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Candida skin test

CPT 86485the billing code this page is about

A small amount of candida (yeast) antigen is injected into the skin to see whether the immune system reacts.

Hospitals typically charge $51 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 584 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $57. Most fall between $25 and $130 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
584
States
47
Filings dated
Jan 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 584 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
$17$28$51$92$293

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $293).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $17: 33 hospitals$12$17 – $25: 55 hospitals$25 – $37: 102 hospitals$25$37 – $54: 82 hospitals$54 – $79: 83 hospitals$54$79 – $116: 78 hospitals$116 – $170: 13 hospitals$116$170 – $248: 37 hospitals$248 – $363: 27 hospitals$248$363 – $531: 16 hospitals$363median $51price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (526 of 584 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$1733
$17$2555
$25$37102
$37$5482
$54$7983
$79$11678
$116$17013
$170$24837
$248$36327
$363$53116

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$30
Median cash price$51
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.72×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $51.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $64 across 14 hospitalsWA$64Idaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $27 across 20 hospitalsIL$27Wisconsin: median $38 across 16 hospitalsWI$38Michigan: median $28 across 17 hospitalsMI$28New York: median $29 across 25 hospitalsNY$29Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $62 across 16 hospitalsOR$62Nevada: 3 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 $24 across 17 hospitalsIA$24Indiana: median $486 across 23 hospitalsIN$486Ohio: median $28 across 18 hospitalsOH$28Pennsylvania: median $34 across 22 hospitalsPA$34New Jersey: median $27 across 12 hospitalsNJ$27Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $84 across 60 hospitalsCA$84Utah: median $179 across 26 hospitalsUT$179Colorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $171 across 11 hospitalsMO$171Kentucky: median $63 across 13 hospitalsKY$63West Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $255 across 10 hospitalsAZ$255New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $28 across 24 hospitalsTN$28North Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $20 across 14 hospitalsSC$20Oklahoma: median $18 across 24 hospitalsOK$18Louisiana: median $32 across 13 hospitalsLA$32Mississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $64 across 80 hospitalsTX$64Florida: median $47 across 21 hospitalsFL$47
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $51. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Indiana IN23$486+854%$22 – $715
Arizona AZ10$255+400%$35 – $255
Utah UT26$179+252%$179 – $211
Missouri MO11$171+236%$49 – $278
California CA60$84+65%$59 – $116
Texas TX80$64+25%$38 – $102
Washington WA14$64+25%$48 – $170
Kentucky KY13$63+23%$22 – $63
Oregon OR16$62+22%$33 – $112
Florida FL21$47−7%$31 – $130
Wisconsin WI16$38−25%$38 – $38
Pennsylvania PA22$34−33%$29 – $357
Louisiana LA13$32−38%$21 – $67
New York NY25$29−43%$29 – $54
Ohio OH18$28−45%$20 – $101
Michigan MI17$28−45%$3 – $40
Tennessee TN24$28−46%$11 – $76
New Jersey NJ12$27−47%$27 – $33
Illinois IL20$27−47%$22 – $59
Iowa IA17$24−53%$24 – $47
South Carolina SC14$20−62%$17 – $220
Oklahoma OK24$18−64%$12 – $51
Minnesota MN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not 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 $51.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care489$55$27 – $112
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access81$47$24 – $179
Ownership
For-profit97$92$28 – $359
Government64$34$23 – $84
Non-profit423$48$27 – $101
System affiliation
Part of a system514$56$27 – $170
Independent70$36$20 – $90

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$97
Median cash price$51
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

381 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $59 and the average of the middle 60% is $58; most fall between $25 and $110.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 381 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
$18$29$59$92$211

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $211).

Of the 418 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 381 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

584 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 628 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted584
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here29
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 — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code628

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 SKIN TEST CANDIDA.

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, “Candida skin test (CPT 86485) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86485-candida-skin-test