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HIV-1 antibody blood test

CPT 86701the billing code this page is about

A blood test for antibodies to HIV type 1.

Hospitals typically charge $57 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,735 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $61. Most fall between $24 and $116 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,735
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 2,735 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$30$57$101$183

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $183).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $14: 120 hospitals$10$14 – $19: 161 hospitals$19 – $26: 198 hospitals$19$26 – $37: 275 hospitals$37 – $51: 381 hospitals$37$51 – $71: 341 hospitals$71 – $99: 428 hospitals$71$99 – $138: 276 hospitals$138 – $193: 179 hospitals$138$193 – $269: 113 hospitals$193median $57price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,472 of 2,735 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$14120
$14$19161
$19$26198
$26$37275
$37$51381
$51$71341
$71$99428
$99$138276
$138$193179
$193$269113

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $57.

Alaska: median $106 across 11 hospitalsAK$106Maine: median $38 across 22 hospitalsME$38Vermont: median $79 across 11 hospitalsVT$79New Hampshire: median $62 across 21 hospitalsNH$62Washington: median $62 across 54 hospitalsWA$62Idaho: median $48 across 19 hospitalsID$48Montana: median $83 across 23 hospitalsMT$83North Dakota: median $38 across 18 hospitalsND$38Minnesota: median $74 across 89 hospitalsMN$74Illinois: median $75 across 122 hospitalsIL$75Wisconsin: median $64 across 97 hospitalsWI$64Michigan: median $39 across 70 hospitalsMI$39New York: median $28 across 96 hospitalsNY$28Massachusetts: median $46 across 47 hospitalsMA$46Oregon: median $46 across 41 hospitalsOR$46Nevada: median $47 across 19 hospitalsNV$47Wyoming: median $80 across 11 hospitalsWY$80South Dakota: median $66 across 21 hospitalsSD$66Iowa: median $49 across 57 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $41 across 85 hospitalsIN$41Ohio: median $66 across 121 hospitalsOH$66Pennsylvania: median $40 across 111 hospitalsPA$40New Jersey: median $10 across 49 hospitalsNJ$10Connecticut: median $37 across 21 hospitalsCT$37Rhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $35 across 133 hospitalsCA$35Utah: median $68 across 35 hospitalsUT$68Colorado: median $77 across 59 hospitalsCO$77Nebraska: median $99 across 55 hospitalsNE$99Missouri: median $47 across 65 hospitalsMO$47Kentucky: median $126 across 57 hospitalsKY$126West Virginia: median $36 across 32 hospitalsWV$36Virginia: median $73 across 72 hospitalsVA$73Maryland: median $66 across 34 hospitalsMD$66Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $62 across 35 hospitalsAZ$62New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $70 across 50 hospitalsKS$70Arkansas: median $15 across 30 hospitalsAR$15Tennessee: median $41 across 69 hospitalsTN$41North Carolina: median $68 across 76 hospitalsNC$68South Carolina: median $100 across 49 hospitalsSC$100Oklahoma: median $36 across 61 hospitalsOK$36Louisiana: median $36 across 45 hospitalsLA$36Mississippi: median $27 across 38 hospitalsMS$27Alabama: median $35 across 30 hospitalsAL$35Georgia: median $124 across 87 hospitalsGA$124Hawaii: median $56 across 15 hospitalsHI$56Texas: median $94 across 209 hospitalsTX$94Florida: median $26 across 146 hospitalsFL$26
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $57. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY57$126+120%$27 – $224
Georgia GA87$124+117%$34 – $196
Alaska AK11$106+85%$45 – $139
South Carolina SC49$100+75%$69 – $175
Nebraska NE55$99+73%$27 – $129
Texas TX209$94+64%$34 – $224
Montana MT23$83+44%$49 – $110
Wyoming WY11$80+40%$32 – $90
Vermont VT11$79+38%$67 – $149
Colorado CO59$77+35%$37 – $140
Illinois IL122$75+30%$38 – $157
Minnesota MN89$74+29%$36 – $89
Virginia VA72$73+28%$46 – $136
Kansas KS50$70+23%$47 – $104
North Carolina NC76$68+19%$25 – $109
Utah UT35$68+18%$59 – $80
Maryland MD34$66+16%$45 – $81
Ohio OH121$66+15%$38 – $257
South Dakota SD21$66+15%$48 – $78
Wisconsin WI97$64+11%$38 – $101
New Hampshire NH21$62+9%$42 – $121
Washington WA54$62+9%$44 – $143
Arizona AZ35$62+8%$26 – $182
Hawaii HI15$56−1%$45 – $68
Iowa IA57$49−15%$32 – $104
Idaho ID19$48−16%$39 – $70
Missouri MO65$47−17%$34 – $90
Nevada NV19$47−18%$22 – $181
Massachusetts MA47$46−20%$25 – $92
Oregon OR41$46−20%$36 – $121
Indiana IN85$41−29%$21 – $86
Tennessee TN69$41−29%$16 – $115
Pennsylvania PA111$40−30%$13 – $105
Michigan MI70$39−32%$17 – $64
North Dakota ND18$38−33%$15 – $61
Maine ME22$38−33%$20 – $84
Connecticut CT21$37−35%$24 – $91
Louisiana LA45$36−37%$20 – $74
Oklahoma OK61$36−37%$20 – $75
West Virginia WV32$36−38%$21 – $83
California CA133$35−38%$12 – $93
Alabama AL30$35−39%$18 – $94
New York NY96$28−51%$13 – $108
Mississippi MS38$27−53%$18 – $60
Florida FL146$26−55%$9 – $130
Arkansas AR30$15−74%$12 – $79
New Jersey NJ49$10−82%$9 – $61
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not 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 $57.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,026$54$21 – $121
Children’s45$75$52 – $130
Critical access654$66$32 – $109
Ownership
For-profit372$83$25 – $265
Government437$60$25 – $110
Non-profit1,916$55$24 – $108
System affiliation
Part of a system2,293$58$24 – $120
Independent442$56$26 – $110

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$96
Median cash price$57
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. 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

1,894 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $58 and the average of the middle 60% is $62; most fall between $27 and $113.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,894 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$32$58$100$175

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($16 vs $175).

Of the 2,087 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,894 gave a usable cash price; 103 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 90 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,735 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (69%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,979 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,735
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) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded112
Hospitals that filed this code2,979

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 Hiv Type 1 Ab Diff.

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, “HIV-1 antibody blood test (CPT 86701) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86701-hiv-1-antibody-blood-test