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Tularemia antibody blood test

CPT 86668the billing code this page is about

A blood test for antibodies to Francisella tularensis, the bacterium that causes tularemia (rabbit fever).

Hospitals typically charge $62 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,879 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $64. Most fall between $27 and $121 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,879
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 1,879 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$33$62$101$193

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $193).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $19: 144 hospitals$14$19 – $27: 145 hospitals$27 – $37: 120 hospitals$27$37 – $50: 283 hospitals$50 – $69: 285 hospitals$50$69 – $94: 308 hospitals$94 – $129: 184 hospitals$94$129 – $177: 118 hospitals$177 – $243: 65 hospitals$177$243 – $333: 51 hospitals$243median $62price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,703 of 1,879 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$19144
$19$27145
$27$37120
$37$50283
$50$69285
$69$94308
$94$129184
$129$177118
$177$24365
$243$33351

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $62.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $60 across 12 hospitalsNH$60Washington: median $54 across 37 hospitalsWA$54Idaho: median $64 across 17 hospitalsID$64Montana: median $60 across 21 hospitalsMT$60North Dakota: median $71 across 12 hospitalsND$71Minnesota: median $88 across 56 hospitalsMN$88Illinois: median $82 across 73 hospitalsIL$82Wisconsin: median $62 across 61 hospitalsWI$62Michigan: median $25 across 52 hospitalsMI$25New York: median $35 across 61 hospitalsNY$35Massachusetts: median $72 across 34 hospitalsMA$72Oregon: median $45 across 24 hospitalsOR$45Nevada: median $58 across 10 hospitalsNV$58Wyoming: median $76 across 13 hospitalsWY$76South Dakota: median $123 across 16 hospitalsSD$123Iowa: median $49 across 40 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $31 across 44 hospitalsIN$31Ohio: median $64 across 90 hospitalsOH$64Pennsylvania: median $59 across 58 hospitalsPA$59New Jersey: median $16 across 38 hospitalsNJ$16Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $38 across 55 hospitalsCA$38Utah: median $415 across 35 hospitalsUT$415Colorado: median $78 across 44 hospitalsCO$78Nebraska: median $77 across 48 hospitalsNE$77Missouri: median $65 across 59 hospitalsMO$65Kentucky: median $49 across 43 hospitalsKY$49West Virginia: median $90 across 24 hospitalsWV$90Virginia: median $65 across 51 hospitalsVA$65Maryland: median $129 across 20 hospitalsMD$129Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $71 across 19 hospitalsAZ$71New Mexico: median $80 across 10 hospitalsNM$80Kansas: median $63 across 57 hospitalsKS$63Arkansas: median $28 across 34 hospitalsAR$28Tennessee: median $38 across 59 hospitalsTN$38North Carolina: median $57 across 68 hospitalsNC$57South Carolina: median $75 across 36 hospitalsSC$75Oklahoma: median $67 across 57 hospitalsOK$67Louisiana: median $38 across 30 hospitalsLA$38Mississippi: median $39 across 26 hospitalsMS$39Alabama: median $34 across 24 hospitalsAL$34Georgia: median $76 across 46 hospitalsGA$76Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $83 across 153 hospitalsTX$83Florida: median $50 across 74 hospitalsFL$50
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $62. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT35$415+573%$85 – $489
Maryland MD20$129+109%$98 – $151
South Dakota SD16$123+99%$73 – $223
West Virginia WV24$90+46%$64 – $90
Minnesota MN56$88+42%$64 – $121
Texas TX153$83+34%$40 – $193
Illinois IL73$82+32%$39 – $176
New Mexico NM10$80+30%$61 – $172
Colorado CO44$78+26%$45 – $185
Nebraska NE48$77+24%$42 – $195
Wyoming WY13$76+23%$63 – $118
Georgia GA46$76+22%$48 – $150
South Carolina SC36$75+21%$62 – $105
Massachusetts MA34$72+17%$42 – $108
Arizona AZ19$71+14%$35 – $182
North Dakota ND12$71+14%$58 – $95
Oklahoma OK57$67+8%$30 – $77
Virginia VA51$65+5%$27 – $125
Missouri MO59$65+5%$45 – $107
Idaho ID17$64+4%$33 – $137
Ohio OH90$64+3%$44 – $181
Kansas KS57$63+2%$34 – $98
Wisconsin WI61$620%$40 – $97
New Hampshire NH12$60−3%$42 – $84
Montana MT21$60−3%$39 – $85
Pennsylvania PA58$59−4%$14 – $148
Nevada NV10$58−7%$14 – $80
North Carolina NC68$57−8%$39 – $88
Washington WA37$54−12%$24 – $104
Florida FL74$50−19%$23 – $100
Kentucky KY43$49−20%$31 – $130
Iowa IA40$49−21%$44 – $90
Oregon OR24$45−27%$32 – $76
Mississippi MS26$39−37%$18 – $65
Louisiana LA30$38−38%$18 – $54
California CA55$38−38%$19 – $89
Tennessee TN59$38−39%$18 – $85
New York NY61$35−43%$15 – $58
Alabama AL24$34−45%$16 – $375
Indiana IN44$31−50%$20 – $87
Arkansas AR34$28−54%$12 – $101
Michigan MI52$25−60%$18 – $33
New Jersey NJ38$16−75%$14 – $45
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not 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 $62.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,425$58$24 – $112
Children’s32$62$28 – $98
Critical access416$73$40 – $136
Ownership
For-profit254$74$30 – $182
Government285$62$31 – $112
Non-profit1,334$60$26 – $108
System affiliation
Part of a system1,592$62$26 – $121
Independent287$61$29 – $117

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$102
Median cash price$62
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

1,284 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $62 and the average of the middle 60% is $66; most fall between $33 and $121.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,284 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
$21$38$62$103$193

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($21 vs $193).

Of the 1,418 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,284 gave a usable cash price; 74 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 60 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,879 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (47%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,047 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,879
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here97
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded69
Hospitals that filed this code2,047

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 Francisella Tularensis Abs 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, “Tularemia antibody blood test (CPT 86668) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86668-tularemia-antibody-blood-test