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Blood test for Nocardia antibodies

CPT 86744the billing code this page is about

A blood test that detects antibodies to Nocardia, bacteria that can cause lung, skin, or brain infection.

Hospitals typically charge $30 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 336 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $35. Most fall between $16 and $76 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
336
States
41
Filings dated
Dec 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 336 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
$12$17$30$68$134

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12 vs $134).

How the prices are spread

$9 – $13: 20 hospitals$9$13 – $17: 49 hospitals$17 – $23: 38 hospitals$17$23 – $30: 47 hospitals$30 – $41: 48 hospitals$30$41 – $55: 14 hospitals$55 – $73: 32 hospitals$55$73 – $98: 14 hospitals$98 – $132: 16 hospitals$98$132 – $177: 31 hospitals$132median $30price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (309 of 336 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$9$1320
$13$1749
$17$2338
$23$3047
$30$4148
$41$5514
$55$7332
$73$9814
$98$13216
$132$17731

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $30.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $26 across 15 hospitalsIL$26Wisconsin: median $36 across 10 hospitalsWI$36Michigan: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $16 across 22 hospitalsNY$16Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $38 across 14 hospitalsIA$38Indiana: median $26 across 30 hospitalsIN$26Ohio: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $14 across 25 hospitalsPA$14New Jersey: median $18 across 25 hospitalsNJ$18Connecticut: 5 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 $134 across 36 hospitalsCA$134Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $28 across 12 hospitalsOK$28Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $66 across 14 hospitalsGA$66Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: median $13 across 23 hospitalsFL$13
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $30. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA36$134+348%$118 – $134
Georgia GA14$66+120%$52 – $68
Iowa IA14$38+28%$37 – $38
Wisconsin WI10$36+21%$27 – $72
Oklahoma OK12$28−7%$28 – $28
Illinois IL15$26−14%$9 – $37
Indiana IN30$26−14%$12 – $32
New Jersey NJ25$18−41%$16 – $18
New York NY22$16−47%$16 – $40
Pennsylvania PA25$14−53%$11 – $24
Florida FL23$13−56%$4 – $23
Michigan MI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $30.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care299$28$16 – $83
Children’s2fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access34$36$20 – $57
Ownership
For-profit34$27$9 – $69
Government31$24$16 – $42
Non-profit270$34$16 – $90
System affiliation
Part of a system299$30$16 – $76
Independent37$31$16 – $90

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$66
Median cash price$30
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

224 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $38 and the average of the middle 60% is $53; most fall between $18 and $118.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 224 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
$9$23$38$77$134

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $134).

Of the 235 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 224 gave a usable cash price; 5 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

336 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 351 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted336
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here7
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code351

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 NOCARDIA 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 Nocardia antibodies (CPT 86744) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86744-blood-test-for-nocardia-antibodies