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Thyroglobulin antibody blood test

CPT 86800the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures antibodies directed against thyroglobulin, a protein made by the thyroid gland.

Hospitals typically charge $66 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,310 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $69. Most fall between $26 and $125 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,310
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 3,310 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$32$66$113$176

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $176).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $14: 133 hospitals$10$14 – $19: 177 hospitals$19 – $26: 190 hospitals$19$26 – $36: 277 hospitals$36 – $51: 352 hospitals$36$51 – $71: 431 hospitals$71 – $98: 532 hospitals$71$98 – $136: 486 hospitals$136 – $190: 287 hospitals$136$190 – $264: 115 hospitals$190median $66price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,980 of 3,310 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$14133
$14$19177
$19$26190
$26$36277
$36$51352
$51$71431
$71$98532
$98$136486
$136$190287
$190$264115

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $66.

Alaska: median $77 across 19 hospitalsAK$77Maine: median $63 across 28 hospitalsME$63Vermont: median $97 across 14 hospitalsVT$97New Hampshire: median $63 across 25 hospitalsNH$63Washington: median $70 across 77 hospitalsWA$70Idaho: median $49 across 24 hospitalsID$49Montana: median $73 across 31 hospitalsMT$73North Dakota: median $83 across 33 hospitalsND$83Minnesota: median $64 across 102 hospitalsMN$64Illinois: median $93 across 145 hospitalsIL$93Wisconsin: median $96 across 105 hospitalsWI$96Michigan: median $48 across 97 hospitalsMI$48New York: median $39 across 105 hospitalsNY$39Massachusetts: median $84 across 53 hospitalsMA$84Oregon: median $63 across 50 hospitalsOR$63Nevada: median $78 across 20 hospitalsNV$78Wyoming: median $74 across 15 hospitalsWY$74South Dakota: median $111 across 40 hospitalsSD$111Iowa: median $73 across 88 hospitalsIA$73Indiana: median $64 across 96 hospitalsIN$64Ohio: median $72 across 140 hospitalsOH$72Pennsylvania: median $66 across 122 hospitalsPA$66New Jersey: median $18 across 57 hospitalsNJ$18Connecticut: median $68 across 22 hospitalsCT$68Rhode Island: median $118 across 10 hospitalsRI$118California: median $14 across 133 hospitalsCA$14Utah: median $42 across 42 hospitalsUT$42Colorado: median $72 across 70 hospitalsCO$72Nebraska: median $106 across 79 hospitalsNE$106Missouri: median $72 across 76 hospitalsMO$72Kentucky: median $64 across 69 hospitalsKY$64West Virginia: median $50 across 44 hospitalsWV$50Virginia: median $76 across 72 hospitalsVA$76Maryland: median $69 across 41 hospitalsMD$69Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $90 across 42 hospitalsAZ$90New Mexico: median $83 across 27 hospitalsNM$83Kansas: median $94 across 92 hospitalsKS$94Arkansas: median $25 across 36 hospitalsAR$25Tennessee: median $51 across 81 hospitalsTN$51North Carolina: median $54 across 89 hospitalsNC$54South Carolina: median $115 across 50 hospitalsSC$115Oklahoma: median $57 across 74 hospitalsOK$57Louisiana: median $38 across 50 hospitalsLA$38Mississippi: median $35 across 57 hospitalsMS$35Alabama: median $53 across 45 hospitalsAL$53Georgia: median $81 across 110 hospitalsGA$81Hawaii: median $102 across 19 hospitalsHI$102Texas: median $99 across 240 hospitalsTX$99Florida: median $18 across 147 hospitalsFL$18
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $66. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Rhode Island RI10$118+78%$37 – $143
South Carolina SC50$115+73%$47 – $139
South Dakota SD40$111+67%$53 – $182
Nebraska NE79$106+60%$39 – $147
Hawaii HI19$102+54%$43 – $141
Texas TX240$99+49%$27 – $195
Vermont VT14$97+46%$49 – $202
Wisconsin WI105$96+45%$56 – $136
Kansas KS92$94+41%$56 – $131
Illinois IL145$93+40%$50 – $171
Arizona AZ42$90+36%$21 – $146
Massachusetts MA53$84+27%$46 – $148
North Dakota ND33$83+25%$30 – $122
New Mexico NM27$83+24%$46 – $117
Georgia GA110$81+22%$39 – $107
Nevada NV20$78+17%$20 – $133
Alaska AK19$77+15%$19 – $162
Virginia VA72$76+14%$14 – $176
Wyoming WY15$74+11%$35 – $83
Iowa IA88$73+10%$49 – $122
Montana MT31$73+9%$38 – $155
Colorado CO70$72+9%$38 – $102
Missouri MO76$72+9%$41 – $125
Ohio OH140$72+8%$38 – $110
Washington WA77$70+5%$41 – $95
Maryland MD41$69+3%$52 – $81
Connecticut CT22$68+2%$54 – $133
Pennsylvania PA122$660%$23 – $177
Kentucky KY69$64−3%$46 – $179
Indiana IN96$64−4%$25 – $122
Minnesota MN102$64−4%$30 – $113
New Hampshire NH25$63−5%$16 – $158
Oregon OR50$63−6%$48 – $79
Maine ME28$63−6%$30 – $143
Oklahoma OK74$57−14%$35 – $97
North Carolina NC89$54−19%$26 – $94
Alabama AL45$53−20%$24 – $132
Tennessee TN81$51−24%$28 – $131
West Virginia WV44$50−25%$10 – $95
Idaho ID24$49−27%$13 – $106
Michigan MI97$48−28%$15 – $75
Utah UT42$42−37%$36 – $103
New York NY105$39−41%$19 – $129
Louisiana LA50$38−43%$22 – $67
Mississippi MS57$35−48%$20 – $76
Arkansas AR36$25−62%$21 – $98
New Jersey NJ57$18−72%$18 – $54
Florida FL147$18−74%$7 – $104
California CA133$14−79%$6 – $64
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 $66.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,266$59$21 – $120
Children’s64$83$25 – $142
Critical access970$81$39 – $128
Ownership
For-profit452$87$27 – $266
Government638$72$29 – $118
Non-profit2,210$64$25 – $118
System affiliation
Part of a system2,674$67$26 – $128
Independent636$64$28 – $117

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$107
Median cash price$66
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

2,237 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $65 and the average of the middle 60% is $68; most fall between $28 and $118.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,237 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$34$65$109$167

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $167).

Of the 2,471 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,237 gave a usable cash price; 125 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 109 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,310 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (84%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,615 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,310
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here174
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 — excluded129
Hospitals that filed this code3,615

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 Thyroglobulin Ab (Thyg).

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Thyroglobulin antibody blood test (CPT 86800) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86800-thyroglobulin-antibody-blood-test