah UT42$136−17%$116 – $234
Arizona AZ39$135−18%$65 – $397
Indiana IN85$132−20%$73 – $250
North Carolina NC90$125−24%$103 – $209
Minnesota MN92$119−27%$85 – $179
Alabama AL42$112−32%$70 – $343
Tennessee TN80$112−32%$43 – $179
Ohio OH120$111−32%$79 – $239
Michigan MI91$109−34%$62 – $233
Maine ME28$104−37%$69 – $194
California CA143$97−41%$32 – $302
Maryland MD40$93−44%$73 – $114
Mississippi MS51$79−52%$44 – $158
Arkansas AR37$77−53%$54 – $126
New Jersey NJ57$71−57%$62 – $126
Florida FL148$63−62%$44 – $215
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not 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 $164.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,219$149$68 – $294
Children’s61$204$103 – $468
Critical access951$180$103 – $280
Ownership
For-profit454$170$61 – $439
Government624$160$74 – $256
Non-profit2,153$163$77 – $287
System affiliation
Part of a system2,621$166$74 – $302
Independent620$159$77 – $257

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$260
Median cash price$164
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

2,184 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $166 and the average of the middle 60% is $171; most fall between $79 and $292.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,184 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
$56$96$166$260$391

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($56 vs $391).

Of the 2,407 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,184 gave a usable cash price; 114 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 109 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,241 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (82%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,535 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,241
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here162
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded129
Hospitals that filed this code3,535

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 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 Quantiferon - TB Gold Plus.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Tuberculosis blood test (interferon release) (CPT 86480) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86480-tuberculosis-blood-test-interferon-release