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Blood test for brucellosis antibodies

CPT 86622the billing code this page is about

A blood test that looks for antibodies to Brucella, bacteria usually caught from unpasteurized dairy or infected animals.

Hospitals typically charge $42 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,551 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $46. Most fall between $18 and $93 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,551
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 2,551 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$20$42$81$140

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $140).

How the prices are spread

$9 – $12: 148 hospitals$9$12 – $17: 225 hospitals$17 – $24: 321 hospitals$17$24 – $34: 254 hospitals$34 – $48: 329 hospitals$34$48 – $67: 354 hospitals$67 – $94: 292 hospitals$67$94 – $131: 225 hospitals$131 – $183: 96 hospitals$131$183 – $256: 60 hospitals$183median $42price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,304 of 2,551 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$9$12148
$12$17225
$17$24321
$24$34254
$34$48329
$48$67354
$67$94292
$94$131225
$131$18396
$183$25660

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $42.

Alaska: median $91 across 12 hospitalsAK$91Maine: median $37 across 15 hospitalsME$37Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $41 across 18 hospitalsNH$41Washington: median $38 across 57 hospitalsWA$38Idaho: median $60 across 19 hospitalsID$60Montana: median $62 across 19 hospitalsMT$62North Dakota: median $54 across 12 hospitalsND$54Minnesota: median $57 across 72 hospitalsMN$57Illinois: median $60 across 107 hospitalsIL$60Wisconsin: median $58 across 91 hospitalsWI$58Michigan: median $18 across 64 hospitalsMI$18New York: median $22 across 90 hospitalsNY$22Massachusetts: median $41 across 43 hospitalsMA$41Oregon: median $36 across 37 hospitalsOR$36Nevada: median $27 across 14 hospitalsNV$27Wyoming: median $60 across 14 hospitalsWY$60South Dakota: median $60 across 23 hospitalsSD$60Iowa: median $49 across 55 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $34 across 78 hospitalsIN$34Ohio: median $52 across 110 hospitalsOH$52Pennsylvania: median $45 across 102 hospitalsPA$45New Jersey: median $10 across 51 hospitalsNJ$10Connecticut: median $39 across 15 hospitalsCT$39Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $22 across 109 hospitalsCA$22Utah: median $65 across 36 hospitalsUT$65Colorado: median $66 across 50 hospitalsCO$66Nebraska: median $77 across 44 hospitalsNE$77Missouri: median $43 across 62 hospitalsMO$43Kentucky: median $40 across 47 hospitalsKY$40West Virginia: median $18 across 31 hospitalsWV$18Virginia: median $49 across 62 hospitalsVA$49Maryland: median $91 across 37 hospitalsMD$91Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $78 across 35 hospitalsAZ$78New Mexico: median $64 across 14 hospitalsNM$64Kansas: median $69 across 43 hospitalsKS$69Arkansas: median $42 across 28 hospitalsAR$42Tennessee: median $32 across 67 hospitalsTN$32North Carolina: median $27 across 75 hospitalsNC$27South Carolina: median $83 across 50 hospitalsSC$83Oklahoma: median $57 across 58 hospitalsOK$57Louisiana: median $21 across 40 hospitalsLA$21Mississippi: median $24 across 42 hospitalsMS$24Alabama: median $51 across 37 hospitalsAL$51Georgia: median $56 across 81 hospitalsGA$56Hawaii: median $44 across 14 hospitalsHI$44Texas: median $36 across 210 hospitalsTX$36Florida: median $17 across 139 hospitalsFL$17
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $42. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK12$91+119%$23 – $131
Maryland MD37$91+118%$66 – $107
South Carolina SC50$83+100%$44 – $102
Arizona AZ35$78+88%$21 – $91
Nebraska NE44$77+85%$44 – $138
Kansas KS43$69+65%$38 – $138
Colorado CO50$66+59%$40 – $117
Utah UT36$65+56%$58 – $69
New Mexico NM14$64+54%$29 – $91
Montana MT19$62+49%$26 – $80
Idaho ID19$60+45%$16 – $112
South Dakota SD23$60+45%$51 – $206
Illinois IL107$60+44%$32 – $97
Wyoming WY14$60+44%$40 – $101
Wisconsin WI91$58+39%$37 – $81
Oklahoma OK58$57+37%$28 – $94
Minnesota MN72$57+37%$33 – $107
Georgia GA81$56+34%$20 – $128
North Dakota ND12$54+30%$42 – $95
Ohio OH110$52+25%$28 – $105
Alabama AL37$51+22%$13 – $185
Virginia VA62$49+18%$13 – $84
Iowa IA55$49+17%$36 – $75
Pennsylvania PA102$45+8%$10 – $105
Hawaii HI14$44+6%$22 – $108
Missouri MO62$43+2%$29 – $72
Arkansas AR28$420%$17 – $68
New Hampshire NH18$41−1%$18 – $164
Massachusetts MA43$41−2%$22 – $91
Kentucky KY47$40−5%$20 – $170
Connecticut CT15$39−6%$23 – $48
Washington WA57$38−10%$23 – $73
Maine ME15$37−11%$17 – $71
Oregon OR37$36−13%$20 – $61
Texas TX210$36−14%$19 – $206
Indiana IN78$34−17%$16 – $84
Tennessee TN67$32−24%$13 – $71
North Carolina NC75$27−35%$17 – $66
Nevada NV14$27−35%$12 – $47
Mississippi MS42$24−43%$16 – $37
California CA109$22−46%$10 – $37
New York NY90$22−47%$9 – $57
Louisiana LA40$21−49%$5 – $45
Michigan MI64$18−56%$10 – $43
West Virginia WV31$18−57%$18 – $49
Florida FL139$17−60%$12 – $66
New Jersey NJ51$10−76%$9 – $29
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not 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 $42.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,943$38$16 – $91
Children’s45$42$22 – $95
Critical access553$57$27 – $99
Ownership
For-profit372$53$17 – $184
Government397$43$20 – $81
Non-profit1,772$40$18 – $88
System affiliation
Part of a system2,152$41$17 – $91
Independent399$46$22 – $97

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$73
Median cash price$42
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

1,785 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $42 and the average of the middle 60% is $45; most fall between $19 and $88.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,785 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
$13$22$42$77$121

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $121).

Of the 1,978 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,785 gave a usable cash price; 105 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 88 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,551 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (64%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,788 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,551
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here135
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 — excluded102
Hospitals that filed this code2,788

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 Brucella Ab Igg(Bruab).

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, “Blood test for brucellosis antibodies (CPT 86622) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86622-blood-test-for-brucellosis-antibodies