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Test for antibodies attacking own red cells, incubated

CPT 86941the billing code this page is about

Laboratory test for substances that destroy or clump the person's own red blood cells, performed with an added incubation step; billed separately from the non-incubated version.

Hospitals typically charge $63 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,080 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $70. Most fall between $27 and $145 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,080
States
49
Filings dated
Jan 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 1,080 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
$17$33$63$120$236

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($17 vs $236).

How the prices are spread

$13 – $18: 64 hospitals$13$18 – $26: 77 hospitals$26 – $37: 126 hospitals$26$37 – $53: 103 hospitals$53 – $75: 190 hospitals$53$75 – $108: 139 hospitals$108 – $155: 137 hospitals$108$155 – $221: 73 hospitals$221 – $317: 28 hospitals$221$317 – $454: 36 hospitals$317median $63price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (973 of 1,080 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$13$1864
$18$2677
$26$37126
$37$53103
$53$75190
$75$108139
$108$155137
$155$22173
$221$31728
$317$45436

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $63.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $81 across 24 hospitalsWA$81Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $68 across 48 hospitalsIL$68Wisconsin: median $57 across 29 hospitalsWI$57Michigan: median $31 across 38 hospitalsMI$31New York: median $22 across 50 hospitalsNY$22Massachusetts: median $59 across 13 hospitalsMA$59Oregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $57 across 18 hospitalsIA$57Indiana: median $58 across 39 hospitalsIN$58Ohio: median $55 across 51 hospitalsOH$55Pennsylvania: median $35 across 64 hospitalsPA$35New Jersey: median $13 across 35 hospitalsNJ$13Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $34 across 51 hospitalsCA$34Utah: median $94 across 24 hospitalsUT$94Colorado: median $326 across 27 hospitalsCO$326Nebraska: median $58 across 12 hospitalsNE$58Missouri: median $70 across 35 hospitalsMO$70Kentucky: median $88 across 24 hospitalsKY$88West Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $62 across 30 hospitalsVA$62Maryland: median $38 across 13 hospitalsMD$38Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $67 across 13 hospitalsAZ$67New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $90 across 16 hospitalsKS$90Arkansas: median $43 across 12 hospitalsAR$43Tennessee: median $30 across 28 hospitalsTN$30North Carolina: median $154 across 38 hospitalsNC$154South Carolina: median $193 across 21 hospitalsSC$193Oklahoma: median $41 across 29 hospitalsOK$41Louisiana: median $28 across 11 hospitalsLA$28Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $43 across 14 hospitalsAL$43Georgia: median $63 across 39 hospitalsGA$63Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $108 across 112 hospitalsTX$108Florida: median $62 across 50 hospitalsFL$62
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $63. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO27$326+419%$68 – $528
South Carolina SC21$193+208%$25 – $193
North Carolina NC38$154+145%$98 – $156
Texas TX112$108+72%$59 – $254
Utah UT24$94+49%$94 – $110
Kansas KS16$90+43%$53 – $404
Kentucky KY24$88+40%$45 – $177
Washington WA24$81+29%$24 – $139
Missouri MO35$70+11%$37 – $111
Illinois IL48$68+8%$37 – $163
Arizona AZ13$67+7%$14 – $124
Georgia GA39$630%$31 – $211
Florida FL50$62−1%$43 – $146
Virginia VA30$62−2%$27 – $100
Massachusetts MA13$59−6%$29 – $152
Nebraska NE12$58−8%$40 – $125
Indiana IN39$58−8%$20 – $98
Iowa IA18$57−9%$57 – $116
Wisconsin WI29$57−9%$34 – $243
Ohio OH51$55−13%$55 – $76
Alabama AL14$43−31%$35 – $234
Arkansas AR12$43−31%$19 – $94
Oklahoma OK29$41−35%$22 – $84
Maryland MD13$38−40%$29 – $56
Pennsylvania PA64$35−45%$14 – $247
California CA51$34−46%$27 – $90
Michigan MI38$31−51%$17 – $54
Tennessee TN28$30−53%$21 – $92
Louisiana LA11$28−56%$23 – $37
New York NY50$22−65%$12 – $72
New Jersey NJ35$13−79%$12 – $71
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not 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 $63.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care929$62$26 – $143
Children’s30$77$41 – $213
Critical access116$80$41 – $145
Ownership
For-profit161$94$36 – $416
Government126$72$29 – $150
Non-profit788$59$26 – $130
System affiliation
Part of a system921$62$27 – $146
Independent159$71$29 – $145

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$120
Median cash price$63
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

714 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $67 and the average of the middle 60% is $69; most fall between $31 and $124.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 714 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
$22$36$67$108$193

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $193).

Of the 807 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 714 gave a usable cash price; 52 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 41 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,080 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (27%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,186 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,080
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here64
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 — excluded41
Hospitals that filed this code1,186

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 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 HEMOLYSINS/AGGLUTININS.

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, “Test for antibodies attacking own red cells, incubated (CPT 86941) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-86941-test-for-antibodies-attacking-own-red-cells-incubated