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HTLV-2 antibody blood test

CPT 86688the billing code this page is about

A blood test for antibodies to human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 2.

Hospitals typically charge $40 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 792 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $45. Most fall between $16 and $104 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
792
States
47
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 792 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$18$40$86$174

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $174).

How the prices are spread

$9 – $13: 22 hospitals$9$13 – $18: 139 hospitals$18 – $25: 98 hospitals$18$25 – $34: 72 hospitals$34 – $47: 94 hospitals$34$47 – $66: 69 hospitals$66 – $91: 74 hospitals$66$91 – $126: 69 hospitals$126 – $175: 38 hospitals$126$175 – $243: 40 hospitals$175median $40price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (715 of 792 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$9$1322
$13$18139
$18$2598
$25$3472
$34$4794
$47$6669
$66$9174
$91$12669
$126$17538
$175$24340

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $40.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $52 across 19 hospitalsWA$52Idaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $31 across 13 hospitalsMN$31Illinois: median $47 across 36 hospitalsIL$47Wisconsin: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $19 across 30 hospitalsMI$19New York: median $17 across 30 hospitalsNY$17Massachusetts: median $58 across 16 hospitalsMA$58Oregon: median $57 across 14 hospitalsOR$57Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $28 across 18 hospitalsIA$28Indiana: median $30 across 34 hospitalsIN$30Ohio: median $43 across 40 hospitalsOH$43Pennsylvania: median $29 across 35 hospitalsPA$29New Jersey: median $15 across 34 hospitalsNJ$15Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $25 across 46 hospitalsCA$25Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $90 across 15 hospitalsNE$90Missouri: median $28 across 11 hospitalsMO$28Kentucky: median $163 across 15 hospitalsKY$163West Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $86 across 37 hospitalsVA$86Maryland: median $90 across 12 hospitalsMD$90Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $74 across 15 hospitalsAZ$74New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $59 across 15 hospitalsKS$59Arkansas: median $38 across 13 hospitalsAR$38Tennessee: median $16 across 22 hospitalsTN$16North Carolina: median $46 across 34 hospitalsNC$46South Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $31 across 23 hospitalsOK$31Louisiana: median $18 across 15 hospitalsLA$18Mississippi: median $50 across 11 hospitalsMS$50Alabama: median $34 across 11 hospitalsAL$34Georgia: median $50 across 18 hospitalsGA$50Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $14 across 62 hospitalsTX$14Florida: median $18 across 44 hospitalsFL$18
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $40. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY15$163+308%$13 – $163
Nebraska NE15$90+125%$24 – $219
Maryland MD12$90+124%$23 – $106
Virginia VA37$86+116%$63 – $102
Arizona AZ15$74+85%$74 – $118
Kansas KS15$59+46%$22 – $90
Massachusetts MA16$58+45%$33 – $127
Oregon OR14$57+42%$42 – $97
Washington WA19$52+30%$40 – $64
Mississippi MS11$50+26%$20 – $88
Georgia GA18$50+24%$47 – $208
Illinois IL36$47+17%$33 – $158
North Carolina NC34$46+15%$23 – $104
Ohio OH40$43+8%$16 – $211
Arkansas AR13$38−6%$31 – $75
Alabama AL11$34−15%$17 – $81
Minnesota MN13$31−22%$30 – $66
Oklahoma OK23$31−23%$25 – $67
Indiana IN34$30−26%$19 – $125
Pennsylvania PA35$29−28%$10 – $477
Missouri MO11$28−30%$23 – $42
Iowa IA18$28−30%$28 – $52
California CA46$25−38%$25 – $113
Michigan MI30$19−52%$15 – $47
Louisiana LA15$18−55%$14 – $57
Florida FL44$18−56%$18 – $57
New York NY30$17−58%$14 – $46
Tennessee TN22$16−61%$12 – $17
New Jersey NJ34$15−61%$14 – $107
Texas TX62$14−65%$4 – $65
Wisconsin WI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $40.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care656$34$16 – $104
Children’s20$46$15 – $75
Critical access111$47$23 – $118
Ownership
For-profit109$45$14 – $204
Government85$38$16 – $70
Non-profit593$40$16 – $104
System affiliation
Part of a system711$38$16 – $107
Independent81$46$16 – $90

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$79
Median cash price$40
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

530 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $46 and the average of the middle 60% is $49; most fall between $18 and $105.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 530 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
$13$22$46$90$181

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $181).

Of the 572 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 530 gave a usable cash price; 26 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

792 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (20%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 834 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted792
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here22
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 — excluded19
Hospitals that filed this code834

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 Hcc Anti-Htlv II-For.

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-2 antibody blood test (CPT 86688) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86688-htlv-2-antibody-blood-test