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Blood test for recent Chlamydia infection (IgM antibody)

CPT 86632the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures IgM class antibodies to Chlamydia, the type that usually appears early in an infection.

Hospitals typically charge $42 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,458 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $45. Most fall between $15 and $93 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,458
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 2,458 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$19$42$76$145

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $145).

How the prices are spread

$9 – $12: 186 hospitals$9$12 – $17: 251 hospitals$17 – $23: 200 hospitals$17$23 – $32: 207 hospitals$32 – $44: 304 hospitals$32$44 – $61: 383 hospitals$61 – $84: 254 hospitals$61$84 – $116: 204 hospitals$116 – $160: 136 hospitals$116$160 – $221: 93 hospitals$160median $42price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,218 of 2,458 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$9$12186
$12$17251
$17$23200
$23$32207
$32$44304
$44$61383
$61$84254
$84$116204
$116$160136
$160$22193

By state

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

Alaska: median $46 across 11 hospitalsAK$46Maine: median $29 across 22 hospitalsME$29Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $66 across 19 hospitalsNH$66Washington: median $48 across 49 hospitalsWA$48Idaho: median $37 across 17 hospitalsID$37Montana: median $84 across 15 hospitalsMT$84North Dakota: median $57 across 18 hospitalsND$57Minnesota: median $52 across 61 hospitalsMN$52Illinois: median $59 across 107 hospitalsIL$59Wisconsin: median $49 across 87 hospitalsWI$49Michigan: median $14 across 72 hospitalsMI$14New York: median $26 across 90 hospitalsNY$26Massachusetts: median $62 across 45 hospitalsMA$62Oregon: median $21 across 35 hospitalsOR$21Nevada: median $62 across 14 hospitalsNV$62Wyoming: median $42 across 11 hospitalsWY$42South Dakota: median $46 across 10 hospitalsSD$46Iowa: median $49 across 43 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $33 across 80 hospitalsIN$33Ohio: median $57 across 120 hospitalsOH$57Pennsylvania: median $54 across 113 hospitalsPA$54New Jersey: median $15 across 53 hospitalsNJ$15Connecticut: median $44 across 16 hospitalsCT$44Rhode Island: median $77 across 10 hospitalsRI$77California: median $10 across 109 hospitalsCA$10Utah: median $53 across 36 hospitalsUT$53Colorado: median $50 across 48 hospitalsCO$50Nebraska: median $44 across 39 hospitalsNE$44Missouri: median $48 across 59 hospitalsMO$48Kentucky: median $59 across 44 hospitalsKY$59West Virginia: median $10 across 23 hospitalsWV$10Virginia: median $58 across 69 hospitalsVA$58Maryland: median $50 across 37 hospitalsMD$50Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $35 across 34 hospitalsAZ$35New Mexico: median $68 across 16 hospitalsNM$68Kansas: median $74 across 41 hospitalsKS$74Arkansas: median $26 across 31 hospitalsAR$26Tennessee: median $32 across 62 hospitalsTN$32North Carolina: median $25 across 72 hospitalsNC$25South Carolina: median $66 across 46 hospitalsSC$66Oklahoma: median $53 across 50 hospitalsOK$53Louisiana: median $30 across 38 hospitalsLA$30Mississippi: median $30 across 32 hospitalsMS$30Alabama: median $55 across 38 hospitalsAL$55Georgia: median $44 across 77 hospitalsGA$44Hawaii: median $41 across 11 hospitalsHI$41Texas: median $23 across 180 hospitalsTX$23Florida: median $17 across 132 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
Montana MT15$84+100%$17 – $118
Rhode Island RI10$77+83%$29 – $102
Kansas KS41$74+77%$28 – $123
New Mexico NM16$68+63%$41 – $95
South Carolina SC46$66+59%$37 – $126
New Hampshire NH19$66+59%$24 – $218
Nevada NV14$62+49%$12 – $173
Massachusetts MA45$62+48%$32 – $131
Illinois IL107$59+41%$18 – $145
Kentucky KY44$59+41%$32 – $266
Virginia VA69$58+38%$19 – $95
North Dakota ND18$57+36%$53 – $100
Ohio OH120$57+35%$30 – $99
Alabama AL38$55+32%$27 – $141
Pennsylvania PA113$54+30%$19 – $149
Oklahoma OK50$53+28%$20 – $67
Utah UT36$53+27%$45 – $81
Minnesota MN61$52+24%$37 – $102
Maryland MD37$50+20%$36 – $63
Colorado CO48$50+19%$27 – $134
Wisconsin WI87$49+17%$25 – $74
Iowa IA43$49+16%$25 – $62
Washington WA49$48+16%$26 – $92
Missouri MO59$48+15%$31 – $67
South Dakota SD10$46+11%$18 – $54
Alaska AK11$46+10%$18 – $112
Georgia GA77$44+6%$30 – $102
Nebraska NE39$44+6%$17 – $175
Connecticut CT16$44+5%$32 – $56
Wyoming WY11$42+2%$27 – $56
Hawaii HI11$41−2%$33 – $153
Idaho ID17$37−11%$11 – $59
Arizona AZ34$35−15%$14 – $133
Indiana IN80$33−22%$18 – $70
Tennessee TN62$32−24%$17 – $56
Mississippi MS32$30−28%$14 – $43
Louisiana LA38$30−28%$18 – $53
Maine ME22$29−31%$13 – $93
Arkansas AR31$26−37%$15 – $52
New York NY90$26−38%$13 – $55
North Carolina NC72$25−41%$11 – $92
Texas TX180$23−44%$13 – $144
Oregon OR35$21−49%$16 – $48
Florida FL132$17−59%$9 – $49
New Jersey NJ53$15−65%$13 – $26
Michigan MI72$14−67%$8 – $50
California CA109$10−76%$7 – $37
West Virginia WV23$10−77%$10 – $23
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
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 $42.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,915$39$14 – $90
Children’s38$33$18 – $92
Critical access495$52$23 – $101
Ownership
For-profit368$48$16 – $155
Government354$39$15 – $87
Non-profit1,726$41$15 – $82
System affiliation
Part of a system2,082$42$15 – $92
Independent376$42$17 – $99

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$72
Median cash price$42
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

1,726 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $44 and the average of the middle 60% is $45; most fall between $17 and $87.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,726 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$21$44$74$133

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $133).

Of the 1,910 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,726 gave a usable cash price; 106 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 78 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,458 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (62%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,685 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,458
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here138
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 — excluded89
Hospitals that filed this code2,685

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 Chlam Ab Pneumoniae Igm(Chlp).

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 recent Chlamydia infection (IgM antibody) (CPT 86632) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86632-blood-test-for-recent-chlamydia-infection-igm-antibody