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Blood test for syphilis antibodies

CPT 86780the billing code this page is about

A blood test that looks for antibodies to Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes syphilis.

Hospitals typically charge $49 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,286 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $50. Most fall between $19 and $93 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,286
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 3,286 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$24$49$82$137

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $137).

How the prices are spread

$8 – $12: 136 hospitals$8$12 – $16: 233 hospitals$16 – $21: 207 hospitals$16$21 – $29: 290 hospitals$29 – $40: 375 hospitals$29$40 – $54: 417 hospitals$54 – $74: 512 hospitals$54$74 – $101: 412 hospitals$101 – $138: 219 hospitals$101$138 – $188: 157 hospitals$138median $49price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,958 of 3,286 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$8$12136
$12$16233
$16$21207
$21$29290
$29$40375
$40$54417
$54$74512
$74$101412
$101$138219
$138$188157

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $49.

Alaska: median $46 across 18 hospitalsAK$46Maine: median $51 across 28 hospitalsME$51Vermont: median $58 across 14 hospitalsVT$58New Hampshire: median $68 across 23 hospitalsNH$68Washington: median $61 across 73 hospitalsWA$61Idaho: median $41 across 22 hospitalsID$41Montana: median $67 across 33 hospitalsMT$67North Dakota: median $62 across 30 hospitalsND$62Minnesota: median $44 across 106 hospitalsMN$44Illinois: median $68 across 134 hospitalsIL$68Wisconsin: median $53 across 106 hospitalsWI$53Michigan: median $41 across 94 hospitalsMI$41New York: median $33 across 118 hospitalsNY$33Massachusetts: median $65 across 52 hospitalsMA$65Oregon: median $38 across 49 hospitalsOR$38Nevada: median $53 across 20 hospitalsNV$53Wyoming: median $47 across 16 hospitalsWY$47South Dakota: median $41 across 38 hospitalsSD$41Iowa: median $49 across 88 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $58 across 98 hospitalsIN$58Ohio: median $52 across 137 hospitalsOH$52Pennsylvania: median $55 across 120 hospitalsPA$55New Jersey: median $15 across 56 hospitalsNJ$15Connecticut: median $61 across 23 hospitalsCT$61Rhode Island: median $31 across 10 hospitalsRI$31California: median $17 across 148 hospitalsCA$17Utah: median $67 across 40 hospitalsUT$67Colorado: median $58 across 67 hospitalsCO$58Nebraska: median $64 across 77 hospitalsNE$64Missouri: median $37 across 72 hospitalsMO$37Kentucky: median $47 across 69 hospitalsKY$47West Virginia: median $34 across 41 hospitalsWV$34Virginia: median $58 across 73 hospitalsVA$58Maryland: median $46 across 39 hospitalsMD$46Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $86 across 42 hospitalsAZ$86New Mexico: median $74 across 29 hospitalsNM$74Kansas: median $64 across 85 hospitalsKS$64Arkansas: median $16 across 40 hospitalsAR$16Tennessee: median $28 across 80 hospitalsTN$28North Carolina: median $61 across 88 hospitalsNC$61South Carolina: median $83 across 48 hospitalsSC$83Oklahoma: median $34 across 72 hospitalsOK$34Louisiana: median $29 across 50 hospitalsLA$29Mississippi: median $34 across 53 hospitalsMS$34Alabama: median $50 across 43 hospitalsAL$50Georgia: median $62 across 106 hospitalsGA$62Hawaii: median $83 across 17 hospitalsHI$83Texas: median $46 across 243 hospitalsTX$46Florida: median $17 across 152 hospitalsFL$17
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $49. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ42$86+77%$21 – $140
South Carolina SC48$83+70%$51 – $93
Hawaii HI17$83+70%$34 – $132
New Mexico NM29$74+53%$39 – $119
New Hampshire NH23$68+41%$23 – $171
Illinois IL134$68+39%$27 – $118
Montana MT33$67+38%$31 – $77
Utah UT40$67+38%$57 – $94
Massachusetts MA52$65+34%$37 – $116
Nebraska NE77$64+32%$32 – $100
Kansas KS85$64+32%$29 – $94
Georgia GA106$62+28%$20 – $80
North Dakota ND30$62+27%$24 – $94
Washington WA73$61+26%$34 – $101
Connecticut CT23$61+26%$45 – $79
North Carolina NC88$61+26%$16 – $90
Colorado CO67$58+19%$28 – $80
Virginia VA73$58+19%$23 – $76
Vermont VT14$58+19%$37 – $99
Indiana IN98$58+19%$20 – $95
Pennsylvania PA120$55+14%$15 – $156
Nevada NV20$53+8%$16 – $93
Wisconsin WI106$53+8%$35 – $82
Ohio OH137$52+7%$27 – $96
Maine ME28$51+6%$30 – $95
Alabama AL43$50+3%$20 – $94
Iowa IA88$49+1%$37 – $90
Wyoming WY16$47−3%$30 – $85
Kentucky KY69$47−4%$16 – $75
Texas TX243$46−5%$17 – $148
Maryland MD39$46−5%$34 – $55
Alaska AK18$46−6%$19 – $91
Minnesota MN106$44−10%$26 – $67
Idaho ID22$41−16%$14 – $96
Michigan MI94$41−16%$16 – $87
South Dakota SD38$41−16%$28 – $88
Oregon OR49$38−21%$25 – $54
Missouri MO72$37−24%$24 – $62
Mississippi MS53$34−29%$18 – $76
Oklahoma OK72$34−30%$15 – $63
West Virginia WV41$34−31%$8 – $67
New York NY118$33−33%$15 – $80
Rhode Island RI10$31−37%$16 – $106
Louisiana LA50$29−39%$12 – $52
Tennessee TN80$28−43%$16 – $129
California CA148$17−64%$6 – $58
Florida FL152$17−66%$9 – $83
Arkansas AR40$16−68%$11 – $47
New Jersey NJ56$15−69%$15 – $45
Delaware DE6not 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 $49.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,288$45$16 – $93
Children’s49$47$15 – $104
Critical access939$56$30 – $93
Ownership
For-profit454$59$17 – $161
Government617$50$22 – $86
Non-profit2,205$47$18 – $88
System affiliation
Part of a system2,675$48$18 – $94
Independent611$50$22 – $88

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$78
Median cash price$49
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

2,239 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $49 and the average of the middle 60% is $50; most fall between $20 and $93.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,239 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
$14$24$49$82$129

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $129).

Of the 2,464 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,239 gave a usable cash price; 115 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 110 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,286 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (83%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,574 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,286
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here158
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded128
Hospitals that filed this code3,574

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 Syphilis Ab Screen (Sypt).

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 syphilis antibodies (CPT 86780) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86780-blood-test-for-syphilis-antibodies