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Blood test for malaria antibodies

CPT 86750the billing code this page is about

A blood test that looks for antibodies to the malaria parasite (Plasmodium), showing whether the immune system has responded to this infection.

Hospitals typically charge $66 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 486 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $74. Most fall between $20 and $134 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
486
States
45
Filings dated
Oct 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 486 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$23$66$124$177

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $177).

How the prices are spread

$13 – $18: 64 hospitals$13$18 – $25: 47 hospitals$25 – $34: 30 hospitals$25$34 – $46: 30 hospitals$46 – $62: 45 hospitals$46$62 – $85: 40 hospitals$85 – $116: 70 hospitals$85$116 – $159: 77 hospitals$159 – $217: 27 hospitals$159$217 – $296: 11 hospitals$217median $66price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (441 of 486 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$13$1864
$18$2547
$25$3430
$34$4630
$46$6245
$62$8540
$85$11670
$116$15977
$159$21727
$217$29611

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $66.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $49 across 20 hospitalsIL$49Wisconsin: median $83 across 10 hospitalsWI$83Michigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $14 across 23 hospitalsNY$14Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $216 across 10 hospitalsOR$216Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $49 across 13 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $22 across 22 hospitalsIN$22Ohio: median $33 across 34 hospitalsOH$33Pennsylvania: median $11 across 18 hospitalsPA$11New Jersey: median $15 across 24 hospitalsNJ$15Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $118 across 40 hospitalsCA$118Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $155 across 18 hospitalsKY$155West Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $149 across 19 hospitalsVA$149Maryland: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $162 across 14 hospitalsOK$162Louisiana: median $51 across 19 hospitalsLA$51Mississippi: median $33 across 10 hospitalsMS$33Alabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $114 across 24 hospitalsGA$114Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $111 across 47 hospitalsTX$111Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $66. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Oregon OR10$216+227%$40 – $216
Oklahoma OK14$162+145%$25 – $305
Kentucky KY18$155+134%$71 – $155
Virginia VA19$149+125%$129 – $177
California CA40$118+78%$118 – $134
Georgia GA24$114+72%$52 – $114
Texas TX47$111+68%$105 – $126
Wisconsin WI10$83+25%$83 – $83
Louisiana LA19$51−23%$23 – $98
Iowa IA13$49−27%$49 – $49
Illinois IL20$49−27%$13 – $256
Mississippi MS10$33−50%$23 – $42
Ohio OH34$33−51%$23 – $95
Indiana IN22$22−67%$16 – $87
New Jersey NJ24$15−78%$13 – $15
New York NY23$14−80%$13 – $48
Pennsylvania PA18$11−84%$9 – $15
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $66.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care414$66$18 – $134
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access65$64$29 – $160
Ownership
For-profit63$111$26 – $231
Government56$44$20 – $114
Non-profit365$74$19 – $134
System affiliation
Part of a system420$72$19 – $134
Independent66$57$21 – $125

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$157
Median cash price$66
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

305 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $95 and the average of the middle 60% is $93; most fall between $33 and $134.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 305 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
$22$46$95$126$162

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $162).

Of the 335 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 305 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 15 a list price only.

How complete is this

486 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 516 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted486
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here15
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 — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code516

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 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 MALARIA 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 malaria antibodies (CPT 86750) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86750-blood-test-for-malaria-antibodies