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Blood test for Mycoplasma antibodies

CPT 86738the billing code this page is about

A blood test that detects antibodies to Mycoplasma, bacteria that can cause pneumonia and other infections.

Hospitals typically charge $62 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,995 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $65. Most fall between $24 and $122 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,995
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 2,995 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$29$62$108$174

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $174).

How the prices are spread

$9 – $13: 95 hospitals$9$13 – $18: 191 hospitals$18 – $25: 214 hospitals$18$25 – $35: 248 hospitals$35 – $48: 312 hospitals$35$48 – $67: 386 hospitals$67 – $94: 439 hospitals$67$94 – $130: 409 hospitals$130 – $181: 275 hospitals$130$181 – $252: 132 hospitals$181median $62price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,701 of 2,995 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$9$1395
$13$18191
$18$25214
$25$35248
$35$48312
$48$67386
$67$94439
$94$130409
$130$181275
$181$252132

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $62.

Alaska: median $50 across 16 hospitalsAK$50Maine: median $51 across 27 hospitalsME$51Vermont: median $148 across 14 hospitalsVT$148New Hampshire: median $62 across 22 hospitalsNH$62Washington: median $68 across 60 hospitalsWA$68Idaho: median $49 across 20 hospitalsID$49Montana: median $79 across 21 hospitalsMT$79North Dakota: median $72 across 26 hospitalsND$72Minnesota: median $70 across 90 hospitalsMN$70Illinois: median $89 across 133 hospitalsIL$89Wisconsin: median $73 across 102 hospitalsWI$73Michigan: median $27 across 80 hospitalsMI$27New York: median $32 across 106 hospitalsNY$32Massachusetts: median $65 across 51 hospitalsMA$65Oregon: median $40 across 41 hospitalsOR$40Nevada: median $65 across 18 hospitalsNV$65Wyoming: median $65 across 16 hospitalsWY$65South Dakota: median $91 across 20 hospitalsSD$91Iowa: median $65 across 75 hospitalsIA$65Indiana: median $82 across 91 hospitalsIN$82Ohio: median $59 across 135 hospitalsOH$59Pennsylvania: median $72 across 119 hospitalsPA$72New Jersey: median $15 across 56 hospitalsNJ$15Connecticut: median $49 across 23 hospitalsCT$49Rhode Island: median $84 across 10 hospitalsRI$84California: median $11 across 117 hospitalsCA$11Utah: median $50 across 39 hospitalsUT$50Colorado: median $81 across 59 hospitalsCO$81Nebraska: median $103 across 50 hospitalsNE$103Missouri: median $56 across 73 hospitalsMO$56Kentucky: median $77 across 66 hospitalsKY$77West Virginia: median $38 across 41 hospitalsWV$38Virginia: median $80 across 73 hospitalsVA$80Maryland: median $54 across 40 hospitalsMD$54Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $97 across 39 hospitalsAZ$97New Mexico: median $90 across 19 hospitalsNM$90Kansas: median $94 across 74 hospitalsKS$94Arkansas: median $44 across 29 hospitalsAR$44Tennessee: median $39 across 78 hospitalsTN$39North Carolina: median $54 across 82 hospitalsNC$54South Carolina: median $109 across 51 hospitalsSC$109Oklahoma: median $48 across 69 hospitalsOK$48Louisiana: median $37 across 49 hospitalsLA$37Mississippi: median $47 across 54 hospitalsMS$47Alabama: median $44 across 43 hospitalsAL$44Georgia: median $81 across 95 hospitalsGA$81Hawaii: median $67 across 14 hospitalsHI$67Texas: median $87 across 217 hospitalsTX$87Florida: median $34 across 145 hospitalsFL$34
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $62. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT14$148+140%$55 – $185
South Carolina SC51$109+76%$61 – $138
Nebraska NE50$103+67%$51 – $147
Arizona AZ39$97+58%$20 – $159
Kansas KS74$94+52%$61 – $146
South Dakota SD20$91+48%$57 – $143
New Mexico NM19$90+46%$42 – $130
Illinois IL133$89+45%$48 – $165
Texas TX217$87+41%$28 – $244
Rhode Island RI10$84+36%$31 – $84
Indiana IN91$82+33%$29 – $140
Colorado CO59$81+31%$41 – $136
Georgia GA95$81+31%$36 – $144
Virginia VA73$80+29%$23 – $198
Montana MT21$79+29%$53 – $103
Kentucky KY66$77+25%$32 – $167
Wisconsin WI102$73+18%$50 – $108
Pennsylvania PA119$72+17%$20 – $181
North Dakota ND26$72+17%$24 – $102
Minnesota MN90$70+14%$24 – $99
Washington WA60$68+10%$37 – $102
Hawaii HI14$67+8%$33 – $134
Nevada NV18$65+6%$13 – $134
Wyoming WY16$65+6%$42 – $112
Massachusetts MA51$65+6%$35 – $108
Iowa IA75$65+5%$49 – $90
New Hampshire NH22$62+1%$28 – $182
Ohio OH135$59−4%$28 – $103
Missouri MO73$56−8%$41 – $127
Maryland MD40$54−12%$40 – $65
North Carolina NC82$54−12%$22 – $101
Maine ME27$51−17%$22 – $109
Utah UT39$50−18%$43 – $196
Alaska AK16$50−19%$27 – $142
Connecticut CT23$49−20%$38 – $110
Idaho ID20$49−21%$14 – $82
Oklahoma OK69$48−21%$22 – $88
Mississippi MS54$47−24%$17 – $75
Alabama AL43$44−28%$20 – $97
Arkansas AR29$44−29%$19 – $100
Oregon OR41$40−35%$27 – $67
Tennessee TN78$39−37%$23 – $109
West Virginia WV41$38−38%$9 – $113
Louisiana LA49$37−40%$22 – $78
Florida FL145$34−45%$9 – $107
New York NY106$32−49%$16 – $107
Michigan MI80$27−57%$9 – $108
New Jersey NJ56$15−75%$15 – $99
California CA117$11−82%$6 – $25
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 $62.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,170$55$21 – $121
Children’s52$69$18 – $115
Critical access763$76$38 – $126
Ownership
For-profit437$87$24 – $246
Government502$59$28 – $111
Non-profit2,046$59$23 – $110
System affiliation
Part of a system2,454$62$23 – $125
Independent541$61$27 – $113

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$103
Median cash price$62
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

2,039 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $60 and the average of the middle 60% is $64; most fall between $24 and $115.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,039 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$30$60$107$157

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $157).

Of the 2,254 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,039 gave a usable cash price; 114 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 101 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,995 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (76%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,269 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,995
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here155
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 — excluded119
Hospitals that filed this code3,269

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 HC M Pneumo Igm.

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 Mycoplasma antibodies (CPT 86738) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86738-blood-test-for-mycoplasma-antibodies