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Blood test for Leishmania antibodies

CPT 86717the billing code this page is about

A blood test that detects antibodies to Leishmania, a parasite spread by sand fly bites.

Hospitals typically charge $53 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 835 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $60. Most fall between $21 and $124 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
835
States
48
Filings dated
Dec 2024 – 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 835 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$25$53$108$168

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $168).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $13: 44 hospitals$10$13 – $18: 54 hospitals$18 – $24: 66 hospitals$18$24 – $33: 94 hospitals$33 – $45: 74 hospitals$33$45 – $60: 75 hospitals$60 – $82: 107 hospitals$60$82 – $111: 86 hospitals$111 – $151: 83 hospitals$111$151 – $204: 70 hospitals$151median $53price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (753 of 835 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$1344
$13$1854
$18$2466
$24$3394
$33$4574
$45$6075
$60$82107
$82$11186
$111$15183
$151$20470

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $53.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $36 across 14 hospitalsWA$36Idaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $69 across 25 hospitalsMN$69Illinois: median $49 across 29 hospitalsIL$49Wisconsin: median $36 across 16 hospitalsWI$36Michigan: median $17 across 13 hospitalsMI$17New York: median $24 across 35 hospitalsNY$24Massachusetts: median $60 across 28 hospitalsMA$60Oregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $49 across 16 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $27 across 25 hospitalsIN$27Ohio: median $72 across 46 hospitalsOH$72Pennsylvania: median $23 across 35 hospitalsPA$23New Jersey: median $13 across 35 hospitalsNJ$13Connecticut: 4 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 $109 across 54 hospitalsCA$109Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $72 across 28 hospitalsCO$72Nebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $63 across 11 hospitalsMO$63Kentucky: median $85 across 15 hospitalsKY$85West Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $29 across 28 hospitalsVA$29Maryland: median $44 across 18 hospitalsMD$44Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $43 across 21 hospitalsAZ$43New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $16 across 10 hospitalsTN$16North Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $80 across 14 hospitalsSC$80Oklahoma: median $22 across 17 hospitalsOK$22Louisiana: median $29 across 12 hospitalsLA$29Mississippi: median $18 across 18 hospitalsMS$18Alabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $78 across 40 hospitalsGA$78Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $83 across 93 hospitalsTX$83Florida: median $22 across 43 hospitalsFL$22
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $53. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA54$109+104%$39 – $124
Kentucky KY15$85+59%$22 – $145
Texas TX93$83+55%$30 – $121
South Carolina SC14$80+50%$15 – $80
Georgia GA40$78+46%$29 – $83
Colorado CO28$72+34%$54 – $202
Ohio OH46$72+34%$55 – $182
Minnesota MN25$69+29%$35 – $156
Missouri MO11$63+18%$22 – $63
Massachusetts MA28$60+12%$30 – $204
Iowa IA16$49−9%$49 – $80
Illinois IL29$49−9%$22 – $167
Maryland MD18$44−18%$36 – $62
Arizona AZ21$43−20%$13 – $130
Washington WA14$36−33%$27 – $73
Wisconsin WI16$36−33%$25 – $204
Virginia VA28$29−46%$22 – $135
Louisiana LA12$29−46%$20 – $111
Indiana IN25$27−50%$18 – $63
New York NY35$24−55%$12 – $44
Pennsylvania PA35$23−56%$9 – $150
Florida FL43$22−59%$4 – $131
Oklahoma OK17$22−59%$22 – $65
Mississippi MS18$18−66%$10 – $60
Michigan MI13$17−68%$15 – $93
Tennessee TN10$16−70%$8 – $21
New Jersey NJ35$13−75%$12 – $354
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not 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 $53.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care718$52$19 – $122
Children’s21$95$39 – $182
Critical access90$52$28 – $156
Ownership
For-profit101$67$18 – $130
Government92$36$19 – $77
Non-profit636$54$22 – $124
System affiliation
Part of a system752$54$21 – $124
Independent83$45$22 – $98

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$94
Median cash price$53
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

606 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $66 and the average of the middle 60% is $68; most fall between $29 and $124.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 606 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$30$66$119$168

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $168).

Of the 678 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 606 gave a usable cash price; 49 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 23 a list price only.

How complete is this

835 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (21%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 922 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted835
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here61
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded25
Hospitals that filed this code922

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 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 HC Leishmaniasis 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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Blood test for Leishmania antibodies (CPT 86717) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86717-blood-test-for-leishmania-antibodies