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Blood test for cytomegalovirus antibodies

CPT 86644the billing code this page is about

A blood test that looks for antibodies to cytomegalovirus, a common herpes-family virus.

Hospitals typically charge $64 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,251 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $69. Most fall between $25 and $128 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,251
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 3,251 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$31$64$115$178

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $178).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $14: 117 hospitals$10$14 – $19: 210 hospitals$19 – $26: 198 hospitals$19$26 – $35: 253 hospitals$35 – $48: 290 hospitals$35$48 – $66: 426 hospitals$66 – $91: 423 hospitals$66$91 – $124: 471 hospitals$124 – $170: 343 hospitals$124$170 – $233: 200 hospitals$170median $64price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,931 of 3,251 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$14117
$14$19210
$19$26198
$26$35253
$35$48290
$48$66426
$66$91423
$91$124471
$124$170343
$170$233200

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $64.

Alaska: median $73 across 19 hospitalsAK$73Maine: median $62 across 28 hospitalsME$62Vermont: median $89 across 14 hospitalsVT$89New Hampshire: median $91 across 25 hospitalsNH$91Washington: median $72 across 76 hospitalsWA$72Idaho: median $52 across 23 hospitalsID$52Montana: median $85 across 31 hospitalsMT$85North Dakota: median $68 across 30 hospitalsND$68Minnesota: median $73 across 99 hospitalsMN$73Illinois: median $93 across 141 hospitalsIL$93Wisconsin: median $82 across 105 hospitalsWI$82Michigan: median $37 across 96 hospitalsMI$37New York: median $47 across 106 hospitalsNY$47Massachusetts: median $85 across 52 hospitalsMA$85Oregon: median $54 across 48 hospitalsOR$54Nevada: median $71 across 19 hospitalsNV$71Wyoming: median $65 across 16 hospitalsWY$65South Dakota: median $114 across 35 hospitalsSD$114Iowa: median $64 across 88 hospitalsIA$64Indiana: median $59 across 97 hospitalsIN$59Ohio: median $70 across 140 hospitalsOH$70Pennsylvania: median $60 across 122 hospitalsPA$60New Jersey: median $17 across 57 hospitalsNJ$17Connecticut: median $67 across 23 hospitalsCT$67Rhode Island: median $64 across 10 hospitalsRI$64California: median $18 across 138 hospitalsCA$18Utah: median $79 across 41 hospitalsUT$79Colorado: median $83 across 67 hospitalsCO$83Nebraska: median $101 across 76 hospitalsNE$101Missouri: median $61 across 74 hospitalsMO$61Kentucky: median $79 across 68 hospitalsKY$79West Virginia: median $48 across 42 hospitalsWV$48Virginia: median $70 across 72 hospitalsVA$70Maryland: median $41 across 41 hospitalsMD$41Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $115 across 42 hospitalsAZ$115New Mexico: median $93 across 28 hospitalsNM$93Kansas: median $97 across 83 hospitalsKS$97Arkansas: median $25 across 34 hospitalsAR$25Tennessee: median $41 across 78 hospitalsTN$41North Carolina: median $70 across 88 hospitalsNC$70South Carolina: median $110 across 53 hospitalsSC$110Oklahoma: median $53 across 67 hospitalsOK$53Louisiana: median $33 across 50 hospitalsLA$33Mississippi: median $34 across 53 hospitalsMS$34Alabama: median $68 across 43 hospitalsAL$68Georgia: median $92 across 103 hospitalsGA$92Hawaii: median $73 across 18 hospitalsHI$73Texas: median $63 across 233 hospitalsTX$63Florida: median $39 across 152 hospitalsFL$39
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $64. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ42$115+78%$30 – $136
South Dakota SD35$114+76%$54 – $204
South Carolina SC53$110+70%$53 – $138
Nebraska NE76$101+57%$50 – $172
Kansas KS83$97+51%$69 – $136
Illinois IL141$93+44%$41 – $159
New Mexico NM28$93+44%$58 – $177
Georgia GA103$92+43%$30 – $116
New Hampshire NH25$91+41%$45 – $198
Vermont VT14$89+38%$44 – $175
Montana MT31$85+32%$36 – $112
Massachusetts MA52$85+31%$42 – $116
Colorado CO67$83+29%$24 – $119
Wisconsin WI105$82+28%$55 – $147
Utah UT41$79+23%$67 – $136
Kentucky KY68$79+23%$41 – $164
Alaska AK19$73+13%$17 – $151
Hawaii HI18$73+13%$53 – $157
Minnesota MN99$73+13%$37 – $146
Washington WA76$72+12%$35 – $120
Nevada NV19$71+10%$24 – $213
North Carolina NC88$70+9%$27 – $127
Virginia VA72$70+8%$25 – $163
Ohio OH140$70+8%$34 – $114
North Dakota ND30$68+6%$26 – $102
Alabama AL43$68+6%$22 – $144
Connecticut CT23$67+4%$53 – $120
Wyoming WY16$65+1%$45 – $109
Iowa IA88$64−1%$46 – $115
Rhode Island RI10$64−1%$33 – $115
Texas TX233$63−2%$11 – $217
Maine ME28$62−3%$30 – $158
Missouri MO74$61−5%$34 – $113
Pennsylvania PA122$60−7%$22 – $169
Indiana IN97$59−9%$33 – $111
Oregon OR48$54−17%$29 – $82
Oklahoma OK67$53−17%$30 – $108
Idaho ID23$52−19%$14 – $106
West Virginia WV42$48−26%$9 – $85
New York NY106$47−27%$17 – $111
Tennessee TN78$41−36%$21 – $119
Maryland MD41$41−37%$32 – $49
Florida FL152$39−39%$12 – $144
Michigan MI96$37−42%$15 – $65
Mississippi MS53$34−47%$16 – $70
Louisiana LA50$33−48%$19 – $75
Arkansas AR34$25−61%$17 – $77
California CA138$18−72%$7 – $100
New Jersey NJ57$17−74%$14 – $53
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 $64.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,262$59$21 – $126
Children’s63$55$17 – $127
Critical access916$82$40 – $137
Ownership
For-profit450$82$26 – $215
Government593$71$26 – $126
Non-profit2,198$62$24 – $120
System affiliation
Part of a system2,644$64$24 – $131
Independent607$65$28 – $124

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$109
Median cash price$64
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

2,208 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $64 and the average of the middle 60% is $67; most fall between $26 and $122.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,208 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$32$64$108$167

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($16 vs $167).

Of the 2,431 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,208 gave a usable cash price; 120 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 103 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,251 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (82%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,539 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,251
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here167
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded120
Hospitals that filed this code3,539

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 July 20, 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 Cmv Igg.

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 cytomegalovirus antibodies (CPT 86644) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86644-blood-test-for-cytomegalovirus-antibodies