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Tuberculosis skin test

CPT 86580the billing code this page is about

A small amount of tuberculin is injected just under the skin and the site is checked days later for a reaction indicating tuberculosis exposure.

Hospitals typically charge $31 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,636 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $34. Most fall between $17 and $62 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,636
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 2,636 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$19$31$54$103

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $103).

How the prices are spread

$9 – $12: 133 hospitals$9$12 – $16: 189 hospitals$16 – $21: 331 hospitals$16$21 – $28: 410 hospitals$28 – $38: 359 hospitals$28$38 – $51: 372 hospitals$51 – $69: 283 hospitals$51$69 – $93: 137 hospitals$93 – $126: 111 hospitals$93$126 – $169: 49 hospitals$126median $31price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,374 of 2,636 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$9$12133
$12$16189
$16$21331
$21$28410
$28$38359
$38$51372
$51$69283
$69$93137
$93$126111
$126$16949

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$30
Median cash price$31
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.05×

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 $31.

Alaska: median $50 across 15 hospitalsAK$50Maine: median $21 across 28 hospitalsME$21Vermont: median $38 across 11 hospitalsVT$38New Hampshire: median $35 across 16 hospitalsNH$35Washington: median $33 across 60 hospitalsWA$33Idaho: median $39 across 22 hospitalsID$39Montana: median $39 across 24 hospitalsMT$39North Dakota: median $22 across 30 hospitalsND$22Minnesota: median $31 across 81 hospitalsMN$31Illinois: median $32 across 114 hospitalsIL$32Wisconsin: median $36 across 100 hospitalsWI$36Michigan: median $21 across 84 hospitalsMI$21New York: median $30 across 100 hospitalsNY$30Massachusetts: median $40 across 40 hospitalsMA$40Oregon: median $28 across 41 hospitalsOR$28Nevada: median $40 across 18 hospitalsNV$40Wyoming: median $30 across 13 hospitalsWY$30South Dakota: median $31 across 24 hospitalsSD$31Iowa: median $28 across 75 hospitalsIA$28Indiana: median $26 across 87 hospitalsIN$26Ohio: median $39 across 116 hospitalsOH$39Pennsylvania: median $42 across 100 hospitalsPA$42New Jersey: median $32 across 46 hospitalsNJ$32Connecticut: median $24 across 12 hospitalsCT$24Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $59 across 129 hospitalsCA$59Utah: median $89 across 38 hospitalsUT$89Colorado: median $57 across 49 hospitalsCO$57Nebraska: median $31 across 72 hospitalsNE$31Missouri: median $24 across 68 hospitalsMO$24Kentucky: median $21 across 55 hospitalsKY$21West Virginia: median $27 across 35 hospitalsWV$27Virginia: median $19 across 40 hospitalsVA$19Maryland: median $24 across 10 hospitalsMD$24Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $90 across 31 hospitalsAZ$90New Mexico: median $41 across 16 hospitalsNM$41Kansas: median $22 across 64 hospitalsKS$22Arkansas: median $18 across 31 hospitalsAR$18Tennessee: median $19 across 64 hospitalsTN$19North Carolina: median $20 across 74 hospitalsNC$20South Carolina: median $29 across 43 hospitalsSC$29Oklahoma: median $25 across 61 hospitalsOK$25Louisiana: median $19 across 48 hospitalsLA$19Mississippi: median $14 across 51 hospitalsMS$14Alabama: median $21 across 27 hospitalsAL$21Georgia: median $43 across 74 hospitalsGA$43Hawaii: median $58 across 18 hospitalsHI$58Texas: median $32 across 176 hospitalsTX$32Florida: median $40 across 94 hospitalsFL$40
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $31. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ31$90+189%$20 – $179
Utah UT38$89+188%$62 – $105
California CA129$59+90%$37 – $71
Hawaii HI18$58+88%$29 – $105
Colorado CO49$57+84%$22 – $246
Alaska AK15$50+61%$41 – $64
Georgia GA74$43+38%$20 – $63
Pennsylvania PA100$42+35%$19 – $86
New Mexico NM16$41+31%$21 – $95
Massachusetts MA40$40+29%$29 – $64
Nevada NV18$40+29%$25 – $70
Florida FL94$40+28%$24 – $123
Idaho ID22$39+26%$21 – $109
Ohio OH116$39+26%$18 – $66
Montana MT24$39+25%$15 – $81
Vermont VT11$38+23%$21 – $46
Wisconsin WI100$36+17%$19 – $57
New Hampshire NH16$35+14%$26 – $86
Washington WA60$33+7%$20 – $56
Illinois IL114$32+4%$20 – $73
Texas TX176$32+3%$16 – $64
New Jersey NJ46$32+2%$19 – $41
South Dakota SD24$31+1%$24 – $85
Minnesota MN81$310%$21 – $43
Nebraska NE72$31−2%$23 – $57
Wyoming WY13$30−3%$22 – $61
New York NY100$30−5%$11 – $66
South Carolina SC43$29−8%$27 – $44
Oregon OR41$28−9%$21 – $82
Iowa IA75$28−9%$18 – $49
West Virginia WV35$27−13%$17 – $39
Indiana IN87$26−15%$17 – $50
Oklahoma OK61$25−19%$15 – $56
Maryland MD10$24−23%$2 – $27
Connecticut CT12$24−23%$20 – $151
Missouri MO68$24−23%$16 – $73
North Dakota ND30$22−29%$16 – $32
Kansas KS64$22−29%$14 – $53
Alabama AL27$21−31%$16 – $44
Michigan MI84$21−31%$10 – $39
Kentucky KY55$21−31%$13 – $63
Maine ME28$21−33%$13 – $41
North Carolina NC74$20−34%$13 – $39
Virginia VA40$19−39%$14 – $50
Tennessee TN64$19−39%$12 – $31
Louisiana LA48$19−40%$11 – $37
Arkansas AR31$18−42%$10 – $33
Mississippi MS51$14−56%$8 – $24
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not 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 $31.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,773$32$17 – $64
Children’s55$65$27 – $150
Critical access801$29$17 – $51
Ownership
For-profit295$40$17 – $124
Government522$26$16 – $50
Non-profit1,812$32$17 – $63
System affiliation
Part of a system2,142$33$18 – $64
Independent494$26$14 – $50

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$51
Median cash price$31
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

1,820 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $33 and the average of the middle 60% is $36; most fall between $17 and $65.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,820 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$19$33$59$105

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $105).

Of the 1,990 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,820 gave a usable cash price; 92 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 78 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,636 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (67%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,846 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,636
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here113
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 — excluded94
Hospitals that filed this code2,846

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 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 Skin Test Tuberculosis Intradermal.

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, “Tuberculosis skin test (CPT 86580) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86580-tuberculosis-skin-test