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Blood test for mumps antibodies

CPT 86735the billing code this page is about

A blood test that looks for antibodies to the mumps virus, reflecting past infection or vaccination.

Hospitals typically charge $55 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,300 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $57. Most fall between $20 and $106 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,300
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 3,300 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$24$55$92$152

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $152).

How the prices are spread

$9 – $12: 146 hospitals$9$12 – $17: 270 hospitals$17 – $23: 235 hospitals$17$23 – $32: 241 hospitals$32 – $44: 334 hospitals$32$44 – $61: 393 hospitals$61 – $84: 525 hospitals$61$84 – $116: 429 hospitals$116 – $160: 254 hospitals$116$160 – $220: 144 hospitals$160median $55price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,971 of 3,300 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$9$12146
$12$17270
$17$23235
$23$32241
$32$44334
$44$61393
$61$84525
$84$116429
$116$160254
$160$220144

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $55.

Alaska: median $45 across 18 hospitalsAK$45Maine: median $40 across 27 hospitalsME$40Vermont: median $94 across 14 hospitalsVT$94New Hampshire: median $72 across 25 hospitalsNH$72Washington: median $67 across 77 hospitalsWA$67Idaho: median $48 across 25 hospitalsID$48Montana: median $46 across 31 hospitalsMT$46North Dakota: median $61 across 31 hospitalsND$61Minnesota: median $48 across 101 hospitalsMN$48Illinois: median $73 across 142 hospitalsIL$73Wisconsin: median $85 across 105 hospitalsWI$85Michigan: median $20 across 93 hospitalsMI$20New York: median $40 across 120 hospitalsNY$40Massachusetts: median $79 across 53 hospitalsMA$79Oregon: median $52 across 50 hospitalsOR$52Nevada: median $64 across 20 hospitalsNV$64Wyoming: median $51 across 16 hospitalsWY$51South Dakota: median $108 across 34 hospitalsSD$108Iowa: median $53 across 87 hospitalsIA$53Indiana: median $55 across 96 hospitalsIN$55Ohio: median $59 across 140 hospitalsOH$59Pennsylvania: median $54 across 121 hospitalsPA$54New Jersey: median $15 across 53 hospitalsNJ$15Connecticut: median $60 across 22 hospitalsCT$60Rhode Island: median $44 across 10 hospitalsRI$44California: median $16 across 149 hospitalsCA$16Utah: median $84 across 41 hospitalsUT$84Colorado: median $80 across 67 hospitalsCO$80Nebraska: median $86 across 78 hospitalsNE$86Missouri: median $52 across 74 hospitalsMO$52Kentucky: median $42 across 69 hospitalsKY$42West Virginia: median $45 across 44 hospitalsWV$45Virginia: median $70 across 73 hospitalsVA$70Maryland: median $54 across 40 hospitalsMD$54Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $69 across 42 hospitalsAZ$69New Mexico: median $94 across 28 hospitalsNM$94Kansas: median $77 across 85 hospitalsKS$77Arkansas: median $27 across 35 hospitalsAR$27Tennessee: median $28 across 83 hospitalsTN$28North Carolina: median $60 across 82 hospitalsNC$60South Carolina: median $86 across 52 hospitalsSC$86Oklahoma: median $39 across 74 hospitalsOK$39Louisiana: median $36 across 50 hospitalsLA$36Mississippi: median $29 across 54 hospitalsMS$29Alabama: median $44 across 45 hospitalsAL$44Georgia: median $50 across 107 hospitalsGA$50Hawaii: median $74 across 20 hospitalsHI$74Texas: median $60 across 240 hospitalsTX$60Florida: median $16 across 150 hospitalsFL$16
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $55. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD34$108+97%$48 – $150
Vermont VT14$94+72%$49 – $151
New Mexico NM28$94+71%$42 – $160
Nebraska NE78$86+58%$32 – $120
South Carolina SC52$86+57%$46 – $98
Wisconsin WI105$85+55%$47 – $122
Utah UT41$84+53%$76 – $101
Colorado CO67$80+47%$33 – $131
Massachusetts MA53$79+44%$32 – $119
Kansas KS85$77+40%$40 – $109
Hawaii HI20$74+35%$32 – $113
Illinois IL142$73+32%$36 – $130
New Hampshire NH25$72+32%$40 – $149
Virginia VA73$70+27%$22 – $106
Arizona AZ42$69+26%$21 – $121
Washington WA77$67+22%$38 – $100
Nevada NV20$64+16%$13 – $100
North Dakota ND31$61+11%$23 – $102
Connecticut CT22$60+10%$45 – $109
Texas TX240$60+10%$22 – $162
North Carolina NC82$60+9%$17 – $86
Ohio OH140$59+7%$33 – $104
Indiana IN96$55+1%$21 – $106
Pennsylvania PA121$54−1%$20 – $165
Maryland MD40$54−1%$40 – $65
Iowa IA87$53−3%$37 – $105
Oregon OR50$52−5%$35 – $67
Missouri MO74$52−6%$34 – $92
Wyoming WY16$51−6%$36 – $77
Georgia GA107$50−9%$29 – $110
Minnesota MN101$48−12%$24 – $104
Idaho ID25$48−12%$16 – $76
Montana MT31$46−15%$19 – $93
Alaska AK18$45−18%$15 – $164
West Virginia WV44$45−19%$11 – $69
Rhode Island RI10$44−19%$25 – $114
Alabama AL45$44−20%$17 – $90
Kentucky KY69$42−23%$16 – $137
Maine ME27$40−26%$28 – $86
New York NY120$40−28%$15 – $83
Oklahoma OK74$39−28%$19 – $80
Louisiana LA50$36−35%$20 – $55
Mississippi MS54$29−47%$13 – $67
Tennessee TN83$28−50%$18 – $92
Arkansas AR35$27−51%$11 – $58
Michigan MI93$20−63%$12 – $65
Florida FL150$16−70%$8 – $87
California CA149$16−71%$5 – $101
New Jersey NJ53$15−73%$14 – $44
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 $55.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,278$49$17 – $102
Children’s62$62$26 – $101
Critical access950$70$31 – $113
Ownership
For-profit455$66$18 – $198
Government620$55$21 – $99
Non-profit2,215$53$20 – $101
System affiliation
Part of a system2,680$55$20 – $109
Independent620$52$23 – $96

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$92
Median cash price$55
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

2,229 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $56 and the average of the middle 60% is $57; most fall between $22 and $103.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,229 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$56$91$140

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $140).

Of the 2,458 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,229 gave a usable cash price; 121 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

3,300 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (83%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,604 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,300
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here175
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 — excluded128
Hospitals that filed this code3,604

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 Antibody Mumps.

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 mumps antibodies (CPT 86735) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86735-blood-test-for-mumps-antibodies