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Indirect Coombs test, present or absent result

CPT 86885the billing code this page is about

A blood test that looks for red cell antibodies in the liquid part of the blood; billed separately for each reagent red cell used in the test.

Hospitals typically charge $73 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,780 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $88. Most fall between $25 and $203 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,780
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 1,780 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
$14$32$73$172$336

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 24× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $336).

How the prices are spread

$8 – $12: 58 hospitals$8$12 – $18: 93 hospitals$18 – $27: 152 hospitals$18$27 – $41: 155 hospitals$41 – $61: 229 hospitals$41$61 – $92: 221 hospitals$92 – $138: 225 hospitals$92$138 – $207: 220 hospitals$207 – $311: 131 hospitals$207$311 – $467: 123 hospitals$311median $73price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,607 of 1,780 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$8$1258
$12$1893
$18$27152
$27$41155
$41$61229
$61$92221
$92$138225
$138$207220
$207$311131
$311$467123

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$174
Median cash price$73
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.42×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $73.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $30 across 24 hospitalsME$30Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $32 across 14 hospitalsNH$32Washington: median $86 across 19 hospitalsWA$86Idaho: median $27 across 11 hospitalsID$27Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $32 across 30 hospitalsMN$32Illinois: median $113 across 72 hospitalsIL$113Wisconsin: median $49 across 37 hospitalsWI$49Michigan: median $29 across 33 hospitalsMI$29New York: median $101 across 78 hospitalsNY$101Massachusetts: median $172 across 41 hospitalsMA$172Oregon: median $39 across 20 hospitalsOR$39Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $57 across 43 hospitalsIA$57Indiana: median $110 across 53 hospitalsIN$110Ohio: median $114 across 99 hospitalsOH$114Pennsylvania: median $67 across 73 hospitalsPA$67New Jersey: median $53 across 48 hospitalsNJ$53Connecticut: median $108 across 10 hospitalsCT$108Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $138 across 90 hospitalsCA$138Utah: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $98 across 28 hospitalsCO$98Nebraska: median $64 across 37 hospitalsNE$64Missouri: median $70 across 53 hospitalsMO$70Kentucky: median $63 across 38 hospitalsKY$63West Virginia: median $104 across 21 hospitalsWV$104Virginia: median $47 across 56 hospitalsVA$47Maryland: median $29 across 26 hospitalsMD$29Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $168 across 20 hospitalsAZ$168New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $50 across 57 hospitalsKS$50Arkansas: median $71 across 26 hospitalsAR$71Tennessee: median $102 across 40 hospitalsTN$102North Carolina: median $50 across 56 hospitalsNC$50South Carolina: median $40 across 25 hospitalsSC$40Oklahoma: median $90 across 43 hospitalsOK$90Louisiana: median $72 across 11 hospitalsLA$72Mississippi: median $63 across 31 hospitalsMS$63Alabama: median $90 across 28 hospitalsAL$90Georgia: median $68 across 82 hospitalsGA$68Hawaii: median $155 across 12 hospitalsHI$155Texas: median $77 across 138 hospitalsTX$77Florida: median $139 across 96 hospitalsFL$139
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $73. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA41$172+137%$56 – $463
Arizona AZ20$168+132%$57 – $275
Hawaii HI12$155+114%$41 – $228
Florida FL96$139+92%$20 – $498
California CA90$138+90%$13 – $347
Ohio OH99$114+58%$25 – $215
Illinois IL72$113+55%$27 – $188
Indiana IN53$110+51%$39 – $163
Connecticut CT10$108+49%$9 – $196
West Virginia WV21$104+43%$18 – $424
Tennessee TN40$102+41%$41 – $221
New York NY78$101+39%$14 – $279
Colorado CO28$98+36%$86 – $178
Alabama AL28$90+24%$26 – $274
Oklahoma OK43$90+24%$18 – $163
Washington WA19$86+18%$29 – $309
Texas TX138$77+6%$51 – $225
Louisiana LA11$72−1%$43 – $120
Arkansas AR26$71−2%$68 – $189
Missouri MO53$70−3%$43 – $145
Georgia GA82$68−7%$38 – $150
Pennsylvania PA73$67−8%$7 – $218
Nebraska NE37$64−12%$27 – $130
Mississippi MS31$63−13%$17 – $98
Kentucky KY38$63−14%$34 – $378
Iowa IA43$57−21%$34 – $92
New Jersey NJ48$53−27%$6 – $221
Kansas KS57$50−31%$27 – $98
North Carolina NC56$50−31%$22 – $179
Wisconsin WI37$49−32%$45 – $130
Virginia VA56$47−36%$32 – $134
South Carolina SC25$40−44%$14 – $79
Oregon OR20$39−46%$29 – $120
New Hampshire NH14$32−56%$21 – $578
Minnesota MN30$32−56%$28 – $66
Maine ME24$30−59%$21 – $63
Maryland MD26$29−60%$25 – $36
Michigan MI33$29−61%$10 – $168
Idaho ID11$27−63%$24 – $136
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $73.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,332$83$25 – $225
Children’s33$76$26 – $148
Critical access409$61$26 – $123
Ownership
For-profit284$102$26 – $329
Government288$68$28 – $168
Non-profit1,202$69$25 – $194
System affiliation
Part of a system1,458$73$25 – $203
Independent322$73$25 – $190

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$142
Median cash price$73
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

1,129 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $74 and the average of the middle 60% is $85; most fall between $27 and $189.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,129 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
$15$33$74$151$325

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $325).

Of the 1,232 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,129 gave a usable cash price; 41 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 62 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,780 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (45%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,916 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,780
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here71
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 — excluded64
Hospitals that filed this code1,916

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 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 COOMBS TEST INDIRECT 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, “Indirect Coombs test, present or absent result (CPT 86885) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86885-indirect-coombs-test-present-or-absent-result