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Class I tissue-type antibody panel with strength levels

CPT 86834the billing code this page is about

A blood test that detects antibodies against class I human leukocyte antigens and estimates how strong each one is, rather than only reporting present or absent.

Hospitals typically charge $802 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 421 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $878. Most fall between $358 and $1,877 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
421
States
39
Filings dated
Dec 2024 – 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 421 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
$274$393$802$1,700$2,983

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($274 vs $2,983).

How the prices are spread

$236 – $307: 42 hospitals$236$307 – $398: 54 hospitals$398 – $516: 50 hospitals$398$516 – $670: 32 hospitals$670 – $869: 35 hospitals$670$869 – $1,127: 32 hospitals$1,127 – $1,463: 32 hospitals$1,127$1,463 – $1,897: 47 hospitals$1,897 – $2,462: 17 hospitals$1,897$2,462 – $3,194: 45 hospitals$2,462median $802price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (386 of 421 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$236$30742
$307$39854
$398$51650
$516$67032
$670$86935
$869$1,12732
$1,127$1,46332
$1,463$1,89747
$1,897$2,46217
$2,462$3,19445

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $802.

Alaska: 9 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $616 across 26 hospitalsWA$616Idaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $802 across 19 hospitalsIL$802Wisconsin: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $493 across 11 hospitalsMI$493New York: median $358 across 16 hospitalsNY$358Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals 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 $802 across 11 hospitalsIA$802Indiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $698 across 23 hospitalsOH$698Pennsylvania: median $411 across 30 hospitalsPA$411New Jersey: median $393 across 22 hospitalsNJ$393Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $963 across 37 hospitalsCA$963Utah: median $2,650 across 23 hospitalsUT$2,650Colorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $465 across 10 hospitalsTN$465North Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $290 across 11 hospitalsMS$290Alabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: median $236 across 22 hospitalsGA$236Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,526 across 47 hospitalsTX$1,526Florida: median $645 across 23 hospitalsFL$645
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $802. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT23$2,650+230%$2,650 – $3,117
Texas TX47$1,526+90%$620 – $2,648
California CA37$963+20%$963 – $1,877
Iowa IA11$8020%$802 – $802
Illinois IL19$8020%$374 – $1,452
Ohio OH23$698−13%$440 – $858
Florida FL23$645−20%$420 – $1,656
Washington WA26$616−23%$514 – $1,368
Michigan MI11$493−39%$493 – $3,252
Tennessee TN10$465−42%$244 – $671
Pennsylvania PA30$411−49%$247 – $1,989
New Jersey NJ22$393−51%$358 – $393
New York NY16$358−55%$358 – $429
Mississippi MS11$290−64%$267 – $511
Georgia GA22$236−71%$236 – $3,082
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $802.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care368$777$358 – $1,877
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access37$802$453 – $1,526
Ownership
For-profit44$1,073$453 – $2,843
Government38$358$308 – $802
Non-profit339$802$374 – $1,931
System affiliation
Part of a system383$802$358 – $1,932
Independent38$534$343 – $1,368

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,720
Median cash price$802
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

295 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $963 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,193; most fall between $429 and $2,483.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 295 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
$268$570$963$1,989$3,117

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($268 vs $3,117).

Of the 325 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 295 gave a usable cash price; 11 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 19 a list price only.

How complete is this

421 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 445 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted421
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here5
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 — excluded18
Hospitals that filed this code445

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 SEMIQUANT PANEL.

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, “Class I tissue-type antibody panel with strength levels (CPT 86834) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86834-class-i-tissue-type-antibody-panel-with-strength-levels