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Blood test for tetanus antibodies

CPT 86774the billing code this page is about

A blood test that looks for antibodies to the tetanus toxin, showing the immune system's response after infection or vaccination.

Hospitals typically charge $58 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,600 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $64. Most fall between $24 and $135 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,600
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 1,600 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
$16$27$58$114$198

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($16 vs $198).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $18: 148 hospitals$14$18 – $25: 120 hospitals$25 – $34: 120 hospitals$25$34 – $46: 190 hospitals$46 – $62: 184 hospitals$46$62 – $84: 187 hospitals$84 – $113: 171 hospitals$84$113 – $153: 137 hospitals$153 – $207: 121 hospitals$153$207 – $280: 63 hospitals$207median $58price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,441 of 1,600 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$18148
$18$25120
$25$34120
$34$46190
$46$62184
$62$84187
$84$113171
$113$153137
$153$207121
$207$28063

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $58.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $66 across 22 hospitalsME$66Vermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $62 across 29 hospitalsWA$62Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $51 across 12 hospitalsMN$51Illinois: median $81 across 78 hospitalsIL$81Wisconsin: median $60 across 30 hospitalsWI$60Michigan: median $36 across 31 hospitalsMI$36New York: median $26 across 73 hospitalsNY$26Massachusetts: median $89 across 36 hospitalsMA$89Oregon: median $49 across 21 hospitalsOR$49Nevada: median $99 across 10 hospitalsNV$99Wyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $49 across 24 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $42 across 64 hospitalsIN$42Ohio: median $88 across 55 hospitalsOH$88Pennsylvania: median $74 across 112 hospitalsPA$74New Jersey: median $17 across 51 hospitalsNJ$17Connecticut: median $79 across 13 hospitalsCT$79Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $42 across 76 hospitalsCA$42Utah: median $63 across 32 hospitalsUT$63Colorado: median $85 across 26 hospitalsCO$85Nebraska: median $118 across 19 hospitalsNE$118Missouri: median $77 across 34 hospitalsMO$77Kentucky: median $101 across 24 hospitalsKY$101West Virginia: median $10 across 21 hospitalsWV$10Virginia: median $35 across 41 hospitalsVA$35Maryland: median $45 across 14 hospitalsMD$45Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $135 across 16 hospitalsAZ$135New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $102 across 36 hospitalsKS$102Arkansas: median $58 across 15 hospitalsAR$58Tennessee: median $39 across 36 hospitalsTN$39North Carolina: median $59 across 45 hospitalsNC$59South Carolina: median $168 across 35 hospitalsSC$168Oklahoma: median $59 across 33 hospitalsOK$59Louisiana: median $23 across 32 hospitalsLA$23Mississippi: median $26 across 41 hospitalsMS$26Alabama: median $59 across 21 hospitalsAL$59Georgia: median $81 across 72 hospitalsGA$81Hawaii: median $93 across 12 hospitalsHI$93Texas: median $54 across 121 hospitalsTX$54Florida: median $22 across 77 hospitalsFL$22
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $58. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC35$168+189%$119 – $197
Arizona AZ16$135+131%$23 – $135
Nebraska NE19$118+103%$48 – $262
Kansas KS36$102+75%$51 – $146
Kentucky KY24$101+74%$38 – $202
Nevada NV10$99+71%$30 – $142
Hawaii HI12$93+59%$37 – $155
Massachusetts MA36$89+53%$43 – $203
Ohio OH55$88+51%$40 – $130
Colorado CO26$85+45%$82 – $206
Georgia GA72$81+39%$29 – $163
Illinois IL78$81+39%$44 – $158
Connecticut CT13$79+36%$38 – $123
Missouri MO34$77+32%$59 – $182
Pennsylvania PA112$74+28%$22 – $174
Maine ME22$66+13%$24 – $109
Utah UT32$63+8%$54 – $132
Washington WA29$62+6%$21 – $142
Wisconsin WI30$60+3%$55 – $99
Alabama AL21$59+2%$30 – $207
Oklahoma OK33$59+1%$36 – $100
North Carolina NC45$590%$18 – $107
Arkansas AR15$58−1%$14 – $96
Texas TX121$54−7%$42 – $134
Minnesota MN12$51−12%$44 – $87
Oregon OR21$49−16%$42 – $83
Iowa IA24$49−17%$37 – $117
Maryland MD14$45−24%$38 – $61
California CA76$42−28%$17 – $114
Indiana IN64$42−28%$24 – $164
Tennessee TN36$39−33%$26 – $72
Michigan MI31$36−38%$20 – $50
Virginia VA41$35−40%$16 – $121
Mississippi MS41$26−55%$17 – $63
New York NY73$26−55%$15 – $77
Louisiana LA32$23−61%$13 – $34
Florida FL77$22−63%$13 – $30
New Jersey NJ51$17−71%$16 – $50
West Virginia WV21$10−83%$10 – $16
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not 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 $58.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,228$54$22 – $121
Children’s47$75$40 – $146
Critical access322$81$33 – $161
Ownership
For-profit208$68$27 – $231
Government247$62$26 – $133
Non-profit1,142$54$23 – $124
System affiliation
Part of a system1,327$54$22 – $134
Independent273$75$34 – $142

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$107
Median cash price$58
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

1,109 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $60 and the average of the middle 60% is $65; most fall between $26 and $128.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,109 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
$18$35$60$107$191

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $191).

Of the 1,225 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,109 gave a usable cash price; 63 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 53 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,600 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (40%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,736 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,600
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here68
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 — excluded67
Hospitals that filed this code1,736

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 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 Tetanus Titer.

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 tetanus antibodies (CPT 86774) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86774-blood-test-for-tetanus-antibodies