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Blood test for Cryptococcus antibodies

CPT 86641the billing code this page is about

A blood test that looks for antibodies to Cryptococcus, a fungus that can infect the lungs and nervous system.

Hospitals typically charge $77 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,058 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $83. Most fall between $28 and $173 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,058
States
49
Filings dated
Dec 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 1,058 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
$18$37$77$139$238

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $238).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $20: 80 hospitals$14$20 – $27: 84 hospitals$27 – $38: 58 hospitals$27$38 – $52: 115 hospitals$52 – $72: 113 hospitals$52$72 – $99: 145 hospitals$99 – $137: 146 hospitals$99$137 – $189: 112 hospitals$189 – $260: 68 hospitals$189$260 – $359: 38 hospitals$260median $77price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (959 of 1,058 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$2080
$20$2784
$27$3858
$38$52115
$52$72113
$72$99145
$99$137146
$137$189112
$189$26068
$260$35938

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $77.

Alaska: 5 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $69 across 32 hospitalsWA$69Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $88 across 61 hospitalsIL$88Wisconsin: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $20 across 24 hospitalsMI$20New York: median $52 across 53 hospitalsNY$52Massachusetts: median $42 across 20 hospitalsMA$42Oregon: median $39 across 10 hospitalsOR$39Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $49 across 14 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $42 across 43 hospitalsIN$42Ohio: median $116 across 37 hospitalsOH$116Pennsylvania: median $30 across 43 hospitalsPA$30New Jersey: median $16 across 34 hospitalsNJ$16Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $49 across 76 hospitalsCA$49Utah: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $92 across 17 hospitalsCO$92Nebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $81 across 20 hospitalsMO$81Kentucky: median $107 across 25 hospitalsKY$107West Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $111 across 33 hospitalsVA$111Maryland: median $124 across 18 hospitalsMD$124Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $152 across 18 hospitalsAZ$152New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $136 across 21 hospitalsKS$136Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $89 across 29 hospitalsTN$89North Carolina: median $107 across 33 hospitalsNC$107South Carolina: median $179 across 29 hospitalsSC$179Oklahoma: median $53 across 27 hospitalsOK$53Louisiana: median $44 across 21 hospitalsLA$44Mississippi: median $40 across 26 hospitalsMS$40Alabama: median $114 across 12 hospitalsAL$114Georgia: median $129 across 50 hospitalsGA$129Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $110 across 111 hospitalsTX$110Florida: median $47 across 36 hospitalsFL$47
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $77. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC29$179+131%$67 – $179
Arizona AZ18$152+97%$16 – $152
Kansas KS21$136+76%$60 – $186
Georgia GA50$129+67%$78 – $358
Maryland MD18$124+61%$78 – $147
Ohio OH37$116+50%$58 – $206
Alabama AL12$114+47%$36 – $333
Virginia VA33$111+44%$65 – $137
Texas TX111$110+42%$66 – $287
Kentucky KY25$107+39%$49 – $181
North Carolina NC33$107+38%$55 – $113
Colorado CO17$92+19%$40 – $237
Tennessee TN29$89+15%$25 – $238
Illinois IL61$88+14%$44 – $202
Missouri MO20$81+5%$61 – $230
Washington WA32$69−11%$49 – $123
Oklahoma OK27$53−32%$39 – $68
New York NY53$52−33%$14 – $77
California CA76$49−37%$22 – $176
Iowa IA14$49−37%$49 – $49
Florida FL36$47−39%$22 – $155
Louisiana LA21$44−44%$25 – $70
Indiana IN43$42−46%$24 – $113
Massachusetts MA20$42−46%$34 – $65
Mississippi MS26$40−48%$24 – $52
Oregon OR10$39−49%$39 – $54
Pennsylvania PA43$30−62%$12 – $150
Michigan MI24$20−74%$14 – $43
New Jersey NJ34$16−79%$14 – $124
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not 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 $77.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care890$79$25 – $176
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access149$74$39 – $142
Ownership
For-profit200$92$23 – $340
Government144$66$26 – $153
Non-profit711$77$31 – $150
System affiliation
Part of a system880$81$26 – $176
Independent178$63$34 – $136

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$142
Median cash price$77
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

706 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $90 and the average of the middle 60% is $89; most fall between $40 and $171.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 706 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
$23$46$90$139$221

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $221).

Of the 798 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 706 gave a usable cash price; 49 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 43 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,058 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (27%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,168 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,058
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here60
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded49
Hospitals that filed this code1,168

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 CRYPTOCOCCUS 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 Cryptococcus antibodies (CPT 86641) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86641-blood-test-for-cryptococcus-antibodies