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Calcium channel antibody blood test

CPT 86596the billing code this page is about

Blood test for antibodies against voltage-gated calcium channels, which are associated with certain nerve and muscle disorders.

Hospitals typically charge $74 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,040 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $89. Most fall between $30 and $207 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,040
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 2,040 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$35$74$168$349

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $349).

How the prices are spread

$13 – $19: 133 hospitals$13$19 – $28: 138 hospitals$28 – $40: 220 hospitals$28$40 – $59: 294 hospitals$59 – $86: 238 hospitals$59$86 – $125: 211 hospitals$125 – $183: 233 hospitals$125$183 – $266: 173 hospitals$266 – $388: 109 hospitals$266$388 – $566: 90 hospitals$388median $74price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,839 of 2,040 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$13$19133
$19$28138
$28$40220
$40$59294
$59$86238
$86$125211
$125$183233
$183$266173
$266$388109
$388$56690

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $74.

Alaska: median $70 across 10 hospitalsAK$70Maine: median $60 across 21 hospitalsME$60Vermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $112 across 18 hospitalsNH$112Washington: median $47 across 47 hospitalsWA$47Idaho: median $140 across 14 hospitalsID$140Montana: median $125 across 11 hospitalsMT$125North Dakota: median $144 across 10 hospitalsND$144Minnesota: median $121 across 61 hospitalsMN$121Illinois: median $89 across 89 hospitalsIL$89Wisconsin: median $83 across 76 hospitalsWI$83Michigan: median $46 across 42 hospitalsMI$46New York: median $47 across 73 hospitalsNY$47Massachusetts: median $66 across 46 hospitalsMA$66Oregon: median $62 across 33 hospitalsOR$62Nevada: median $62 across 12 hospitalsNV$62Wyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $125 across 13 hospitalsSD$125Iowa: median $81 across 40 hospitalsIA$81Indiana: median $47 across 77 hospitalsIN$47Ohio: median $172 across 100 hospitalsOH$172Pennsylvania: median $93 across 89 hospitalsPA$93New Jersey: median $14 across 45 hospitalsNJ$14Connecticut: median $62 across 17 hospitalsCT$62Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $30 across 64 hospitalsCA$30Utah: median $997 across 32 hospitalsUT$997Colorado: median $191 across 41 hospitalsCO$191Nebraska: median $65 across 26 hospitalsNE$65Missouri: median $89 across 51 hospitalsMO$89Kentucky: median $59 across 39 hospitalsKY$59West Virginia: median $13 across 22 hospitalsWV$13Virginia: median $34 across 62 hospitalsVA$34Maryland: median $78 across 28 hospitalsMD$78Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $63 across 26 hospitalsAZ$63New Mexico: median $36 across 14 hospitalsNM$36Kansas: median $193 across 26 hospitalsKS$193Arkansas: median $118 across 17 hospitalsAR$118Tennessee: median $29 across 54 hospitalsTN$29North Carolina: median $133 across 71 hospitalsNC$133South Carolina: median $122 across 39 hospitalsSC$122Oklahoma: median $146 across 37 hospitalsOK$146Louisiana: median $38 across 33 hospitalsLA$38Mississippi: median $20 across 36 hospitalsMS$20Alabama: median $175 across 23 hospitalsAL$175Georgia: median $77 across 70 hospitalsGA$77Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $68 across 135 hospitalsTX$68Florida: median $97 across 119 hospitalsFL$97
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $74. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT32$997+1243%$180 – $1,173
Kansas KS26$193+160%$34 – $324
Colorado CO41$191+158%$79 – $376
Alabama AL23$175+136%$31 – $456
Ohio OH100$172+131%$54 – $449
Oklahoma OK37$146+97%$107 – $242
North Dakota ND10$144+94%$84 – $186
Idaho ID14$140+89%$64 – $234
North Carolina NC71$133+79%$57 – $270
Montana MT11$125+69%$61 – $188
South Dakota SD13$125+68%$107 – $274
South Carolina SC39$122+64%$54 – $199
Minnesota MN61$121+63%$47 – $166
Arkansas AR17$118+59%$50 – $149
New Hampshire NH18$112+50%$31 – $443
Florida FL119$97+31%$40 – $214
Pennsylvania PA89$93+25%$32 – $324
Illinois IL89$89+20%$27 – $242
Missouri MO51$89+20%$32 – $198
Wisconsin WI76$83+12%$56 – $158
Iowa IA40$81+9%$49 – $121
Maryland MD28$78+5%$68 – $159
Georgia GA70$77+4%$37 – $148
Alaska AK10$70−5%$52 – $247
Texas TX135$68−8%$26 – $293
Massachusetts MA46$66−11%$31 – $145
Nebraska NE26$65−12%$34 – $189
Arizona AZ26$63−15%$50 – $152
Oregon OR33$62−16%$37 – $91
Connecticut CT17$62−17%$52 – $65
Nevada NV12$62−17%$59 – $256
Maine ME21$60−19%$35 – $115
Kentucky KY39$59−21%$16 – $244
Washington WA47$47−37%$21 – $108
New York NY73$47−37%$14 – $212
Indiana IN77$47−37%$32 – $109
Michigan MI42$46−39%$19 – $83
Louisiana LA33$38−48%$16 – $72
New Mexico NM14$36−52%$25 – $52
Virginia VA62$34−54%$28 – $139
California CA64$30−59%$27 – $108
Tennessee TN54$29−61%$12 – $68
Mississippi MS36$20−73%$14 – $107
New Jersey NJ45$14−81%$12 – $147
West Virginia WV22$13−82%$13 – $34
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not 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 $74.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,599$68$28 – $188
Children’s28$69$21 – $165
Critical access404$107$37 – $234
Ownership
For-profit275$122$31 – $376
Government280$92$34 – $234
Non-profit1,476$66$28 – $185
System affiliation
Part of a system1,790$71$30 – $204
Independent250$81$30 – $217

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$124
Median cash price$74
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

1,444 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $71 and the average of the middle 60% is $86; most fall between $32 and $203.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,444 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
$23$37$71$166$323

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $323).

Of the 1,588 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,444 gave a usable cash price; 87 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 57 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,040 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (52%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,210 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,040
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here111
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded57
Hospitals that filed this code2,210

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 HC P/Q-Type Calcium Channel Antibody.

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, “Calcium channel antibody blood test (CPT 86596) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86596-calcium-channel-antibody-blood-test