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Actinomyces antibody blood test

CPT 86602the billing code this page is about

Blood test for antibodies to actinomyces bacteria, indicating an immune response to that organism.

Hospitals typically charge $34 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 923 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $39. Most fall between $15 and $79 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
923
States
49
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 923 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$17$34$70$125

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $125).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $13: 121 hospitals$10$13 – $18: 85 hospitals$18 – $24: 105 hospitals$18$24 – $33: 106 hospitals$33 – $44: 79 hospitals$33$44 – $59: 102 hospitals$59 – $80: 106 hospitals$59$80 – $107: 60 hospitals$107 – $144: 44 hospitals$107$144 – $194: 33 hospitals$144median $34price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (841 of 923 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$13121
$13$1885
$18$24105
$24$33106
$33$4479
$44$59102
$59$80106
$80$10760
$107$14444
$144$19433

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $34.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $32 across 48 hospitalsWA$32Idaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: median $23 across 13 hospitalsMN$23Illinois: median $45 across 41 hospitalsIL$45Wisconsin: median $24 across 18 hospitalsWI$24Michigan: median $14 across 23 hospitalsMI$14New York: median $15 across 38 hospitalsNY$15Massachusetts: median $60 across 17 hospitalsMA$60Oregon: median $5 across 11 hospitalsOR$5Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $49 across 15 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $41 across 31 hospitalsIN$41Ohio: median $43 across 29 hospitalsOH$43Pennsylvania: median $12 across 29 hospitalsPA$12New Jersey: median $11 across 43 hospitalsNJ$11Connecticut: 7 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 $79 across 45 hospitalsCA$79Utah: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $26 across 21 hospitalsMO$26Kentucky: median $30 across 42 hospitalsKY$30West Virginia: median $33 across 12 hospitalsWV$33Virginia: median $54 across 45 hospitalsVA$54Maryland: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $46 across 11 hospitalsAZ$46New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $44 across 21 hospitalsKS$44Arkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $22 across 31 hospitalsTN$22North Carolina: median $57 across 47 hospitalsNC$57South Carolina: median $52 across 37 hospitalsSC$52Oklahoma: median $18 across 19 hospitalsOK$18Louisiana: median $24 across 13 hospitalsLA$24Mississippi: median $17 across 12 hospitalsMS$17Alabama: median $21 across 15 hospitalsAL$21Georgia: median $25 across 19 hospitalsGA$25Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $34 across 71 hospitalsTX$34Florida: median $31 across 32 hospitalsFL$31
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $34. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA45$79+133%$26 – $85
Massachusetts MA17$60+77%$33 – $75
North Carolina NC47$57+67%$22 – $142
Virginia VA45$54+59%$19 – $191
South Carolina SC37$52+53%$35 – $74
Iowa IA15$49+43%$32 – $49
Arizona AZ11$46+35%$29 – $125
Illinois IL41$45+33%$25 – $84
Kansas KS21$44+31%$28 – $122
Ohio OH29$43+27%$16 – $181
Indiana IN31$41+20%$17 – $55
Texas TX71$340%$17 – $197
West Virginia WV12$33−3%$28 – $47
Washington WA48$32−6%$15 – $58
Florida FL32$31−9%$24 – $100
Kentucky KY42$30−12%$17 – $97
Missouri MO21$26−24%$18 – $34
Georgia GA19$25−25%$18 – $70
Louisiana LA13$24−28%$12 – $42
Wisconsin WI18$24−30%$16 – $91
Minnesota MN13$23−34%$21 – $31
Tennessee TN31$22−34%$12 – $67
Alabama AL15$21−39%$10 – $30
Oklahoma OK19$18−46%$18 – $41
Mississippi MS12$17−49%$10 – $31
New York NY38$15−55%$10 – $58
Michigan MI23$14−59%$13 – $17
Pennsylvania PA29$12−65%$7 – $63
New Jersey NJ43$11−67%$10 – $14
Oregon OR11$5−85%$5 – $41
Maryland MD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $34.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care742$34$14 – $79
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access168$34$19 – $79
Ownership
For-profit160$44$19 – $179
Government147$33$17 – $70
Non-profit612$32$14 – $79
System affiliation
Part of a system767$35$14 – $84
Independent156$31$18 – $68

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$74
Median cash price$34
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

586 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $38 and the average of the middle 60% is $41; most fall between $17 and $76.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 586 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$38$70$93

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $93).

Of the 637 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 586 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 26 a list price only.

How complete is this

923 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (23%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 996 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted923
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here38
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded32
Hospitals that filed this code996

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 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 ANTINOMYCES 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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Actinomyces antibody blood test (CPT 86602) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86602-actinomyces-antibody-blood-test