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Blood test for Candida antibodies

CPT 86628the billing code this page is about

A blood test that looks for antibodies to Candida, a common yeast that can cause infection.

Hospitals typically charge $51 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,043 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $53. Most fall between $22 and $108 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,043
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 2,043 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$25$51$90$166

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $166).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $16: 142 hospitals$12$16 – $22: 201 hospitals$22 – $30: 202 hospitals$22$30 – $41: 205 hospitals$41 – $55: 254 hospitals$41$55 – $75: 298 hospitals$75 – $102: 196 hospitals$75$102 – $138: 157 hospitals$138 – $187: 122 hospitals$138$187 – $254: 63 hospitals$187median $51price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,840 of 2,043 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$16142
$16$22201
$22$30202
$30$41205
$41$55254
$55$75298
$75$102196
$102$138157
$138$187122
$187$25463

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $51.

Alaska: median $78 across 14 hospitalsAK$78Maine: median $39 across 21 hospitalsME$39Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $59 across 15 hospitalsNH$59Washington: median $54 across 51 hospitalsWA$54Idaho: median $57 across 10 hospitalsID$57Montana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $47 across 19 hospitalsND$47Minnesota: median $56 across 33 hospitalsMN$56Illinois: median $55 across 85 hospitalsIL$55Wisconsin: median $63 across 84 hospitalsWI$63Michigan: median $17 across 63 hospitalsMI$17New York: median $26 across 61 hospitalsNY$26Massachusetts: median $67 across 43 hospitalsMA$67Oregon: median $33 across 36 hospitalsOR$33Nevada: median $59 across 15 hospitalsNV$59Wyoming: median $54 across 11 hospitalsWY$54South Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $49 across 34 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $36 across 86 hospitalsIN$36Ohio: median $69 across 105 hospitalsOH$69Pennsylvania: median $62 across 104 hospitalsPA$62New Jersey: median $13 across 45 hospitalsNJ$13Connecticut: median $50 across 15 hospitalsCT$50Rhode Island: median $49 across 10 hospitalsRI$49California: median $34 across 85 hospitalsCA$34Utah: median $56 across 38 hospitalsUT$56Colorado: median $69 across 47 hospitalsCO$69Nebraska: median $44 across 22 hospitalsNE$44Missouri: median $64 across 55 hospitalsMO$64Kentucky: median $88 across 45 hospitalsKY$88West Virginia: median $77 across 20 hospitalsWV$77Virginia: median $42 across 49 hospitalsVA$42Maryland: median $81 across 21 hospitalsMD$81Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $119 across 37 hospitalsAZ$119New Mexico: median $58 across 15 hospitalsNM$58Kansas: median $83 across 31 hospitalsKS$83Arkansas: median $54 across 22 hospitalsAR$54Tennessee: median $35 across 37 hospitalsTN$35North Carolina: median $58 across 43 hospitalsNC$58South Carolina: median $65 across 36 hospitalsSC$65Oklahoma: median $36 across 49 hospitalsOK$36Louisiana: median $29 across 32 hospitalsLA$29Mississippi: median $29 across 19 hospitalsMS$29Alabama: median $31 across 18 hospitalsAL$31Georgia: median $24 across 67 hospitalsGA$24Hawaii: median $57 across 12 hospitalsHI$57Texas: median $68 across 165 hospitalsTX$68Florida: median $26 across 99 hospitalsFL$26
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $51. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ37$119+133%$26 – $146
Kentucky KY45$88+73%$36 – $225
Kansas KS31$83+64%$62 – $175
Maryland MD21$81+59%$59 – $106
Alaska AK14$78+53%$53 – $185
West Virginia WV20$77+51%$33 – $103
Ohio OH105$69+35%$36 – $149
Colorado CO47$69+35%$28 – $191
Texas TX165$68+33%$20 – $189
Massachusetts MA43$67+31%$35 – $141
South Carolina SC36$65+27%$44 – $81
Missouri MO55$64+26%$45 – $135
Wisconsin WI84$63+23%$34 – $90
Pennsylvania PA104$62+22%$14 – $155
New Hampshire NH15$59+15%$27 – $138
Nevada NV15$59+15%$37 – $81
North Carolina NC43$58+14%$28 – $135
New Mexico NM15$58+13%$35 – $113
Hawaii HI12$57+13%$31 – $101
Idaho ID10$57+11%$37 – $92
Minnesota MN33$56+10%$23 – $65
Utah UT38$56+10%$46 – $191
Illinois IL85$55+8%$34 – $123
Arkansas AR22$54+6%$31 – $60
Wyoming WY11$54+5%$30 – $73
Washington WA51$54+5%$32 – $68
Connecticut CT15$50−2%$24 – $64
Rhode Island RI10$49−5%$45 – $96
Iowa IA34$49−5%$34 – $65
North Dakota ND19$47−8%$21 – $62
Nebraska NE22$44−13%$17 – $145
Virginia VA49$42−18%$11 – $105
Maine ME21$39−23%$17 – $95
Indiana IN86$36−29%$23 – $59
Oklahoma OK49$36−29%$22 – $62
Tennessee TN37$35−32%$21 – $90
California CA85$34−34%$12 – $93
Oregon OR36$33−35%$22 – $57
Alabama AL18$31−39%$18 – $70
Louisiana LA32$29−44%$22 – $61
Mississippi MS19$29−44%$14 – $42
Florida FL99$26−49%$14 – $75
New York NY61$26−49%$14 – $62
Georgia GA67$24−53%$18 – $63
Michigan MI63$17−68%$6 – $54
New Jersey NJ45$13−74%$12 – $41
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not 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 $51.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,562$48$20 – $105
Children’s28$46$21 – $158
Critical access445$60$29 – $116
Ownership
For-profit293$57$21 – $182
Government285$58$27 – $104
Non-profit1,457$49$21 – $94
System affiliation
Part of a system1,712$49$21 – $107
Independent331$59$29 – $114

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$83
Median cash price$51
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

1,469 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $52 and the average of the middle 60% is $52; most fall between $22 and $97.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,469 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
$16$26$52$88$146

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($16 vs $146).

Of the 1,628 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,469 gave a usable cash price; 84 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 75 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,043 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 2,236 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,043
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here110
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 — excluded83
Hospitals that filed this code2,236

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 CANDIDA 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, “Blood test for Candida antibodies (CPT 86628) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86628-blood-test-for-candida-antibodies