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Skin test with an unlisted antigen, each test

CPT 86486the billing code this page is about

Skin test using an antigen that has no specific code of its own; the charge applies to each single antigen tested.

Hospitals typically charge $44 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 272 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $44. Most fall between $20 and $74 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
272
States
37
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 272 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
$11$24$44$68$223

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $223).

How the prices are spread

$9 – $13: 19 hospitals$9$13 – $18: 17 hospitals$18 – $25: 26 hospitals$18$25 – $35: 45 hospitals$35 – $49: 36 hospitals$35$49 – $69: 58 hospitals$69 – $98: 13 hospitals$69$98 – $138: 11 hospitals$138 – $194: 4 hospitals$138$194 – $273: 17 hospitals$194median $44price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (246 of 272 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$9$1319
$13$1817
$18$2526
$25$3545
$35$4936
$49$6958
$69$9813
$98$13811
$138$1944
$194$27317

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$30
Median cash price$44
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.48×

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 $44.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $68 across 10 hospitalsWA$68Idaho: 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: median $13 across 15 hospitalsIL$13Wisconsin: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $29 across 20 hospitalsNY$29Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $49 across 16 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $27 across 17 hospitalsNJ$27Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $64 across 43 hospitalsCA$64Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $31 across 11 hospitalsTN$31North Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $11 across 18 hospitalsOK$11Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $97 across 18 hospitalsTX$97Florida: 4 hospitals 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
Texas TX18$97+121%$56 – $377
Washington WA10$68+55%$39 – $68
California CA43$64+46%$59 – $64
Iowa IA16$49+11%$49 – $49
Tennessee TN11$31−28%$28 – $31
New York NY20$29−34%$29 – $36
New Jersey NJ17$27−38%$21 – $32
Illinois IL15$13−71%$5 – $44
Oklahoma OK18$11−76%$11 – $24
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 care251$42$20 – $71
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access14fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit38$97$16 – $255
Government37$31$15 – $64
Non-profit197$46$23 – $68
System affiliation
Part of a system235$49$24 – $78
Independent37$32$13 – $71

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$84
Median cash price$44
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

166 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $53 and the average of the middle 60% is $51; most fall between $24 and $78.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 166 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
$11$26$53$69$223

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $223).

Of the 178 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 166 gave a usable cash price; 5 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

272 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 285 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted272
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here4
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 — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code285

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 UNLISTED ANTIGN EA.

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, “Skin test with an unlisted antigen, each test (CPT 86486) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86486-skin-test-with-an-unlisted-antigen-each-test