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Blood test for RSV antibodies

CPT 86756the billing code this page is about

A blood test that looks for antibodies to respiratory syncytial virus, showing whether the immune system has responded to this infection.

Hospitals typically charge $65 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 946 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $76. Most fall between $24 and $176 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
946
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 946 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
$17$27$65$153$260

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $260).

How the prices are spread

$13 – $19: 94 hospitals$13$19 – $28: 104 hospitals$28 – $40: 63 hospitals$28$40 – $58: 132 hospitals$58 – $84: 115 hospitals$58$84 – $121: 110 hospitals$121 – $175: 92 hospitals$121$175 – $252: 86 hospitals$252 – $364: 44 hospitals$252$364 – $525: 25 hospitals$364median $65price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (865 of 946 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$13$1994
$19$28104
$28$4063
$40$58132
$58$84115
$84$121110
$121$17592
$175$25286
$252$36444
$364$52525

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $65.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $71 across 24 hospitalsWA$71Idaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $65 across 38 hospitalsIL$65Wisconsin: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $26 across 17 hospitalsMI$26New York: median $19 across 38 hospitalsNY$19Massachusetts: median $61 across 17 hospitalsMA$61Oregon: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 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 20 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $88 across 26 hospitalsIN$88Ohio: median $49 across 35 hospitalsOH$49Pennsylvania: median $24 across 48 hospitalsPA$24New Jersey: median $17 across 39 hospitalsNJ$17Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $109 across 60 hospitalsCA$109Utah: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $86 across 12 hospitalsCO$86Nebraska: median $136 across 15 hospitalsNE$136Missouri: median $55 across 26 hospitalsMO$55Kentucky: median $101 across 25 hospitalsKY$101West Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $53 across 35 hospitalsVA$53Maryland: median $54 across 20 hospitalsMD$54Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $135 across 23 hospitalsAZ$135New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $130 across 18 hospitalsKS$130Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $29 across 24 hospitalsTN$29North Carolina: median $106 across 32 hospitalsNC$106South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $34 across 43 hospitalsOK$34Louisiana: median $38 across 13 hospitalsLA$38Mississippi: median $44 across 12 hospitalsMS$44Alabama: median $41 across 12 hospitalsAL$41Georgia: median $198 across 46 hospitalsGA$198Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $194 across 83 hospitalsTX$194Florida: median $26 across 42 hospitalsFL$26
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $65. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA46$198+205%$63 – $209
Texas TX83$194+199%$86 – $525
Nebraska NE15$136+110%$55 – $168
Arizona AZ23$135+108%$37 – $256
Kansas KS18$130+100%$89 – $357
California CA60$109+68%$22 – $157
North Carolina NC32$106+64%$50 – $155
Kentucky KY25$101+55%$26 – $153
Indiana IN26$88+36%$22 – $222
Colorado CO12$86+32%$29 – $471
Washington WA24$71+9%$26 – $87
Illinois IL38$650%$28 – $208
Massachusetts MA17$61−6%$35 – $133
Missouri MO26$55−15%$38 – $377
Maryland MD20$54−17%$45 – $73
Virginia VA35$53−19%$27 – $67
Ohio OH35$49−25%$21 – $79
Iowa IA20$49−25%$49 – $97
Mississippi MS12$44−31%$31 – $76
Alabama AL12$41−37%$21 – $91
Louisiana LA13$38−41%$24 – $63
Oklahoma OK43$34−48%$24 – $58
Tennessee TN24$29−55%$22 – $126
Michigan MI17$26−60%$17 – $82
Florida FL42$26−60%$13 – $185
Pennsylvania PA48$24−63%$15 – $190
New York NY38$19−71%$16 – $86
New Jersey NJ39$17−73%$16 – $62
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $65.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care757$60$22 – $178
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access172$83$45 – $168
Ownership
For-profit165$135$29 – $511
Government121$55$21 – $140
Non-profit658$61$24 – $155
System affiliation
Part of a system794$64$23 – $184
Independent152$71$28 – $136

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$125
Median cash price$65
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

589 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $71 and the average of the middle 60% is $77; most fall between $27 and $166.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 589 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
$21$32$71$145$227

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($21 vs $227).

Of the 666 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 589 gave a usable cash price; 43 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 34 a list price only.

How complete is this

946 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (24%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,031 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted946
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here47
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 — excluded38
Hospitals that filed this code1,031

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 Hc Respiratory Virus.

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 RSV antibodies (CPT 86756) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86756-blood-test-for-rsv-antibodies