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Transplant antibody screen, quick method

CPT 86808the billing code this page is about

A blood test that screens serum against a panel of cells to estimate pre-formed transplant antibody levels, performed with the abbreviated rapid method.

Hospitals typically charge $97 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 409 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $125. Most fall between $34 and $336 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
409
States
39
Filings dated
Apr 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 409 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
$30$39$97$264$801

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 27× what the cheapest tenth charges ($30 vs $801).

How the prices are spread

$29 – $41: 99 hospitals$29$41 – $59: 52 hospitals$59 – $84: 30 hospitals$59$84 – $119: 18 hospitals$119 – $169: 41 hospitals$119$169 – $241: 27 hospitals$241 – $343: 44 hospitals$241$343 – $489: 18 hospitals$489 – $695: 12 hospitals$489$695 – $990: 31 hospitals$695median $97price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (372 of 409 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$29$4199
$41$5952
$59$8430
$84$11918
$119$16941
$169$24127
$241$34344
$343$48918
$489$69512
$695$99031

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $97.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $477 across 32 hospitalsIL$477Wisconsin: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $40 across 26 hospitalsNY$40Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $57 across 16 hospitalsIA$57Indiana: median $115 across 33 hospitalsIN$115Ohio: median $133 across 32 hospitalsOH$133Pennsylvania: median $34 across 32 hospitalsPA$34New Jersey: median $33 across 29 hospitalsNJ$33Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $264 across 25 hospitalsCA$264Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $940 across 11 hospitalsNE$940Missouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: median $32 across 12 hospitalsVA$32Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $329 across 13 hospitalsAZ$329New Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $32 across 20 hospitalsTN$32North Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $53 across 12 hospitalsOK$53Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $746 across 24 hospitalsTX$746Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $97. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Nebraska NE11$940+869%$40 – $940
Texas TX24$746+669%$109 – $2,591
Illinois IL32$477+392%$47 – $801
Arizona AZ13$329+239%$34 – $329
California CA25$264+172%$63 – $264
Ohio OH32$133+37%$125 – $179
Indiana IN33$115+18%$48 – $407
Iowa IA16$57−41%$57 – $223
Oklahoma OK12$53−46%$53 – $53
New York NY26$40−59%$30 – $80
Pennsylvania PA32$34−65%$22 – $289
New Jersey NJ29$33−66%$30 – $34
Tennessee TN20$32−67%$32 – $121
Virginia VA12$32−67%$32 – $242
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $97.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care342$81$33 – $275
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access52$130$53 – $826
Ownership
For-profit49$137$45 – $586
Government26$48$30 – $175
Non-profit334$87$34 – $336
System affiliation
Part of a system374$99$34 – $350
Independent35$80$34 – $214

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$238
Median cash price$97
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

262 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $153 and the average of the middle 60% is $177; most fall between $53 and $460.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 262 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
$34$57$153$329$879

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 26× what the cheapest tenth charges ($34 vs $879).

Of the 293 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 262 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

409 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 441 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted409
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here23
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 — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code441

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 5, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 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 CYTOTOXIC ANTIBODY SCREENING.

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, “Transplant antibody screen, quick method (CPT 86808) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86808-transplant-antibody-screen-quick-method