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Procedure price report · Microscopic examination (bacterial smear, culture, toxicology)

Influenza A antigen test by fluorescent staining

CPT 87276the billing code this page is about

Laboratory test that uses fluorescent-labeled antibody staining to detect influenza A virus antigen directly in a specimen.

Hospitals typically charge $49 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,039 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $53. Most fall between $22 and $98 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,039
States
49
Filings dated
Dec 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 1,039 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
$16$26$49$87$147

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($16 vs $147).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $19: 104 hospitals$14$19 – $25: 98 hospitals$25 – $34: 95 hospitals$25$34 – $46: 135 hospitals$46 – $61: 146 hospitals$46$61 – $82: 103 hospitals$82 – $111: 119 hospitals$82$111 – $149: 92 hospitals$149 – $200: 38 hospitals$149$200 – $268: 13 hospitals$200median $49price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (943 of 1,039 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$19104
$19$2598
$25$3495
$34$46135
$46$61146
$61$82103
$82$111119
$111$14992
$149$20038
$200$26813

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $49.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $38 across 31 hospitalsWA$38Idaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $53 across 12 hospitalsMN$53Illinois: median $51 across 42 hospitalsIL$51Wisconsin: median $38 across 15 hospitalsWI$38Michigan: median $22 across 17 hospitalsMI$22New York: median $19 across 32 hospitalsNY$19Massachusetts: median $98 across 11 hospitalsMA$98Oregon: median $87 across 15 hospitalsOR$87Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $59 across 19 hospitalsSD$59Iowa: median $35 across 19 hospitalsIA$35Indiana: median $45 across 37 hospitalsIN$45Ohio: median $34 across 26 hospitalsOH$34Pennsylvania: median $22 across 34 hospitalsPA$22New Jersey: median $18 across 37 hospitalsNJ$18Connecticut: 8 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 $57 across 83 hospitalsCA$57Utah: median $51 across 27 hospitalsUT$51Colorado: median $69 across 20 hospitalsCO$69Nebraska: median $39 across 10 hospitalsNE$39Missouri: median $48 across 27 hospitalsMO$48Kentucky: median $38 across 29 hospitalsKY$38West Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $85 across 15 hospitalsVA$85Maryland: median $60 across 18 hospitalsMD$60Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $71 across 19 hospitalsAZ$71New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $63 across 11 hospitalsAR$63Tennessee: median $21 across 26 hospitalsTN$21North Carolina: median $81 across 32 hospitalsNC$81South Carolina: median $52 across 24 hospitalsSC$52Oklahoma: median $41 across 32 hospitalsOK$41Louisiana: median $35 across 25 hospitalsLA$35Mississippi: median $19 across 18 hospitalsMS$19Alabama: median $36 across 18 hospitalsAL$36Georgia: median $52 across 26 hospitalsGA$52Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $86 across 105 hospitalsTX$86Florida: median $58 across 66 hospitalsFL$58
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $49. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA11$98+98%$36 – $128
Oregon OR15$87+76%$20 – $115
Texas TX105$86+75%$35 – $150
Virginia VA15$85+72%$84 – $157
North Carolina NC32$81+63%$34 – $125
Arizona AZ19$71+44%$18 – $303
Colorado CO20$69+39%$26 – $191
Arkansas AR11$63+28%$57 – $65
Maryland MD18$60+22%$32 – $78
South Dakota SD19$59+18%$50 – $90
Florida FL66$58+18%$22 – $248
California CA83$57+14%$24 – $88
Minnesota MN12$53+7%$36 – $88
Georgia GA26$52+6%$24 – $130
South Carolina SC24$52+5%$52 – $119
Illinois IL42$51+4%$29 – $138
Utah UT27$51+4%$44 – $51
Missouri MO27$48−3%$34 – $85
Indiana IN37$45−9%$24 – $48
Oklahoma OK32$41−18%$30 – $56
Nebraska NE10$39−21%$19 – $54
Kentucky KY29$38−22%$20 – $145
Washington WA31$38−23%$17 – $80
Wisconsin WI15$38−24%$20 – $96
Alabama AL18$36−27%$19 – $49
Iowa IA19$35−29%$35 – $56
Louisiana LA25$35−29%$22 – $71
Ohio OH26$34−31%$23 – $89
Pennsylvania PA34$22−55%$12 – $117
Michigan MI17$22−55%$14 – $26
Tennessee TN26$21−58%$11 – $32
New York NY32$19−61%$16 – $85
Mississippi MS18$19−61%$15 – $49
New Jersey NJ37$18−64%$16 – $268
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $49.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care838$48$21 – $104
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access182$50$34 – $86
Ownership
For-profit163$69$22 – $181
Government116$39$20 – $92
Non-profit758$49$23 – $95
System affiliation
Part of a system925$50$22 – $104
Independent114$44$25 – $96

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$82
Median cash price$49
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

693 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $51 and the average of the middle 60% is $55; most fall between $25 and $97.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 693 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
$19$30$51$86$147

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $147).

Of the 791 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 693 gave a usable cash price; 58 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 40 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,039 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (26%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,170 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,039
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here84
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded45
Hospitals that filed this code1,170

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 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 Microscopic examination (bacterial smear, culture, toxicology) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Hc Influenza A Ag If.

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, “Influenza A antigen test by fluorescent staining (CPT 87276) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87276-influenza-a-antigen-test-by-fluorescent-staining