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Screen for tissue-type antibodies, class I or class II

CPT 86829the billing code this page is about

A blood test that reports yes or no for antibodies against either HLA class I or HLA class II tissue antigens; billed once per assay run.

Hospitals typically charge $144 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 304 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $165. Most fall between $71 and $365 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
304
States
33
Filings dated
Sep 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 304 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
$64$74$144$295$437

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($64 vs $437).

How the prices are spread

$47 – $63: 5 hospitals$47$63 – $84: 67 hospitals$84 – $111: 31 hospitals$84$111 – $148: 45 hospitals$148 – $197: 37 hospitals$148$197 – $263: 22 hospitals$263 – $350: 14 hospitals$263$350 – $466: 39 hospitals$466 – $620: 9 hospitals$466$620 – $826: 5 hospitals$620median $144price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (274 of 304 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$47$635
$63$8467
$84$11131
$111$14845
$148$19737
$197$26322
$263$35014
$350$46639
$466$6209
$620$8265

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $144.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 2 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $129 across 13 hospitalsIL$129Wisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: median $124 across 12 hospitalsMI$124New York: median $64 across 14 hospitalsNY$64Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $129 across 11 hospitalsIA$129Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: median $435 across 16 hospitalsOH$435Pennsylvania: median $103 across 22 hospitalsPA$103New Jersey: median $71 across 24 hospitalsNJ$71Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $172 across 21 hospitalsCA$172Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $73 across 11 hospitalsTN$73North Carolina: median $145 across 14 hospitalsNC$145South Carolina: median $376 across 11 hospitalsSC$376Oklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: median $67 across 10 hospitalsLA$67Mississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $152 across 21 hospitalsGA$152Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $365 across 33 hospitalsTX$365Florida: median $101 across 30 hospitalsFL$101
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $144. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH16$435+201%$419 – $435
South Carolina SC11$376+160%$207 – $801
Texas TX33$365+153%$345 – $919
California CA21$172+19%$172 – $172
Georgia GA21$152+5%$144 – $255
North Carolina NC14$1450%$98 – $145
Iowa IA11$129−11%$129 – $129
Illinois IL13$129−11%$37 – $202
Michigan MI12$124−14%$89 – $472
Pennsylvania PA22$103−29%$74 – $138
Florida FL30$101−30%$63 – $176
Tennessee TN11$73−50%$39 – $121
New Jersey NJ24$71−51%$64 – $71
Louisiana LA10$67−53%$39 – $78
New York NY14$64−56%$64 – $77
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $144.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care280$144$71 – $352
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access12fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit41$255$124 – $581
Government34$110$64 – $207
Non-profit228$129$71 – $352
System affiliation
Part of a system279$145$71 – $365
Independent25$125$74 – $295

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$307
Median cash price$144
Cash as a share of list, median hospital57%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 43%. 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

189 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $172 and the average of the middle 60% is $207; most fall between $103 and $376.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 189 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
$74$124$172$365$455

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($74 vs $455).

Of the 229 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 189 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 20 a list price only.

How complete is this

304 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 338 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted304
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here14
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 — excluded19
Hospitals that filed this code338

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 HLA CLASS I/II ANTIBODY QUAL.

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, “Screen for tissue-type antibodies, class I or class II (CPT 86829) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86829-screen-for-tissue-type-antibodies-class-i-or-class-ii