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

H. pylori antigen test, sample other than stool

CPT 87339the billing code this page is about

Laboratory test that detects Helicobacter pylori antigen in a specimen other than stool using an enzyme immunoassay.

Hospitals typically charge $56 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 374 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $55. Most fall between $19 and $97 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
374
States
45
Filings dated
Oct 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 374 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$24$56$89$131

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($16 vs $131).

How the prices are spread

$16 – $20: 60 hospitals$16$20 – $26: 20 hospitals$26 – $33: 29 hospitals$26$33 – $43: 35 hospitals$43 – $54: 19 hospitals$43$54 – $69: 53 hospitals$69 – $88: 45 hospitals$69$88 – $113: 32 hospitals$113 – $144: 30 hospitals$113$144 – $184: 15 hospitals$144median $56price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (338 of 374 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$16$2060
$20$2620
$26$3329
$33$4335
$43$5419
$54$6953
$69$8845
$88$11332
$113$14430
$144$18415

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $56.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $63 across 11 hospitalsWA$63Idaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $35 across 16 hospitalsIL$35Wisconsin: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $32 across 41 hospitalsNY$32Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $35 across 16 hospitalsIA$35Indiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $12 across 18 hospitalsPA$12New Jersey: median $18 across 25 hospitalsNJ$18Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $74 across 60 hospitalsCA$74Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $124 across 15 hospitalsNC$124South Carolina: median $124 across 10 hospitalsSC$124Oklahoma: median $28 across 17 hospitalsOK$28Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $96 across 18 hospitalsGA$96Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $59 across 20 hospitalsTX$59Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $56. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC10$124+120%$33 – $124
North Carolina NC15$124+120%$24 – $124
Georgia GA18$96+70%$96 – $115
California CA60$74+31%$63 – $83
Washington WA11$63+11%$58 – $84
Texas TX20$59+5%$59 – $117
Iowa IA16$35−38%$35 – $56
Illinois IL16$35−38%$26 – $74
New York NY41$32−43%$16 – $39
Oklahoma OK17$28−50%$25 – $44
New Jersey NJ25$18−69%$16 – $18
Pennsylvania PA18$12−79%$11 – $18
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $56.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care305$43$18 – $96
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access66$71$47 – $107
Ownership
For-profit47$54$20 – $228
Government60$64$18 – $115
Non-profit267$55$19 – $89
System affiliation
Part of a system308$59$18 – $96
Independent66$48$25 – $116

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$112
Median cash price$56
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

222 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $67 and the average of the middle 60% is $68; most fall between $32 and $113.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 222 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
$26$35$67$96$125

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($26 vs $125).

Of the 237 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 222 gave a usable cash price; 2 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

374 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 394 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted374
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here5
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 — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code394

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 H PYLORI 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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “H. pylori antigen test, sample other than stool (CPT 87339) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87339-h-pylori-antigen-test-sample-other-than-stool