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Blood test for hepatitis B core antibody, total

CPT 86704the billing code this page is about

A blood test measuring all classes of antibody against the hepatitis B core, which indicates past or current infection with the virus.

Hospitals typically charge $62 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,337 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $65. Most fall between $25 and $119 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,337
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 3,337 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$31$62$102$168

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $168).

How the prices are spread

$9 – $13: 124 hospitals$9$13 – $18: 178 hospitals$18 – $25: 179 hospitals$18$25 – $34: 268 hospitals$34 – $47: 338 hospitals$34$47 – $65: 509 hospitals$65 – $90: 531 hospitals$65$90 – $125: 431 hospitals$125 – $173: 313 hospitals$125$173 – $240: 135 hospitals$173median $62price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,006 of 3,337 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$9$13124
$13$18178
$18$25179
$25$34268
$34$47338
$47$65509
$65$90531
$90$125431
$125$173313
$173$240135

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $62.

Alaska: median $77 across 18 hospitalsAK$77Maine: median $62 across 27 hospitalsME$62Vermont: median $67 across 14 hospitalsVT$67New Hampshire: median $71 across 25 hospitalsNH$71Washington: median $65 across 77 hospitalsWA$65Idaho: median $51 across 25 hospitalsID$51Montana: median $83 across 30 hospitalsMT$83North Dakota: median $73 across 32 hospitalsND$73Minnesota: median $66 across 104 hospitalsMN$66Illinois: median $88 across 144 hospitalsIL$88Wisconsin: median $81 across 107 hospitalsWI$81Michigan: median $41 across 96 hospitalsMI$41New York: median $32 across 117 hospitalsNY$32Massachusetts: median $86 across 53 hospitalsMA$86Oregon: median $66 across 50 hospitalsOR$66Nevada: median $62 across 20 hospitalsNV$62Wyoming: median $49 across 16 hospitalsWY$49South Dakota: median $96 across 40 hospitalsSD$96Iowa: median $69 across 88 hospitalsIA$69Indiana: median $52 across 97 hospitalsIN$52Ohio: median $54 across 141 hospitalsOH$54Pennsylvania: median $67 across 122 hospitalsPA$67New Jersey: median $14 across 56 hospitalsNJ$14Connecticut: median $58 across 23 hospitalsCT$58Rhode Island: median $98 across 10 hospitalsRI$98California: median $24 across 152 hospitalsCA$24Utah: median $67 across 40 hospitalsUT$67Colorado: median $69 across 68 hospitalsCO$69Nebraska: median $107 across 79 hospitalsNE$107Missouri: median $59 across 77 hospitalsMO$59Kentucky: median $70 across 68 hospitalsKY$70West Virginia: median $55 across 42 hospitalsWV$55Virginia: median $71 across 73 hospitalsVA$71Maryland: median $53 across 40 hospitalsMD$53Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $81 across 42 hospitalsAZ$81New Mexico: median $50 across 28 hospitalsNM$50Kansas: median $65 across 84 hospitalsKS$65Arkansas: median $15 across 38 hospitalsAR$15Tennessee: median $35 across 81 hospitalsTN$35North Carolina: median $65 across 88 hospitalsNC$65South Carolina: median $73 across 52 hospitalsSC$73Oklahoma: median $50 across 72 hospitalsOK$50Louisiana: median $42 across 51 hospitalsLA$42Mississippi: median $37 across 56 hospitalsMS$37Alabama: median $58 across 44 hospitalsAL$58Georgia: median $76 across 107 hospitalsGA$76Hawaii: median $70 across 20 hospitalsHI$70Texas: median $71 across 247 hospitalsTX$71Florida: median $35 across 151 hospitalsFL$35
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $62. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Nebraska NE79$107+73%$44 – $157
Rhode Island RI10$98+58%$45 – $105
South Dakota SD40$96+55%$52 – $165
Illinois IL144$88+42%$41 – $163
Massachusetts MA53$86+39%$49 – $140
Montana MT30$83+34%$42 – $92
Arizona AZ42$81+31%$20 – $167
Wisconsin WI107$81+31%$58 – $110
Alaska AK18$77+24%$19 – $153
Georgia GA107$76+23%$42 – $133
North Dakota ND32$73+18%$23 – $95
South Carolina SC52$73+17%$48 – $100
Texas TX247$71+15%$25 – $236
Virginia VA73$71+15%$50 – $157
New Hampshire NH25$71+15%$39 – $148
Hawaii HI20$70+13%$30 – $124
Kentucky KY68$70+13%$30 – $152
Colorado CO68$69+11%$26 – $109
Iowa IA88$69+11%$49 – $97
Utah UT40$67+9%$57 – $114
Vermont VT14$67+9%$32 – $121
Pennsylvania PA122$67+8%$19 – $161
Minnesota MN104$66+7%$25 – $104
Oregon OR50$66+6%$37 – $75
Washington WA77$65+5%$34 – $106
North Carolina NC88$65+5%$16 – $125
Kansas KS84$65+5%$46 – $100
Nevada NV20$62+1%$16 – $153
Maine ME27$62−1%$34 – $133
Missouri MO77$59−5%$31 – $104
Alabama AL44$58−6%$19 – $150
Connecticut CT23$58−7%$45 – $100
West Virginia WV42$55−12%$17 – $102
Ohio OH141$54−13%$29 – $89
Maryland MD40$53−15%$40 – $65
Indiana IN97$52−17%$28 – $97
Idaho ID25$51−18%$46 – $89
New Mexico NM28$50−19%$34 – $91
Oklahoma OK72$50−19%$24 – $80
Wyoming WY16$49−20%$38 – $95
Louisiana LA51$42−33%$21 – $91
Michigan MI96$41−34%$31 – $85
Mississippi MS56$37−41%$19 – $63
Florida FL151$35−44%$10 – $124
Tennessee TN81$35−44%$21 – $79
New York NY117$32−48%$14 – $91
California CA152$24−61%$6 – $125
Arkansas AR38$15−76%$11 – $43
New Jersey NJ56$14−78%$12 – $41
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 $62.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,297$58$21 – $119
Children’s63$69$23 – $117
Critical access967$70$38 – $120
Ownership
For-profit459$79$25 – $236
Government626$64$29 – $113
Non-profit2,242$59$25 – $108
System affiliation
Part of a system2,704$62$25 – $123
Independent633$61$27 – $103

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$102
Median cash price$62
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

2,242 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $62 and the average of the middle 60% is $65; most fall between $27 and $117.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,242 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
$15$32$62$101$162

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $162).

Of the 2,462 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,242 gave a usable cash price; 118 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 102 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,337 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (84%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,620 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,337
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here160
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded122
Hospitals that filed this code3,620

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 Hep B Core Ab Nat.

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 hepatitis B core antibody, total (CPT 86704) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86704-blood-test-for-hepatitis-b-core-antibody-total