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Blood test for Trichinella antibodies

CPT 86784the billing code this page is about

A blood test that looks for antibodies to the Trichinella worm, the parasite behind trichinosis.

Hospitals typically charge $69 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,397 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $74. Most fall between $29 and $149 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,397
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 1,397 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$37$69$133$226

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $226).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $19: 83 hospitals$14$19 – $27: 86 hospitals$27 – $37: 116 hospitals$27$37 – $52: 182 hospitals$52 – $72: 186 hospitals$52$72 – $100: 200 hospitals$100 – $139: 140 hospitals$100$139 – $193: 168 hospitals$193 – $269: 66 hospitals$193$269 – $374: 34 hospitals$269median $69price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,261 of 1,397 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$1983
$19$2786
$27$37116
$37$52182
$52$72186
$72$100200
$100$139140
$139$193168
$193$26966
$269$37434

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $69.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $48 across 23 hospitalsWA$48Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $140 across 28 hospitalsMN$140Illinois: median $63 across 52 hospitalsIL$63Wisconsin: median $83 across 49 hospitalsWI$83Michigan: median $25 across 34 hospitalsMI$25New York: median $45 across 74 hospitalsNY$45Massachusetts: median $90 across 32 hospitalsMA$90Oregon: median $73 across 17 hospitalsOR$73Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $60 across 31 hospitalsIA$60Indiana: median $39 across 28 hospitalsIN$39Ohio: median $113 across 94 hospitalsOH$113Pennsylvania: median $70 across 85 hospitalsPA$70New Jersey: median $14 across 44 hospitalsNJ$14Connecticut: median $59 across 10 hospitalsCT$59Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $52 across 62 hospitalsCA$52Utah: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $140 across 34 hospitalsCO$140Nebraska: median $73 across 16 hospitalsNE$73Missouri: median $83 across 33 hospitalsMO$83Kentucky: median $156 across 23 hospitalsKY$156West Virginia: median $39 across 15 hospitalsWV$39Virginia: median $83 across 42 hospitalsVA$83Maryland: median $54 across 16 hospitalsMD$54Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $35 across 14 hospitalsAZ$35New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $73 across 21 hospitalsKS$73Arkansas: median $51 across 15 hospitalsAR$51Tennessee: median $26 across 22 hospitalsTN$26North Carolina: median $74 across 28 hospitalsNC$74South Carolina: median $109 across 17 hospitalsSC$109Oklahoma: median $73 across 33 hospitalsOK$73Louisiana: median $38 across 24 hospitalsLA$38Mississippi: median $39 across 24 hospitalsMS$39Alabama: median $56 across 11 hospitalsAL$56Georgia: median $57 across 56 hospitalsGA$57Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $86 across 102 hospitalsTX$86Florida: median $57 across 89 hospitalsFL$57
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $69. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY23$156+126%$52 – $204
Colorado CO34$140+103%$58 – $247
Minnesota MN28$140+102%$95 – $146
Ohio OH94$113+63%$57 – $149
South Carolina SC17$109+57%$54 – $171
Massachusetts MA32$90+30%$36 – $159
Texas TX102$86+24%$49 – $327
Virginia VA42$83+20%$32 – $144
Missouri MO33$83+19%$63 – $210
Wisconsin WI49$83+19%$43 – $153
North Carolina NC28$74+7%$21 – $152
Oregon OR17$73+6%$50 – $75
Oklahoma OK33$73+5%$41 – $111
Nebraska NE16$73+5%$72 – $225
Kansas KS21$73+5%$19 – $259
Pennsylvania PA85$70+2%$14 – $184
Illinois IL52$63−8%$35 – $165
Iowa IA31$60−13%$49 – $94
Connecticut CT10$59−14%$53 – $76
Florida FL89$57−18%$36 – $134
Georgia GA56$57−18%$29 – $191
Alabama AL11$56−18%$28 – $63
Maryland MD16$54−21%$36 – $63
California CA62$52−26%$37 – $115
Arkansas AR15$51−27%$35 – $59
Washington WA23$48−31%$26 – $92
New York NY74$45−34%$15 – $112
Indiana IN28$39−43%$21 – $96
West Virginia WV15$39−44%$39 – $39
Mississippi MS24$39−44%$24 – $54
Louisiana LA24$38−45%$11 – $100
Arizona AZ14$35−49%$10 – $110
Tennessee TN22$26−62%$22 – $182
Michigan MI34$25−64%$17 – $46
New Jersey NJ44$14−80%$13 – $56
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not 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 $69.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,140$66$28 – $143
Children’s32$92$45 – $169
Critical access218$74$40 – $165
Ownership
For-profit181$104$34 – $485
Government175$56$32 – $157
Non-profit1,034$65$29 – $141
System affiliation
Part of a system1,199$69$29 – $146
Independent198$68$36 – $165

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$129
Median cash price$69
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

948 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $71 and the average of the middle 60% is $74; most fall between $34 and $140.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 948 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
$24$41$71$118$182

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $182).

Of the 1,041 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 948 gave a usable cash price; 58 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 35 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,397 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (35%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,517 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,397
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here73
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 — excluded46
Hospitals that filed this code1,517

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 Trichinella Antibody Igg 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 Trichinella antibodies (CPT 86784) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86784-blood-test-for-trichinella-antibodies