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Antibody test for a worm parasite not otherwise specified

CPT 86682the billing code this page is about

A test for antibodies to a parasitic worm, such as the tapeworm larvae that cause cysticercosis, performed on blood or spinal fluid.

Hospitals typically charge $64 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,593 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $70. Most fall between $28 and $143 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,593
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 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 2,593 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$31$64$120$223

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $223).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $19: 164 hospitals$14$19 – $26: 191 hospitals$26 – $36: 268 hospitals$26$36 – $49: 297 hospitals$49 – $67: 305 hospitals$49$67 – $92: 310 hospitals$92 – $126: 323 hospitals$92$126 – $172: 207 hospitals$172 – $235: 183 hospitals$172$235 – $322: 90 hospitals$235median $64price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,338 of 2,593 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$19164
$19$26191
$26$36268
$36$49297
$49$67305
$67$92310
$92$126323
$126$172207
$172$235183
$235$32290

By state

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

Alaska: median $77 across 12 hospitalsAK$77Maine: median $54 across 22 hospitalsME$54Vermont: median $86 across 10 hospitalsVT$86New Hampshire: median $59 across 21 hospitalsNH$59Washington: median $60 across 58 hospitalsWA$60Idaho: median $74 across 19 hospitalsID$74Montana: median $106 across 12 hospitalsMT$106North Dakota: median $70 across 10 hospitalsND$70Minnesota: median $80 across 74 hospitalsMN$80Illinois: median $81 across 104 hospitalsIL$81Wisconsin: median $93 across 94 hospitalsWI$93Michigan: median $30 across 69 hospitalsMI$30New York: median $42 across 95 hospitalsNY$42Massachusetts: median $86 across 49 hospitalsMA$86Oregon: median $53 across 36 hospitalsOR$53Nevada: median $40 across 15 hospitalsNV$40Wyoming: median $70 across 11 hospitalsWY$70South Dakota: median $95 across 17 hospitalsSD$95Iowa: median $66 across 49 hospitalsIA$66Indiana: median $55 across 86 hospitalsIN$55Ohio: median $57 across 127 hospitalsOH$57Pennsylvania: median $68 across 111 hospitalsPA$68New Jersey: median $15 across 54 hospitalsNJ$15Connecticut: median $55 across 17 hospitalsCT$55Rhode Island: median $48 across 10 hospitalsRI$48California: median $24 across 112 hospitalsCA$24Utah: median $84 across 36 hospitalsUT$84Colorado: median $93 across 50 hospitalsCO$93Nebraska: median $123 across 34 hospitalsNE$123Missouri: median $78 across 60 hospitalsMO$78Kentucky: median $115 across 59 hospitalsKY$115West Virginia: median $42 across 31 hospitalsWV$42Virginia: median $67 across 64 hospitalsVA$67Maryland: median $90 across 40 hospitalsMD$90Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $63 across 34 hospitalsAZ$63New Mexico: median $92 across 15 hospitalsNM$92Kansas: median $90 across 46 hospitalsKS$90Arkansas: median $57 across 28 hospitalsAR$57Tennessee: median $55 across 66 hospitalsTN$55North Carolina: median $77 across 73 hospitalsNC$77South Carolina: median $174 across 51 hospitalsSC$174Oklahoma: median $57 across 43 hospitalsOK$57Louisiana: median $39 across 46 hospitalsLA$39Mississippi: median $49 across 42 hospitalsMS$49Alabama: median $103 across 34 hospitalsAL$103Georgia: median $113 across 90 hospitalsGA$113Hawaii: median $73 across 16 hospitalsHI$73Texas: median $45 across 194 hospitalsTX$45Florida: median $43 across 140 hospitalsFL$43
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
South Carolina SC51$174+173%$56 – $324
Nebraska NE34$123+93%$46 – $174
Kentucky KY59$115+81%$39 – $177
Georgia GA90$113+78%$28 – $161
Montana MT12$106+66%$77 – $182
Alabama AL34$103+62%$20 – $228
South Dakota SD17$95+48%$47 – $258
Wisconsin WI94$93+46%$36 – $137
Colorado CO50$93+45%$48 – $236
New Mexico NM15$92+45%$42 – $229
Kansas KS46$90+41%$67 – $320
Maryland MD40$90+41%$68 – $107
Massachusetts MA49$86+35%$30 – $159
Vermont VT10$86+34%$55 – $174
Utah UT36$84+33%$82 – $98
Illinois IL104$81+27%$28 – $195
Minnesota MN74$80+26%$26 – $150
Missouri MO60$78+23%$41 – $125
Alaska AK12$77+21%$48 – $179
North Carolina NC73$77+20%$29 – $228
Idaho ID19$74+15%$40 – $147
Hawaii HI16$73+14%$33 – $96
Wyoming WY11$70+10%$45 – $123
North Dakota ND10$70+10%$45 – $87
Pennsylvania PA111$68+7%$19 – $153
Virginia VA64$67+5%$25 – $117
Iowa IA49$66+3%$49 – $95
Arizona AZ34$63−1%$22 – $143
Washington WA58$60−5%$52 – $119
New Hampshire NH21$59−7%$34 – $170
Oklahoma OK43$57−11%$38 – $108
Arkansas AR28$57−11%$15 – $109
Ohio OH127$57−11%$38 – $98
Tennessee TN66$55−13%$23 – $125
Indiana IN86$55−13%$26 – $177
Connecticut CT17$55−14%$28 – $79
Maine ME22$54−15%$26 – $107
Oregon OR36$53−18%$40 – $85
Mississippi MS42$49−23%$17 – $92
Rhode Island RI10$48−24%$30 – $83
Texas TX194$45−30%$24 – $183
Florida FL140$43−33%$27 – $65
West Virginia WV31$42−34%$42 – $139
New York NY95$42−35%$14 – $133
Nevada NV15$40−37%$13 – $88
Louisiana LA46$39−40%$21 – $106
Michigan MI69$30−53%$15 – $71
California CA112$24−63%$16 – $71
New Jersey NJ54$15−77%$14 – $39
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 care2,008$59$26 – $139
Children’s47$67$33 – $135
Critical access529$82$40 – $157
Ownership
For-profit372$80$33 – $230
Government398$71$29 – $160
Non-profit1,814$60$26 – $125
System affiliation
Part of a system2,182$61$27 – $142
Independent411$71$33 – $150

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$108
Median cash price$64
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

1,841 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $65 and the average of the middle 60% is $69; most fall between $29 and $137.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,841 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
$20$32$65$116$197

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $197).

Of the 2,036 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,841 gave a usable cash price; 110 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 85 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,593 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (66%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,835 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,593
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here144
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 — excluded97
Hospitals that filed this code2,835

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 Lh (Luteinizing Hormone) for Rei Pkg.

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, “Antibody test for a worm parasite not otherwise specified (CPT 86682) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86682-antibody-test-for-a-worm-parasite-not-otherwise-specified