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Adenovirus antibody blood test

CPT 86603the billing code this page is about

Blood test for antibodies to adenovirus, a common cause of respiratory and eye infections.

Hospitals typically charge $58 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,639 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $61. Most fall between $21 and $118 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,639
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 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 1,639 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
$14$26$58$102$192

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $192).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $16: 145 hospitals$12$16 – $22: 135 hospitals$22 – $31: 117 hospitals$22$31 – $42: 140 hospitals$42 – $57: 195 hospitals$42$57 – $78: 240 hospitals$78 – $107: 198 hospitals$78$107 – $146: 154 hospitals$146 – $199: 89 hospitals$146$199 – $272: 65 hospitals$199median $58price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,478 of 1,639 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$16145
$16$22135
$22$31117
$31$42140
$42$57195
$57$78240
$78$107198
$107$146154
$146$19989
$199$27265

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $58.

Alaska: 8 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $50 across 20 hospitalsWA$50Idaho: median $56 across 10 hospitalsID$56Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $78 across 89 hospitalsIL$78Wisconsin: median $78 across 41 hospitalsWI$78Michigan: median $18 across 37 hospitalsMI$18New York: median $42 across 75 hospitalsNY$42Massachusetts: median $83 across 36 hospitalsMA$83Oregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: median $63 across 12 hospitalsNV$63Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $49 across 33 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $39 across 55 hospitalsIN$39Ohio: median $82 across 85 hospitalsOH$82Pennsylvania: median $54 across 89 hospitalsPA$54New Jersey: median $15 across 46 hospitalsNJ$15Connecticut: median $69 across 10 hospitalsCT$69Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $34 across 87 hospitalsCA$34Utah: median $50 across 29 hospitalsUT$50Colorado: median $110 across 39 hospitalsCO$110Nebraska: median $103 across 17 hospitalsNE$103Missouri: median $75 across 40 hospitalsMO$75Kentucky: median $93 across 34 hospitalsKY$93West Virginia: median $40 across 12 hospitalsWV$40Virginia: median $69 across 36 hospitalsVA$69Maryland: median $87 across 30 hospitalsMD$87Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $78 across 25 hospitalsAZ$78New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $86 across 23 hospitalsKS$86Arkansas: median $32 across 10 hospitalsAR$32Tennessee: median $45 across 39 hospitalsTN$45North Carolina: median $23 across 41 hospitalsNC$23South Carolina: median $70 across 38 hospitalsSC$70Oklahoma: median $34 across 39 hospitalsOK$34Louisiana: median $39 across 33 hospitalsLA$39Mississippi: median $51 across 27 hospitalsMS$51Alabama: median $75 across 18 hospitalsAL$75Georgia: median $73 across 69 hospitalsGA$73Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $70 across 135 hospitalsTX$70Florida: median $20 across 99 hospitalsFL$20
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $58. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO39$110+90%$63 – $298
Nebraska NE17$103+78%$26 – $141
Kentucky KY34$93+62%$32 – $163
Maryland MD30$87+51%$55 – $103
Kansas KS23$86+48%$17 – $303
Massachusetts MA36$83+43%$43 – $124
Ohio OH85$82+43%$52 – $125
Arizona AZ25$78+34%$21 – $135
Illinois IL89$78+34%$37 – $169
Wisconsin WI41$78+34%$37 – $87
Alabama AL18$75+30%$20 – $110
Missouri MO40$75+30%$41 – $106
Georgia GA69$73+26%$26 – $119
Texas TX135$70+22%$20 – $263
South Carolina SC38$70+21%$57 – $134
Virginia VA36$69+19%$12 – $101
Connecticut CT10$69+19%$54 – $78
Nevada NV12$63+9%$39 – $243
Idaho ID10$56−3%$43 – $78
Pennsylvania PA89$54−7%$15 – $161
Mississippi MS27$51−12%$37 – $80
Utah UT29$50−13%$43 – $63
Washington WA20$50−14%$26 – $78
Iowa IA33$49−16%$41 – $83
Tennessee TN39$45−23%$23 – $231
New York NY75$42−28%$15 – $115
West Virginia WV12$40−32%$24 – $66
Indiana IN55$39−32%$21 – $111
Louisiana LA33$39−32%$23 – $84
Oklahoma OK39$34−42%$24 – $87
California CA87$34−42%$12 – $63
Arkansas AR10$32−45%$21 – $49
North Carolina NC41$23−60%$17 – $85
Florida FL99$20−65%$12 – $81
Michigan MI37$18−69%$8 – $51
New Jersey NJ46$15−74%$13 – $22
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $58.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,340$58$20 – $118
Children’s36$45$24 – $84
Critical access256$62$28 – $120
Ownership
For-profit268$73$20 – $272
Government219$52$20 – $110
Non-profit1,145$55$21 – $108
System affiliation
Part of a system1,371$58$21 – $121
Independent268$57$25 – $110

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$103
Median cash price$58
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

1,136 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $59 and the average of the middle 60% is $62; most fall between $24 and $113.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,136 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
$15$31$59$100$169

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $169).

Of the 1,255 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,136 gave a usable cash price; 68 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 51 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,639 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (41%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,793 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,639
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here92
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded62
Hospitals that filed this code1,793

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 Hc Adenovirus, 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, “Adenovirus antibody blood test (CPT 86603) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86603-adenovirus-antibody-blood-test