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Blood test for HIV-2 antibodies

CPT 86702the billing code this page is about

A blood test that looks for antibodies to HIV-2, one of the two types of the human immunodeficiency virus.

Hospitals typically charge $67 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,554 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $71. Most fall between $29 and $135 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,554
States
50
Filings dated
Nov 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 2,554 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
$18$36$67$113$201

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $201).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $18: 129 hospitals$14$18 – $25: 166 hospitals$25 – $34: 176 hospitals$25$34 – $46: 245 hospitals$46 – $62: 357 hospitals$46$62 – $84: 334 hospitals$84 – $114: 399 hospitals$84$114 – $155: 210 hospitals$155 – $210: 178 hospitals$155$210 – $285: 111 hospitals$210median $67price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,305 of 2,554 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$18129
$18$25166
$25$34176
$34$46245
$46$62357
$62$84334
$84$114399
$114$155210
$155$210178
$210$285111

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $67.

Alaska: median $93 across 13 hospitalsAK$93Maine: median $43 across 19 hospitalsME$43Vermont: median $165 across 13 hospitalsVT$165New Hampshire: median $84 across 21 hospitalsNH$84Washington: median $71 across 52 hospitalsWA$71Idaho: median $60 across 17 hospitalsID$60Montana: median $125 across 24 hospitalsMT$125North Dakota: median $63 across 19 hospitalsND$63Minnesota: median $84 across 79 hospitalsMN$84Illinois: median $80 across 104 hospitalsIL$80Wisconsin: median $78 across 97 hospitalsWI$78Michigan: median $55 across 62 hospitalsMI$55New York: median $41 across 93 hospitalsNY$41Massachusetts: median $67 across 43 hospitalsMA$67Oregon: median $53 across 42 hospitalsOR$53Nevada: median $67 across 13 hospitalsNV$67Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $84 across 21 hospitalsSD$84Iowa: median $57 across 51 hospitalsIA$57Indiana: median $49 across 85 hospitalsIN$49Ohio: median $60 across 100 hospitalsOH$60Pennsylvania: median $62 across 110 hospitalsPA$62New Jersey: median $16 across 47 hospitalsNJ$16Connecticut: median $56 across 21 hospitalsCT$56Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $50 across 128 hospitalsCA$50Utah: median $269 across 33 hospitalsUT$269Colorado: median $63 across 53 hospitalsCO$63Nebraska: median $92 across 46 hospitalsNE$92Missouri: median $60 across 62 hospitalsMO$60Kentucky: median $103 across 49 hospitalsKY$103West Virginia: median $52 across 32 hospitalsWV$52Virginia: median $88 across 69 hospitalsVA$88Maryland: median $82 across 38 hospitalsMD$82Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $92 across 30 hospitalsAZ$92New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $82 across 43 hospitalsKS$82Arkansas: median $27 across 27 hospitalsAR$27Tennessee: median $39 across 71 hospitalsTN$39North Carolina: median $73 across 77 hospitalsNC$73South Carolina: median $135 across 45 hospitalsSC$135Oklahoma: median $46 across 53 hospitalsOK$46Louisiana: median $36 across 39 hospitalsLA$36Mississippi: median $36 across 38 hospitalsMS$36Alabama: median $34 across 28 hospitalsAL$34Georgia: median $105 across 81 hospitalsGA$105Hawaii: median $86 across 15 hospitalsHI$86Texas: median $103 across 184 hospitalsTX$103Florida: median $44 across 139 hospitalsFL$44
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $67. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT33$269+300%$146 – $317
Vermont VT13$165+145%$70 – $226
South Carolina SC45$135+101%$71 – $149
Montana MT24$125+86%$70 – $148
Georgia GA81$105+56%$35 – $176
Kentucky KY49$103+53%$35 – $224
Texas TX184$103+53%$39 – $224
Alaska AK13$93+39%$70 – $144
Arizona AZ30$92+37%$32 – $134
Nebraska NE46$92+37%$59 – $165
Virginia VA69$88+30%$52 – $167
Hawaii HI15$86+28%$49 – $90
Minnesota MN79$84+25%$46 – $138
South Dakota SD21$84+25%$62 – $135
New Hampshire NH21$84+24%$44 – $173
Maryland MD38$82+23%$66 – $107
Kansas KS43$82+22%$52 – $151
Illinois IL104$80+19%$43 – $181
Wisconsin WI97$78+16%$50 – $145
North Carolina NC77$73+8%$43 – $115
Washington WA52$71+6%$52 – $149
Massachusetts MA43$670%$33 – $114
Nevada NV13$67−1%$16 – $169
North Dakota ND19$63−6%$24 – $130
Colorado CO53$63−6%$41 – $140
Pennsylvania PA110$62−8%$16 – $149
Ohio OH100$60−10%$46 – $88
Idaho ID17$60−11%$54 – $120
Missouri MO62$60−11%$38 – $102
Iowa IA51$57−15%$46 – $95
Connecticut CT21$56−17%$25 – $95
Michigan MI62$55−18%$19 – $75
Oregon OR42$53−21%$38 – $90
West Virginia WV32$52−23%$33 – $102
California CA128$50−26%$14 – $91
Indiana IN85$49−28%$30 – $87
Oklahoma OK53$46−32%$26 – $95
Florida FL139$44−34%$14 – $113
Maine ME19$43−36%$24 – $111
New York NY93$41−39%$16 – $114
Tennessee TN71$39−42%$18 – $126
Mississippi MS38$36−47%$18 – $106
Louisiana LA39$36−47%$25 – $61
Alabama AL28$34−50%$21 – $175
Arkansas AR27$27−60%$17 – $87
New Jersey NJ47$16−77%$14 – $43
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not 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 $67.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,924$65$27 – $134
Children’s39$97$41 – $190
Critical access581$73$38 – $140
Ownership
For-profit342$90$39 – $224
Government391$65$32 – $126
Non-profit1,811$66$29 – $125
System affiliation
Part of a system2,154$69$29 – $140
Independent400$62$33 – $119

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$108
Median cash price$67
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

1,785 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $71 and the average of the middle 60% is $73; most fall between $34 and $134.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,785 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
$22$40$71$108$186

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $186).

Of the 1,968 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,785 gave a usable cash price; 100 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 83 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,554 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (65%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,779 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,554
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here124
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 — excluded99
Hospitals that filed this code2,779

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 2 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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Blood test for HIV-2 antibodies (CPT 86702) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86702-blood-test-for-hiv-2-antibodies