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Blood test for meningococcal antibodies

CPT 86741the billing code this page is about

A blood test that looks for antibodies to Neisseria meningitidis, the bacterium that causes meningococcal disease.

Hospitals typically charge $60 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 604 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $75. Most fall between $23 and $181 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
604
States
47
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 604 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$25$60$141$316

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $316).

How the prices are spread

$13 – $19: 61 hospitals$13$19 – $26: 66 hospitals$26 – $37: 31 hospitals$26$37 – $51: 69 hospitals$51 – $72: 74 hospitals$51$72 – $101: 54 hospitals$101 – $142: 73 hospitals$101$142 – $199: 33 hospitals$199 – $280: 48 hospitals$199$280 – $393: 40 hospitals$280median $60price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (549 of 604 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$13$1961
$19$2666
$26$3731
$37$5169
$51$7274
$72$10154
$101$14273
$142$19933
$199$28048
$280$39340

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $60.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $83 across 40 hospitalsIL$83Wisconsin: median $83 across 26 hospitalsWI$83Michigan: median $56 across 21 hospitalsMI$56New York: median $16 across 35 hospitalsNY$16Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $49 across 14 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $29 across 18 hospitalsIN$29Ohio: median $59 across 47 hospitalsOH$59Pennsylvania: median $25 across 35 hospitalsPA$25New Jersey: median $15 across 24 hospitalsNJ$15Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $106 across 41 hospitalsCA$106Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $99 across 13 hospitalsCO$99Nebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $139 across 24 hospitalsKY$139West Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: median $67 across 13 hospitalsVA$67Maryland: median $54 across 16 hospitalsMD$54Delaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $23 across 18 hospitalsTN$23North Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $23 across 19 hospitalsOK$23Louisiana: median $22 across 10 hospitalsLA$22Mississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $124 across 19 hospitalsGA$124Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $214 across 64 hospitalsTX$214Florida: median $69 across 13 hospitalsFL$69
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $60. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX64$214+256%$40 – $316
Kentucky KY24$139+131%$62 – $378
Georgia GA19$124+107%$104 – $218
California CA41$106+75%$106 – $161
Colorado CO13$99+65%$99 – $276
Illinois IL40$83+37%$23 – $106
Wisconsin WI26$83+37%$24 – $83
Florida FL13$69+15%$46 – $204
Virginia VA13$67+11%$23 – $141
Ohio OH47$59−2%$45 – $434
Michigan MI21$56−7%$18 – $76
Maryland MD16$54−10%$42 – $64
Iowa IA14$49−19%$49 – $49
Indiana IN18$29−52%$22 – $103
Pennsylvania PA35$25−59%$10 – $141
Oklahoma OK19$23−62%$23 – $255
Tennessee TN18$23−62%$23 – $35
Louisiana LA10$22−63%$19 – $31
New York NY35$16−74%$13 – $55
New Jersey NJ24$15−76%$13 – $15
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $60.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care507$59$22 – $161
Children’s27$210$60 – $261
Critical access69$56$24 – $250
Ownership
For-profit72$67$25 – $316
Government49$47$15 – $184
Non-profit482$60$23 – $170
System affiliation
Part of a system543$60$23 – $179
Independent61$66$21 – $185

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$131
Median cash price$60
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

401 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $83 and the average of the middle 60% is $90; most fall between $40 and $204.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 401 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
$23$45$83$161$316

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $316).

Of the 454 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 401 gave a usable cash price; 22 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 31 a list price only.

How complete is this

604 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 678 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted604
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here41
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 — excluded32
Hospitals that filed this code678

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 5, 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 NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS.

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 meningococcal antibodies (CPT 86741) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86741-blood-test-for-meningococcal-antibodies