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Blood test for COVID-19 antibodies

CPT 86769the billing code this page is about

A blood test that looks for antibodies to the virus that causes COVID-19, showing whether the immune system has responded to the virus.

Hospitals typically charge $67 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,945 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $68. Most fall between $40 and $109 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,945
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 2,945 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
$30$43$67$98$150

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($30 vs $150).

How the prices are spread

$23 – $28: 111 hospitals$23$28 – $35: 172 hospitals$35 – $43: 299 hospitals$35$43 – $53: 330 hospitals$53 – $66: 393 hospitals$53$66 – $81: 445 hospitals$81 – $101: 365 hospitals$81$101 – $124: 229 hospitals$124 – $154: 188 hospitals$124$154 – $190: 122 hospitals$154median $67price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,654 of 2,945 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$23$28111
$28$35172
$35$43299
$43$53330
$53$66393
$66$81445
$81$101365
$101$124229
$124$154188
$154$190122

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $67.

Alaska: median $62 across 16 hospitalsAK$62Maine: median $43 across 26 hospitalsME$43Vermont: median $85 across 10 hospitalsVT$85New Hampshire: median $79 across 22 hospitalsNH$79Washington: median $65 across 67 hospitalsWA$65Idaho: median $59 across 20 hospitalsID$59Montana: median $91 across 21 hospitalsMT$91North Dakota: median $63 across 20 hospitalsND$63Minnesota: median $71 across 83 hospitalsMN$71Illinois: median $82 across 112 hospitalsIL$82Wisconsin: median $84 across 98 hospitalsWI$84Michigan: median $58 across 92 hospitalsMI$58New York: median $74 across 100 hospitalsNY$74Massachusetts: median $126 across 48 hospitalsMA$126Oregon: median $55 across 42 hospitalsOR$55Nevada: median $79 across 20 hospitalsNV$79Wyoming: median $88 across 14 hospitalsWY$88South Dakota: median $105 across 19 hospitalsSD$105Iowa: median $56 across 72 hospitalsIA$56Indiana: median $70 across 92 hospitalsIN$70Ohio: median $70 across 127 hospitalsOH$70Pennsylvania: median $85 across 115 hospitalsPA$85New Jersey: median $46 across 57 hospitalsNJ$46Connecticut: median $96 across 15 hospitalsCT$96Rhode Island: median $71 across 10 hospitalsRI$71California: median $65 across 142 hospitalsCA$65Utah: median $98 across 38 hospitalsUT$98Colorado: median $67 across 65 hospitalsCO$67Nebraska: median $90 across 73 hospitalsNE$90Missouri: median $63 across 62 hospitalsMO$63Kentucky: median $70 across 63 hospitalsKY$70West Virginia: median $68 across 39 hospitalsWV$68Virginia: median $44 across 67 hospitalsVA$44Maryland: median $63 across 32 hospitalsMD$63Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $67 across 41 hospitalsAZ$67New Mexico: median $88 across 25 hospitalsNM$88Kansas: median $66 across 69 hospitalsKS$66Arkansas: median $52 across 26 hospitalsAR$52Tennessee: median $43 across 70 hospitalsTN$43North Carolina: median $60 across 83 hospitalsNC$60South Carolina: median $82 across 50 hospitalsSC$82Oklahoma: median $51 across 71 hospitalsOK$51Louisiana: median $35 across 48 hospitalsLA$35Mississippi: median $45 across 55 hospitalsMS$45Alabama: median $47 across 36 hospitalsAL$47Georgia: median $73 across 104 hospitalsGA$73Hawaii: median $70 across 17 hospitalsHI$70Texas: median $61 across 214 hospitalsTX$61Florida: median $58 across 130 hospitalsFL$58
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $67. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA48$126+87%$53 – $162
South Dakota SD19$105+57%$72 – $113
Utah UT38$98+47%$66 – $116
Connecticut CT15$96+44%$73 – $149
Montana MT21$91+36%$79 – $98
Nebraska NE73$90+34%$48 – $125
Wyoming WY14$88+31%$55 – $139
New Mexico NM25$88+31%$59 – $110
Pennsylvania PA115$85+27%$42 – $140
Vermont VT10$85+27%$50 – $119
Wisconsin WI98$84+26%$65 – $135
South Carolina SC50$82+23%$50 – $90
Illinois IL112$82+22%$50 – $128
New Hampshire NH22$79+18%$47 – $195
Nevada NV20$79+18%$49 – $136
New York NY100$74+10%$35 – $143
Georgia GA104$73+8%$53 – $118
Rhode Island RI10$71+7%$64 – $214
Minnesota MN83$71+6%$42 – $85
Hawaii HI17$70+5%$43 – $85
Indiana IN92$70+5%$39 – $89
Ohio OH127$70+5%$47 – $110
Kentucky KY63$70+5%$38 – $98
West Virginia WV39$68+1%$59 – $123
Arizona AZ41$670%$41 – $125
Colorado CO65$670%$45 – $98
Kansas KS69$66−1%$40 – $120
California CA142$65−3%$33 – $131
Washington WA67$65−3%$35 – $95
Missouri MO62$63−6%$50 – $90
North Dakota ND20$63−6%$32 – $98
Maryland MD32$63−6%$37 – $87
Alaska AK16$62−8%$55 – $98
Texas TX214$61−8%$34 – $98
North Carolina NC83$60−10%$32 – $91
Idaho ID20$59−12%$34 – $98
Michigan MI92$58−13%$32 – $85
Florida FL130$58−14%$39 – $114
Iowa IA72$56−16%$45 – $108
Oregon OR42$55−19%$38 – $110
Arkansas AR26$52−22%$30 – $78
Oklahoma OK71$51−24%$28 – $102
Alabama AL36$47−30%$36 – $100
New Jersey NJ57$46−31%$42 – $60
Mississippi MS55$45−33%$33 – $75
Virginia VA67$44−35%$21 – $65
Maine ME26$43−36%$15 – $83
Tennessee TN70$43−36%$26 – $56
Louisiana LA48$35−49%$21 – $76
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 $67.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,096$63$39 – $103
Children’s50$63$44 – $128
Critical access790$77$47 – $120
Ownership
For-profit392$64$40 – $118
Government552$68$42 – $110
Non-profit1,992$68$40 – $108
System affiliation
Part of a system2,396$65$40 – $105
Independent549$73$44 – $126

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$112
Median cash price$67
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

2,043 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $68 and the average of the middle 60% is $69; most fall between $40 and $116.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,043 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
$29$44$68$98$156

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($29 vs $156).

Of the 2,252 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,043 gave a usable cash price; 107 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 102 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,945 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (74%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,206 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,945
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here145
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 — excluded116
Hospitals that filed this code3,206

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 Sars-Cov-2 Spike Ab.

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 COVID-19 antibodies (CPT 86769) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86769-blood-test-for-covid-19-antibodies