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Bartonella antibody blood test

CPT 86611the billing code this page is about

Blood test for antibodies to bartonella bacteria, the cause of cat scratch disease.

Hospitals typically charge $43 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,900 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $45. Most fall between $17 and $89 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,900
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 2,900 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$20$43$79$135

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $135).

How the prices are spread

$9 – $12: 202 hospitals$9$12 – $16: 209 hospitals$16 – $22: 249 hospitals$16$22 – $30: 316 hospitals$30 – $42: 314 hospitals$30$42 – $58: 395 hospitals$58 – $79: 362 hospitals$58$79 – $109: 313 hospitals$109 – $150: 142 hospitals$109$150 – $207: 112 hospitals$150median $43price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,614 of 2,900 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$9$12202
$12$16209
$16$22249
$22$30316
$30$42314
$42$58395
$58$79362
$79$109313
$109$150142
$150$207112

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $43.

Alaska: median $66 across 15 hospitalsAK$66Maine: median $33 across 28 hospitalsME$33Vermont: median $78 across 14 hospitalsVT$78New Hampshire: median $50 across 22 hospitalsNH$50Washington: median $49 across 65 hospitalsWA$49Idaho: median $31 across 18 hospitalsID$31Montana: median $40 across 18 hospitalsMT$40North Dakota: median $54 across 21 hospitalsND$54Minnesota: median $55 across 85 hospitalsMN$55Illinois: median $58 across 122 hospitalsIL$58Wisconsin: median $43 across 103 hospitalsWI$43Michigan: median $9 across 66 hospitalsMI$9New York: median $30 across 101 hospitalsNY$30Massachusetts: median $52 across 51 hospitalsMA$52Oregon: median $44 across 45 hospitalsOR$44Nevada: median $50 across 15 hospitalsNV$50Wyoming: median $47 across 14 hospitalsWY$47South Dakota: median $77 across 24 hospitalsSD$77Iowa: median $49 across 70 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $54 across 94 hospitalsIN$54Ohio: median $53 across 131 hospitalsOH$53Pennsylvania: median $50 across 117 hospitalsPA$50New Jersey: median $11 across 51 hospitalsNJ$11Connecticut: median $51 across 21 hospitalsCT$51Rhode Island: median $50 across 10 hospitalsRI$50California: median $14 across 107 hospitalsCA$14Utah: median $57 across 37 hospitalsUT$57Colorado: median $46 across 53 hospitalsCO$46Nebraska: median $66 across 44 hospitalsNE$66Missouri: median $38 across 69 hospitalsMO$38Kentucky: median $42 across 62 hospitalsKY$42West Virginia: median $34 across 39 hospitalsWV$34Virginia: median $49 across 71 hospitalsVA$49Maryland: median $87 across 37 hospitalsMD$87Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $35 across 38 hospitalsAZ$35New Mexico: median $59 across 18 hospitalsNM$59Kansas: median $48 across 67 hospitalsKS$48Arkansas: median $20 across 34 hospitalsAR$20Tennessee: median $23 across 77 hospitalsTN$23North Carolina: median $23 across 82 hospitalsNC$23South Carolina: median $68 across 49 hospitalsSC$68Oklahoma: median $35 across 64 hospitalsOK$35Louisiana: median $24 across 50 hospitalsLA$24Mississippi: median $29 across 52 hospitalsMS$29Alabama: median $55 across 42 hospitalsAL$55Georgia: median $79 across 101 hospitalsGA$79Hawaii: median $68 across 15 hospitalsHI$68Texas: median $47 across 221 hospitalsTX$47Florida: median $14 across 143 hospitalsFL$14
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $43. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD37$87+105%$59 – $103
Georgia GA101$79+85%$29 – $153
Vermont VT14$78+83%$40 – $134
South Dakota SD24$77+81%$48 – $93
Hawaii HI15$68+60%$29 – $106
South Carolina SC49$68+59%$40 – $83
Nebraska NE44$66+54%$40 – $100
Alaska AK15$66+54%$39 – $79
New Mexico NM18$59+38%$35 – $80
Illinois IL122$58+35%$27 – $118
Utah UT37$57+34%$49 – $73
Minnesota MN85$55+30%$14 – $83
Alabama AL42$55+29%$15 – $161
North Dakota ND21$54+28%$18 – $68
Indiana IN94$54+27%$22 – $88
Ohio OH131$53+24%$25 – $97
Massachusetts MA51$52+21%$30 – $88
Connecticut CT21$51+20%$32 – $85
Pennsylvania PA117$50+18%$15 – $120
Rhode Island RI10$50+17%$22 – $77
Nevada NV15$50+17%$14 – $72
New Hampshire NH22$50+16%$18 – $173
Washington WA65$49+15%$27 – $78
Virginia VA71$49+14%$18 – $64
Iowa IA70$49+14%$33 – $77
Kansas KS67$48+13%$23 – $81
Texas TX221$47+11%$25 – $107
Wyoming WY14$47+10%$37 – $102
Colorado CO53$46+8%$22 – $105
Oregon OR45$44+4%$25 – $69
Wisconsin WI103$43+1%$25 – $99
Kentucky KY62$42−2%$26 – $112
Montana MT18$40−6%$26 – $73
Missouri MO69$38−11%$24 – $77
Arizona AZ38$35−18%$15 – $109
Oklahoma OK64$35−18%$17 – $58
West Virginia WV39$34−20%$9 – $59
Maine ME28$33−23%$20 – $96
Idaho ID18$31−27%$14 – $60
New York NY101$30−30%$12 – $61
Mississippi MS52$29−31%$15 – $59
Louisiana LA50$24−43%$14 – $53
Tennessee TN77$23−46%$15 – $100
North Carolina NC82$23−46%$13 – $77
Arkansas AR34$20−52%$13 – $53
California CA107$14−67%$9 – $46
Florida FL143$14−68%$7 – $37
New Jersey NJ51$11−74%$10 – $34
Michigan MI66$9−79%$7 – $19
Delaware DE7not 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 $43.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,111$38$15 – $86
Children’s49$42$15 – $84
Critical access730$52$25 – $100
Ownership
For-profit414$52$16 – $161
Government504$43$20 – $83
Non-profit1,972$41$16 – $84
System affiliation
Part of a system2,380$43$16 – $88
Independent520$42$20 – $95

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$71
Median cash price$43
Cash as a share of list, median hospital63%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

2,011 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $44 and the average of the middle 60% is $46; most fall between $18 and $86.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,011 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$22$44$77$120

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $120).

Of the 2,213 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,011 gave a usable cash price; 107 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 95 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,900 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (73%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,163 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,900
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here148
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded113
Hospitals that filed this code3,163

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 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 Cat Scratch (Bart) Hens Igm.

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, “Bartonella antibody blood test (CPT 86611) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86611-bartonella-antibody-blood-test