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Hepatitis C antibody confirmation test

CPT 86804the billing code this page is about

A follow-up blood test that confirms a positive hepatitis C antibody result using a more specific antibody method.

Hospitals typically charge $142 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,162 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $149. Most fall between $53 and $311 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,162
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 1,162 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
$26$64$142$262$565

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($26 vs $565).

How the prices are spread

$17 – $25: 56 hospitals$17$25 – $36: 60 hospitals$36 – $53: 67 hospitals$36$53 – $78: 126 hospitals$78 – $113: 155 hospitals$78$113 – $166: 133 hospitals$166 – $242: 201 hospitals$166$242 – $353: 111 hospitals$353 – $516: 73 hospitals$353$516 – $754: 72 hospitals$516median $142price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,054 of 1,162 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$17$2556
$25$3660
$36$5367
$53$78126
$78$113155
$113$166133
$166$242201
$242$353111
$353$51673
$516$75472

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $142.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $68 across 32 hospitalsWA$68Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $219 across 48 hospitalsIL$219Wisconsin: median $145 across 15 hospitalsWI$145Michigan: median $64 across 33 hospitalsMI$64New York: median $46 across 44 hospitalsNY$46Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $112 across 14 hospitalsOR$112Nevada: median $182 across 10 hospitalsNV$182Wyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $98 across 26 hospitalsIA$98Indiana: median $183 across 53 hospitalsIN$183Ohio: median $276 across 71 hospitalsOH$276Pennsylvania: median $53 across 40 hospitalsPA$53New Jersey: median $17 across 39 hospitalsNJ$17Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $80 across 65 hospitalsCA$80Utah: median $597 across 31 hospitalsUT$597Colorado: median $200 across 23 hospitalsCO$200Nebraska: median $266 across 23 hospitalsNE$266Missouri: median $131 across 24 hospitalsMO$131Kentucky: median $181 across 32 hospitalsKY$181West Virginia: median $163 across 15 hospitalsWV$163Virginia: median $137 across 29 hospitalsVA$137Maryland: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $163 across 20 hospitalsAZ$163New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $166 across 23 hospitalsKS$166Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $97 across 24 hospitalsTN$97North Carolina: median $95 across 36 hospitalsNC$95South Carolina: median $200 across 18 hospitalsSC$200Oklahoma: median $87 across 24 hospitalsOK$87Louisiana: median $138 across 14 hospitalsLA$138Mississippi: median $70 across 14 hospitalsMS$70Alabama: median $95 across 13 hospitalsAL$95Georgia: median $230 across 42 hospitalsGA$230Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $196 across 120 hospitalsTX$196Florida: median $82 across 44 hospitalsFL$82
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $142. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT31$597+321%$491 – $702
Ohio OH71$276+95%$149 – $628
Nebraska NE23$266+88%$142 – $418
Georgia GA42$230+62%$76 – $230
Illinois IL48$219+55%$65 – $314
Colorado CO23$200+41%$149 – $866
South Carolina SC18$200+41%$40 – $286
Texas TX120$196+38%$76 – $552
Indiana IN53$183+29%$33 – $332
Nevada NV10$182+29%$47 – $483
Kentucky KY32$181+28%$127 – $366
Kansas KS23$166+17%$78 – $410
Arizona AZ20$163+15%$18 – $166
West Virginia WV15$163+15%$52 – $244
Wisconsin WI15$145+2%$132 – $221
Louisiana LA14$138−3%$36 – $184
Virginia VA29$137−3%$83 – $198
Missouri MO24$131−7%$79 – $668
Oregon OR14$112−21%$91 – $151
Iowa IA26$98−31%$49 – $237
Tennessee TN24$97−31%$26 – $177
North Carolina NC36$95−33%$27 – $227
Alabama AL13$95−33%$23 – $134
Oklahoma OK24$87−38%$46 – $153
Florida FL44$82−42%$53 – $154
California CA65$80−43%$77 – $200
Mississippi MS14$70−51%$40 – $92
Washington WA32$68−52%$48 – $167
Michigan MI33$64−55%$35 – $109
Pennsylvania PA40$53−62%$12 – $145
New York NY44$46−68%$15 – $180
New Jersey NJ39$17−88%$15 – $73
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not 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 $142.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care892$128$49 – $285
Children’s21$237$77 – $401
Critical access244$187$80 – $379
Ownership
For-profit216$184$63 – $669
Government168$137$53 – $290
Non-profit773$132$49 – $277
System affiliation
Part of a system965$145$52 – $320
Independent197$134$62 – $287

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$253
Median cash price$142
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

726 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $149 and the average of the middle 60% is $154; most fall between $64 and $299.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 726 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
$42$76$149$244$506

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($42 vs $506).

Of the 820 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 726 gave a usable cash price; 48 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 46 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,162 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (29%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,271 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,162
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here55
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded54
Hospitals that filed this code1,271

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 Hcc Hep C Ab Confirmatory Test.

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 confirmation test (CPT 86804) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86804-hepatitis-c-antibody-confirmation-test