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

Cryptococcus fungus antigen test (enzyme immunoassay)

CPT 87327the billing code this page is about

Laboratory test that detects antigen from the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans in spinal fluid, blood, or another specimen using an enzyme immunoassay.

Hospitals typically charge $64 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,210 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $65. Most fall between $28 and $117 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,210
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 1,210 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$34$64$104$172

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $172).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $19: 60 hospitals$14$19 – $25: 74 hospitals$25 – $34: 106 hospitals$25$34 – $46: 149 hospitals$46 – $62: 143 hospitals$46$62 – $83: 181 hospitals$83 – $112: 160 hospitals$83$112 – $152: 121 hospitals$152 – $205: 53 hospitals$152$205 – $276: 43 hospitals$205median $64price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,090 of 1,210 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$1960
$19$2574
$25$34106
$34$46149
$46$62143
$62$83181
$83$112160
$112$152121
$152$20553
$205$27643

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $64.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $61 across 25 hospitalsWA$61Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $23 across 12 hospitalsND$23Minnesota: median $53 across 39 hospitalsMN$53Illinois: median $73 across 63 hospitalsIL$73Wisconsin: median $69 across 39 hospitalsWI$69Michigan: median $34 across 40 hospitalsMI$34New York: median $39 across 43 hospitalsNY$39Massachusetts: median $43 across 19 hospitalsMA$43Oregon: median $49 across 24 hospitalsOR$49Nevada: 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: median $152 across 15 hospitalsSD$152Iowa: median $64 across 47 hospitalsIA$64Indiana: median $40 across 12 hospitalsIN$40Ohio: median $61 across 74 hospitalsOH$61Pennsylvania: median $15 across 27 hospitalsPA$15New Jersey: median $15 across 38 hospitalsNJ$15Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $75 across 66 hospitalsCA$75Utah: median $117 across 31 hospitalsUT$117Colorado: median $85 across 37 hospitalsCO$85Nebraska: median $117 across 24 hospitalsNE$117Missouri: median $119 across 44 hospitalsMO$119Kentucky: median $60 across 29 hospitalsKY$60West Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $55 across 39 hospitalsVA$55Maryland: median $73 across 19 hospitalsMD$73Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $59 across 17 hospitalsAZ$59New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $101 across 14 hospitalsKS$101Arkansas: median $49 across 18 hospitalsAR$49Tennessee: median $20 across 16 hospitalsTN$20North Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $51 across 34 hospitalsOK$51Louisiana: median $35 across 22 hospitalsLA$35Mississippi: median $68 across 10 hospitalsMS$68Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $63 across 29 hospitalsGA$63Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $87 across 115 hospitalsTX$87Florida: median $42 across 33 hospitalsFL$42
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $64. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD15$152+139%$91 – $283
Missouri MO44$119+87%$59 – $228
Nebraska NE24$117+83%$57 – $183
Utah UT31$117+83%$71 – $137
Kansas KS14$101+59%$35 – $309
Texas TX115$87+37%$34 – $148
Colorado CO37$85+33%$44 – $277
California CA66$75+18%$21 – $115
Maryland MD19$73+14%$52 – $82
Illinois IL63$73+14%$35 – $145
Wisconsin WI39$69+8%$47 – $74
Mississippi MS10$68+7%$30 – $88
Iowa IA47$640%$39 – $99
Georgia GA29$63−1%$47 – $243
Washington WA25$61−5%$36 – $107
Ohio OH74$61−5%$35 – $87
Kentucky KY29$60−7%$40 – $135
Arizona AZ17$59−7%$21 – $156
Virginia VA39$55−14%$39 – $88
Minnesota MN39$53−17%$26 – $78
Oklahoma OK34$51−20%$24 – $84
Arkansas AR18$49−22%$30 – $79
Oregon OR24$49−23%$26 – $56
Massachusetts MA19$43−33%$30 – $117
Florida FL33$42−34%$25 – $124
Indiana IN12$40−37%$38 – $135
New York NY43$39−38%$13 – $68
Louisiana LA22$35−45%$22 – $62
Michigan MI40$34−46%$19 – $56
North Dakota ND12$23−63%$23 – $70
Tennessee TN16$20−68%$20 – $40
Pennsylvania PA27$15−76%$9 – $35
New Jersey NJ38$15−77%$13 – $37
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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 $64.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care938$58$26 – $115
Children’s22$63$33 – $111
Critical access248$74$46 – $135
Ownership
For-profit141$74$30 – $243
Government135$64$25 – $115
Non-profit932$62$28 – $115
System affiliation
Part of a system1,043$64$28 – $117
Independent167$60$28 – $111

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$106
Median cash price$64
Cash as a share of list, median hospital63%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

861 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $64 and the average of the middle 60% is $69; most fall between $33 and $117.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 861 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
$23$38$64$107$163

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $163).

Of the 946 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 861 gave a usable cash price; 44 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

1,210 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (31%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,325 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,210
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here72
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 — excluded41
Hospitals that filed this code1,325

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

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORM AG IA.

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, “Cryptococcus fungus antigen test (enzyme immunoassay) (CPT 87327) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87327-cryptococcus-fungus-antigen-test-enzyme-immunoassay