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HTLV-1 antibody blood test

CPT 86687the billing code this page is about

A blood test for antibodies to human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1.

Hospitals typically charge $45 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,222 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $50. Most fall between $15 and $110 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,222
States
50
Filings dated
Nov 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 1,222 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
$10$17$45$94$181

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $181).

How the prices are spread

$8 – $11: 96 hospitals$8$11 – $16: 110 hospitals$16 – $22: 121 hospitals$16$22 – $31: 87 hospitals$31 – $44: 139 hospitals$31$44 – $63: 146 hospitals$63 – $90: 141 hospitals$63$90 – $127: 114 hospitals$127 – $181: 93 hospitals$127$181 – $257: 62 hospitals$181median $45price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,109 of 1,222 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$8$1196
$11$16110
$16$22121
$22$3187
$31$44139
$44$63146
$63$90141
$90$127114
$127$18193
$181$25762

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $45.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $35 across 20 hospitalsWA$35Idaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $43 across 24 hospitalsMN$43Illinois: median $68 across 60 hospitalsIL$68Wisconsin: median $59 across 26 hospitalsWI$59Michigan: median $12 across 38 hospitalsMI$12New York: median $14 across 50 hospitalsNY$14Massachusetts: median $65 across 22 hospitalsMA$65Oregon: median $48 across 16 hospitalsOR$48Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $49 across 20 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $32 across 46 hospitalsIN$32Ohio: median $41 across 89 hospitalsOH$41Pennsylvania: median $76 across 65 hospitalsPA$76New Jersey: median $10 across 35 hospitalsNJ$10Connecticut: 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 $16 across 57 hospitalsCA$16Utah: median $33 across 32 hospitalsUT$33Colorado: median $110 across 17 hospitalsCO$110Nebraska: median $110 across 23 hospitalsNE$110Missouri: median $36 across 28 hospitalsMO$36Kentucky: median $128 across 24 hospitalsKY$128West Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $65 across 45 hospitalsVA$65Maryland: median $91 across 14 hospitalsMD$91Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $49 across 18 hospitalsAZ$49New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $60 across 22 hospitalsKS$60Arkansas: median $49 across 14 hospitalsAR$49Tennessee: median $12 across 24 hospitalsTN$12North Carolina: median $29 across 50 hospitalsNC$29South Carolina: median $72 across 19 hospitalsSC$72Oklahoma: median $56 across 31 hospitalsOK$56Louisiana: median $17 across 25 hospitalsLA$17Mississippi: median $50 across 12 hospitalsMS$50Alabama: median $30 across 10 hospitalsAL$30Georgia: median $50 across 28 hospitalsGA$50Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $14 across 69 hospitalsTX$14Florida: median $22 across 71 hospitalsFL$22
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $45. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY24$128+185%$32 – $134
Nebraska NE23$110+146%$29 – $219
Colorado CO17$110+145%$21 – $164
Maryland MD14$91+102%$59 – $107
Pennsylvania PA65$76+70%$10 – $191
South Carolina SC19$72+61%$62 – $91
Illinois IL60$68+52%$32 – $206
Massachusetts MA22$65+45%$28 – $106
Virginia VA45$65+45%$38 – $102
Kansas KS22$60+33%$38 – $90
Wisconsin WI26$59+32%$15 – $74
Oklahoma OK31$56+26%$41 – $91
Mississippi MS12$50+12%$21 – $70
Georgia GA28$50+11%$50 – $208
Arizona AZ18$49+9%$15 – $142
Arkansas AR14$49+9%$10 – $51
Iowa IA20$49+8%$49 – $53
Oregon OR16$48+8%$42 – $97
Minnesota MN24$43−4%$21 – $66
Ohio OH89$41−9%$25 – $148
Missouri MO28$36−20%$22 – $75
Washington WA20$35−22%$29 – $61
Utah UT32$33−26%$28 – $71
Indiana IN46$32−28%$19 – $97
Alabama AL10$30−33%$9 – $59
North Carolina NC50$29−36%$14 – $143
Florida FL71$22−50%$12 – $54
Louisiana LA25$17−63%$11 – $118
California CA57$16−65%$16 – $67
New York NY50$14−69%$9 – $80
Texas TX69$14−70%$4 – $245
Tennessee TN24$12−72%$8 – $15
Michigan MI38$12−73%$11 – $26
New Jersey NJ35$10−78%$9 – $24
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not 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 $45.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care981$41$14 – $107
Children’s34$46$16 – $113
Critical access202$54$22 – $126
Ownership
For-profit153$53$15 – $243
Government143$53$18 – $128
Non-profit921$42$14 – $102
System affiliation
Part of a system1,072$42$14 – $110
Independent150$55$20 – $116

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$86
Median cash price$45
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

837 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $47 and the average of the middle 60% is $52; most fall between $16 and $109.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 837 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
$11$21$47$97$178

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $178).

Of the 922 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 837 gave a usable cash price; 44 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 41 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,222 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (31%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,310 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,222
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here43
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 — excluded44
Hospitals that filed this code1,310

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 Anti Htlv 1 Nat.

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, “HTLV-1 antibody blood test (CPT 86687) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86687-htlv-1-antibody-blood-test