HRHospitalRates.comCompare prices

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

Hepatitis B surface antigen confirmation test

CPT 87341the billing code this page is about

Follow-up laboratory test that confirms a positive hepatitis B surface antigen result using a neutralization step with the enzyme immunoassay.

Hospitals typically charge $55 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,950 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $58. Most fall between $25 and $104 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,950
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 1,950 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
$14$30$55$94$151

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $151).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $14: 101 hospitals$10$14 – $19: 103 hospitals$19 – $27: 124 hospitals$19$27 – $37: 183 hospitals$37 – $50: 322 hospitals$37$50 – $69: 241 hospitals$69 – $94: 320 hospitals$69$94 – $130: 191 hospitals$130 – $178: 127 hospitals$130$178 – $244: 53 hospitals$178median $55price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,765 of 1,950 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$14101
$14$19103
$19$27124
$27$37183
$37$50322
$50$69241
$69$94320
$94$130191
$130$178127
$178$24453

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $55.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $80 across 21 hospitalsME$80Vermont: median $93 across 11 hospitalsVT$93New Hampshire: median $50 across 15 hospitalsNH$50Washington: median $71 across 29 hospitalsWA$71Idaho: median $80 across 14 hospitalsID$80Montana: median $79 across 14 hospitalsMT$79North Dakota: median $40 across 15 hospitalsND$40Minnesota: median $80 across 53 hospitalsMN$80Illinois: median $68 across 77 hospitalsIL$68Wisconsin: median $60 across 73 hospitalsWI$60Michigan: median $50 across 68 hospitalsMI$50New York: median $33 across 76 hospitalsNY$33Massachusetts: median $49 across 38 hospitalsMA$49Oregon: median $51 across 31 hospitalsOR$51Nevada: median $31 across 10 hospitalsNV$31Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $85 across 14 hospitalsSD$85Iowa: median $49 across 50 hospitalsIA$49Indiana: median $37 across 70 hospitalsIN$37Ohio: median $46 across 94 hospitalsOH$46Pennsylvania: median $53 across 82 hospitalsPA$53New Jersey: median $11 across 38 hospitalsNJ$11Connecticut: median $53 across 14 hospitalsCT$53Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $43 across 113 hospitalsCA$43Utah: median $38 across 32 hospitalsUT$38Colorado: median $74 across 44 hospitalsCO$74Nebraska: median $67 across 40 hospitalsNE$67Missouri: median $71 across 55 hospitalsMO$71Kentucky: median $33 across 32 hospitalsKY$33West Virginia: median $20 across 14 hospitalsWV$20Virginia: median $58 across 33 hospitalsVA$58Maryland: median $61 across 28 hospitalsMD$61Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $83 across 27 hospitalsAZ$83New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $85 across 23 hospitalsKS$85Arkansas: median $32 across 28 hospitalsAR$32Tennessee: median $25 across 29 hospitalsTN$25North Carolina: median $95 across 63 hospitalsNC$95South Carolina: median $89 across 29 hospitalsSC$89Oklahoma: median $30 across 43 hospitalsOK$30Louisiana: median $29 across 35 hospitalsLA$29Mississippi: median $22 across 27 hospitalsMS$22Alabama: median $42 across 20 hospitalsAL$42Georgia: median $75 across 64 hospitalsGA$75Hawaii: median $49 across 14 hospitalsHI$49Texas: median $93 across 136 hospitalsTX$93Florida: median $44 across 81 hospitalsFL$44
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $55. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
North Carolina NC63$95+72%$48 – $146
Texas TX136$93+70%$55 – $197
Vermont VT11$93+68%$45 – $141
South Carolina SC29$89+61%$30 – $348
Kansas KS23$85+54%$47 – $304
South Dakota SD14$85+54%$57 – $202
Arizona AZ27$83+50%$22 – $332
Maine ME21$80+46%$50 – $118
Idaho ID14$80+45%$46 – $100
Minnesota MN53$80+44%$40 – $100
Montana MT14$79+44%$39 – $159
Georgia GA64$75+37%$38 – $122
Colorado CO44$74+33%$55 – $144
Washington WA29$71+29%$21 – $104
Missouri MO55$71+29%$47 – $113
Illinois IL77$68+23%$32 – $133
Nebraska NE40$67+22%$33 – $112
Maryland MD28$61+10%$42 – $78
Wisconsin WI73$60+9%$44 – $72
Virginia VA33$58+5%$40 – $97
Pennsylvania PA82$53−3%$19 – $121
Connecticut CT14$53−5%$36 – $86
Oregon OR31$51−7%$37 – $74
Michigan MI68$50−9%$27 – $61
New Hampshire NH15$50−9%$20 – $81
Hawaii HI14$49−10%$47 – $138
Iowa IA50$49−10%$39 – $92
Massachusetts MA38$49−11%$25 – $131
Ohio OH94$46−16%$28 – $82
Florida FL81$44−20%$25 – $131
California CA113$43−22%$16 – $81
Alabama AL20$42−24%$19 – $144
North Dakota ND15$40−27%$17 – $78
Utah UT32$38−30%$33 – $72
Indiana IN70$37−33%$14 – $98
New York NY76$33−40%$14 – $68
Kentucky KY32$33−41%$27 – $128
Arkansas AR28$32−41%$9 – $76
Nevada NV10$31−44%$19 – $54
Oklahoma OK43$30−45%$20 – $49
Louisiana LA35$29−47%$16 – $56
Tennessee TN29$25−54%$17 – $34
Mississippi MS27$22−60%$7 – $39
West Virginia WV14$20−64%$7 – $46
New Jersey NJ38$11−79%$10 – $22
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not 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 $55.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,496$52$24 – $103
Children’s38$75$27 – $149
Critical access408$62$30 – $103
Ownership
For-profit195$72$23 – $180
Government267$57$25 – $118
Non-profit1,480$54$26 – $98
System affiliation
Part of a system1,690$57$25 – $108
Independent260$49$24 – $98

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$94
Median cash price$55
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

1,433 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $59 and the average of the middle 60% is $61; most fall between $29 and $104.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,433 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
$18$33$59$94$156

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $156).

Of the 1,590 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,433 gave a usable cash price; 91 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 65 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,950 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (49%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,143 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,950
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here114
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 — excluded78
Hospitals that filed this code2,143

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

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Hep B Surface Ag Neutralizatio.

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, “Hepatitis B surface antigen confirmation test (CPT 87341) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-87341-hepatitis-b-surface-antigen-confirmation-test