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Epstein-Barr virus capsid antigen antibody test

CPT 86665the billing code this page is about

A blood test for antibodies against the viral capsid (outer shell) antigen of Epstein-Barr virus.

Hospitals typically charge $72 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,278 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $74. Most fall between $30 and $132 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,278
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 3,278 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$35$72$116$188

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $188).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $16: 147 hospitals$12$16 – $22: 173 hospitals$22 – $30: 209 hospitals$22$30 – $42: 283 hospitals$42 – $57: 342 hospitals$42$57 – $77: 428 hospitals$77 – $106: 542 hospitals$77$106 – $144: 431 hospitals$144 – $197: 269 hospitals$144$197 – $269: 130 hospitals$197median $72price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,954 of 3,278 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$16147
$16$22173
$22$30209
$30$42283
$42$57342
$57$77428
$77$106542
$106$144431
$144$197269
$197$269130

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $72.

Alaska: median $121 across 19 hospitalsAK$121Maine: median $61 across 28 hospitalsME$61Vermont: median $75 across 14 hospitalsVT$75New Hampshire: median $69 across 25 hospitalsNH$69Washington: median $95 across 76 hospitalsWA$95Idaho: median $77 across 23 hospitalsID$77Montana: median $94 across 29 hospitalsMT$94North Dakota: median $89 across 32 hospitalsND$89Minnesota: median $76 across 102 hospitalsMN$76Illinois: median $99 across 141 hospitalsIL$99Wisconsin: median $89 across 106 hospitalsWI$89Michigan: median $47 across 100 hospitalsMI$47New York: median $42 across 106 hospitalsNY$42Massachusetts: median $88 across 53 hospitalsMA$88Oregon: median $75 across 47 hospitalsOR$75Nevada: median $89 across 20 hospitalsNV$89Wyoming: median $81 across 16 hospitalsWY$81South Dakota: median $123 across 38 hospitalsSD$123Iowa: median $69 across 85 hospitalsIA$69Indiana: median $72 across 97 hospitalsIN$72Ohio: median $65 across 140 hospitalsOH$65Pennsylvania: median $100 across 121 hospitalsPA$100New Jersey: median $21 across 57 hospitalsNJ$21Connecticut: median $95 across 23 hospitalsCT$95Rhode Island: median $47 across 10 hospitalsRI$47California: median $24 across 135 hospitalsCA$24Utah: median $92 across 42 hospitalsUT$92Colorado: median $55 across 67 hospitalsCO$55Nebraska: median $112 across 77 hospitalsNE$112Missouri: median $79 across 74 hospitalsMO$79Kentucky: median $54 across 68 hospitalsKY$54West Virginia: median $56 across 43 hospitalsWV$56Virginia: median $98 across 73 hospitalsVA$98Maryland: median $127 across 41 hospitalsMD$127Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $92 across 41 hospitalsAZ$92New Mexico: median $108 across 27 hospitalsNM$108Kansas: median $92 across 86 hospitalsKS$92Arkansas: median $23 across 38 hospitalsAR$23Tennessee: median $46 across 79 hospitalsTN$46North Carolina: median $73 across 86 hospitalsNC$73South Carolina: median $114 across 52 hospitalsSC$114Oklahoma: median $64 across 71 hospitalsOK$64Louisiana: median $49 across 49 hospitalsLA$49Mississippi: median $38 across 56 hospitalsMS$38Alabama: median $35 across 44 hospitalsAL$35Georgia: median $72 across 108 hospitalsGA$72Hawaii: median $89 across 18 hospitalsHI$89Texas: median $73 across 239 hospitalsTX$73Florida: median $29 across 149 hospitalsFL$29
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $72. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD41$127+75%$98 – $153
South Dakota SD38$123+70%$51 – $191
Alaska AK19$121+67%$30 – $209
South Carolina SC52$114+58%$67 – $160
Nebraska NE77$112+55%$47 – $162
New Mexico NM27$108+49%$64 – $160
Pennsylvania PA121$100+39%$28 – $213
Illinois IL141$99+37%$49 – $152
Virginia VA73$98+36%$31 – $186
Washington WA76$95+31%$46 – $146
Connecticut CT23$95+31%$58 – $151
Montana MT29$94+31%$56 – $125
Arizona AZ41$92+27%$22 – $189
Utah UT42$92+27%$81 – $112
Kansas KS86$92+27%$64 – $125
Hawaii HI18$89+23%$47 – $146
North Dakota ND32$89+23%$32 – $131
Nevada NV20$89+23%$32 – $155
Wisconsin WI106$89+23%$60 – $128
Massachusetts MA53$88+21%$51 – $176
Wyoming WY16$81+12%$62 – $137
Missouri MO74$79+9%$37 – $157
Idaho ID23$77+7%$14 – $103
Minnesota MN102$76+6%$30 – $126
Vermont VT14$75+4%$50 – $264
Oregon OR47$75+4%$52 – $86
Texas TX239$73+1%$32 – $180
North Carolina NC86$730%$32 – $142
Georgia GA108$72−1%$36 – $138
Indiana IN97$72−1%$35 – $132
Iowa IA85$69−5%$47 – $121
New Hampshire NH25$69−5%$49 – $161
Ohio OH140$65−10%$35 – $103
Oklahoma OK71$64−11%$39 – $104
Maine ME28$61−16%$38 – $113
West Virginia WV43$56−23%$32 – $112
Colorado CO67$55−24%$23 – $135
Kentucky KY68$54−25%$36 – $126
Louisiana LA49$49−32%$28 – $78
Michigan MI100$47−34%$24 – $107
Rhode Island RI10$47−36%$42 – $114
Tennessee TN79$46−37%$31 – $100
New York NY106$42−41%$18 – $112
Mississippi MS56$38−47%$23 – $75
Alabama AL44$35−52%$20 – $201
Florida FL149$29−60%$10 – $100
California CA135$24−67%$8 – $90
Arkansas AR38$23−68%$16 – $75
New Jersey NJ57$21−71%$20 – $61
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 $72.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,266$66$25 – $132
Children’s63$105$32 – $165
Critical access939$85$43 – $128
Ownership
For-profit455$74$29 – $233
Government609$68$30 – $124
Non-profit2,204$73$30 – $126
System affiliation
Part of a system2,663$73$30 – $134
Independent615$71$30 – $125

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$118
Median cash price$72
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

2,227 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $72 and the average of the middle 60% is $73; most fall between $31 and $125.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,227 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$36$72$113$172

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $172).

Of the 2,447 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,227 gave a usable cash price; 115 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 105 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,278 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (83%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,566 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,278
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here162
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 — excluded125
Hospitals that filed this code3,566

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 Epstein Barr Capsid Ag Igm.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Epstein-Barr virus capsid antigen antibody test (CPT 86665) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86665-epstein-barr-virus-capsid-antigen-antibody-test