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Blood test for hepatitis A antibody, total

CPT 86708the billing code this page is about

A blood test measuring all classes of antibody to the hepatitis A virus, reflecting past infection or vaccination as well as recent illness.

Hospitals typically charge $64 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,223 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $67. Most fall between $26 and $125 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,223
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 3,223 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$64$110$181

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $181).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $16: 234 hospitals$12$16 – $22: 153 hospitals$22 – $30: 219 hospitals$22$30 – $41: 275 hospitals$41 – $55: 379 hospitals$41$55 – $75: 444 hospitals$75 – $102: 428 hospitals$75$102 – $138: 388 hospitals$138 – $188: 242 hospitals$138$188 – $255: 140 hospitals$188median $64price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,902 of 3,223 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$16234
$16$22153
$22$30219
$30$41275
$41$55379
$55$75444
$75$102428
$102$138388
$138$188242
$188$255140

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $64.

Alaska: median $109 across 19 hospitalsAK$109Maine: median $44 across 28 hospitalsME$44Vermont: median $92 across 14 hospitalsVT$92New Hampshire: median $71 across 25 hospitalsNH$71Washington: median $68 across 77 hospitalsWA$68Idaho: median $55 across 23 hospitalsID$55Montana: median $76 across 24 hospitalsMT$76North Dakota: median $77 across 30 hospitalsND$77Minnesota: median $64 across 99 hospitalsMN$64Illinois: median $85 across 137 hospitalsIL$85Wisconsin: median $79 across 104 hospitalsWI$79Michigan: median $41 across 98 hospitalsMI$41New York: median $33 across 116 hospitalsNY$33Massachusetts: median $84 across 53 hospitalsMA$84Oregon: median $71 across 49 hospitalsOR$71Nevada: median $61 across 20 hospitalsNV$61Wyoming: median $56 across 16 hospitalsWY$56South Dakota: median $92 across 29 hospitalsSD$92Iowa: median $70 across 82 hospitalsIA$70Indiana: median $60 across 97 hospitalsIN$60Ohio: median $55 across 138 hospitalsOH$55Pennsylvania: median $68 across 121 hospitalsPA$68New Jersey: median $14 across 57 hospitalsNJ$14Connecticut: median $53 across 22 hospitalsCT$53Rhode Island: median $63 across 10 hospitalsRI$63California: median $91 across 138 hospitalsCA$91Utah: median $189 across 41 hospitalsUT$189Colorado: median $68 across 68 hospitalsCO$68Nebraska: median $106 across 70 hospitalsNE$106Missouri: median $68 across 74 hospitalsMO$68Kentucky: median $79 across 69 hospitalsKY$79West Virginia: median $62 across 39 hospitalsWV$62Virginia: median $55 across 73 hospitalsVA$55Maryland: median $53 across 40 hospitalsMD$53Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $79 across 39 hospitalsAZ$79New Mexico: median $57 across 26 hospitalsNM$57Kansas: median $77 across 77 hospitalsKS$77Arkansas: median $26 across 37 hospitalsAR$26Tennessee: median $42 across 81 hospitalsTN$42North Carolina: median $73 across 84 hospitalsNC$73South Carolina: median $102 across 52 hospitalsSC$102Oklahoma: median $49 across 70 hospitalsOK$49Louisiana: median $45 across 50 hospitalsLA$45Mississippi: median $33 across 48 hospitalsMS$33Alabama: median $62 across 42 hospitalsAL$62Georgia: median $56 across 105 hospitalsGA$56Hawaii: median $62 across 20 hospitalsHI$62Texas: median $63 across 241 hospitalsTX$63Florida: median $35 across 144 hospitalsFL$35
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $64. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT41$189+196%$85 – $223
Alaska AK19$109+70%$35 – $178
Nebraska NE70$106+66%$64 – $161
South Carolina SC52$102+59%$68 – $110
Vermont VT14$92+44%$34 – $169
South Dakota SD29$92+44%$62 – $178
California CA138$91+42%$8 – $133
Illinois IL137$85+33%$44 – $163
Massachusetts MA53$84+31%$41 – $120
Kentucky KY69$79+24%$37 – $155
Arizona AZ39$79+23%$20 – $130
Wisconsin WI104$79+23%$51 – $116
North Dakota ND30$77+21%$22 – $96
Kansas KS77$77+20%$44 – $115
Montana MT24$76+19%$44 – $121
North Carolina NC84$73+15%$23 – $111
Oregon OR49$71+11%$38 – $122
New Hampshire NH25$71+11%$40 – $144
Iowa IA82$70+10%$49 – $109
Missouri MO74$68+7%$35 – $125
Colorado CO68$68+6%$28 – $107
Washington WA77$68+6%$42 – $108
Pennsylvania PA121$68+6%$19 – $146
Minnesota MN99$640%$21 – $102
Rhode Island RI10$63−2%$46 – $92
Texas TX241$63−2%$14 – $264
Hawaii HI20$62−3%$35 – $108
West Virginia WV39$62−3%$31 – $113
Alabama AL42$62−3%$24 – $118
Nevada NV20$61−5%$29 – $104
Indiana IN97$60−6%$28 – $154
New Mexico NM26$57−11%$39 – $80
Georgia GA105$56−13%$28 – $76
Wyoming WY16$56−13%$42 – $83
Ohio OH138$55−14%$30 – $91
Idaho ID23$55−14%$42 – $127
Virginia VA73$55−14%$21 – $162
Connecticut CT22$53−17%$37 – $75
Maryland MD40$53−17%$40 – $65
Oklahoma OK70$49−24%$24 – $112
Louisiana LA50$45−30%$27 – $94
Maine ME28$44−31%$28 – $86
Tennessee TN81$42−34%$21 – $149
Michigan MI98$41−35%$17 – $72
Florida FL144$35−45%$9 – $139
Mississippi MS48$33−48%$15 – $89
New York NY116$33−48%$15 – $91
Arkansas AR37$26−60%$11 – $90
New Jersey NJ57$14−78%$12 – $42
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 $64.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,248$59$22 – $126
Children’s64$83$35 – $131
Critical access901$74$37 – $123
Ownership
For-profit448$74$25 – $228
Government598$64$29 – $110
Non-profit2,167$63$25 – $119
System affiliation
Part of a system2,619$65$25 – $131
Independent604$62$29 – $109

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$107
Median cash price$64
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

2,184 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $64 and the average of the middle 60% is $67; most fall between $28 and $122.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,184 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$33$64$108$167

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $167).

Of the 2,414 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,184 gave a usable cash price; 122 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 108 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,223 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (81%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,518 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,223
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here170
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 — excluded124
Hospitals that filed this code3,518

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 - Hep a Ab, Total.

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 hepatitis A antibody, total (CPT 86708) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86708-blood-test-for-hepatitis-a-antibody-total