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Blood test for hepatitis B surface antibody

CPT 86706the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures antibody to the hepatitis B surface antigen, which is present after vaccination or recovery from infection.

Hospitals typically charge $60 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,312 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $63. Most fall between $25 and $117 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,312
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 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 3,312 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
$13$31$60$102$171

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $171).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $14: 209 hospitals$10$14 – $19: 125 hospitals$19 – $26: 187 hospitals$19$26 – $36: 279 hospitals$36 – $49: 448 hospitals$36$49 – $67: 393 hospitals$67 – $92: 534 hospitals$67$92 – $127: 384 hospitals$127 – $174: 278 hospitals$127$174 – $239: 145 hospitals$174median $60price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,982 of 3,312 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$14209
$14$19125
$19$26187
$26$36279
$36$49448
$49$67393
$67$92534
$92$127384
$127$174278
$174$239145

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $60.

Alaska: median $92 across 19 hospitalsAK$92Maine: median $52 across 26 hospitalsME$52Vermont: median $78 across 14 hospitalsVT$78New Hampshire: median $60 across 25 hospitalsNH$60Washington: median $59 across 76 hospitalsWA$59Idaho: median $51 across 24 hospitalsID$51Montana: median $77 across 31 hospitalsMT$77North Dakota: median $63 across 31 hospitalsND$63Minnesota: median $49 across 106 hospitalsMN$49Illinois: median $94 across 137 hospitalsIL$94Wisconsin: median $78 across 105 hospitalsWI$78Michigan: median $42 across 96 hospitalsMI$42New York: median $34 across 118 hospitalsNY$34Massachusetts: median $75 across 54 hospitalsMA$75Oregon: median $63 across 50 hospitalsOR$63Nevada: median $53 across 20 hospitalsNV$53Wyoming: median $47 across 16 hospitalsWY$47South Dakota: median $135 across 39 hospitalsSD$135Iowa: median $70 across 87 hospitalsIA$70Indiana: median $46 across 93 hospitalsIN$46Ohio: median $48 across 141 hospitalsOH$48Pennsylvania: median $50 across 122 hospitalsPA$50New Jersey: median $12 across 56 hospitalsNJ$12Connecticut: median $57 across 23 hospitalsCT$57Rhode Island: median $84 across 10 hospitalsRI$84California: median $44 across 142 hospitalsCA$44Utah: median $61 across 42 hospitalsUT$61Colorado: median $71 across 70 hospitalsCO$71Nebraska: median $92 across 80 hospitalsNE$92Missouri: median $59 across 76 hospitalsMO$59Kentucky: median $79 across 69 hospitalsKY$79West Virginia: median $57 across 43 hospitalsWV$57Virginia: median $84 across 73 hospitalsVA$84Maryland: median $54 across 41 hospitalsMD$54Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $98 across 42 hospitalsAZ$98New Mexico: median $105 across 29 hospitalsNM$105Kansas: median $71 across 87 hospitalsKS$71Arkansas: median $30 across 38 hospitalsAR$30Tennessee: median $41 across 82 hospitalsTN$41North Carolina: median $63 across 85 hospitalsNC$63South Carolina: median $97 across 51 hospitalsSC$97Oklahoma: median $44 across 72 hospitalsOK$44Louisiana: median $33 across 52 hospitalsLA$33Mississippi: median $39 across 55 hospitalsMS$39Alabama: median $63 across 44 hospitalsAL$63Georgia: median $73 across 106 hospitalsGA$73Hawaii: median $83 across 21 hospitalsHI$83Texas: median $52 across 238 hospitalsTX$52Florida: median $44 across 150 hospitalsFL$44
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $60. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD39$135+125%$59 – $196
New Mexico NM29$105+75%$38 – $169
Arizona AZ42$98+63%$32 – $165
South Carolina SC51$97+61%$45 – $102
Illinois IL137$94+56%$52 – $170
Nebraska NE80$92+53%$31 – $150
Alaska AK19$92+53%$30 – $166
Rhode Island RI10$84+40%$40 – $102
Virginia VA73$84+39%$30 – $134
Hawaii HI21$83+38%$59 – $100
Kentucky KY69$79+31%$32 – $154
Vermont VT14$78+29%$35 – $172
Wisconsin WI105$78+29%$47 – $99
Montana MT31$77+28%$46 – $84
Massachusetts MA54$75+25%$37 – $106
Georgia GA106$73+21%$35 – $122
Colorado CO70$71+19%$38 – $125
Kansas KS87$71+18%$48 – $101
Iowa IA87$70+16%$46 – $115
North Dakota ND31$63+5%$19 – $85
Alabama AL44$63+5%$13 – $183
North Carolina NC85$63+5%$21 – $102
Oregon OR50$63+5%$33 – $88
Utah UT42$61+1%$52 – $106
New Hampshire NH25$600%$23 – $171
Washington WA76$59−1%$41 – $101
Missouri MO76$59−1%$38 – $116
Connecticut CT23$57−5%$41 – $89
West Virginia WV43$57−5%$32 – $97
Maryland MD41$54−9%$42 – $65
Nevada NV20$53−12%$25 – $90
Maine ME26$52−13%$34 – $116
Texas TX238$52−13%$13 – $200
Idaho ID24$51−15%$46 – $82
Pennsylvania PA122$50−18%$17 – $131
Minnesota MN106$49−19%$28 – $92
Ohio OH141$48−20%$27 – $89
Wyoming WY16$47−22%$38 – $106
Indiana IN93$46−24%$25 – $106
Florida FL150$44−27%$15 – $139
Oklahoma OK72$44−27%$26 – $79
California CA142$44−27%$8 – $137
Michigan MI96$42−30%$23 – $80
Tennessee TN82$41−32%$19 – $89
Mississippi MS55$39−35%$19 – $61
New York NY118$34−44%$13 – $102
Louisiana LA52$33−45%$19 – $69
Arkansas AR38$30−51%$10 – $62
New Jersey NJ56$12−79%$12 – $33
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 $60.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,285$57$21 – $122
Children’s64$87$43 – $141
Critical access953$63$32 – $111
Ownership
For-profit466$77$27 – $240
Government618$60$27 – $107
Non-profit2,218$57$25 – $107
System affiliation
Part of a system2,678$60$25 – $122
Independent634$58$26 – $103

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$101
Median cash price$60
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

2,241 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $61 and the average of the middle 60% is $64; most fall between $27 and $117.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,241 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$33$61$102$166

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $166).

Of the 2,485 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,241 gave a usable cash price; 133 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 111 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,312 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 3,624 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,312
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here178
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 — excluded133
Hospitals that filed this code3,624

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 Hepatitis B Surf Antibody Hbsab.

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 surface antibody (CPT 86706) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86706-blood-test-for-hepatitis-b-surface-antibody