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Herpes simplex antibody test, type not distinguished

CPT 86694the billing code this page is about

A blood test for herpes simplex virus antibodies that does not separate type 1 from type 2.

Hospitals typically charge $58 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,427 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $60. Most fall between $21 and $116 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,427
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 2,427 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$26$58$100$173

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $173).

How the prices are spread

$11 – $15: 145 hospitals$11$15 – $21: 216 hospitals$21 – $28: 163 hospitals$21$28 – $38: 205 hospitals$38 – $51: 266 hospitals$38$51 – $69: 319 hospitals$69 – $93: 319 hospitals$69$93 – $126: 257 hospitals$126 – $170: 174 hospitals$126$170 – $230: 124 hospitals$170median $58price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,188 of 2,427 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$11$15145
$15$21216
$21$28163
$28$38205
$38$51266
$51$69319
$69$93319
$93$126257
$126$170174
$170$230124

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $58.

Alaska: median $55 across 11 hospitalsAK$55Maine: median $61 across 13 hospitalsME$61Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $46 across 17 hospitalsNH$46Washington: median $75 across 55 hospitalsWA$75Idaho: median $46 across 20 hospitalsID$46Montana: median $59 across 16 hospitalsMT$59North Dakota: median $74 across 25 hospitalsND$74Minnesota: median $91 across 39 hospitalsMN$91Illinois: median $83 across 109 hospitalsIL$83Wisconsin: median $65 across 78 hospitalsWI$65Michigan: median $33 across 49 hospitalsMI$33New York: median $35 across 95 hospitalsNY$35Massachusetts: median $65 across 34 hospitalsMA$65Oregon: median $53 across 35 hospitalsOR$53Nevada: median $71 across 19 hospitalsNV$71Wyoming: median $52 across 12 hospitalsWY$52South Dakota: median $133 across 17 hospitalsSD$133Iowa: median $61 across 58 hospitalsIA$61Indiana: median $41 across 73 hospitalsIN$41Ohio: median $64 across 120 hospitalsOH$64Pennsylvania: median $61 across 98 hospitalsPA$61New Jersey: median $17 across 50 hospitalsNJ$17Connecticut: median $63 across 12 hospitalsCT$63Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $19 across 91 hospitalsCA$19Utah: median $62 across 38 hospitalsUT$62Colorado: median $92 across 56 hospitalsCO$92Nebraska: median $93 across 59 hospitalsNE$93Missouri: median $61 across 54 hospitalsMO$61Kentucky: median $70 across 50 hospitalsKY$70West Virginia: median $48 across 29 hospitalsWV$48Virginia: median $80 across 49 hospitalsVA$80Maryland: median $69 across 35 hospitalsMD$69Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $42 across 28 hospitalsAZ$42New Mexico: median $96 across 22 hospitalsNM$96Kansas: median $75 across 49 hospitalsKS$75Arkansas: median $44 across 23 hospitalsAR$44Tennessee: median $30 across 56 hospitalsTN$30North Carolina: median $64 across 79 hospitalsNC$64South Carolina: median $137 across 43 hospitalsSC$137Oklahoma: median $40 across 60 hospitalsOK$40Louisiana: median $27 across 45 hospitalsLA$27Mississippi: median $49 across 46 hospitalsMS$49Alabama: median $47 across 31 hospitalsAL$47Georgia: median $40 across 85 hospitalsGA$40Hawaii: median $72 across 12 hospitalsHI$72Texas: median $36 across 191 hospitalsTX$36Florida: median $19 across 120 hospitalsFL$19
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $58. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC43$137+137%$54 – $145
South Dakota SD17$133+129%$32 – $215
New Mexico NM22$96+66%$59 – $230
Nebraska NE59$93+61%$37 – $146
Colorado CO56$92+59%$40 – $127
Minnesota MN39$91+57%$48 – $155
Illinois IL109$83+43%$46 – $152
Virginia VA49$80+39%$43 – $127
Washington WA55$75+30%$44 – $115
Kansas KS49$75+29%$40 – $152
North Dakota ND25$74+28%$25 – $110
Hawaii HI12$72+25%$72 – $122
Nevada NV19$71+22%$21 – $108
Kentucky KY50$70+21%$38 – $146
Maryland MD35$69+19%$54 – $80
Massachusetts MA34$65+13%$36 – $128
Wisconsin WI78$65+12%$40 – $101
North Carolina NC79$64+11%$18 – $111
Ohio OH120$64+11%$32 – $122
Connecticut CT12$63+9%$53 – $81
Utah UT38$62+7%$53 – $145
Pennsylvania PA98$61+6%$17 – $169
Missouri MO54$61+6%$31 – $115
Maine ME13$61+6%$29 – $85
Iowa IA58$61+5%$46 – $104
Montana MT16$59+2%$29 – $75
Alaska AK11$55−6%$16 – $115
Oregon OR35$53−9%$19 – $76
Wyoming WY12$52−10%$33 – $64
Mississippi MS46$49−15%$25 – $93
West Virginia WV29$48−17%$11 – $80
Alabama AL31$47−19%$18 – $111
New Hampshire NH17$46−20%$14 – $112
Idaho ID20$46−20%$14 – $79
Arkansas AR23$44−24%$17 – $79
Arizona AZ28$42−27%$15 – $161
Indiana IN73$41−28%$21 – $98
Georgia GA85$40−30%$29 – $103
Oklahoma OK60$40−31%$24 – $83
Texas TX191$36−38%$16 – $116
New York NY95$35−40%$15 – $98
Michigan MI49$33−43%$14 – $88
Tennessee TN56$30−48%$23 – $80
Louisiana LA45$27−53%$13 – $60
Florida FL120$19−67%$7 – $77
California CA91$19−68%$8 – $72
New Jersey NJ50$17−71%$14 – $98
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $58.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,784$51$19 – $107
Children’s45$57$18 – $148
Critical access588$74$34 – $125
Ownership
For-profit344$65$19 – $176
Government419$61$23 – $122
Non-profit1,654$54$22 – $108
System affiliation
Part of a system1,992$57$20 – $117
Independent435$60$26 – $104

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$96
Median cash price$58
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

1,684 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $60 and the average of the middle 60% is $61; most fall between $24 and $116.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,684 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
$16$30$60$101$162

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($16 vs $162).

Of the 1,867 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,684 gave a usable cash price; 98 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

2,427 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (61%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,658 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,427
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here131
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 — excluded98
Hospitals that filed this code2,658

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 July 20, 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 Hsv Ab, Igm Reflex by Ifa.

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, “Herpes simplex antibody test, type not distinguished (CPT 86694) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86694-herpes-simplex-antibody-test-type-not-distinguished