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Indirect Coombs test with antibody level measured

CPT 86886the billing code this page is about

A blood test that measures how much red cell antibody, such as Rh antibody, is present by dilution; billed for each antiserum tested.

Hospitals typically charge $119 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,690 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $129. Most fall between $54 and $254 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,690
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 2,690 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
$28$64$119$213$369

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($28 vs $369).

How the prices are spread

$16 – $23: 58 hospitals$16$23 – $33: 105 hospitals$33 – $46: 149 hospitals$33$46 – $65: 249 hospitals$65 – $93: 344 hospitals$65$93 – $131: 414 hospitals$131 – $186: 408 hospitals$131$186 – $263: 332 hospitals$263 – $372: 232 hospitals$263$372 – $527: 131 hospitals$372median $119price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,422 of 2,690 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$16$2358
$23$33105
$33$46149
$46$65249
$65$93344
$93$131414
$131$186408
$186$263332
$263$372232
$372$527131

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$174
Median cash price$119
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.69×

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 $119.

Alaska: median $209 across 12 hospitalsAK$209Maine: median $80 across 24 hospitalsME$80Vermont: median $141 across 11 hospitalsVT$141New Hampshire: median $65 across 20 hospitalsNH$65Washington: median $118 across 55 hospitalsWA$118Idaho: median $136 across 17 hospitalsID$136Montana: median $169 across 15 hospitalsMT$169North Dakota: median $41 across 20 hospitalsND$41Minnesota: median $100 across 84 hospitalsMN$100Illinois: median $170 across 117 hospitalsIL$170Wisconsin: median $99 across 92 hospitalsWI$99Michigan: median $83 across 78 hospitalsMI$83New York: median $183 across 102 hospitalsNY$183Massachusetts: median $183 across 45 hospitalsMA$183Oregon: median $152 across 40 hospitalsOR$152Nevada: median $152 across 18 hospitalsNV$152Wyoming: median $196 across 10 hospitalsWY$196South Dakota: median $206 across 17 hospitalsSD$206Iowa: median $89 across 66 hospitalsIA$89Indiana: median $145 across 85 hospitalsIN$145Ohio: median $128 across 127 hospitalsOH$128Pennsylvania: median $118 across 102 hospitalsPA$118New Jersey: median $190 across 43 hospitalsNJ$190Connecticut: median $97 across 18 hospitalsCT$97Rhode Island: median $223 across 10 hospitalsRI$223California: median $112 across 139 hospitalsCA$112Utah: median $506 across 35 hospitalsUT$506Colorado: median $140 across 58 hospitalsCO$140Nebraska: median $119 across 50 hospitalsNE$119Missouri: median $129 across 63 hospitalsMO$129Kentucky: median $109 across 51 hospitalsKY$109West Virginia: median $117 across 27 hospitalsWV$117Virginia: median $66 across 68 hospitalsVA$66Maryland: median $85 across 32 hospitalsMD$85Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $193 across 40 hospitalsAZ$193New Mexico: median $214 across 26 hospitalsNM$214Kansas: median $81 across 53 hospitalsKS$81Arkansas: median $76 across 28 hospitalsAR$76Tennessee: median $53 across 66 hospitalsTN$53North Carolina: median $109 across 70 hospitalsNC$109South Carolina: median $118 across 49 hospitalsSC$118Oklahoma: median $87 across 56 hospitalsOK$87Louisiana: median $51 across 46 hospitalsLA$51Mississippi: median $43 across 42 hospitalsMS$43Alabama: median $152 across 37 hospitalsAL$152Georgia: median $132 across 86 hospitalsGA$132Hawaii: median $159 across 13 hospitalsHI$159Texas: median $156 across 197 hospitalsTX$156Florida: median $130 across 123 hospitalsFL$130
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $119. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT35$506+323%$269 – $595
Rhode Island RI10$223+86%$54 – $273
New Mexico NM26$214+79%$135 – $233
Alaska AK12$209+74%$40 – $380
South Dakota SD17$206+73%$66 – $263
Wyoming WY10$196+64%$144 – $301
Arizona AZ40$193+62%$68 – $303
New Jersey NJ43$190+59%$57 – $478
Massachusetts MA45$183+53%$91 – $325
New York NY102$183+53%$25 – $366
Illinois IL117$170+42%$70 – $293
Montana MT15$169+41%$88 – $250
Hawaii HI13$159+33%$33 – $343
Texas TX197$156+30%$84 – $329
Nevada NV18$152+28%$70 – $278
Alabama AL37$152+27%$26 – $405
Oregon OR40$152+27%$61 – $243
Indiana IN85$145+21%$92 – $245
Vermont VT11$141+18%$103 – $224
Colorado CO58$140+17%$84 – $264
Idaho ID17$136+14%$40 – $359
Georgia GA86$132+10%$51 – $200
Florida FL123$130+9%$62 – $455
Missouri MO63$129+8%$79 – $192
Ohio OH127$128+7%$48 – $209
Nebraska NE50$1190%$52 – $188
Washington WA55$118−1%$64 – $267
Pennsylvania PA102$118−1%$61 – $274
South Carolina SC49$118−1%$103 – $183
West Virginia WV27$117−2%$32 – $197
California CA139$112−6%$58 – $333
North Carolina NC70$109−9%$50 – $154
Kentucky KY51$109−9%$62 – $259
Minnesota MN84$100−16%$57 – $126
Wisconsin WI92$99−17%$73 – $130
Connecticut CT18$97−19%$22 – $246
Iowa IA66$89−26%$56 – $154
Oklahoma OK56$87−27%$50 – $156
Maryland MD32$85−29%$67 – $102
Michigan MI78$83−31%$56 – $156
Kansas KS53$81−32%$39 – $147
Maine ME24$80−33%$52 – $119
Arkansas AR28$76−36%$60 – $141
Virginia VA68$66−45%$41 – $216
New Hampshire NH20$65−45%$27 – $280
Tennessee TN66$53−55%$36 – $211
Louisiana LA46$51−58%$16 – $120
Mississippi MS42$43−64%$23 – $69
North Dakota ND20$41−66%$26 – $164
Delaware DE7not 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 $119.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,038$127$57 – $267
Children’s56$101$43 – $258
Critical access586$106$45 – $206
Ownership
For-profit392$163$59 – $454
Government408$113$50 – $203
Non-profit1,880$115$54 – $234
System affiliation
Part of a system2,249$119$54 – $257
Independent441$124$51 – $244

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$211
Median cash price$119
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

1,875 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $118 and the average of the middle 60% is $127; most fall between $56 and $249.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,875 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
$31$65$118$214$347

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($31 vs $347).

Of the 2,072 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,875 gave a usable cash price; 108 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 89 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,690 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (68%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,962 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,690
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here173
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded98
Hospitals that filed this code2,962

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 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 HC Rh Titer.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Indirect Coombs test with antibody level measured (CPT 86886) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86886-indirect-coombs-test-with-antibody-level-measured