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Blood test for hepatitis A antibody, IgM type

CPT 86709the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures only the IgM class of antibody to hepatitis A virus, the type seen in recent infection.

Hospitals typically charge $69 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,196 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $73. Most fall between $31 and $132 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,196
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 3,196 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$37$69$117$189

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $189).

How the prices are spread

$12 – $17: 142 hospitals$12$17 – $23: 150 hospitals$23 – $32: 204 hospitals$23$32 – $43: 306 hospitals$43 – $60: 427 hospitals$43$60 – $81: 461 hospitals$81 – $112: 479 hospitals$81$112 – $153: 390 hospitals$153 – $209: 207 hospitals$153$209 – $286: 120 hospitals$209median $69price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,886 of 3,196 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$12$17142
$17$23150
$23$32204
$32$43306
$43$60427
$60$81461
$81$112479
$112$153390
$153$209207
$209$286120

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $69.

Alaska: median $101 across 15 hospitalsAK$101Maine: median $48 across 27 hospitalsME$48Vermont: median $94 across 14 hospitalsVT$94New Hampshire: median $67 across 24 hospitalsNH$67Washington: median $65 across 75 hospitalsWA$65Idaho: median $50 across 22 hospitalsID$50Montana: median $98 across 29 hospitalsMT$98North Dakota: median $61 across 29 hospitalsND$61Minnesota: median $64 across 97 hospitalsMN$64Illinois: median $110 across 140 hospitalsIL$110Wisconsin: median $93 across 100 hospitalsWI$93Michigan: median $54 across 92 hospitalsMI$54New York: median $41 across 105 hospitalsNY$41Massachusetts: median $72 across 51 hospitalsMA$72Oregon: median $67 across 48 hospitalsOR$67Nevada: median $61 across 21 hospitalsNV$61Wyoming: median $60 across 15 hospitalsWY$60South Dakota: median $100 across 27 hospitalsSD$100Iowa: median $66 across 84 hospitalsIA$66Indiana: median $75 across 95 hospitalsIN$75Ohio: median $51 across 141 hospitalsOH$51Pennsylvania: median $64 across 120 hospitalsPA$64New Jersey: median $13 across 54 hospitalsNJ$13Connecticut: median $50 across 22 hospitalsCT$50Rhode Island: median $71 across 10 hospitalsRI$71California: median $83 across 148 hospitalsCA$83Utah: median $64 across 38 hospitalsUT$64Colorado: median $76 across 67 hospitalsCO$76Nebraska: median $105 across 70 hospitalsNE$105Missouri: median $57 across 75 hospitalsMO$57Kentucky: median $86 across 67 hospitalsKY$86West Virginia: median $64 across 41 hospitalsWV$64Virginia: median $66 across 72 hospitalsVA$66Maryland: median $53 across 40 hospitalsMD$53Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $58 across 38 hospitalsAZ$58New Mexico: median $67 across 26 hospitalsNM$67Kansas: median $78 across 84 hospitalsKS$78Arkansas: median $37 across 37 hospitalsAR$37Tennessee: median $43 across 80 hospitalsTN$43North Carolina: median $83 across 84 hospitalsNC$83South Carolina: median $82 across 52 hospitalsSC$82Oklahoma: median $50 across 68 hospitalsOK$50Louisiana: median $37 across 50 hospitalsLA$37Mississippi: median $43 across 53 hospitalsMS$43Alabama: median $68 across 42 hospitalsAL$68Georgia: median $83 across 102 hospitalsGA$83Hawaii: median $71 across 19 hospitalsHI$71Texas: median $121 across 236 hospitalsTX$121Florida: median $45 across 143 hospitalsFL$45
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $69. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX236$121+76%$35 – $219
Illinois IL140$110+60%$47 – $178
Nebraska NE70$105+52%$33 – $140
Alaska AK15$101+46%$40 – $176
South Dakota SD27$100+46%$42 – $176
Montana MT29$98+42%$58 – $173
Vermont VT14$94+36%$24 – $185
Wisconsin WI100$93+34%$56 – $131
Kentucky KY67$86+25%$46 – $143
California CA148$83+21%$9 – $146
North Carolina NC84$83+20%$34 – $125
Georgia GA102$83+20%$23 – $250
South Carolina SC52$82+19%$51 – $133
Kansas KS84$78+13%$53 – $125
Colorado CO67$76+10%$62 – $155
Indiana IN95$75+8%$31 – $160
Massachusetts MA51$72+4%$39 – $115
Hawaii HI19$71+3%$29 – $116
Rhode Island RI10$71+2%$42 – $99
Alabama AL42$68−1%$24 – $150
New Mexico NM26$67−3%$40 – $104
Oregon OR48$67−3%$34 – $88
New Hampshire NH24$67−3%$42 – $144
Iowa IA84$66−4%$49 – $100
Virginia VA72$66−4%$46 – $125
Washington WA75$65−5%$46 – $106
Minnesota MN97$64−7%$30 – $106
West Virginia WV41$64−7%$33 – $120
Pennsylvania PA120$64−8%$17 – $151
Utah UT38$64−8%$54 – $132
North Dakota ND29$61−11%$20 – $79
Nevada NV21$61−12%$50 – $149
Wyoming WY15$60−13%$37 – $102
Arizona AZ38$58−15%$14 – $230
Missouri MO75$57−18%$38 – $117
Michigan MI92$54−21%$34 – $97
Maryland MD40$53−23%$40 – $65
Ohio OH141$51−26%$27 – $97
Idaho ID22$50−27%$50 – $115
Connecticut CT22$50−27%$42 – $68
Oklahoma OK68$50−28%$30 – $97
Maine ME27$48−31%$31 – $74
Florida FL143$45−35%$13 – $272
Tennessee TN80$43−38%$23 – $93
Mississippi MS53$43−38%$32 – $96
New York NY105$41−41%$14 – $119
Louisiana LA50$37−46%$21 – $76
Arkansas AR37$37−47%$16 – $81
New Jersey NJ54$13−81%$12 – $59
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 $69.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,245$66$28 – $139
Children’s64$88$37 – $136
Critical access877$74$39 – $122
Ownership
For-profit447$85$30 – $236
Government582$70$33 – $123
Non-profit2,157$66$31 – $127
System affiliation
Part of a system2,597$71$31 – $136
Independent599$66$32 – $115

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$114
Median cash price$69
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

2,173 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $70 and the average of the middle 60% is $73; most fall between $33 and $131.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,173 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
$21$40$70$116$173

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($21 vs $173).

Of the 2,403 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,173 gave a usable cash price; 123 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 107 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,196 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 3,494 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,196
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here173
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 code3,494

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 Igm Ab.

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, IgM type (CPT 86709) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86709-blood-test-for-hepatitis-a-antibody-igm-type