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Histoplasma antibody blood test

CPT 86698the billing code this page is about

A blood test for antibodies to Histoplasma, a fungus that can cause lung and other infections.

Hospitals typically charge $49 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,855 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $51. Most fall between $20 and $99 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,855
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 2,855 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$24$49$86$153

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $153).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $13: 113 hospitals$10$13 – $18: 243 hospitals$18 – $24: 224 hospitals$18$24 – $33: 322 hospitals$33 – $45: 310 hospitals$33$45 – $62: 408 hospitals$62 – $84: 355 hospitals$62$84 – $115: 307 hospitals$115 – $156: 169 hospitals$115$156 – $213: 120 hospitals$156median $49price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,571 of 2,855 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$13113
$13$18243
$18$24224
$24$33322
$33$45310
$45$62408
$62$84355
$84$115307
$115$156169
$156$213120

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $49.

Alaska: median $55 across 13 hospitalsAK$55Maine: median $42 across 18 hospitalsME$42Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $58 across 20 hospitalsNH$58Washington: median $48 across 52 hospitalsWA$48Idaho: median $49 across 19 hospitalsID$49Montana: median $20 across 15 hospitalsMT$20North Dakota: median $58 across 26 hospitalsND$58Minnesota: median $61 across 101 hospitalsMN$61Illinois: median $63 across 135 hospitalsIL$63Wisconsin: median $67 across 96 hospitalsWI$67Michigan: median $13 across 71 hospitalsMI$13New York: median $31 across 94 hospitalsNY$31Massachusetts: median $72 across 49 hospitalsMA$72Oregon: median $49 across 40 hospitalsOR$49Nevada: median $68 across 16 hospitalsNV$68Wyoming: median $49 across 13 hospitalsWY$49South Dakota: median $67 across 31 hospitalsSD$67Iowa: median $52 across 78 hospitalsIA$52Indiana: median $41 across 96 hospitalsIN$41Ohio: median $53 across 134 hospitalsOH$53Pennsylvania: median $57 across 118 hospitalsPA$57New Jersey: median $16 across 51 hospitalsNJ$16Connecticut: median $61 across 17 hospitalsCT$61Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $17 across 111 hospitalsCA$17Utah: median $50 across 37 hospitalsUT$50Colorado: median $73 across 53 hospitalsCO$73Nebraska: median $109 across 61 hospitalsNE$109Missouri: median $55 across 69 hospitalsMO$55Kentucky: median $41 across 53 hospitalsKY$41West Virginia: median $11 across 34 hospitalsWV$11Virginia: median $63 across 63 hospitalsVA$63Maryland: median $53 across 38 hospitalsMD$53Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $53 across 35 hospitalsAZ$53New Mexico: median $55 across 18 hospitalsNM$55Kansas: median $75 across 72 hospitalsKS$75Arkansas: median $26 across 31 hospitalsAR$26Tennessee: median $35 across 77 hospitalsTN$35North Carolina: median $37 across 78 hospitalsNC$37South Carolina: median $62 across 50 hospitalsSC$62Oklahoma: median $41 across 60 hospitalsOK$41Louisiana: median $36 across 46 hospitalsLA$36Mississippi: median $32 across 51 hospitalsMS$32Alabama: median $44 across 41 hospitalsAL$44Georgia: median $63 across 83 hospitalsGA$63Hawaii: median $78 across 16 hospitalsHI$78Texas: median $52 across 217 hospitalsTX$52Florida: median $21 across 133 hospitalsFL$21
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $49. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Nebraska NE61$109+124%$48 – $152
Hawaii HI16$78+61%$26 – $319
Kansas KS72$75+55%$40 – $123
Colorado CO53$73+50%$27 – $138
Massachusetts MA49$72+48%$31 – $114
Nevada NV16$68+40%$36 – $147
Wisconsin WI96$67+39%$37 – $103
South Dakota SD31$67+38%$55 – $99
Virginia VA63$63+30%$23 – $90
Georgia GA83$63+30%$25 – $113
Illinois IL135$63+30%$31 – $122
South Carolina SC50$62+29%$32 – $85
Minnesota MN101$61+27%$28 – $99
Connecticut CT17$61+26%$41 – $101
New Hampshire NH20$58+20%$15 – $110
North Dakota ND26$58+20%$24 – $83
Pennsylvania PA118$57+18%$21 – $162
Missouri MO69$55+13%$29 – $97
Alaska AK13$55+13%$44 – $108
New Mexico NM18$55+13%$44 – $120
Arizona AZ35$53+9%$22 – $131
Maryland MD38$53+9%$36 – $64
Ohio OH134$53+9%$31 – $77
Iowa IA78$52+8%$35 – $77
Texas TX217$52+7%$16 – $176
Utah UT37$50+4%$43 – $113
Wyoming WY13$49+1%$26 – $75
Idaho ID19$49+1%$14 – $72
Oregon OR40$49+1%$22 – $73
Washington WA52$480%$26 – $81
Alabama AL41$44−9%$23 – $89
Maine ME18$42−14%$26 – $95
Indiana IN96$41−15%$26 – $76
Kentucky KY53$41−15%$27 – $155
Oklahoma OK60$41−15%$19 – $84
North Carolina NC78$37−24%$26 – $77
Louisiana LA46$36−26%$22 – $63
Tennessee TN77$35−28%$21 – $65
Mississippi MS51$32−33%$12 – $63
New York NY94$31−37%$14 – $92
Arkansas AR31$26−47%$16 – $49
Florida FL133$21−57%$9 – $87
Montana MT15$20−58%$16 – $56
California CA111$17−65%$6 – $25
New Jersey NJ51$16−67%$14 – $42
Michigan MI71$13−74%$7 – $29
West Virginia WV34$11−77%$7 – $69
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
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 $49.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,074$43$18 – $94
Children’s56$53$21 – $110
Critical access715$61$30 – $106
Ownership
For-profit396$61$19 – $180
Government477$47$24 – $99
Non-profit1,972$48$20 – $94
System affiliation
Part of a system2,377$48$20 – $99
Independent478$50$22 – $99

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$81
Median cash price$49
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

1,962 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $48 and the average of the middle 60% is $50; most fall between $22 and $94.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,962 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$25$48$83$133

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $133).

Of the 2,162 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,962 gave a usable cash price; 109 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 91 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,855 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (72%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,104 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,855
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 — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded105
Hospitals that filed this code3,104

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 Histoplasmosis Titer.

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, “Histoplasma antibody blood test (CPT 86698) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86698-histoplasma-antibody-blood-test