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Blood test for HIV-1 and HIV-2 antibodies, one result

CPT 86703the billing code this page is about

A blood test that checks for antibodies to both HIV-1 and HIV-2 and reports them as a single combined result.

Hospitals typically charge $68 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,364 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $71. Most fall between $28 and $125 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,364
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 2,364 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$34$68$115$174

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($16 vs $174).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $16: 133 hospitals$12$16 – $22: 116 hospitals$22 – $31: 144 hospitals$22$31 – $42: 213 hospitals$42 – $57: 283 hospitals$42$57 – $79: 326 hospitals$79 – $107: 332 hospitals$79$107 – $147: 362 hospitals$147 – $201: 151 hospitals$147$201 – $275: 68 hospitals$201median $68price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,128 of 2,364 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$16133
$16$22116
$22$31144
$31$42213
$42$57283
$57$79326
$79$107332
$107$147362
$147$201151
$201$27568

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $68.

Alaska: median $171 across 14 hospitalsAK$171Maine: median $35 across 21 hospitalsME$35Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $72 across 57 hospitalsWA$72Idaho: median $46 across 17 hospitalsID$46Montana: median $77 across 30 hospitalsMT$77North Dakota: median $79 across 21 hospitalsND$79Minnesota: median $67 across 56 hospitalsMN$67Illinois: median $118 across 111 hospitalsIL$118Wisconsin: median $76 across 73 hospitalsWI$76Michigan: median $47 across 65 hospitalsMI$47New York: median $45 across 97 hospitalsNY$45Massachusetts: median $72 across 30 hospitalsMA$72Oregon: median $66 across 43 hospitalsOR$66Nevada: median $71 across 19 hospitalsNV$71Wyoming: median $65 across 12 hospitalsWY$65South Dakota: median $108 across 15 hospitalsSD$108Iowa: median $49 across 48 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $55 across 67 hospitalsIN$55Ohio: median $62 across 120 hospitalsOH$62Pennsylvania: median $58 across 79 hospitalsPA$58New Jersey: median $16 across 55 hospitalsNJ$16Connecticut: median $58 across 13 hospitalsCT$58Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $57 across 133 hospitalsCA$57Utah: median $110 across 39 hospitalsUT$110Colorado: median $93 across 62 hospitalsCO$93Nebraska: median $78 across 51 hospitalsNE$78Missouri: median $107 across 46 hospitalsMO$107Kentucky: median $77 across 37 hospitalsKY$77West Virginia: median $57 across 27 hospitalsWV$57Virginia: median $102 across 29 hospitalsVA$102Maryland: median $62 across 30 hospitalsMD$62Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $74 across 30 hospitalsAZ$74New Mexico: median $49 across 14 hospitalsNM$49Kansas: median $82 across 47 hospitalsKS$82Arkansas: median $88 across 21 hospitalsAR$88Tennessee: median $38 across 40 hospitalsTN$38North Carolina: median $75 across 60 hospitalsNC$75South Carolina: median $88 across 47 hospitalsSC$88Oklahoma: median $46 across 54 hospitalsOK$46Louisiana: median $37 across 37 hospitalsLA$37Mississippi: median $38 across 39 hospitalsMS$38Alabama: median $48 across 23 hospitalsAL$48Georgia: median $73 across 73 hospitalsGA$73Hawaii: median $62 across 16 hospitalsHI$62Texas: median $82 across 200 hospitalsTX$82Florida: median $34 across 113 hospitalsFL$34
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $68. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK14$171+151%$85 – $254
Illinois IL111$118+73%$55 – $164
Utah UT39$110+61%$102 – $129
South Dakota SD15$108+58%$51 – $114
Missouri MO46$107+56%$32 – $158
Virginia VA29$102+50%$24 – $137
Colorado CO62$93+36%$47 – $126
South Carolina SC47$88+29%$75 – $160
Arkansas AR21$88+29%$27 – $111
Kansas KS47$82+20%$51 – $134
Texas TX200$82+20%$11 – $209
North Dakota ND21$79+16%$67 – $98
Nebraska NE51$78+14%$29 – $112
Kentucky KY37$77+14%$43 – $300
Montana MT30$77+13%$63 – $119
Wisconsin WI73$76+11%$56 – $103
North Carolina NC60$75+10%$35 – $102
Arizona AZ30$74+9%$18 – $298
Georgia GA73$73+7%$45 – $123
Massachusetts MA30$72+6%$32 – $116
Washington WA57$72+6%$49 – $119
Nevada NV19$71+4%$25 – $182
Minnesota MN56$67−2%$45 – $101
Oregon OR43$66−3%$55 – $88
Wyoming WY12$65−5%$32 – $118
Maryland MD30$62−8%$50 – $80
Hawaii HI16$62−8%$53 – $83
Ohio OH120$62−9%$31 – $100
Connecticut CT13$58−14%$35 – $74
Pennsylvania PA79$58−16%$16 – $137
California CA133$57−17%$26 – $172
West Virginia WV27$57−17%$24 – $118
Indiana IN67$55−20%$22 – $97
New Mexico NM14$49−28%$44 – $109
Iowa IA48$49−29%$39 – $86
Alabama AL23$48−30%$17 – $92
Michigan MI65$47−31%$22 – $80
Idaho ID17$46−32%$45 – $110
Oklahoma OK54$46−33%$21 – $106
New York NY97$45−34%$20 – $131
Mississippi MS39$38−44%$22 – $70
Tennessee TN40$38−45%$24 – $90
Louisiana LA37$37−46%$17 – $70
Maine ME21$35−49%$22 – $116
Florida FL113$34−50%$11 – $147
New Jersey NJ55$16−77%$15 – $41
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not 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 $68.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,716$62$24 – $126
Children’s57$90$27 – $132
Critical access582$81$44 – $122
Ownership
For-profit325$90$28 – $256
Government371$69$30 – $126
Non-profit1,659$66$28 – $119
System affiliation
Part of a system1,958$67$27 – $124
Independent406$74$35 – $132

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$116
Median cash price$68
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

1,616 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $67 and the average of the middle 60% is $70; most fall between $31 and $123.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,616 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$35$67$112$167

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $167).

Of the 1,784 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,616 gave a usable cash price; 86 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

2,364 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (60%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,584 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,364
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) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded96
Hospitals that filed this code2,584

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 PR Occ Hlth Lab - Hiv 1/2 Ag/Ab, 4w/Rfl.

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, “Blood test for HIV-1 and HIV-2 antibodies, one result (CPT 86703) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86703-blood-test-for-hiv-1-and-hiv-2-antibodies-one-result