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Blood test for JC virus antibodies

CPT 86711the billing code this page is about

A blood test that detects antibodies to the John Cunningham virus, a common virus that can cause brain infection in people with weakened immunity.

Hospitals typically charge $101 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,392 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $215. Most fall between $30 and $936 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,392
States
50
Filings dated
Nov 2023 – 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 1,392 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$36$101$629$1,490

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 72× what the cheapest tenth charges ($21 vs $1,490).

How the prices are spread

$17 – $28: 172 hospitals$17$28 – $45: 169 hospitals$45 – $73: 192 hospitals$45$73 – $118: 139 hospitals$118 – $192: 109 hospitals$118$192 – $311: 64 hospitals$311 – $505: 63 hospitals$311$505 – $819: 101 hospitals$819 – $1,328: 124 hospitals$819$1,328 – $2,154: 121 hospitals$1,328median $101price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,254 of 1,392 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$17$28172
$28$45169
$45$73192
$73$118139
$118$192109
$192$31164
$311$50563
$505$819101
$819$1,328124
$1,328$2,154121

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $101.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $105 across 14 hospitalsME$105Vermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $50 across 34 hospitalsWA$50Idaho: median $40 across 14 hospitalsID$40Montana: median $1,403 across 14 hospitalsMT$1,403North Dakota: median $29 across 10 hospitalsND$29Minnesota: median $602 across 34 hospitalsMN$602Illinois: median $222 across 61 hospitalsIL$222Wisconsin: median $84 across 46 hospitalsWI$84Michigan: median $88 across 17 hospitalsMI$88New York: median $46 across 62 hospitalsNY$46Massachusetts: median $66 across 33 hospitalsMA$66Oregon: median $36 across 16 hospitalsOR$36Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $55 across 37 hospitalsIA$55Indiana: median $399 across 46 hospitalsIN$399Ohio: median $128 across 54 hospitalsOH$128Pennsylvania: median $41 across 79 hospitalsPA$41New Jersey: median $19 across 44 hospitalsNJ$19Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $298 across 61 hospitalsCA$298Utah: median $29 across 32 hospitalsUT$29Colorado: median $919 across 31 hospitalsCO$919Nebraska: median $121 across 22 hospitalsNE$121Missouri: median $562 across 39 hospitalsMO$562Kentucky: median $133 across 29 hospitalsKY$133West Virginia: median $115 across 13 hospitalsWV$115Virginia: median $124 across 40 hospitalsVA$124Maryland: median $60 across 13 hospitalsMD$60Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $152 across 23 hospitalsAZ$152New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $579 across 17 hospitalsKS$579Arkansas: median $432 across 18 hospitalsAR$432Tennessee: median $79 across 35 hospitalsTN$79North Carolina: median $717 across 27 hospitalsNC$717South Carolina: median $116 across 40 hospitalsSC$116Oklahoma: median $545 across 21 hospitalsOK$545Louisiana: median $33 across 24 hospitalsLA$33Mississippi: median $24 across 29 hospitalsMS$24Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $520 across 59 hospitalsGA$520Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $62 across 87 hospitalsTX$62Florida: median $186 across 38 hospitalsFL$186
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $101. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Montana MT14$1,403+1291%$46 – $1,718
Colorado CO31$919+811%$73 – $2,551
North Carolina NC27$717+611%$76 – $915
Minnesota MN34$602+497%$88 – $1,340
Kansas KS17$579+475%$30 – $1,718
Missouri MO39$562+458%$61 – $1,177
Oklahoma OK21$545+440%$355 – $1,244
Georgia GA59$520+416%$78 – $1,355
Arkansas AR18$432+329%$39 – $537
Indiana IN46$399+296%$26 – $1,231
California CA61$298+195%$176 – $584
Illinois IL61$222+121%$44 – $1,701
Florida FL38$186+85%$25 – $833
Arizona AZ23$152+51%$27 – $414
Kentucky KY29$133+32%$25 – $2,213
Ohio OH54$128+27%$43 – $995
Virginia VA40$124+23%$52 – $203
Nebraska NE22$121+20%$39 – $1,995
South Carolina SC40$116+15%$99 – $1,167
West Virginia WV13$115+14%$58 – $1,019
Maine ME14$105+5%$44 – $663
Michigan MI17$88−13%$23 – $476
Wisconsin WI46$84−17%$65 – $97
Tennessee TN35$79−21%$25 – $725
Massachusetts MA33$66−35%$38 – $108
Texas TX87$62−39%$45 – $731
Maryland MD13$60−40%$40 – $65
Iowa IA37$55−45%$49 – $779
Washington WA34$50−50%$26 – $178
New York NY62$46−55%$17 – $202
Pennsylvania PA79$41−59%$19 – $214
Idaho ID14$40−60%$31 – $1,704
Oregon OR16$36−64%$21 – $469
Louisiana LA24$33−68%$17 – $232
North Dakota ND10$29−71%$26 – $117
Utah UT32$29−71%$29 – $34
Mississippi MS29$24−76%$10 – $214
New Jersey NJ44$19−81%$17 – $95
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not 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 $101.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,072$88$29 – $810
Children’s21$860$67 – $1,871
Critical access298$124$39 – $1,340
Ownership
For-profit144$120$31 – $1,216
Government205$122$30 – $1,316
Non-profit1,042$95$30 – $833
System affiliation
Part of a system1,187$98$29 – $860
Independent205$122$35 – $1,292

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$172
Median cash price$101
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

1,022 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $95 and the average of the middle 60% is $174; most fall between $34 and $742.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,022 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
$25$40$95$520$1,355

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 55× what the cheapest tenth charges ($25 vs $1,355).

Of the 1,108 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,022 gave a usable cash price; 45 carried a plausibility flag, 3 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 38 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,392 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (35%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,501 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,392
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here62
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded5
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded42
Hospitals that filed this code1,501

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 September 4, 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 JOHN CUNNINGHAM 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 JC virus antibodies (CPT 86711) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86711-blood-test-for-jc-virus-antibodies