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Confirmation test for HTLV or HIV antibodies

CPT 86689the billing code this page is about

A follow-up blood test, such as a western blot, that confirms a positive antibody screening result for HTLV or HIV.

Hospitals typically charge $111 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,180 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $118. Most fall between $48 and $218 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,180
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 2,180 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
$30$58$111$189$320

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($30 vs $320).

How the prices are spread

$21 – $29: 98 hospitals$21$29 – $39: 133 hospitals$39 – $54: 165 hospitals$39$54 – $73: 202 hospitals$73 – $99: 255 hospitals$73$99 – $135: 335 hospitals$135 – $184: 307 hospitals$135$184 – $250: 252 hospitals$250 – $341: 135 hospitals$250$341 – $463: 82 hospitals$341median $111price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,964 of 2,180 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$21$2998
$29$39133
$39$54165
$54$73202
$73$99255
$99$135335
$135$184307
$184$250252
$250$341135
$341$46382

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $111.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $83 across 12 hospitalsME$83Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $123 across 11 hospitalsNH$123Washington: median $96 across 43 hospitalsWA$96Idaho: median $101 across 16 hospitalsID$101Montana: median $149 across 12 hospitalsMT$149North Dakota: median $60 across 17 hospitalsND$60Minnesota: median $147 across 45 hospitalsMN$147Illinois: median $130 across 108 hospitalsIL$130Wisconsin: median $110 across 76 hospitalsWI$110Michigan: median $76 across 72 hospitalsMI$76New York: median $79 across 80 hospitalsNY$79Massachusetts: median $134 across 29 hospitalsMA$134Oregon: median $108 across 32 hospitalsOR$108Nevada: median $95 across 13 hospitalsNV$95Wyoming: median $198 across 15 hospitalsWY$198South Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $83 across 41 hospitalsIA$83Indiana: median $90 across 59 hospitalsIN$90Ohio: median $147 across 115 hospitalsOH$147Pennsylvania: median $81 across 78 hospitalsPA$81New Jersey: median $21 across 43 hospitalsNJ$21Connecticut: median $81 across 12 hospitalsCT$81Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $48 across 103 hospitalsCA$48Utah: median $320 across 37 hospitalsUT$320Colorado: median $181 across 53 hospitalsCO$181Nebraska: median $217 across 46 hospitalsNE$217Missouri: median $101 across 58 hospitalsMO$101Kentucky: median $105 across 43 hospitalsKY$105West Virginia: median $72 across 15 hospitalsWV$72Virginia: median $67 across 38 hospitalsVA$67Maryland: median $204 across 29 hospitalsMD$204Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $177 across 35 hospitalsAZ$177New Mexico: median $104 across 14 hospitalsNM$104Kansas: median $160 across 33 hospitalsKS$160Arkansas: median $65 across 21 hospitalsAR$65Tennessee: median $82 across 45 hospitalsTN$82North Carolina: median $112 across 68 hospitalsNC$112South Carolina: median $153 across 32 hospitalsSC$153Oklahoma: median $101 across 56 hospitalsOK$101Louisiana: median $65 across 39 hospitalsLA$65Mississippi: median $89 across 40 hospitalsMS$89Alabama: median $110 across 26 hospitalsAL$110Georgia: median $154 across 87 hospitalsGA$154Hawaii: median $122 across 11 hospitalsHI$122Texas: median $128 across 177 hospitalsTX$128Florida: median $70 across 107 hospitalsFL$70
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $111. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT37$320+188%$132 – $377
Nebraska NE46$217+95%$93 – $319
Maryland MD29$204+83%$125 – $235
Wyoming WY15$198+78%$134 – $256
Colorado CO53$181+63%$111 – $266
Arizona AZ35$177+59%$67 – $279
Kansas KS33$160+44%$77 – $352
Georgia GA87$154+38%$83 – $201
South Carolina SC32$153+37%$104 – $229
Montana MT12$149+34%$94 – $183
Minnesota MN45$147+32%$101 – $238
Ohio OH115$147+32%$66 – $230
Massachusetts MA29$134+20%$48 – $219
Illinois IL108$130+17%$62 – $246
Texas TX177$128+15%$59 – $289
New Hampshire NH11$123+11%$90 – $221
Hawaii HI11$122+9%$74 – $202
North Carolina NC68$1120%$101 – $155
Wisconsin WI76$110−1%$68 – $114
Alabama AL26$110−2%$44 – $206
Oregon OR32$108−3%$75 – $136
Kentucky KY43$105−5%$58 – $212
New Mexico NM14$104−7%$76 – $363
Missouri MO58$101−9%$42 – $165
Oklahoma OK56$101−9%$64 – $160
Idaho ID16$101−9%$101 – $203
Washington WA43$96−14%$57 – $169
Nevada NV13$95−15%$19 – $272
Indiana IN59$90−19%$35 – $212
Mississippi MS40$89−20%$27 – $132
Maine ME12$83−25%$37 – $105
Iowa IA41$83−26%$49 – $179
Tennessee TN45$82−26%$34 – $141
Pennsylvania PA78$81−27%$22 – $183
Connecticut CT12$81−27%$63 – $103
New York NY80$79−29%$23 – $202
Michigan MI72$76−32%$50 – $187
West Virginia WV15$72−35%$69 – $105
Florida FL107$70−37%$26 – $186
Virginia VA38$67−40%$43 – $225
Arkansas AR21$65−41%$46 – $111
Louisiana LA39$65−42%$35 – $132
North Dakota ND17$60−46%$34 – $119
California CA103$48−57%$27 – $126
New Jersey NJ43$21−81%$19 – $279
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $111.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,659$105$45 – $207
Children’s55$148$74 – $227
Critical access458$134$70 – $238
Ownership
For-profit298$145$58 – $414
Government340$115$53 – $201
Non-profit1,534$107$48 – $207
System affiliation
Part of a system1,827$111$48 – $220
Independent353$118$57 – $208

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$188
Median cash price$111
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

1,499 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $113 and the average of the middle 60% is $119; most fall between $50 and $204.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,499 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
$34$59$113$183$298

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($34 vs $298).

Of the 1,680 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,499 gave a usable cash price; 99 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 82 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,180 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (55%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,400 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,180
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here130
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded90
Hospitals that filed this code2,400

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 Htlv or Hiv Ab, Confirm-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, “Confirmation test for HTLV or HIV antibodies (CPT 86689) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86689-confirmation-test-for-htlv-or-hiv-antibodies