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Hepatitis C antibody blood test

CPT 86803the billing code this page is about

A blood test that looks for antibodies to the hepatitis C virus, showing whether the body has been exposed to the virus.

Hospitals typically charge $75 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,350 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $79. Most fall between $32 and $141 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,350
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 3,350 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$40$75$126$202

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $202).

How the prices are spread

$13 – $17: 155 hospitals$13$17 – $24: 144 hospitals$24 – $33: 210 hospitals$24$33 – $45: 327 hospitals$45 – $62: 424 hospitals$45$62 – $85: 446 hospitals$85 – $117: 524 hospitals$85$117 – $162: 421 hospitals$162 – $223: 250 hospitals$162$223 – $307: 118 hospitals$223median $75price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,019 of 3,350 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$13$17155
$17$24144
$24$33210
$33$45327
$45$62424
$62$85446
$85$117524
$117$162421
$162$223250
$223$307118

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $75.

Alaska: median $83 across 19 hospitalsAK$83Maine: median $71 across 28 hospitalsME$71Vermont: median $83 across 14 hospitalsVT$83New Hampshire: median $96 across 25 hospitalsNH$96Washington: median $81 across 77 hospitalsWA$81Idaho: median $67 across 24 hospitalsID$67Montana: median $105 across 32 hospitalsMT$105North Dakota: median $82 across 33 hospitalsND$82Minnesota: median $72 across 106 hospitalsMN$72Illinois: median $113 across 141 hospitalsIL$113Wisconsin: median $116 across 108 hospitalsWI$116Michigan: median $47 across 96 hospitalsMI$47New York: median $46 across 119 hospitalsNY$46Massachusetts: median $83 across 54 hospitalsMA$83Oregon: median $70 across 50 hospitalsOR$70Nevada: median $70 across 21 hospitalsNV$70Wyoming: median $66 across 16 hospitalsWY$66South Dakota: median $87 across 41 hospitalsSD$87Iowa: median $77 across 87 hospitalsIA$77Indiana: median $80 across 93 hospitalsIN$80Ohio: median $64 across 143 hospitalsOH$64Pennsylvania: median $82 across 122 hospitalsPA$82New Jersey: median $16 across 57 hospitalsNJ$16Connecticut: median $76 across 23 hospitalsCT$76Rhode Island: median $69 across 10 hospitalsRI$69California: median $50 across 140 hospitalsCA$50Utah: median $79 across 42 hospitalsUT$79Colorado: median $78 across 70 hospitalsCO$78Nebraska: median $99 across 82 hospitalsNE$99Missouri: median $61 across 75 hospitalsMO$61Kentucky: median $85 across 68 hospitalsKY$85West Virginia: median $60 across 42 hospitalsWV$60Virginia: median $82 across 73 hospitalsVA$82Maryland: median $68 across 41 hospitalsMD$68Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $73 across 42 hospitalsAZ$73New Mexico: median $91 across 29 hospitalsNM$91Kansas: median $72 across 94 hospitalsKS$72Arkansas: median $52 across 40 hospitalsAR$52Tennessee: median $40 across 81 hospitalsTN$40North Carolina: median $106 across 92 hospitalsNC$106South Carolina: median $91 across 52 hospitalsSC$91Oklahoma: median $49 across 74 hospitalsOK$49Louisiana: median $49 across 52 hospitalsLA$49Mississippi: median $47 across 56 hospitalsMS$47Alabama: median $84 across 43 hospitalsAL$84Georgia: median $92 across 108 hospitalsGA$92Hawaii: median $106 across 20 hospitalsHI$106Texas: median $86 across 238 hospitalsTX$86Florida: median $44 across 150 hospitalsFL$44
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $75. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI108$116+55%$61 – $163
Illinois IL141$113+50%$64 – $225
Hawaii HI20$106+42%$59 – $146
North Carolina NC92$106+41%$40 – $150
Montana MT32$105+41%$50 – $134
Nebraska NE82$99+33%$43 – $142
New Hampshire NH25$96+28%$52 – $183
Georgia GA108$92+23%$36 – $158
South Carolina SC52$91+22%$60 – $132
New Mexico NM29$91+22%$52 – $155
South Dakota SD41$87+17%$40 – $194
Texas TX238$86+15%$25 – $360
Kentucky KY68$85+14%$43 – $144
Alabama AL43$84+12%$22 – $187
Vermont VT14$83+11%$42 – $125
Alaska AK19$83+11%$22 – $173
Massachusetts MA54$83+11%$51 – $150
Virginia VA73$82+10%$46 – $192
Pennsylvania PA122$82+9%$22 – $178
North Dakota ND33$82+9%$27 – $111
Washington WA77$81+8%$49 – $124
Indiana IN93$80+7%$23 – $134
Utah UT42$79+5%$67 – $117
Colorado CO70$78+4%$51 – $145
Iowa IA87$77+3%$49 – $127
Connecticut CT23$76+2%$53 – $87
Arizona AZ42$73−3%$20 – $130
Minnesota MN106$72−3%$28 – $122
Kansas KS94$72−4%$45 – $112
Maine ME28$71−6%$29 – $130
Oregon OR50$70−6%$43 – $100
Nevada NV21$70−6%$43 – $123
Rhode Island RI10$69−8%$53 – $100
Maryland MD41$68−9%$52 – $81
Idaho ID24$67−11%$19 – $122
Wyoming WY16$66−12%$45 – $131
Ohio OH143$64−15%$31 – $110
Missouri MO75$61−19%$33 – $134
West Virginia WV42$60−20%$34 – $122
Arkansas AR40$52−30%$19 – $99
California CA140$50−33%$10 – $182
Oklahoma OK74$49−34%$33 – $111
Louisiana LA52$49−34%$26 – $108
Mississippi MS56$47−37%$21 – $85
Michigan MI96$47−37%$20 – $106
New York NY119$46−39%$19 – $143
Florida FL150$44−41%$12 – $171
Tennessee TN81$40−47%$25 – $107
New Jersey NJ57$16−78%$16 – $44
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 $75.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,297$70$29 – $147
Children’s66$73$25 – $130
Critical access977$83$41 – $135
Ownership
For-profit461$103$35 – $308
Government635$75$35 – $130
Non-profit2,244$72$31 – $132
System affiliation
Part of a system2,704$75$32 – $143
Independent646$71$32 – $134

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$128
Median cash price$75
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

2,265 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $75 and the average of the middle 60% is $79; most fall between $33 and $138.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,265 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
$19$42$75$125$193

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $193).

Of the 2,509 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,265 gave a usable cash price; 134 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

3,350 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (85%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,668 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,350
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here184
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 — excluded132
Hospitals that filed this code3,668

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 PR Occ Hlth Lab - Hep C 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, “Hepatitis C antibody blood test (CPT 86803) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86803-hepatitis-c-antibody-blood-test