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Blood test for influenza antibodies

CPT 86710the billing code this page is about

A blood test that looks for antibodies to influenza virus, indicating an immune response to the flu.

Hospitals typically charge $51 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,901 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $55. Most fall between $21 and $113 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,901
States
49
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 1,901 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$25$51$92$166

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

How the prices are spread

$9 – $12: 60 hospitals$9$12 – $17: 152 hospitals$17 – $24: 154 hospitals$17$24 – $34: 168 hospitals$34 – $47: 236 hospitals$34$47 – $66: 289 hospitals$66 – $92: 262 hospitals$66$92 – $128: 183 hospitals$128 – $179: 138 hospitals$128$179 – $249: 69 hospitals$179median $51price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,711 of 1,901 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$9$1260
$12$17152
$17$24154
$24$34168
$34$47236
$47$66289
$66$92262
$92$128183
$128$179138
$179$24969

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $51.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $30 across 10 hospitalsNH$30Washington: median $58 across 33 hospitalsWA$58Idaho: median $55 across 10 hospitalsID$55Montana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $63 across 96 hospitalsIL$63Wisconsin: median $60 across 49 hospitalsWI$60Michigan: median $13 across 47 hospitalsMI$13New York: median $32 across 83 hospitalsNY$32Massachusetts: median $62 across 31 hospitalsMA$62Oregon: median $60 across 17 hospitalsOR$60Nevada: median $71 across 13 hospitalsNV$71Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $49 across 29 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $47 across 64 hospitalsIN$47Ohio: median $44 across 85 hospitalsOH$44Pennsylvania: median $74 across 101 hospitalsPA$74New Jersey: median $16 across 47 hospitalsNJ$16Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $34 across 98 hospitalsCA$34Utah: median $46 across 36 hospitalsUT$46Colorado: median $76 across 41 hospitalsCO$76Nebraska: median $72 across 31 hospitalsNE$72Missouri: median $42 across 54 hospitalsMO$42Kentucky: median $84 across 44 hospitalsKY$84West Virginia: median $56 across 21 hospitalsWV$56Virginia: median $49 across 44 hospitalsVA$49Maryland: median $74 across 29 hospitalsMD$74Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $114 across 31 hospitalsAZ$114New Mexico: median $73 across 10 hospitalsNM$73Kansas: median $106 across 28 hospitalsKS$106Arkansas: median $45 across 20 hospitalsAR$45Tennessee: median $42 across 44 hospitalsTN$42North Carolina: median $56 across 48 hospitalsNC$56South Carolina: median $89 across 40 hospitalsSC$89Oklahoma: median $63 across 52 hospitalsOK$63Louisiana: median $32 across 24 hospitalsLA$32Mississippi: median $32 across 23 hospitalsMS$32Alabama: median $57 across 25 hospitalsAL$57Georgia: median $70 across 80 hospitalsGA$70Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $70 across 174 hospitalsTX$70Florida: median $15 across 110 hospitalsFL$15
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $51. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ31$114+122%$24 – $143
Kansas KS28$106+106%$62 – $146
South Carolina SC40$89+73%$53 – $148
Kentucky KY44$84+63%$37 – $174
Colorado CO41$76+47%$35 – $210
Pennsylvania PA101$74+44%$16 – $159
Maryland MD29$74+43%$54 – $94
New Mexico NM10$73+42%$32 – $90
Nebraska NE31$72+40%$41 – $113
Nevada NV13$71+38%$39 – $167
Georgia GA80$70+37%$31 – $118
Texas TX174$70+36%$26 – $258
Oklahoma OK52$63+23%$25 – $96
Illinois IL96$63+22%$37 – $106
Massachusetts MA31$62+20%$32 – $146
Wisconsin WI49$60+18%$53 – $125
Oregon OR17$60+17%$41 – $83
Washington WA33$58+12%$27 – $111
Alabama AL25$57+12%$17 – $102
North Carolina NC48$56+8%$23 – $81
West Virginia WV21$56+8%$30 – $83
Idaho ID10$55+7%$39 – $166
Virginia VA44$49−5%$7 – $116
Iowa IA29$49−6%$43 – $61
Indiana IN64$47−8%$22 – $96
Utah UT36$46−10%$39 – $82
Arkansas AR20$45−12%$21 – $83
Ohio OH85$44−14%$33 – $78
Tennessee TN44$42−18%$24 – $94
Missouri MO54$42−18%$25 – $96
California CA98$34−35%$9 – $69
Mississippi MS23$32−37%$15 – $49
Louisiana LA24$32−39%$18 – $52
New York NY83$32−39%$14 – $68
New Hampshire NH10$30−42%$15 – $78
New Jersey NJ47$16−70%$14 – $46
Florida FL110$15−71%$7 – $26
Michigan MI47$13−75%$7 – $51
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not 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 $51.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,525$49$18 – $107
Children’s30$44$22 – $91
Critical access338$67$36 – $125
Ownership
For-profit317$63$18 – $187
Government260$52$20 – $116
Non-profit1,316$49$21 – $96
System affiliation
Part of a system1,594$50$20 – $116
Independent307$55$25 – $108

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$93
Median cash price$51
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

1,305 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $52 and the average of the middle 60% is $55; most fall between $24 and $101.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,305 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$29$52$87$149

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $149).

Of the 1,442 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,305 gave a usable cash price; 69 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 68 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,901 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (48%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,075 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,901
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here97
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 — excluded77
Hospitals that filed this code2,075

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 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 INFLUENZA VIRUS ANTIBODY.

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 influenza antibodies (CPT 86710) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86710-blood-test-for-influenza-antibodies